The Mind of a Peacemaker: The Psychology of Mediation

Author(s): Mary Lou Bryant Frank

Understanding the process of resolving conflicts through mediation has been most often viewed from the perspective of the law, from which it originated. The Mind of a Peacemaker brings together a psychological understanding of mediation, current thought in the field of conflict resolution, and guida...

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...

Civic Literacy: Policy and Politics in the American City

Author(s): Gerry Neumark

Policy and Politics in the American City brings to life a variety of ways to look at American local governments from the perspective of “civic literacy” specifically intended for future public decision makers and private citizens wishing to participate in their own communities. The more one knows ab...

Loving and Losing: A Grief Primer

Author(s): Marlette B. Reed, Annette M. Lane

Loving and Losing: A Grief Primer provides essential information for individuals helping those who are grieving. Helpers may be professionals, students within human service/health educational programs, or lay persons within faith communities. As this book is a primer, it is not meant to be comprehen...

Do Good and Prosper: Interplay Between Philanthropy and Business Innovations

Author(s): Edison Tse

Philanthropy consists of private initiatives for the public good. Market economy consists of private initiative for private good. Government welfare consists of public initiative for public good. In the literature, these three systems have been treated separately. However, there is a strong interpla...

Transformational Policing Model: Bridging the Racial Divide

Author(s): Tommy W. Tunson

New Second Edition Now Available! Transformational Policing Model: Bridging the Racial Divide is a contemporary 21st-century training strategy to assist police and community members in forming Positive Police–Community Partnerships (PPCP). Th e course objective is to narrate a transition from “Wa...

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Arts and Creatives Entrepreneurship: Using Passion and Skills to Create a Business with Income: Musicians, Vocalists, Artists and Communications

Author(s): RENATA ROY

Professor Renata Roy-Pinkney in her new textbook, Entrepreneurship in the Arts, has provided faculty an insight into her successful classroom integration of curriculum theory, the process of teaching  a body of knowledge required for students to understand the what and why of concepts, along with th...

Introduction to Psychology from a Christian Worldview

Author(s): Shawn George, Brian Kelley, Rachel Piferi

Introduction to Psychology from a Christian Worldview is an introductory Psychology textbook designed to familiarize students with the science and practice of Psychology while also equipping them to critically analyze research and theory.  In addition to presenting research and theory in the major s...

Climate Change and the Design of the Built Environment

Author(s): Michael E. Gamble

In this series of dialogues with leaders from various disciplines, we position design as an essential component of entrepreneurial approaches which explore the sociocultural and eco-political dimensions of climate change.  Economist, Architects, Planners, Sociologist, Lawyers, Policy Makers, Landsca...