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Applied Perspectives of Personal, Public and Global Health

Author(s): Barbara Engebretsen

Applied Perspectives of Personal, Public, and Global Health is an introduction for undergraduate students considering a wide variety of human, animal, environmental, and public health, as well as social and public services career paths. With intentionally interdisciplinary perspectives, the basic co...

Fathers Shaping Child Development

Author(s): Maria Reid

Fathers Shaping Child Development does what no previous textbook on human development has done before, it talks about how important fathers are to the upbringing and optimal development of their children. It focuses on fathers’ contribution to child development and covers the developmental periods f...

Confronting Toxic Othering: Understanding and Taming the Hydra

Author(s): Thomas Arcaro

Confronting Toxic Othering embarks on an ambitious quest to interrogate the root causes of all global social and environmental problems. Drawing upon the myth of the Hydra, the essays illustrate how each of the creature’s heads symbolizes eight fundamental and pervasive privileging forces, each fuel...

Experiments in Mechanics, Wave Motion, and Heat Laboratory Manual for PHYS: 1511, PHYS: 1701, & PHYS: 1611

Author(s): University of Iowa

Significant revisions were made to some of the “H Series” experiments before the 2011-2012 academic year and to many of the “M Series and W Series” experiments before the 2012-2013 academic year. These revisions were made by laboratory coordinator Anthony Moeller with feedback from TAs and lab setup...

Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century: Connecting the Dots

Author(s): Richard Newman

TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE 21st CENTURY: CONNECTING THE DOTS, SECOND EDITION explores the modern landscape of U.S. schooling to provide real-world perspectives on teaching and learning in the 21st century. Voices from the field, media interactions, videos, and case studies help to deepen the learn...

Confident and Convincing: Effective Speaking in a Word-Conscious World

Author(s): Michael Joseph Moran

Are you nervous in front of a group? Unsure how to answer challenging questions in a job interview? Uneasy about how to present as a member of a group? People have been dealing with such issues since the beginning of time, and effective speakers have given us road maps that can make us better resear...

Earth Day: Lessons for a Sustainable Future

Author(s): Michael Di Giovine

Earth Day: Lessons for a Sustainable Future examines the human-made environmental crisis and provides real-world examples for making our lives more sustainable. Part museum catalog and part sustainability textbook, the book presents in-depth background research conducted by faculty, staff, and stude...