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Pursuing and Navigating a Career in Criminal Justice

Author(s): Michael Pittaro

Pursuing and Navigating a Career in Criminal Justice is a practical, “must-have” book for those considering a career in criminal justice as well as providing helpful advice and guidance to those already working in the profession who may be confronted with the widely unaddressed realities associated ...

The Fanatics

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"Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began to write stories and verse when still a ch...

Psychology Inside and Out

Author(s): Vivian C. Hsu-Yang

Psychology: Inside and Out will teach your students the major theories and perspectives of psychology past, present, and future. The text was created to give them the information they need, exercises to practice those concepts, and applications for their lives. They will be challenged to critically ...

Confessions of a Dance Team: The Interface of Sport, Dance, and Family Communication

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Abstract As part of the audition process for a collegiate dance team, three college women must confront the role that family communication plays in their reasons for wanting to join the team. Through self-reflection, the women realize the significance of family communication patterns used in thei...

Leaving the Nest Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future Career

Author(s): Nikole Knight

Too often even students who are close to graduation have not yet made sense of the process and are not yet secure in how college will help them be successful in their future. Leaving the Nest: Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future is written for students who are presently in college w...

OpenStax Introductory Business Statistics softcover

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"Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result...

OpenStax Prealgebra softcover prints in 2 parts

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"Prealgebra 2e is designed to meet scope and sequence requirements for a one-semester prealgebra or basic math course. The book’s organization makes it easy to adapt to a variety of course syllabi. The text introduces the fundamental concepts of algebra while addressing the needs of students with di...

Seeking a Last First Date: Strategic Self-Disclosure and Self-Presentation as Persuasion in Initial Online Dating Interactions

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Sample The Internet today is central in communication functions, such as establishing initial interactions, maintaining early and subsequent contacts, and providing outlets for self-disclosure and self-presentation relevant to relationship initiation and development. Today’s busy singles are avoi...

The Disclosure of End-of-Life Mesothelioma from a Family Communication Perspective: An Application of Emotion Regulation Theory

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Abstract The time has come for Charley to disclose some very important, health-related information to her cousin, Hailey. How will she do it? Using the key ideas embedded within Gross’s (1998) emotion regulation theory, the two mutually negotiate this difficult situation and shed light on the sal...