REActivities: Organic Chemistry Lab Workbook, 2e

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"REActivate independence in lab learning! Organic chemistry REActivities (Second Edition) is a lab workbook designed to be student-guided and not instructor taught. Students are encouraged to self-guide, and interact with the instructor to answer questions and request help where needed. Independent ...

Sport Administration

Author(s): Bo Li, Stirling Sharpe

Sport Administration is designed for sport administration, management, and governance courses for upper-level or graduate students. This text primarily focuses on sport administration and governance in a global sport business environment. This book is for individuals interested in a career in sport ...

Nursing Skills

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James Baldwin's Black Lives Blues Are Mine

Author(s): Stan West

Hear a sample read by author Stan West! “Using creative nonfiction and lots of research data, I wrote a two-track narrative about 20th century’s best essayist,” said author Stan West. “The relevance and timeliness of this research and its implications in policy, literature and news seems to b...

Fouling Out?

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Abstract  A basketball head coach is faced with a difficult decision when he overhears a secret conversation between his assistant coach and his most valuable player. *** “Here’s what you asked for last week. That’s all I can give you for now,” whispered Toney James, the assistant coach of...

"I Won't be Home for Christmas": Accomplishing and Maintaining Family Estrangement

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Abstract Despite both scholarly and laypeople’s beliefs that family relationships are nonvoluntary (Baxter et al., 2009; Hess, 2000), Conti (2015) contends that family estrangement could be as common as divorce in some segments of society. Family estrangement occurs when at least one family membe...

Communication Accommodation Theory as a Lens to Examine Painful Self-Disclosure in Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships

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Sample Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT; e.g., Giles, 2016a) has emerged as a key interpersonal and intergroup theory, and has been studied across an array of languages, cultures, and applied settings (Soliz & Giles, 2014). This chapter, with its illustrative case accounts, focuses on one ...

Eric Shinseki's Image Repair for the Veteran's Administration Health Care Scandal

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Sample Concerns that veterans were not receiving timely medical care swirled about the Veterans Affairs (VA). In May of 2014, the Inspector General’s office issued a report confirming the scandal. Bronstein and Griffin (2014) reported that the VA had kept a secret list of veterans seeking medical...

Diversity of Perspectives

Author(s): Eileen Taylor

Regardless of your current level in any organization (traditional student, adult learner, intern, entry-level, employee, manager, or leader), you will soon experience a changing workforce that will become majority minority as early as the year 2030 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.  Dr. Eileen Ta...

Anatomy and Physiology 2 Lab Companion, Preliminary Edition

Author(s): William Johnson, Lisa Miller

The Anatomy and Physiology 2 Lab Companion, Preliminary Edition, is a text that provides robust, supportive material for the study of the lymphatic system, the cardiovascular system, thoracic viscera, abdominal viscera, and organs of the reproductive system. It has a heavy emphasis on anatomy and sh...