Facility and Event Management: Applications in Sport

Author(s): Jeffrey Petersen, Lawrence Judge, John J Miller

Sports stadiums are becoming bigger, louder, and more exciting. With so many people in one area, it takes quite a bit of planning and work to pull off an event successfully. This is where facility and event management comes in.Perfect for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, Facility and E...

Selling in the Sport Industry

Author(s): David Pierce, Nels Popp, CHAD MCEVOY

With an industry at $498 billion according to Plunkett Research, Ltd, sports is one of the largest industries in the United States. Being able to sell items in this industry is key to excelling in the field itself.Selling in the Sport Industry is a groundbreaking publication and is the only book in ...

The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing

Author(s): Larry G Edgerton

The Less-Is-More Handbook: A Guide to College Writing guides the reader through the basics of college writing. This handbook clearly and efficiently discusses a wide variety of topics, including thesis statements, essays, research papers, and editing. For this handbook of the basics, less is more.Fo...

Introduction to Communication Criticism: Methods, Systems, Analysis and Societal Transformations

Author(s): James Chesebro, Dale Bertelsen, David T. McMahan

Teaching communication criticism is an art, an aesthetic performance, a skill, and a practice that must be adapted to the specific and unique personalities of the students within a classroom. In publication for over four decades, Introduction to Communication Criticism:  Methods, Systems Analysis, a...

Living the Dream: The Morning After Drama School

Author(s): David Alford, Brian Horner

Based on parallels drawn between fundamental areas of theatre performance and their counterparts in the business world, Living The Dream…The Morning After Drama School – A DIY Guide to the Acting Business offers insights and tools to help current or former drama majors navigate life as highly capabl...

Living the Dream: The Morning After Art School

Author(s): John Watson, Brian Horner

You’ve likely been asked over and over, “What are you going to do with an art degree?”And maybe you’ve been asking yourself that very question.The career of an artist, like that of an actor or musician, is not one that looks like the traditional careers that many of your friends will have. You are a...

Living the Dream, The Morning After Music School: A DIY Guide to the Music Business

Author(s): Brian Horner

Based on parallels drawn between fundamental areas of music performance and their counterparts in the business world, Living The Dream...The Morning After Music School – a DIY guide to the music business offers insights and tools to help current or former music majors navigate life as highly capable...

Essentials of Reading: Strategies and Practice for High School and College Readers

Author(s): Nicole Y Strange Martin, Althea Duren

Essentials of Reading: Strategies and Practice for High School and College Readers is written for the purpose of providing quality exercises and passages in a graded level format. The authors have a combined experience of over half a century of classroom instruction in reading education at the pre- ...

The Speech I Teach: Public Speaking for Today's Students

Author(s): Michelle DeSelle

The Speech I Teach: Public Speaking for Today’s Student helps students embrace the prestige and eloquence of the art of public speaking as did the Greek and Roman philosophers. The skill of public speaking was widely sought after as it gave prominence to the possessor of such a skill- it was not fea...

The Mask of Microaggressions: Studies of Racism in the U.S.

Author(s): Ronald Goodwin, MARK TSCHAEPE

Racism that is communicated through racial microaggressions is more difficult to locate and reconstruct than the racism that was built into law during enslavement and Jim Crow.The Mask of Microagressions: Studies of Racism in the US presents tools that aid in understanding historical sources of raci...