Communication and Conflict Resolution Skills

Author(s): Neil H Katz, John W Lawyer, KATHERINE SOSA, Marcia Sweedler, PETER TOKAR

  In a new and significantly expanded third edition, Communication & Conflict Resolution Skills provides practical applications for enhancing communication and personal or professional leadership effectiveness. Engaging, user-friendly material will assist in building skills, improving relationshi...

Speaking to Persuade

Author(s): Barbara Breaden

Speaking to Persuade views controversy as constructive rather than obstructive. Framing persuasion as a cooperative act based on dialectical interchange between speakers and listeners, this text provides a roadmap for achieving productive civic engagement in democratic societies, however polarized t...

Drugs, Brain, and Behavior

Author(s): John Salamone

It has been more than more than half a century since the “Psychopharmacology Revolution” swept through modern society, radically changing mental health practice, and altering the way people view psychiatric disorders. Large numbers of people in the US and other countries are now being treated with p...

We Hate Team Projects! A Friendly, Useful Guide for College Student Teams

Author(s): Scott Behson, Stephen Bear

We get it - you've been burned by team projects before. We Hate Team Projects! A Friendly, Useful Guide for College Student Teams provides practical advice and easy-to-use templates to help you avoid common team problems, do better work, have less stress, and have more fun. This guidebook provide...

Philosophizing: Creating a World of Ideas

Author(s): Andrew Alexander

Philosophizing: Creating a World of Ideas is a special book. It introduces students to philosophy in a balanced way. With regard to the approach to learning, it balances content and method. With respect to content, it balances a problem centered approach with an historical emphasis. With regard to t...

Nutrition: Apples to Zinc

Author(s): Lana Zinger, Alicia Sinclair

Drs. Zinger and Sinclair bring you the most recent, evidenced-based academic book on nutrition. This edition of Nutrition: Apples to Zinc includes: The latest findings on gut health New applications with individualized fitness Metabolic imbalances and role of inflammation in diseases ...

An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America

Author(s): Richard Merritt, Kenneth Cummins, Martin B Berg

An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America serves as a standard guide on the immature and adult stages of aquatic and semiaquatic insects of North America. It offers information on the distribution, tolerance values, trophic relationships, and functional adaptations of aquatic insects t...

At the Global Turn: World History 1945-Present

Author(s): Thomas A Boogaart

Neoliberal globalization and technological time-compression have combined to alter the physics of history, breaking down the black box of the nation-state and creating a space for reconsidering postwar history from a transnational perspective. Thematic chapters explore global themes like the Cold Wa...

Intervention Planning for Communication Problems Across the Lifespan: Striving for Evidence-Based Practice

Author(s): NELSON MOSES, HARRIET KLEIN

When working with speech-language problems, the clinician engages in the complex decision-making, problem-solving process that is “intervention planning.” There are no failsafe therapeutic recipes for resolving such issues. Intervention Planning for Communication Problems Across the Lifespan: Str...

Interpersonal Communication for Contemporary Living

Author(s): José I. Rodríguez

Provide your students with powerful tools to communicate effectively in interpersonal relationships. With innovative content on empathy, mindfulness, the neuroscience of emotions, implicit bias, and more, the Second Edition of Interpersonal Communication for Contemporary Living is an outstanding ...