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Introduction to the Caribbean: Diversity, Challenges, Resiliency
Author(s): Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
Introduction to the Caribbean is a stand-alone text that is designed to challenge common misperceptions about the Caribbean and provide a solid grounding for an understanding of the region. It is interactive, with links to audiovisual content and relevant websites, and covers topics such as the Indi...
Life Management 2.0: How to Have the Time of Your Life
Author(s): Marvin Karlins
This book is about time management and how you can use it to achieve a joyful life. Therefore, the determination of how successfully you manage your time is not assessed in traditional time management terms (efficient scheduling, enhanced productivity) but, rather, how effectively you use your time...
OpenStax Principles of Accounting Vol 1 Financial Accounting softcover
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"Principles of Accounting is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of a two-semester accounting course that covers the fundamentals of financial and managerial accounting. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in two volumes. This book is specifical...
Communicating a Surge of Information: How Do Individuals Understand, React, and Respond to Storm Surge Media Messages?
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Sample For those living directly on the coast, storm surge is the most dangerous, and potentially deadly, hurricane-related risk. During Hurricane Sandy in 2013, 40 deaths were directly attributed to flooding that occurred due to a dramatic slow rise of ocean surge. Beyond Sandy, storm surge has ...
A Different Existence Duquesne
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"Through the presentation of the behavior of a single case, van den Berg elaborates the major forms of experiencing, including one's physical world, one's body, one's social world, and time perspective of past and future. Before elaborating how these notions can be dealt with within an existential o...
"My Mom Has Been Gone for A While, But She's Still Alive..." Communicating as a Child of a Parent with Alzheimer's Disease
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Abstract Alzheimer’s disease accounts for a significant number of dementia cases in the United States. The disease causes devastating physical, psychological, and relational losses for the person suffering from the illness and those in the person’s social and familial networks. Children of parent...
Managing Social Media: Responding to Critics on Twitter
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Abstract Ten minutes before Montague walked in his office at 9:30 this morning, popular sports blog Kissing Shelly Kohler already had 275,000 views on their Flanders’ Twitter story. The Buckhorns media and public relations office had been deluged with requests for comment. Massaging his temples w...
Modern Music Appreciation
Author(s): Robert Brosh
Modern Music Appreciation takes a new direction to the study of music appreciation in today’s college classroom. Traditionally, most music appreciation textbooks (and supplemental teaching materials) have approached music history through the lens of Western classical music traditions. Standard music...