Individual Taxation

Author(s): RYAN PACE

The study of tax law can be an intimidating task.  Nevertheless, students wil find that being proficient in tax law can be very rewarding and prepares students for valuable career opportunities as accounting, tax advisors, and business consultants.  Once a student understands the organization of the...

The Complete Book of Technical Design for Technical and Fashion Designers

Author(s): Deborah A Beard-Thapa

Welcome to the first edition of The Complete Book of Technical Design for Technical and Fashion Designers. This comprehensive technical design textbook details and explains each of the technical designer’s responsibilities and job requirements, and offers the following features: Presents clear...

Building the Basics: A Handbook for Pursuing Academic Excellence in Africana Studies

Author(s): Dr. M. Keith Claybrook

The mission and goal of Africana Studies is the development of cultural grounding, academic excellence, and social responsibility. Building the Basics: A Handbook for Developing Academic Excellence in Africana Studies focuses on the goal of developing students academically. Throughout students’ acad...

Spinning Green Along the Rio Grande: Can Corporate Social Responsibility Really Pay Off?

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Abstract When a change in company leadership threatens the local environment and a real estate developer’s positive reputation for going green, a corporate social responsibility expert faces a dilemma about what green really means. *** When Clarissa Spitz checked her voicemail, she heard th...

Social Impact Marketing: The Essential Guide for Changemakers

Author(s): Maddy Kulkarni

This fun "textbook" takes fundamental marketing concepts and teaches you how to apply them to social causes like access to food and education, climate change, and gender equality. It contains learnings from beautiful, iconic social impact campaigns from some of the world's most beloved brands. (It h...

Blurring the Line Between Social and Parasocial Relationships

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Sample In a Lifehack article, Poole (2019) poses a familiar question about social media connections: “The average person has about double the amount [sic] of friends online as they do in real life. But how is that a friendship? And why do we feel connected/important to these strangers?” (para. 3)...

Can a Man Be a Feminist?: Moving from Dominance to Alliance

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Sample Ben sat as his desk while he was prepping for his Gender Communication class later that afternoon. As he was looking over his notes, an e-mail popped up from Damon, a student in his gender course. Stopping what he was doing, he clicked on the e-mail: From: DamonLane@dsu.edu To: BenIrving@d...

Conflict and Coping in Military Families: Expectation Violations During Wartime Deployments

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Abstract The effects of military life extend beyond service members. Military spouses experience a variety of psychological, communicative, and emotional impairments as a by-product of wartime deployments. Yet, the media still promulgates themes, myths, and expectations about military life and de...

Holding These Truths: Empowerment and Recognition in Action

Author(s): Nancy Erbe

Holding these Truths is an all-encompassing reference book that has been the backbone of my studies to successful negotiations, interpersonal relations, with applications in jurisprudence and administrative medicine. I appreciate the examples and exercises that combine psychology and behavioral heal...

Introduction to Statistics

Author(s): Amy Maddox

Introduction to Statistics, 4th edition, is a noncalculus based statistics hybrid book that provides an overview of descriptive and inferential methods including probability distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression. The book addresses how to analyze both continuous and categoric...