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Economics and the Sports Industry: Theory and Applications

Author(s): Corey H. Van de Waal

Most industries provide a workable context for teaching the core concepts of economic theory. As an instructor for core microeconomic theory classes throughout my teaching career, I have found that students respond favorably to examples and contexts that they can readily relate to. This text offe...

Public Speaking Strategies

Author(s): Mark Huglen, Megan Bell, Lynette M. Mullins, Kevin Duane Thompson

This new edition includes insight into how to avoid microaggressions when public speaking and information to advance remote presentation skills. No doubt there is racial tension and racial strife in the world today, and some of those tensions are obvious and affect us to the core emotionally. There ...

OpenStax Calculus Vol 2 hardcover

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"Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around t...

A Few Good Laughs at a Funeral: Incongruity Theory of Humor Communication

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Sample Humor communication is omnipresent in our everyday lives. A universal communication tool, we demonstrate humor with our family and romantic partners, with our friends and coworkers, and sometimes even with those we have just met (DiCioccio, 2015). Humor is a complex mechanism that has the ...

FreshFood: A Case Study of the Organizational Image Repair Process

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Abstract FreshFood made a grave error when it sold bad seafood to its customers. The company now must figure out how it can regain its positive image in the mind of patrons, and it decides that social media would be conducive for such apology dissemination. *** Monday morning meetings were no...

Nonverbal Communication in Provider-Patient Interaction: A Case Study of a Mental Health Patient During COVID-19

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Abstract Nonverbal communication is an important component of face-to-face clinical health interactions, especially for conveying relational or emotional information within provider–patient encounters. Like any interpersonal communication situation, provider–patient interactions are influenced by...

The Course of Human Events: American Government for the 21st Century

Author(s): Henry Edmondson

The Course of Human Events: American Government for the 21st Century is a traditional and innovative American Government textbook: it both covers the material found in conventional textbooks, and also, given its e-book format, integrates that material with movie trailers, news videos, music videos, ...

[We are Concerned that She] Wears Her Feminism on Her Sleeve: Challenges in Becoming a Deacon's Wife

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Sample When Lily met Peter, he was studying to be a Roman Catholic priest. And by all accounts, Peter would have made an excellent priest. But Lily and Peter fell in love, and as a rule, the Roman Catholic Church doesn’t allow married men (or women of any kind) to be ordained priests. Dozens of d...