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The Media in Our Daily Lives, Preliminary Edition

Author(s): Jennifer Louise Gregg

There are very few things adults agree on. The media is one of them: we agree it’s everywhere. It is embedded in our daily lives and informs how we perceive reality and the world. It’s nearly impossible to avoid and is accessible, in some form or other, to everyone. What we don’t agree on? How it af...

APA: The Easy Way! for 6e

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This book simplifies the mechanics of conveying ideas in a scholarly fashion. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition) provides a writing style that is used by many academic and nonacademic institutions and publications. However, this highly regarded manual is n...

I'm Sorry for Your Loss: Communicating with Those Who are Bereaved

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Sample It was a beautiful spring day in May. The tulips and daffodils were blooming in brilliant shades of yellow, pink, and red. The sky was robin’s egg blue and full of fluffy, white clouds. For 20-year-old Libby Jamieson, it may as well have been a cold December day. Libby was standing in Oak ...

0 to 30 to 60 to 90: Four Generations

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Abstract Dennis was pleased that over 40 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren attend the 65th wedding anniversary celebration he and his wife organized for his parents. The joy of the moment was somewhat overshadowed by all the other issues facing him. Many of those issues involved de...

Disciplinary Literacy: The Other Disciplines

Author(s): Mae Lane, Daphne Johnson

Disciplinary Literacy: The Other Disciplines is intended as both a textbook and a handbook. It will give conent area literacy teachers/professors a much needed textbook to fully address all of their candidates' needs, not just the needs of traditional content. The majority of states (47) require all...

The All-In-One Laboratory Piano Course

Author(s): Richard Crosby

Drawing on more than 40 years of experience teaching group piano, The All-In-One Laboratory Piano Course is one of the most comprehensive books of its type on the market. Many texts are designed for adult beginning musicians or focus heavily on one or two skills such as harmonization and transpositi...

A Practical Guide to Happiness: Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life

Author(s): Stephen C. Goodwin

In this book, A Practical Guide to Happiness, each chapter explores relevant topics grounded in research, to enhance the reader’s opportunities to select behaviors that may strengthen their happiness potential. Each chapter offers definitions, research, stories, quotes, and activities that the reade...

Introduction to Integrative Studies

Author(s): Marcus Tanner

Many students are choosing interdisciplinary degrees as a way to explore and study multiple interests or one area of interest from multiple perspectives and often apply that learning in new and unique ways. Students love how the new Introduction to Integrative Studies text provides a foundation for ...

Religion, Fatalism, and Attribution Theory: Persuading African American Women to Obtain Mammograms

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Sample Despite scientific developments that continually improve our ability to detect and treat breast cancer, it remains the most common form of cancer among women. Although breast cancer is of concern to every woman, African American women are more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive cancer ...