Foodservice Operations Management: A Menu Perspective

Author(s): James Taylor, Mary Roseman

Prepare savvy future professionals ready to manage the foodservice industry with poise.Well-run foodservice may look like magic, but there is very careful intersection of science and management at play. Foodservice Operations Management: A Menu Perspective takes readers behind the scenes of smooth, ...

Casing Organizational Communication

Author(s): Jason S Wrench

Casing Organizational Communication Demonstrates Communication Theory via Real-World Examples One of the biggest challenges organizational communication instructors face is that most students have minimal or no corporate experience. As such, showing students how to apply the theoretical content o...

Casing Interpersonal Communication: Case Studies in Personal and Social Relationships

Author(s): Dawn O Braithwaite, Kelly Rossetto, Jeffrey T. Child, Julia T Wood

Casing Interpersonal Communication puts the proven concept of active learning to work for interpersonal communication students by immersing students in real life situations. Easily adaptable to any existing interpersonal communication textbook, Casing Interpersonal Communication: is availab...

Casing Conflict Communication

Author(s): Andrea Meluch, Heather Walter

New Publication Now Available!Conflict is a natural part of life. What we often struggle with is how to best approach conflict so that we have productive outcomes and are able to maintain positive relationships. As you pursue a greater understanding of conflict, you will ideally be able to apply the...

Communicating Professionally In Today's Workplace

Author(s): Robert Insley

Business communication instructors and trainers must prepare students and employees to communicate effectively and efficiently in the ever-changing and increasingly global business environment.Communicating in Business fuses a text with continuously-updated website resources that provide a comprehen...

History of Rock and Roll

Author(s): Thomas E Larson

Here’s your backstage pass to the history of rock and roll.Thomas Larson’s History of Rock & Roll connects music and the culture in which it interacted. Designed for the college non-music major, History of Rock & Roll fuses a text, website, and online music library to cover the music’s story of cont...

Brave Space-Making: The Poetics & Politics of Storytelling

Author(s): Brittany L. Peterson, Lynn M. Harter

Storytelling is a meaning-making process with catalytic capacity.Brave Space-Making: The Poetics & Politics of Storytelling explores the generative potential of storytelling by focusing on its centrality in brave space-making. Brave spaces are spheres of possibility where participants undo in order ...

Golf's Rebirth: Rapidly Evolving Applications in Hospitality and Sport Management

Author(s): Christopher Cain, Lisa N. Cain

What an exciting time for the golf industry!Never before has there been so much interest in playing the game, and active participation in both on-course and off-course offerings. This $84 billion industry, in the United States alone, is truly seeing a rebirth and this text offers an introductory ove...

Handbook of Instructional Communication: Principles & Practices of Teaching Rhetorical & Relational Perspectives

Author(s): Marian Houser, Angela M Hosek

Handbook of Instructional Communication: Principles & Practices of Teaching Rhetorical & Relational Perspectives offers a comprehensive collection of theory and research focusing on the role and effects of communication in instructional environments.Now in its Third Edition, the handbook covers an u...

Cornerstones for Community College Success

Author(s): Robert Sherfield, Patricia Moody

Cornerstones for Community College Success helps readers to discover their academic, social, and personal strengths so that they can build on them, and to provide concrete and useful tools that will help them make the changes necessary for their success. The authors believe that in helping the reade...