Win, Lose, or Draw

Author(s): Karen Holmes

Win, Lose, or Draw is a non-algebra based math course that fulfills a general education mathematics requirement. The class structure is discovery-based with students working in groups rather than lecture-dependent, appealing to students for whom math is not a strength.   The theme of the course invo...

Drugs, Brain, and Behavior

Author(s): John Salamone

It has been more than more than half a century since the “Psychopharmacology Revolution” swept through modern society, radically changing mental health practice, and altering the way people view psychiatric disorders. Large numbers of people in the US and other countries are now being treated with p...

Media Law: A Guide to Understanding Mass Communication Law

Author(s): Mark P. Hanebutt

The health of the American democracy in the 21st Century will depend largely upon the health of American media. Information is the lifeblood of a free republic. Yet, the internet and social media have provided media professionals with new legal challenges regarding privacy, security and credibility....

We Hate Team Projects! A Friendly, Useful Guide for College Student Teams

Author(s): Scott Behson, Stephen Bear

We get it - you've been burned by team projects before. We Hate Team Projects! A Friendly, Useful Guide for College Student Teams provides practical advice and easy-to-use templates to help you avoid common team problems, do better work, have less stress, and have more fun.This guidebook provides a ...

The College Mindfulness Workbook

Author(s): Elizabeth Catanese, Kate Sanchez

At no time in the last 75 years have college students faced greater challenges as they struggle to prepare themselves for the future — pandemic-induced social isolation, drastically limited economic prospects with the likelihood of long-term scarring effects, and a dangerously divided nation rife wi...

Trauma and Resilience in the Criminal Justice System

Author(s): Denise Leifker, Carolyn Dallinger

Trauma and Resilience in the Criminal Justice System will help criminal justice practitioners, as well as students, develop skills to be the most effective professionals possible by increasing awareness and pointing out places for empathy and change. Readers will examine the enforcement, court, and ...

Political Islam

Author(s): Wayne Zaideman

This book explains the difference between Islam, a respected religion, and Islamism which is a political ideology that uses its interpretation of Islam to give it legitimacy.This book starts with the fundamentals of Islam the religion and shows how Islamism developed from Islam. The book goes into d...

Golden Jungle

Author(s): James Stockwell

During a highly secretive mission over the Amazon Rainforest, a state-of-the-art cargo plane loses communication and goes down in the jungle. Concerned for the safety of the pilots as well as trying to retrieve the classified shipment of a synthetic narcotic seized by the DEA, the head of the Van Ba...

Do Good Better: A Value Driven Approach PLUS PR Driven Workbook

Author(s): Richard Ganahl

Every hour of everyday millions of unnamed, and usually unsung heroes dedicated to doing good at thousands of non-profit organizations cheerfully and professionally strive to fulfill the needs of their clients beyond their dreams. Those of us in strategic communications very often make truly meaning...

Exercise Physiology for Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation

Author(s): Stanley Brown

Exercise is widely recognized for its importance as a preventive and rehabilitative health measure. Even so, the prevalence of diseases due to poor lifestyle choices is high. These statements speak volumes about the contradiction that exists between our state of knowledge regarding preventive health...