Measuring & Explaining Contemporary U.S. Macroeconomic Performance: A Practical, Excel-Based Tool Kit For Guiding Beginning & Intermediate Students Through Normal & Turbulent Times

Author(s): MARC RUBIN

Measuring & Explaining Contemporary U.S. Macroeconomic Performance utilizes empirical short-run models of the macroeconomy, together with the latest relevant data, to assess how the economy is faring on three social goals: raising the level of prosperity, maintaining price stability, and sustaining ...

From Imagining to Understanding the African American Experience

Author(s): Phyllis Gray Ray

From Imagining to Understanding the African American Experience aids individuals in developing their “sociological imaginations” and to broaden their understanding of the “Sociology of the Black Experience,” particularly in the U.S. multicultural society. Although one book cannot provide the total e...

LOOK UP--Gaining Insight and Direction Through Experiential Learning For Your Personal, Professional and Civic Life

Author(s): Joani LaMachia, Jonathan Andrew

In their exciting, interactive new book–LOOK UP--Gaining Insight and Direction Through Experiential Learning--For Your Personal, Professional and Civic Life, Dr. Joani LaMachia and Jon Andrew identify and examine the choices that students face when navigating through their institutions of higher lea...

The Architecture of Educational Frameworks

Author(s): PAMELA JEAN BALLARD SAWYER, ROSEMARY KARR, ELAINE ANN ZWEIG

The more proficient students are in critical thinking in college, the better they may be at decision-making and throughout life.The Architecture of Educational Frameworks offers guidance that encourages instructors from all disciplines to be comfortable teaching study skills for education, English, ...

Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Business Writing

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

For early-career professionals, your first contact with prospective employers or customers is usually through your writing.  Email introductions, cover letters, and everyday correspondence play a large and important role in your professional success.  Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Bus...

Analytical Reasoning Skills for Success in Business and Life

Author(s): JoAnn Rawley

Analytical Reasoning Skills for Success in Business and Life is a practical, compelling overview of situations in life that require the use of mathematics for successful decision making. This text uses the TI BAII financial calculator as a resource to replace the use of tables and complex formulas. ...

Educational Technology: Big Ideas and Practical Applications for the Classroom

Author(s): Ronda Blevins

One phrase that possesses a unique ability to elicit multiple, strong, and varied emotions from all stakeholders in the world of education is Educational Technology.  There are all sorts of theories, arguments both for and against, and mandates dealing with the use of technology in the classroom.  E...

World Regional Geography: Human Mobilities, Tourism Destinations, Sustainable Environments

Author(s): Alan Lew, Dallen Timothy, Colin Michael Hall

3rd Edition Now Available!World Regional Geography addresses the need to understand the cultural, environmental, historical and political context in which international tourism takes place. The expert author team has included major themes and issues in tourism, and positioned them in a regional cont...

Business Basics & Perspectives

Author(s): Ahmed Rachdi, Gail Rathbun

New Edition Now Available!Business is a part of everyone’s life. We are all consumers of products and services as many of us invest in homes, cars, and education with the expectation of a return on our investments.Business Basics and Perspectives explains that no matter what perspective you adopt, y...

Coaching Motor Learning, Fitness and Development for Young Children

Author(s): Ramon Tejada

New Publication Now Available!Coaching Motor Learning, Fitness, and Development for Young Children, 2nd edition, continues building and developing approaches to advancing a child’s world of motor learning, fitness, and development. This new edition delivers a foundational approach and perspective an...