Who's Leading You?: Success and Meaning in the Digital Age

Author(s): Bruce Arai

Instructors of first-year experience and foundational courses feel a lot of pressure. They often face roomfuls of students with very different levels of preparation, and instructors are expected to get everyone up to standard. But how can they meet these expectations when we know that many of our st...

weSIGN: ASL & Deaf Perspectives - Level 4

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"This book is Level 4 of the 4-part WeSign series. This series, with print books that includes e-book access for videos of key vocabulary, provides four semesters of ASL study in line with national standards for American Sign Language learning (ASLTA) and world language learning (ACTFL). It is inten...

Disappearing Woman? Navigating Crisis Communication Internationally

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Abstract Cloudbank Hotels and Resorts (CHR), a global hotel company based in New York, faces challenges as it tries to draw customers from the Middle East. , basic_html

The Quest for Understanding: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy

Author(s): Dr. Douglas Giles

The Quest for Understanding: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy is a fresh approach to teaching philosophy for a new millennium. It presents philosophy as a long conversation of people seeking to understand who we are, what the world is really like, and how we can build a better life. Based ...

INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY 3E

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Moving Up: The Challenges of Communicating a New Social Class Identity

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Sample ESPN SportsCenter was on, but Jim Morgan wasn’t listening. Instead he was lying on his couch in an otherwise dark room, the light from his television screen flickering across his blank face. His phone was buzzing with text message alerts, but he was ignoring those too. He had a rough week—...

Immunology Lab Manual

Author(s): Janice Speshock

Personal Artifacts and Nonverbal Identification: A Case Study

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Sample What is it that makes us similar or dissimilar to others? There are many aspects of similarity, but we can classify them into two separate classes: permanent, that is, they are either something biological and/or quite difficult to change once they have assigned a “class,” or changeable. Fo...

The Sociological Vision

Author(s): Christopher Pieper

New Edition Now Available! What is sociology? Will I like it? Does it matter in the world? Can it help me? The Sociological Vision is designed to answer these questions and cultivate a new way of seeing social life. Geared primarily toward students beginning a journey into the social sciences,...

3D Computer Aided Design with NX: Engineering Design in Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing

Author(s): H Felix Lee

The twenty-first century manufacturing environment can be characterized by the paradigm of delivering products of increasing variety, lower demand and higher quality in the context of expanding global competition. In order to realize this manufacturing paradigm and facilitate coordinated efforts acr...