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Arkansas History: A Brief Survey

Author(s): James Brent

Arkansas was once known as the Wonder State. It remains beguiling, in its beautiful and mystical scenery and in the diversity of its people; it is inspiring, in how those people have come back so often from the most heart-wrenching circumstances, and how so many of them have drawn strength from the ...

3D Modeling for Advanced Design & Application

Author(s): Fardad Azarmi

Intended for use as a textbook in the introductory course in engineering drawing and computer aided modeling for undergraduate engineering students, 3D Modeling for Advanced Design and Application focuses on the principals of engineering graphics for sketching drawings according to the standards in ...

With You We Got a Twofer: Challenging the Affirmative Action Hire Stereotype

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Abstract Kendra smiled when she saw the header, Party Time! on an e-mail from her team leader, Joe. He was the enthusiastic head of their sales team in the tech division, and she knew that her sales had contributed to the celebratory environment. When she was hired by the general sales manager, E...

Facilitating Intercultural Dialogue through Innovative Conference Design

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Sample This chapter reports on the innovative design developed for a small conference intended to permit and encourage intercultural dialogues among an international group of scholars studying the topic of intercultural dialogue. It is argued that a more interactive and dialogic conference format...

Challenges in International Baccalaureate Students' Intercultural Dialogue

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Sample The aim of this study is to clarify and understand how international baccalaureate (IB) students experience intercultural dialogue in an IB educational context. It is an attempt to illuminate student attitude, dialogue, and interaction. To give further meaning to the data links are drawn t...

Mediated Communication and Relational Maintenance and Satisfaction in Romantic, Long-Distance Relationships

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Abstract The impact of mediated communication on interpersonal relationships in the 21st century is largely attributable to technological advances. These advances have been studied from the theoretical perspectives of computer-mediated communication (Maguire & Connaughton, 2006; Walther,1992, 199...

The Evolution of the Global Economy: From the First Era of Globalization to the COVID Pandemic

Author(s): Michael Jolly

Until very recently it was possible to believe that we were living in a new world in which the economic problems of the past had little or no relevance.   The subprime mortgage crisis of 2008, along with the subsequent ‘Great Recession’ and sovereign debt crisis, shattered this complacency. The G...

Information Should Never Be Random: A Guide to Business and Technical Writing

Author(s): Laurie Anderson

Information Should Never Be Random: A Guide to Business and Technical Writing breaks down that writing process for students so they can capitalize on it and get ahead on the job faster. This book approaches teaching business and technical writing differently than other books. This text separates...