YOUR Career: Navigate Your Path to Career Success

Author(s): Kenneth Buckley, Jeffrey S. Stubbs, Michael C. Estepp

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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 provide...

Criminal Justice and Mental Health: An Evidence Based Approach

Author(s): Hayden Smith

Criminal Justice and Mental Health: An Evidence Based Approach details the historical, social, and policy influences that have led to the criminal justice system now serving as a default mental health system. The three largest mental health facilities in the United States are jails and prisons and t...

The Structural Determinants of Drug Use: A Primer on Addiction

Author(s): Heather Henderson

The Structural Determinants of Drug Use: A Primer on Addiction provides an introductory overview of drug use, addiction, and treatment in America through the lenses of public health, medicine, anthropology, history, public policy, media, academia, and the arts. Upon completion, readers will gain the...

A Step-by-Step Guide to Conducting Quantitative Research

Author(s): Bunnie Loree Claxton, Michelle Barthlow

A Step-By-Step Guide to Conducting Quantitative Applied Research in Education features a thorough explanation of frequently used quantitative designs and statistics in social science research. The guide assists in selecting the appropriate design and statistic and provides model write-ups of rationa...

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 ...

The *K.I.S.S. Principle Guide to Academic Writing and Critical Thinking

Author(s): Lin Fraser

Who would have thought that a rhetorical analysis of a simple little essay about a perfect butter and jelly sandwich could help students become better readers and writers? Or that the tale of a Shinto priest refereeing a sumo match would remind students to stay on the lookout for comma splices?The *...

Technology in the Classroom: For Now and in the Future

Author(s): Janice L. Nath, Irene Chen

New Third Edition Coming Soon!Technology in the Classroom: For Now and the Future is written to strength instructional technology, content areas, and other areas of teaching and learning coupled with technology. This text is divided into three parts: The first section is, Educational Technology Supp...