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Making Meaning, Making Sense: Children's Early Language Learning

Author(s): Terry Piper

MAKING MEANING, MAKING SENSE: CHILDREN’S EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING presents a clear and enlightened exploration of children’s language development and the role early childhood educators play in it.  The text tackles a wide range of topics concerning language development, including bilingualism and lan...

Popular Culture and Shaping Reality

Author(s): David LoConto

Theory historically has portrayed popular culture as a means of blinding and distracting the masses to the real problems occurring in the world today, thereby making them passive regarding change. Popular Culture and Shaping Reality provides a different explanation of popular culture and its impact ...

Principles of Finance

Author(s): Dong Joon Lee

Through this book, you will learn the fundamentals of finance. The discussion topics for the book include the financial markets, financial statement analysis, time value of money, risk and returns, cost of money and capital, capital budgeting, bonds, and stocks. Upon completion of this book, you ...

Introduction to Global Club Management

Author(s): Cynthia Johnson

Introduction to Global Club Management provides a comprehensive foundation of the unique aspects that set private club management apart from other segments of the hospitality industry. From Recruitment and HR to Memberships and Operations, the text discusses the past, present, and future of clubs, e...

Emergency and Disaster Exercises: A Practitioner's Guide to Exercise Design and Development, Conduct, Evaluation, and Improvement Planning

Author(s): Darren E. Price, Thaddeus D Hicks

Emergencies and disasters can happen at any time and often without warning. While emergencies are often somewhat limited in scope and intensity, they can also be catastrophic in nature with far-reaching impacts on a national and international level. Exercises represent a key element of preparedness ...

Doing the Transcultural Thing: Explorations in Living in the United States

Author(s): Michael W. Schwartz

Whether we are aware of it or not, every utterance we produce is an expression of who we are as individuals and what we believe. When we begin the process of learning an additional language, we are not only learning a new linguistic code (basic vocabulary and structures) that allow us to ask for dir...

Catching Unicorns: How Writing Enables Our Imaginations

Author(s): Bill Hurley

When the topic of writing comes up in college and university classrooms, it is generally in the context of “how to do it” discussions. But another important question is “why we do it.” Catching Unicorns: How Writing Enables Our Imaginations provides a full answer to this second question with some...