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Family Violence Across the Life Course: Research, Policy and Prevention

Author(s): Sonia Salari

Intimate partner violence, family abuse, neglect and exploitation exist for persons of all ages, so it is imperative to recognize the special vulnerabilities of victims and patterns of perpetration from early to later life. Family Violence Across the Life Course: Research, Policy and Prevention o...

Sport Analytics: An Applied Introduction to How Numbers are Changing Sport

Author(s): J.T. Wolohan, John Wolohan

Sport Analytics: An Applied Introduction to How Numbers are Changing Sport provides readers with an analytical foundation required to do sport analytics and an overview of the canonical methods in sport analytics.To achieve the methods simultaneously, Sport Analytics introduces the most important in...

Sacrifice and Winning: The Difficult Reality of Players, Management, and Contracts

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Abstract As seriously as professional sports are taken in the world, often people forget that it is first and foremost a business. When decisions have to be made, they are not only sports moves, but business choices as well. Athletes are just as much employees as they are sports figures, and thei...

International Affairs: An Interactive Approach

Author(s): PAUL POPE

This eBook has been designed for active learners who are interested in beginning their study of international affairs. This book utilizes an interactive map that allows users to investigate a range of information pertaining to international relations, American foreign policy, and dynamic events in t...

Talking Family: The Discourses of Voluntary Kin

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Sample Miriam scurried around the kitchen, working on Thanksgiving dinner. She checked the dining room table and decided it was lovely, with her grandmother’s linens and china that she used only for special dinners. She straightened the tall candles and the little Thanksgiving Pilgrim couple, fig...

Applied Math for General Studies

Author(s): Dawn Dabney

Applied Math: General Studies is math workbook for non-STEM majors. The book answers real-world questions using real-world information in the areas of consumer math, finances, very basic statistics, and some linear and exponential modeling.  What makes Applied Math: General Studies different? The...

Don't Mention the Office: Workplace Bullying Spillover at Home

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Abstract Nearly half (47%) of surveyed American employees report experiencing at least one negative act weekly in their work career (Lutgen-Sandvik, Tracy, & Alberts, 2007). Ongoing negative communication exchanges can target a particular employee over time and result in workplace bullying. Unfor...

Organic Chemistry II Laboratory Experiments for Chemistry 222

Author(s): Rayvon Sneed, Catherine Malele

The laboratory techniques learned in Chemistry 221 are used to carry out reactions in aromatic substitution, organometallic chemistry, oxidation and reduction chemistry, esterification, and aldol condensations. A significant portion of the semester is devoted to determining the structure of unknown ...

Phonics to Word Study: Simulations for Teacher Education

Author(s): Michael Mott

Phonics to Word Study: Simulations for Teacher Education is a specialized workbook for education students enrolled in literacy methods coursework to learn how to teach the differentiated reading skills of phonics and word level reading as a key component of the broader reading curriculum. Utilizing ...