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Guitar History

Author(s): Jesse McCann

Guitar History offers an exciting view of the guitar’s development from antiquity to today. Each chapter contains vivid narratives accompanied by video lectures, audio and visual demonstrations, and special spotlight sections that offer a closer look at the diversity of contributors to the instrumen...

Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals

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Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals is a college level textbook that provides an introduction to the subject of coordinate systems and datums. Designed as a textbook for a course for surveyors and GIS professionals the book centers on the three dimensionality that is essential in the modern ...

Contemporary Debates in Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring the Lives of Black and Brown Americans

Author(s): FARRAH GAFFORD CAMBRICE, William T. Hoston, MARCO ROBINSON

The social and cultural inclusion for Black and Brown people continues to be one of the pressing concerns in the 21st century. This pathbreaking collection of works in Contemporary Debates in Social Justice encourages a multi-discipline approach to examining the existing societal injustices affectin...

Search for a Winning Solution

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Abstract An 83-year-old man working as a grocery store bagger to pay the medical bills of his late wife wins a contest prize, but is ineligible to receive it because he works for a customer of the contest-sponsoring company. The news media hear about the situation, the grocery store is unhappy, a...

The Sociological Vision

Author(s): Christopher Pieper

New Edition Now Available! What is sociology? Will I like it? Does it matter in the world? Can it help me? The Sociological Vision is designed to answer these questions and cultivate a new way of seeing social life. Geared primarily toward students beginning a journey into the social sciences,...

Yard Sales and Yellow Roses: Rituals in Enduring Relationships

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Abstract The back-and-forth motion of the porch swing brought comfort to Martha; she was feeling a bit exhausted from hauling boxes and cleaning out closets for their annual yard sale—a joint effort by her, Jack, and their kids to clean, purge, and simplify—and she was feeling both the stress of ...

Voice of a Pro - Leann Parker

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Abstract When it comes to getting into communication management in athletics, the earlier a student starts gaining experience, the better. Athletics encompasses so many different fields that a student may go into an internship set on one area and then realize they are more interested in pursuing ...

"It's Not Supposed to Be This Way": A Man's Emotions After a Miscarriage

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Sample Carson and Allie had been married for almost 5 years and finally purchased a small house nestled in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana. As Carson unpacked the last moving box filled with some of his childhood keepsakes, a smile spread across his face as he pulled out a shabby brown teddy ...