Hip Hop, Cinema and African American Perspectives

Author(s): Tani Sanchez

Hip Hop, Cinema and African American Perspectives offers theoretical analysis from film, cultural studies, and race perspectives. This e-book reflects an attempt to address these concerns in a way that privileges and contextualizes all three. Hip-hop cinema is framed as a phenomenon born within the ...

Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Business Writing

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

For early-career professionals, your first contact with prospective employers or customers is usually through your writing.  Email introductions, cover letters, and everyday correspondence play a large and important role in your professional success.  Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Bus...

The Administration and Supervision of Special Programs in Education

Author(s): Anita Pankake, Jesus Abrego Jr., Michelle Abrego

The Fifth Edition of The Administration & Supervision of Special Programs in Education (2022) is designed to provide both practicing and aspiring school leaders an overview of many of the programs and services operating in most schools today. The book is organized so that readers can immediately app...

University 101: The Individual & Life 2023-2024

Author(s): Hampton University

New Edition Now Available!Leading a well-rounded life requires that an individual have a cursory knowledge of many important fundamental subjects, concepts, and values. Hampton University’s University 101: The Individual & Life provides freshmen and first-time students with such knowledge and prepar...

Analytical Reasoning Skills for Success in Business and Life

Author(s): JoAnn Rawley

Analytical Reasoning Skills for Success in Business and Life is a practical, compelling overview of situations in life that require the use of mathematics for successful decision making. This text uses the TI BAII financial calculator as a resource to replace the use of tables and complex formulas. ...

Calculus I: A Guided Inquiry

Author(s): The POGIL Project, Andrei Straumanis, Catherine Bénéteau, Zdenka Guadarrama, Jill E. Guerra, Laurie Lenz

Students learn when they are activity engaged and thinking in class. The activities in this book are the primary classroom materials for teaching Calculus 1, using the POGIL method. Each activity leads students to discovery of the key concepts by having them analyze data and make inferences.  The re...

Educational Assessment: Using Student Learning Objectives to Promote Student Growth

Author(s): Alan Neville, Janeen Outka

How do educators know when students have mastered important content? Effective educators know they must find the perfect balance of selecting priority standards and carefully identifying high-quality assessments that accurately gauge student progress, while also meeting the needs of diverse learners...

Stand Out: Business Communication Strategies That Work

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

Business communication students are curious, insightful, engaged, and conscientious. They deserve educational resources that are thorough, useful, efficient, and fun.Stand Out: Business Communication Strategies that Work rises to the occasion, providing modern students with a text specifically tailo...

Educational Technology: Big Ideas and Practical Applications for the Classroom

Author(s): Ronda Blevins

One phrase that possesses a unique ability to elicit multiple, strong, and varied emotions from all stakeholders in the world of education is Educational Technology.  There are all sorts of theories, arguments both for and against, and mandates dealing with the use of technology in the classroom.  E...

The Architecture of Educational Frameworks

Author(s): PAMELA JEAN BALLARD SAWYER, ROSEMARY KARR, ELAINE ANN ZWEIG

The more proficient students are in critical thinking in college, the better they may be at decision-making and throughout life.The Architecture of Educational Frameworks offers guidance that encourages instructors from all disciplines to be comfortable teaching study skills for education, English, ...