Practices and Techniques in Horticulture

Author(s): Ellen Peffley Harp, Cynthia Mckenney, Judith E. Wilmington, Richard Durham

The NEW 7th edition of Practices and Techniques in Horticulture has added some new exciting laboratory exercises as well as enhanced some of the previous activities. As students become more focused on the environment and sustainable plant production practices, we have evolved the book’s focus to inc...

Harnessing Your Innate Abilities: Experiencing Assessment Center Exercises

Author(s): Linsey Willis, David Herst

In Developing Your Innate Abilities: Experiencing Assessment Center Exercises, students learn a great deal about: themselves, by first completing a self-evaluation questionnaire. the importance of developing one’s innate abilities. a brief history of the assessment center process. severa...

Nutrition and Metabolism

Author(s): Urvashi Mulasi, Wendy Buchan

Nutrition & Metabolism is a turn-key online course package that studies the structures, types and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. In addition, it examines the biological roles of vitamins and minerals. To help students to apply concepts learned to real life scenarios, they are give...

It's All About Choices: Recipes for Academic Success

Author(s): Marlene F Blumin, Janine L. Nieroda-Madden

In writing It’s All About Choices, Marlene Blumin's and Janine Nieroda-Madden's goals were simple:To prepare students for a successful transition to the academic workload in college.To help students understand their learning preferences and how to apply them within their courses in order to develop ...

Responsible Citizenship: Restoring Civic Community Action

Author(s): Mark Springer

Responsible Citizenship:  Restoring Civic Community Action addresses the issues surrounding civic education and political involvement in the United States.  The text provides a guide for looking at how we can learn political knowledge, increase political tolerance, and work on political participatio...

Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals: An Introduction to Disease Prevention

Author(s): David J. Bissonnette

Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals: An Introduction to Disease Prevention is an introductory nutrition textbook designed and written for students majoring in dietetics, nutrition, nursing, health sciences and medicine. This unique textbook does not follow traditional approaches to teaching nutri...

Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics & Kinetics: A Guided Inquiry

Author(s): The POGIL Project, Tricia D. Shepherd, Sean Garrett-Roe, Alexander Grushow, Rick Moog

Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics & Kinetics: A Guided Inquiry was developed to facilitate more student-centered classroom instruction of physical chemistry using Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL). These activities guide students through a wide variety of topics found in a typical...

Suit the Action to the Word: A Project Based Introduction to Theatre

Author(s): Jeffrey Kean, Mark Creter, Eleni Fragopoulos, Prudence van Aalten

New Publication Now Available! Suit the Action to the Word uses project based learning (PBL), a method of instruction that emphasizes learning and applying skills and knowledge in real life situations. By presenting students with project challenges that require creativity, collaboration, adherenc...

Business Futures

Author(s): Jacqueline Tilton

Genetics: Principles to Application

Author(s): Mi-Ok Lee