More Than Talk: A Covenantal Approach to Everyday Communication

Author(s): Bill Strom, Divine Agodzo

More Than Talk: A Covenantal Approach to Everyday Communication introduces readers to everyday communication principles and practices from a Christian perspective.Featuring an invigorated commitment to social science, humanities, and biblical perspectives, the fifth edition of More Than Talk continu...

Practices and Techniques in Horticulture

Author(s): Ellen Peffley Harp, Cynthia Mckenney, Judith E. Wilmington, Richard Durham

The NEW 7th edition of Practices and Techniques in Horticulture has added some new exciting laboratory exercises as well as enhanced some of the previous activities. As students become more focused on the environment and sustainable plant production practices, we have evolved the book’s focus to inc...

Social Problems: A Case Study Approach

Author(s): Susan Cruise, Edward Clayton Polson, Norman Dolch, Neller Ree Wells-Lewis, Gwendolyn Dordick

Social Problems: A Case Study Approach helps students identify with the social problem at hand through a case study at the start of each chapter. The case study provides a common reference point for discussions and questions and helps students relate to the experiences presented.Social Problems: A C...

Public Speaking 3.0: Technology and 21st Century Presentations

Author(s): Sherwyn Morreale, Janice Thorpe

Public Speaking 3.0 is a turn-key, online course package that covers the scope of introductory public speaking and speech formation. It is tailored to the learning styles of today's students - concise enough to be comfortable using on a smartphone or tablet, but comprehensive enough to provide ample...

The Politics of Lookism in Global Workplaces: Physical and Personal Appearance Discrimination in the 21st Century

Author(s): Cynthia H. Sims

Lookism is a broad term used to describe physical appearance discrimination.  It is synonymous with beautyism and encompasses colorism, weightism, heightism, ageism, and ableism, each granting power and privilege to those who are considered physically appealing and assumed to be more intelligent, ca...

Contemporary Environmental Issues

Author(s): Michael Slattery

New Seventh Edition Now Available! Scientists say we are in a new stage of the Earth’s history, the Anthropocene, when we humans have become the globe’s principal agent of change. To begin a shift toward a “sustainable society,” significant action is required now on a range of issues. Fortunat...

Media Law: A Guide to Understanding Mass Communication Law

Author(s): Mark P. Hanebutt

The health of the American democracy in the 21st Century will depend largely upon the health of American media. Information is the lifeblood of a free republic. Yet, the internet and social media have provided media professionals with new legal challenges regarding privacy, security and credibility....

Web Development with HTML5 and CSS

Author(s): Alec Fehl

Web Development with HTML5 and CSS assumes no previous coding experience and walks readers through the workflow of coding responsive and accessible web sites using current coding standards and best practices. The book is separated into three units, each culminating in a unit project. A preface and a...

Descriptive Astronomy: A Conceptual Approach to Introductory College Astronomy

Author(s): Michael C LoPresto

Are you tired of having to cull through topics in a text that has far more information than can possibly be covered in a single semester? Are your students overwhelmed with all of the “extra” material that they need to sift through? Written by two instructors with nearly 50 years of combined t...

Stories from the Educational Underground: The New Frontier for Learning and Work

Author(s): Peter P Smith

Once again, Peter Smith has redefined the boundaries of the public conversation about access to education, justice, and opportunity in America. Drawing on his 50 years of experience in higher education and the powerful life stories of more than 20 adults, Smith has described a new frontier at the in...