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Straight from the Source: A Tune-Based Approach to Learning Jazz Improvisation

Author(s): John Kocur, Charles Ciorba

In Straight from the Source: A Tune-Based Approach to Learning Jazz Improvisation, veteran teachers Chuck Ciorba and John Kocur offer a comprehensive guide for all instrumentalists to learn how to improvise. “Straight from the Source” suggests that great jazz recordings and the tunes themselves shou...

The Rescue of an Orphan

Author(s): Leslie Dean

Do you ever wonder why you do the things you do? And why you keep doing them over and over again . . . no matter how much you want to change?  You are not alone. Our habits are often passed down from one generation to the next. We have little control of what they are, or how they affect us, because ...

Human Communication in Action

Author(s): Greg G. Armfield, Eric Lee Morgan

Human Communication in Action provides students with a valuable resource that can be used beyond the classroom by bringing together leading innovative scholars of Communication as contributors for this human communication textbook. Each unit presents overarching concepts of communication in an easy-...

Human Nutrition: Navigating through the Maze

Author(s): Rhonda M Lane

Human Nutrition: Navigating Through the Maze was developed to help adult students learn about nutrition and to stimulate the student’s own critical thinking skills so that they can incorporate the basic nutritional concepts they learn into their daily lives to maintain a healthy body. Some of the to...

Currents in Communication

Author(s): Elliot King

Currents in Communication serves as a foundational text for students who plan to major in communication for their undergraduate education. It is one of the first textbooks to integrate an in-depth exploration of mass communication with an introduction to interpersonal communication and business comm...

Introduction to the Humanities: An Outline Guide

Author(s): Sarah Satterfield

Introduction to Humanities: An Outline Guide is the outgrowth of many years of teaching Humanities at the collegiate level. Students are often overwhelmed by the amount of material in Humanities texts. Introduction to Humanities: An Outline Guide is a synthesis and reduction of this material. The te...

Economics: Principles and Applications

Author(s): Rolando A Santos

The study of economics is relevant to all aspects of our lives. It is the study of human behavior and the consequences of our choices. It is also the study of how the global economic system works. Economics: Principles and Applications gives students taking introductory economics and principles o...