Validating Parental Strategies as a Bridge to Learning

Author(s): Irene C Cota

At the beginning of each academic school year, educators recommend strategies parents can use to help their children with academic school success: such as parents reading to their children or helping children with their homework. How can working-class, low-income parents who are not literate, or hav...

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Disease Dilemma and Death: Microbiology Case Adventures

Author(s): Kim Finer

Welcome to Disease, Dilemma, and Death: Microbiology Case Adventures. This workbook consists of 18 narrative cases, a case style that emphasizes an engaging, readable story evoking emotion, empathy, and interest—thus serving as an excellent teaching/learning tool. That said, although cases may read ...

Hell Has Torments of Cold: Rebels on Johnson's Island

Author(s): PAUL MCREE

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Discovering the Entrepreneur Within: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Process

Author(s): Robert Sinclair

 Preliminary Edition Available Fall 2014!Discovering the Entrepreneur Within: Understanding the Entrepreneurial Process is designed with two specific goals in mind. To educate you in the entrepreneurial process. To help you realize that you can absolutely become an entrepreneur, if you so choose. Th...

Explorative Microbiology: A Problem-Based Learning Approach

Author(s): Christine E. Cutucache

Explorative Microbiology is intended to serve as a supplement to the material discussed in Microbiology. It helps students to see the real-world, everyday application of Microbiology. Explorative Microbiology discusses:important molecular biological tools that scientists have harvested from mic...

Leading with Character, Purpose, & Passion! A Model for Successful Leadership at Work and Home

Author(s): Roger M. Weis, Susan Muller

Leading with Character, Purpose, & Passion can make an unparalleled difference in your life at work and at home. It can help you make a difference in the lives of the people you come in contact with everyday. The model is an assessment tool for self improvement as well as a tool to help assess and d...

Acercandome

Author(s): Melissa D Murphy, Mina Ogando Lavin, Delia Montesinos

Acercándome guides students of Spanish in their transition from beginning to intermediate language proficiency. At this level, students will develop the skills necessary to express opinions, make predictions, speak hypothetically and engage in debate. Acercándome not only presents complex vocab...

Research Methods: Are You Equipped?

Author(s): Jennifer M. Bonds-Raacke, John D. Raacke

There are a myriad of research methods in psychology textbooks available... However, few, if any, of the textbooks approach the research methods course with the purpose of preparing students to become educated consumers of research. Consequently, there is a large gap in the market between the tex...

A Concise History of Western Civilization: From Prehistoric to Early-Modern Times

Author(s): Gary Forsythe

This publication provides an overview of the foundation of Western Civilization History in a straightforward manner, making it easy to adopt and adapt to your course. It gives readers the necessary detail and context without being overrun with extra information that is unrealistic to cover within th...