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Author(s): Mario L. Hesse, Christopher J. Przemieniecki
Gangs, 2nd edition, specifically and sufficiently covers essential gang topics as well as new topics not found in any of the competing books in the marketplace. In addition to the traditional overview of gang history and topics (corrections, law and law enforcement), Gangs, 2nd edition, includes areas omitted or not extensively covered in other gang textbooks: Gangs and Mental Illness; Gangs and Native Americans; Entrepreneurship, Finances, and Gangs; The World of Sports, Athletes; Gangs, Gangs in the U.S.
Author(s): THOMAS SHAHADY
Applied Freshwater Ecology explains the study of water quality in a river system. It begins in the field of applied science showing how information is acquired and disseminated. Turning to understanding of the stream system, the book explains the unique properties of water and streams in the landscape of watersheds. The heart of the book covers all aspects of water quality assessment including the physical, chemical and biological monitoring needed to conduct a good survey.
Author(s): David Lapakko
Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action explores a wide variety of issues and concepts connected to making arguments, responding to the arguments of others, and using good critical thinking skills to analyze persuasive communication.
Based on feedback from users and instructors, the new fifth edition of David Lapakko’s Argumentation: Critical Thinking in Action:
Author(s): Alan Jay Zaremba
New Edition Now Available!
Organizational Communication: Foundations for Collaboration presents the theories of organizational communication and the practical applications of them. It examines how culture, networks, ethics, new technology, information management, individual communication skill sets, and power are relevant to organizational communication and organizational communicators.
Author(s): Susan Clutter, Leggie Boone, David McGill
Crime scene investigation isn't an academic, cut-and-dry process. There is no set of ideal procedures that universally applies to all crime scene processing.
Isn't it time for a textbook that reflected that?
Author(s): Zoot Velasco
Small to LARGE: Growing Social Impact Organizations Against All Odds is the culmination of a lifetime of experience, coupled with a year of research. Author Zoot Velasco, shares knowledge from his time working for the “industry,” community organizations, and colleges. The year of research shared was centered on the question of whether or not there is a common thread of best practices that allows for some organizations to grow in crisis while the majority shrink.
Author(s): Mark Knapp, Judith Hall, Terrence Horgan
Nonverbal Communication in Human Interaction breaks down nonverbal communication, analyzes it, and looks at it from every angle so that readers have an intellectual and not just an intuitive grasp of this endlessly fascinating subject.
Author(s): Nicole Blau
As group dynamics are constantly changing, the need for up-to-date research and real-life examples are crucial learning tools. Group Dynamics: Connecting Through Communication features practical application of important group communication concepts in way that will grab the reader’s attention.
Nicole Blau’s Group Dynamics: Connecting Through Communication:
Author(s): Carla Miller Coates, Moneque Walker-Pickett
Women, Minorities, and Criminal Justice takes a hard look at crime, justice, and the criminal justice system through the lens of gender, race, sexuality, and their intersections. Dialogue about minorities in criminal justice is currently one of the most talked about issues in a variety of social and political spaces. Often missing is the inclusion of women.
Author(s): Mark Knapp, William Earnest, Darrin Griffin, Matthew McGlone
The emergence of social media, the digital revolution, and the today’s political climate have all brought renewed attention to deception as a human communication phenomenon.
Lying and Deception in Human Interaction presents deception from a variety of perspectives. The text primarily focuses on the communication process while blending in concepts and references that touch on many important areas of study across the humanities and social sciences.
