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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 a so...

Contemporary Environmental Issues

Author(s): Michael Slattery

Scientists say we are in a new stage of the Earth’s history, the Anthropocene, when we humans have become the globe’s principal agent of change.To begin a shift toward a “sustainable society,” significant action is required now on a range of issues. Fortunately, people are capable of changing their ...

Music 101: A Guide to Active Listening for a Generation Online

Author(s): James E Shearer, Fred Bugbee

Music 101: A Guide to Active Listening for a Generation Online presents a balance of commentary, historical documentation, and insightful listening guides into the diverse world of classical, jazz, and world music. Music 101 is a highly readable text that offers students a lifelong guide into all fo...

Tiny Earth, A Research Guide to Studentsourcing Antibiotic Discovery

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"Tiny Earth - A Research Guide to Studentsourcing Antibiotic Discovery (Revised Edition, 2022, print book plus full FlexEd Digital course access). Tiny Earth is a network of instructors and students focused on crowd-sourcing antibiotic discovery from soil. The challenges are huge... Today we are fig...

Exploring the Nature of Creativity

Author(s): Jon Michael Fox, Ronni Lea Fox

Exploring the Nature of Creativity provides an introduction to creativity for the curious, the uninitiated, the students of beginning classes, and all other interested persons beginning their inquiry into the field of creativity research. Conversational knowledge is not easily gleaned from formal re...

Russian Stage Two: Welcome Back!

Author(s): American Council of Teachers of Russian

AUTHORS:Cynthia Martin, Ph.D., University of MarylandIrina Dolgova, Ph.D., Yale University Russian Stage Two: Welcome Back! is a video-based second-year course for learners of Russian at the intermediate level of study. The goal of this second-year course is to improve functional competence in speak...

Middle Eastern Humanities: An Introduction to the Cultures of the Middle East

Author(s): Leila Hudson

Middle Eastern Humanities: An Introduction to Cultures of the Middle East combines the guided, step-by-step and interactive style of a textbook with a sophisticated and sympathetic approach to the cultural logics of tradition and innovation of the Middle East. The book will be useful for teachers an...