Universally Safe Communication

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Abstract The public relations officer of Universal Car Company is currently serving as the team manager for the “Universally Safe” campaign dedicated to featuring the innovative safety technology in the new UCC SUV’s. While arranging flights for the final prep meeting before the campaign launch, ...

Amnistia y legalizacion: Gendered Immigration in the Heartland

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Sample For Teresa Gómez, the past few months had been a nightmare. The Postville immigration raid seemed like yesterday. She had feared being arrested but never thought her family would be torn apart. Father Bill had suggested she seek help from Catholic Charities, which is why she found herself ...

Tinder: For Finding Love or Sex?

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Abstract Current young adults are using technology to find romantic relationships (Sumter, Vandenbosch, & Ligtenberg, 2017). Rather than meeting face-to-face, young adults are engaging in “digital courtship” to find potential romantic partners (Degim, Johnson, & Fu, 2015). Young adults are using ...

Astronomy Minute Plus

Author(s): Ata Sarajedini

Most current textbooks are not a good match to the interests and capabilities of the students. They each present a highly comprehensive survey of the field for non-science students, which means they are usually too long and detailed for the typical one-semester or one-term introductory astronomy cou...

Casing Distractions: Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Analysis

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Sample Barely a block past the beach in Ipanema, two American men were walking on the sidewalk. They passed several vendors, most of whom were selling leather goods. The middle-aged men walked slowly, perusing the products on the tables owned by the vendors. The Brazilians were trying to sell the...

The Plaid Avenger's World: Democracy in Danger! Authoritarians advance!

Author(s): John Boyer

The most easily-digestable and entertaining world regions textbook. Adopted by over 20 universities and schools around the country.Get on board now as this 21st century train is leaving the station! This is the newest in new, the coolest in cool, most engaging textbook for the future generations of ...

Macroeconomics and Natural Resources

Author(s): OSMEL E. MANZANO MAZZALI, RODOLFO MENDEZ MARCANO, JOSE GREGORIO PINEDA SALAZAR, GERMAN RIOS MENDEZ

Macroeconomics and Natural Resources provides an introduction to contemporary macroeconomics accessible and attractive for students from different levels, countries, and field of studies thanks, on the one hand, to its didactic approach, graphical richness and flexible mix of technical, colloquial a...

What Chinese Think About Plants and the Environment: Ancient Ways and Future Survival

Author(s): An Lan Zhang

What Chinese Think About Plants and the Environment: Ancient Ways and Future Survival is a climate collapse/environmental focus book that re-members the central reality of systemic racism in our environmental challenges and injustices. We are seeing wildfire, extreme heat waves, and drought in Weste...

Sports vs. Church: The Dilemma of Choosing Sides

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Abstract Firing someone is never easy. But when it’s your best head coach, whom everybody loves, and who is claiming discrimination for not being allowed to attend church, things get downright messy. *** “I want to thank you all for being here tonight,” Tom said. “As you know, we have a tou...

Judicious Use of Persuasive Threat Messages Related to Personal Health: Application of the Extended Parallel Process Model to Contrasting Cases

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Sample In 2009, a public service announcement created by a police department in Wales went viral on YouTube and created a controversy over its graphic depiction of a traffic accident caused by texting while driving (Nick1111341, 2009). As the video opens, three teenage girls are in a compact car ...