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Author(s): Penny Waddell
New Fourth Edition Now Available!
Don’t be the guppy in a shark tank; Be a SpeechShark!
Author(s): Anita Pankake, Jesus Abrego Jr., Michelle Abrego
The Fifth Edition of The Administration & Supervision of Special Programs in Education (2022) is designed to provide both practicing and aspiring school leaders an overview of many of the programs and services operating in most schools today. The book is organized so that readers can immediately apply the content to real-life scenarios encountered in schools as well as examine the topic in-depth through current research and challenges such as the COVID-19 Pandemic. The book is a must read to support the complex work of school leaders.
Author(s): Jack A Chambless
Some people would rather perform root canal surgery on a rabid wolverine than sit through a discussion of Federal Reserve policies.
Author(s): Mark Johnson
Have you ever asked these questions, “Why am I so afraid to speak? What does it take for me to overcome my fear and be a better speaker? How can I get a better response from my audience?” If you have, you need to know there is hope. There is most definitely a way to overcome your fear and be not only a good presenter, but a great one.
Author(s): Joyce Burstein, Gregory D Knotts
Reclaiming Social Studies for the Elementary Classroom is a new text that defines the core philosophy of viewing social studies from the cultural anthropological perspective. This perspective allows children to bring their own prior knowledge and experiences from their home culture to the social studies curriculum. This curriculum is a logical place to allow students the freedom to demonstrate learning through the arts. It is also a place where people show their cultural identities in celebration of traditions, ideals, rituals, and creative products.
Author(s): Kishore G Kulkarni
Principles of Macro-Monetary Economics, 6th Edition, by Kishore G. Kulkarni has been revised to infuse modern literature, ideas, theories and updated data. It is an easy-to-understand text with clear cut explanation of terms. Students will benefit from the simplicity and straight-forward analysis in this edition.
Author(s): Maximo R Salaberry, Celina Nevarez, Catherine Barrette, Marisol Fernandez-Garcia
A culture-based, critical-thinking approach to learning and using Spanish in context.
Conectándonos is a culture-based first year textbook that focuses on the analysis of language in its cultural context. By combining a textbook and website, Conectándonos engages students from the very beginning in the development of productive abilities as proposed by the Council on the National Standards for Foreign Language Learning.
The third edition of Conectándonos:
Author(s): Paul Gannon
Human society has never before faced challenges like the present. Population has more than doubled since 1970; currently over 7 billion and growing fast. Much of this growth occurs in regions with developing infrastructure, placing increasing demands on natural resources and taxing ecosystem services. Coupled with continued growth in more developed, and more demanding regions, global energy consumption is projected to increase nearly three-fold by mid-century.
Author(s): Brandy Fair, Chris Gurrie
Business Communication in a Technological World is an audience centered approach to communicating with various publics and receivers in multiple types of organizations. There is no doubt technology has shaped the professional landscape with ever-changing modalities and programs. As a result, users of technological communication are compelled to stay up-to-date or move over when it comes to creating understanding. This text works to provide solutions that are not trendy or soon-to-be outdated.
Author(s): Mark Letourneau
English Linguistics: An Introduction is an e-book offering an advanced introduction for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses. At just over 200 pages, it is meant to be completed in one-semester courses which present the core areas of the discipline: phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. It includes two prefatory chapters which answer the questions “What is language?” and “What is linguistics?”
