New Venture Launchpad

Author(s): Kevin Cox, Roland Kidwell

New Venture Launchpad provides the next generation of entrepreneurs a complete and contemporary guide to launching a new business venture. Built on a foundation of widely validated and empirically derived techniques and strategies, the workbook and associated program provide entrepreneurs with a pro...

Event Planning and Management at Colleges and University: An Emerging Hospitality Profession

Author(s): Suzanne Shaw

Event Planning & Management At Colleges & Universities: An Emerging Hospitality Profession, the first book of its kind, focuses on the event planning at a college or university and provides broad insights on what this line of work can offer both personally and professionally. This digital text also ...

Zagging: Building Advocacy Through Digital and Social Media

Author(s): Guy Danhoff, Lauren Krebs

Zagging: Building Advocacy Through Digital and Social Media serves as a resource manual guidebook for students, professionals, and organizational advocacy leaders looking to develop their ability to effectively manage various digital and social media communication tools during and beyond the COVID-1...

Readings in Faith and Race in America: The African American Religious Experience

Author(s): Jon R Stone, Carlos R Piar

This four volume series presents to students of American religion a collection of primary source materials that serves to illustrate the ethno-racial dimensions of religion in America beyond its usual European expressions. The ethno-racial religious communities featured in this anthology broadly inc...

Elementary School Teaching: Plan, Teach, Inspire

Author(s): Elaine Pierce Chakonas

Elementary School Teaching: Plan, Teach, Inspire prepares future elementary school teachers to plan instruction and teach diverse learners in today's classrooms.  Special focus is given to teaching students with a variety of needs and abilities, including English language learners, students with dis...

Complete Public Relations: Contemporary Practice

Author(s): Anthony Fulginiti, Joseph Basso, Suzanne D FitzGerald

Provide "CPR" to your organization, clients and employees with this comprehensive text on public relations writing, theory, research and most importantly, practice.Complete Public Relations: Contemporary Practice provides groundbreaking instruction, helping readers: learn effective planning strategi...

Think Better, Write Better

Author(s): Robin Jenkins

Thinking rationally and writing clearly are two sides of the same coin, Both have tremendous value as career and life skills, in that those who do them well are more likely to be successful. Unfortunately, surveys of employers show that most people, even college graduates, are not particularly profi...

Foundations of Special Education: Understanding Students with Exceptionalities

Author(s): Scott Arnett, Michael Fitzpatrick, Nena Raschelle Theoharis, PENNY CRAIG

This textbook introduces preservice and inservice educators to the theories, philosophies, concepts, and ongoing needs of children and adults with exceptionalities. The first two Chapters address the foundation, litigation, and federal policies that helped shape what is now known as special educatio...

The Music Business: Follow the Money - How the Industry Works

Author(s): B.G. Woods

Amazing advancements in digital technology have made the market for consumers who may select to use music and entertainment products is huge – around 8 billion.The changes in technology, consumer behaviors, and how music and entertainment are monetized globally have affected the structure of the mus...

An Applied Approach to Microeconomics

Author(s): Jack A Chambless

Some people would rather perform root canal surgery on a rabid wolverine than sit through a discussion of Federal Reserve policies.Jack A. Chambless’ An Applied Approach to Microeconomics prepares readers to become economically literate human beings by presenting real world issues in a somewhat cont...