Interpersonal Communication: Building Rewarding Relationships

Author(s): Melissa B Wanzer, Kristen C Eichhorn, Candice Thomas-Maddox

Interpersonal Communication: Building Rewarding Relationships reflects the countless societal, cultural, and technological changes that have influenced the ways in which we experience, discuss, and research relationships in a variety of contexts. Interpersonal Communication: Building Rewarding Re...

Communicating in Your Personal, Professional and Public Lives

Author(s): Sara Weintraub, Candice Thomas-Maddox, Kerry Byrnes

Communication is everywhere in our daily lives. Whether we are interacting with a friend or with a supervisor, in today’s society, the ability to communicate effectively is imperative. Communicating in Your Personal, Professional & Public Lives covers a wide range of relevant topics that provide ...

Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice

Author(s): Mark Nagel, Richard Southall

New Third Edition Coming Soon! Introduction to Sport Management: Theory and Practice bridges the theoretical-practical divide by providing students with practical perspectives on today’s sport management issues, based upon sound theoretical frameworks. Introduction to Sport Management introduces rea...

Fundamentals of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in K-12 Mainstream Classrooms

Author(s): Eileen Ariza, Noorchaya Yahya, Carmen Morales-Jones, Hanizah Zainuddin

Fundamentals of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages in K-12 Mainstream Classrooms helps teachers effectively educate ELL students in their classrooms. This book provides English learners with the methodology to improve English and academic content proficiency as well as provide a vehicle...

An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America

Author(s): Richard Merritt, Kenneth Cummins, Martin B Berg

An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America serves as a standard guide on the immature and adult stages of aquatic and semiaquatic insects of North America. It offers information on the distribution, tolerance values, trophic relationships, and functional adaptations of aquatic insects t...

Technical Communication

Author(s): Brenda Sims

New Third Edition Now Available! Writing and communication are invaluable skills in any field…. Technical Communication is an integrated enhanced online learning text and website package that helps the reader to write effectively as a professional. By utilizing instructor and student friendly ...

Let's Get Personal! Creating Successful Relationships Through Effective Interpersonal Communication

Author(s): Dee Osorio, Michael Schulmeister, A Todd Jones

Let’s Get Personal! offers practical advice to initiate, maintain, and enhance the interpersonal relationships in both your private and professional life. The textbook writers model appropriate self-disclosure to teach readers how to create intimate communication that can lead to satisfying, meaning...

Introduction to Western Concert Music

Author(s): Armand Ambrosini, Michael Lee

New Third Edition Coming Soon!Introduction to Western Concert Music connects the music of a particular time and place within the scope of the ideas and beliefs circulating in that time and place. By illustrating such connections, readers come to an understanding of music as a social as well as sonic...

Spanish for Spanish Speakers

Author(s): Araceli Osorio

Spanish for Spanish Speakers fuses a text and online course package that immerses students into the language and culture of different Spanish speaking countries in interesting, exciting, and comprehensive ways to help them improve and expand their language skills, and apply them to a great variety o...

Campus Crime and Safety

Author(s): Christina Mancini

Nestled in the “ivory tower,” college campuses tend to be safe environments for students, but crime and violence do occur.  To be sure, crime trends vary based on the location of the campus (suburban, rural, urban, “college town”) and their “type” (four-year universities, small liberal arts colleges...