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Crime Prevention

Author(s): Matthew B. Robinson

CRIME PREVENTION presents a concise introduction to crime prevention methods at the individual, group, community, and societal level.  Drawing upon research from leading scholars in the field, the text includes discussion of crime in current news media, and explores crime prevention through policing...

The Journalist's Primer: A No-Nonsense Guide to Getting and Reporting the News

Author(s): Mark P. Hanebutt

The face of journalism has changed. The evening news is rife with personality, commentary, and political polarization. Blogs are doubling as news sites, and anybody with a cell phone thinks he's a journalist. Citizens say they can no longer tell fake news from real news, fact from opinion. As a resu...

Introduction to Education: Choosing to Teach

Author(s): Suzanne L. Krogh, Lynda Fielstein, Patricia H. Phelps, Richard Newman

INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION: CHOOSING TO TEACH offers a glimpse of what it is like to be a teacher in today’s schools and classrooms. Students are introduced to foundational teaching con­cepts and then shown how these theories can be applied in their own classrooms. Students will consider what it mean...

Discovering Public Health

Author(s): Duane J Wallace II

Mobile-friendly and social media savvy, Discovering Public Health is designed with the modern-day college student in mind.  The turn-key course package employs a combination of student-centered learning and inquiry-based instruction techniques, public health problem-based learning scenarios, and fie...

Physical & Environmental Geology

Author(s): Kevin Cole, Brenna Lorenz

Laboratory Investigations in Physical and Environmental Geology: encourages students to make careful observations and then use their observations to identify, classify and interpret earth materials. acquaints the student with important computer applications and websites such as Google Earth ...