Pandemics and Pestilence

Author(s): Jeffrey Ryan

In the event of an outbreak of a highly pathogenic and transmissible disease, community officials, planners, healthcare providers and first responders at all skill levels will be called upon to protect the public. Recognition of an emerging infectious disease (EID) threat will most likely come from ...

Negotiation Alchemy: Global Skills Inspiring and Transforming Diverging Worlds

Author(s): Nancy Erbe

Both interesting and highly informative, Nancy Erbe’s Negotiation Alchemy provides visionary practitioners with the necessary skills to help overcome the challenges that unresolved conflicts pose throughout the world. The book focuses on ways of creating and sustaining “positive peace,” which is mor...

How Is That Going to Work?: Explaining Commuter Marriage to Others

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Sample Sarah sighed as she hung up the phone and stared out the window of her third-floor office in the Arts and Sciences building. She loved being back in college teaching, but she was sick and tired of fighting other people’s ideas of what marriage was supposed to be. She often thought to herse...

Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry

Author(s): Pedro Irigoyen, Frank Rudo, DAVID SARNO, JUN HO SHIN, Paris Svoronos, Peter Wong

Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry, Fourth Edition updates and expands on earlier editions of this lab manual and is designed for the conventional two-semester General Chemistry sequence that is required for most STEM and pre-health programs. The experiments cover a wide range of topics in...

OpenStax Microbiology hardcover

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"Microbiology covers the scope and sequence requirements for a single-semester microbiology course for non-majors. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health. The pedagogical features of the text make the material interesting and acc...

Bonding Apart: Building Mediated Relationships Among Fulltime Teleworkers

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Sample This chapter focuses on how full-time teleworkers use mediated communication to initiate and maintain remote workplace relationships. Research has shown that informal communication is an important communicative process for initiating and maintaining relationships in workplace environments ...

Archaeology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and the Origins of Civilization

Author(s): Cameron M Smith

An up-to-date, well-illustrated introduction to the techniques and results of archaeology, the study of humanity's evolution and ancient past. A fully-referenced and affordable text, well-illustrated with the author's trademark diagrams, maps and photographs from archaeological work worldwide and sp...

ADW 112, African Diaspora and the World, Spring 2017

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Studying a World Language: An Interactive Guidebook

Author(s): Bobby Hobgood, Adriana Medina

This guidebook is intended for anyone who is learning a language through formal or informal study.  It was written with two underlying premises: Study is essential to language learning The responsibility for language study is primarily the learners. The purpose of this guidebook is to s...

Going Hard in the Paint: A Case of Coach-Athlete Violence

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Abstract Head Basketball Coach Bruno Withers is demanding on the court with his players and at home with his son, Barrett Withers, whom he is grooming to one day be a professional basketball player. For years they have worked together relentlessly and mercilessly to prepare Barrett for a Division...