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Exploring the World through Social Statistics

Author(s): Patricia Case, Barbara Coventry

Exploring the World through Social Statistics will provide students with a guide to understanding statistics and how it can be used to make sense of the social world. This course introduces students to the application of statistical analysis to social data. Throughout this text students learn: ...

Practitioner Research in Doctoral Education

Author(s): Robin Throne

There are many fine “how-to” guides or manuals for the design and writing of the doctoral dissertation research study…Practitioner Research in Doctoral Education expands upon the limited scope of these texts by offering a melding of the conversation surrounding an emerging necessity within U.S. doct...

The Science of Gardening

Author(s): David Whiting

 The Science of Gardening was originally written as the training manual for Colorado Master Gardener Program.  The overall objective here was to be research based (rather than the same old folklore that has been passed down through the generations) and to focus on developing diagnostic skills.  I...

Sitios: A Community Inspired Approach to Spanish

Author(s): Cecilia McGinniss Kennedy, Ksenia Bonch Reeves

Sitios opens the classroom door and provides a solid passage into a real and increasingly familiar Spanish-speaking world. Nearby university campuses, restaurants, stores, hospitals, and urban centers have become sites in local U.S. communities where Spanish exists alongside English, thus reflecting...

Acting: The Active Process

Author(s): Tom McNally

Acting: The Active Process is not a text about theory only, but a hands-on, classroom-friendly, doable process. It forces actors to ask the right questions: What do I want? What's in my way? What tactic do I select to get what I want? Where does the scene start/end and how did it get there. All of t...