The Rhetoric of Western Thought: From the Mediterranean World to the Global Setting

Author(s): George F McHendry Jr., M. Elizabeth Thorpe, Jessica A. Kurr, James L Golden, Goodwin Berquist, William Coleman, James M Sproule

Building upon a rich legacy, the new edition of The Rhetoric of Western Thought provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of rhetoric from its inception in the ancient world, to its present day expression in contemporary practice and scholarship. The 11th edition gives deliberate attent...

Engaging Discourse: A 21st Century Composition Reader & Curriculum

Author(s): Bradley Summerhill

We are diverse. We do not share the same ideology, religion, ethnicity, or socio-economic background.   We do not need to agree, but we do need to share ideas and to learn to communicate with a clear and open mind, in clear and meaningful language. We need to speak and write with thoughtfulness, ...

Risk & Crisis Communication: Communicating in a Disruptive Age

Author(s): Kenneth A Lachlan, Patric Spence, Corey Liberman, Theodore Avtgis

Risks are all around us. From catastrophic weather events to gun violence, from infrastructure failings to financial devastation…we live with the threat of risk every day. How do we get those who are at risk, or who have already been impacted by crisis, to do what they need to do to minimize the ris...

Lying and Deception in Human Interaction

Author(s): Mark Knapp, William Earnest, Darrin Griffin, Matthew McGlone

The emergence of social media, the digital revolution, and the today’s political climate have all brought renewed attention to deception as a human communication phenomenon. Lying and Deception in Human Interaction presents deception from a variety of perspectives.  The text primarily focuses on ...

Media Relations: Tactical Preparation for Life

Author(s): Kelly A. McBride

Many of the text and trade books look at media relations from a journalist’s viewpoint, which is vastly different than what the practitioner should be aware of. Sure, there are deadlines and writing…lots of it, but the methodology in which we approach the communication exchange needs to be different...

The College Writer At-Work Book: A Know-How Guide for Success in Your Freshman Writing Courses

Author(s): Paige Brooks Huskey

Whether you are new or returning to college, excited or nervous about your freshman writing courses, this workbook will support you by:  integrating the five active steps for reading to learn throughout the text, providing goal setting opportunities in every chapter, reinforcing soft skill...

Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: An Anthology

Author(s): Debra Monroe

Existing creative nonfiction anthologies don’t reflect the current cultural landscape. This anthology, featuring essays in forms both traditional and innovative, showcases the genre today—not how it was fifteen years ago when creative nonfiction seemed to include only memoir. Contemporary Creati...

A Customized Version of Restaurant Management: A Best Practices Approach, Created for Middlesex County College

Author(s): Robert Grimes, Frederick DeMicco, Joseph Dunbar, Chen Chen, James R Keiser, Cihan Cobanoglu

Fluency: Questions, Answers, and Evidence-Based Strategies

Author(s): Patricia Smith, Melanie Walski, Jerry Johns, Roberta L. Berglund

Are you trying to help your students become more fluent readers?Are you doing progress monitoring? Do you think that differentiating fluency interventions can help you respond to individual differences among your students?Help is on the way. This easy to use resource is written with teachers in mind...

Ethics in the Criminal Justice System

Author(s): Scott H. Belshaw, Peter Johnstone, Lee DeBoer

Ethics in the Criminal Justice System explores ideas and information in and around ethical decision making as it pertains to criminal justice. As an edited volume, Ethics in the Criminal Justice System features contributing authors who have provided a varied and challenging palette of offerings from...