A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology

Author(s): Jon M Nese, Lee M Grenci, David Babb

A current, thorough, conversational, and scientifically sound resource on meteorology.A World of Weather: Fundamentals of Meteorology presents basic principles that enable students to gain a “thorough possession” of the underlying scientific principles of meteorology and to be able to think critical...

Intercultural Communication in Your Life

Author(s): Shawn Wahl, Jake Simmons, Jeffrey McCune, Jr.

Where groups of people gather, there is always an elephant in the room: difference.  Elephants are remarkable, complex creatures which take up much space. Likewise, matters of race, culture, and difference require creative and complicated conversations—which moves us beyond “we are all alike” or ...

Ethnowise: Embracing Culture Shock to Build Resilience, Responsiveness, & Connection

Author(s): MICHAEL KIMBALL

Negative intercultural encounters have diverse causes – fear, anger, ignorance, actual danger in some cases. But many simply boil down to culture shock – a knee-jerk reaction to the culturally unfamiliar. The signs of culture shock are everywhere these days—on social media, between nations and gr...

Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

Author(s): Ronald C. Arnett, Leeanne McManus, Amanda McKendree

We live in an age of ethical disputes, making conflict inevitable as we meet others with contrasting ethical positions and contrary communicative expectations. An ethical position held with conviction frequently generates conflict when one encounters another with a differing ethical standpoint embra...

The Tourism System

Author(s): Alastair M Morrison, Xinran You Lehto, Jonathon Day

Tourism System: a set of interrelated parts working together toward shared outcomes and goals. The Tourism System, under the guidance of a new authoring team, have made this new 8th edition more global in scope through examples, cases, and approximately 120 Quick Trips.   The Tourism System: ...

Business Law: Foundations for the 21st Century

Author(s): Terrence Dwyer, Thomas A. Miller

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Common Law Terrence Dwyer and Thomas Miller’s Business Law: Foundations for the 21st Century has evolved from the authors’ experience teaching the subject matter as well as their practical exp...

Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality

Author(s): Nicholas Thomas, John Walker

There is a distinct difference between managing a human resources team and leading it, and those in leadership positions must evolve with the industry.Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality addresses one of the biggest challenges that hospitality managers across the board express: finding and ret...

Global Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Dianne Welsh, Shawn Carraher

Help Your Students Succeed as Global Entrepreneurs! Global Entrepreneurship focuses on what you need to know about global entrepreneurship. It explains the principles that come from entrepreneurship, international business, cross-cultural management, strategy, exporting, international education, ...

The Sociological Outlook

Author(s): Aaron Thompson, Reid Luhman, Milan Andrejevich, Matthew Howell, SCOTT POWELL

Designed to fit in a myriad of different course formats, The Sociological Outlook maps out the sociological journey for students.  It is a text where the “classics” of sociology remain and the current status of society is reflected in statistics. The new tenth edition of The Sociological Outlook:...

General Psychology: The Science of the Mind

Author(s): Keisha Love, Nicole Martin, Tim Martin, Corinne McNamara, Lauren Taglialatela, Danelle Stevens-Watkins, Stacey Williams, Juliann Young

General Psychology: The Science of the Mind is a state-of-the-art introduction to the field of psychology that is written to the interests and needs of today’s students. More than just a textbook, General Psychology fuses a workbook within the framework of the text — encouraging students to not o...