Academic Writing and the Emerging Scholar

Author(s): Gentry Sutton, Dalene Fisher

Academic Writing and the Emerging Scholar is an accessible, straightforward text that introduces first-year college students to the fundamentals of beginning composition. All four of its main sections are highly practical, and the authors have designed a number of learning activities that can serve ...

On the Road to Student Success: Designing Lessons that Maximize Student Learning

Author(s): Lynda Fote, Mary Ann Joseph

Together Lynda Fote and MaryAnn Joseph have more than 90 years in education.  Lynda worked as a general and special education teacher in New Jersey and New York before spending 18 years as a Learning Disabilities Consultant.  For the last 21 years she has been a consultant, working with teachers thr...

Statistical Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences

Author(s): James Raymondo

Statistical Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences presents a basic understanding of statistical analysis, by incorporating real-world examples and exposing readers to current technology. Designed for students in all the disciplines of the behavioral sciences, Statistical Analysis in the Behavioral ...

Nutrition and Metabolism

Author(s): Urvashi Mulasi, Wendy Buchan

Nutrition & Metabolism is a turn-key online course package that studies the structures, types and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. In addition, it examines the biological roles of vitamins and minerals. The online course package features video lectures, discussion prompts and boards...

Educational Psychology for Learners: Connecting Theory, Research and Application

Author(s): Angela Vaughan, Brett Wilkinson

Educational Psychology for Learners is the ideal text for First-Year Seminar programs that recognize the need for first-time college students to engage in rigorous intellectual discussion based on theory and current research as a means to support students’ academic growth, personal development and i...

Reclaiming Social Studies for the Elementary Classroom: Integrating Culture through the Arts

Author(s): Joyce Burstein, Gregory D Knotts

Reclaiming Social Studies for the Elementary Classroom is a new text that defines the core philosophy of viewing social studies from the cultural anthropological perspective. This perspective allows children to bring their own prior knowledge and experiences from their home culture to the social stu...

Introduction to the Music Industry: Midwest Edition

Author(s): Robert Willey

Introduction to the Music Industry: Midwest Edition is an introduction to the music industry, and can be considered a primer for two reasons. It covers the primary, most important information about the present state of the music and entertainment industry and how we got here. You will also lea...

A.S.P.I.R.E. to Ethics: An Analytical Approach to Solving Ethical Dilemmas

Author(s): Jonathan D. Gallop

While no book can magically turn a morally bankrupt individual into a paragon of ethical virtue, this text provides the tools to improve decision-making and formulate the best ethical responses to issues that will arise throughout an individual’s career. The acronym ASPIRE encompasses a step by s...

The 7 Signals of Meaning: How Writers Can Say What They Mean

Author(s): Robert E Pickford

This compact little book offers a simple but admittedly unorthodox approach to spotting and addressing sentence-level errors, a method that requires no previous knowledge of the terms and rules of formal grammar and usage. In a nutshell, all writers signal meaning in just seven ways, and the book's ...

Introduction to Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

Author(s): Paul Gannon

Human society has never before faced challenges like the present. Population has more than doubled since 1970; currently over 7 billion and growing fast. Much of this growth occurs in regions with developing infrastructure, placing increasing demands on natural resources and taxing ecosystem service...