Consumer Behavior: An Applied Approach

Author(s): Nessim Hanna, Richard Wozniak, Margaret Hanna

The positive turn in our economy since the Great Recession of 2007 through 2009 has reconfigured our outlook with regard to employment, inflation, and energy prices, as well as our willingness to spend and consume ...The recent trend toward increasing global cooperation among blocks of countries was...

Make It Count! Getting the Most from a Hospitality Internship

Author(s): Michael Collins

Employers agree—to be successful, graduates of Hospitality Management programs need to have meaningful, hands-on industry work experiences to complement their classroom education. Consequently, nearly all Hospitality Management degree programs require students to complete an internship or practicum ...

Medical Communication: Defining the Discipline

Author(s): Theodore A Avtgis, Edward P Polack

Communication-related issues lead to thousands of deaths annually. The NEW Second Edition Medical Communication: Defining the Discipline creates a more health-conscious society by presenting unique and groundbreaking perspectives on communication in the practice of everyday healthcare – increasin...

Making an Impact: Facilitating Student Success with Lessons from Instructional Communication and Educational Psychology

Author(s): San Bolkan

Flourish as an instructor by learning about what behaviors lead to student success! Making an Impact: Facilitating Student Success with Lessons from Instructional Communication and Educational Psychology helps readers become better instructors by changing the way they think about their interacti...

Listening Across Lives

Author(s): Molly Stoltz, Karen Sodowsky, Carl M Cates

Listening Skills Contribute to Successful Careers and Relationships Written by a myriad of experts, including contributors to the International Journal of Listening and other academic journals, Listening Across Lives features a unique contextual approach to the study of listening.  Each of Listen...

#Think: Critical Thinking about Social Problems

Author(s): Vera Kennedy, Romney Norwood, Matthew Ari Jendian

Strengthen your students’ social awareness and increase civic involvement… #Think: Critical Thinking about Social Problems is a groundbreaking social problems publication that features an unprecedented fusion of integrated lectures and sociological applications that emphasize critical thinking pr...

Special Education for ALL Teachers

Author(s): Ronald P Colarusso, Colleen M O'Rourke, MELISSA LEONTOVICH

New 8th Edition Coming Soon! Good teachers have the desire and ability to assume and meet the challenge of successfully addressing the needs of diverse students in the general education classroom when provided with the necessary knowledge and resources. Special Education for All Teachers provi...

Writing and Reporting for Digital Media

Author(s): Raul Reis, KATHERINE V. MACMILLIN, Michael Scott Sheerin

One of the effects of digital technologies in our lives has been to speed up the pace of everything—from the way we communicate with each other to the way we receive and process news. This sense of speed, urgency and immediacy, which was always part of news production, has been taken almost to an ex...

Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2013 - Academic Version

Author(s): Augustus J Cicala

Project Management Using Microsoft Project 2013: A Training and Reference Guide for Project Managers Using Standard, Professional, Server, Web Application and Project Online introduces readers to the project manager’s perspective on the latest version of Microsoft Project, Microsoft Project 2013. Th...

Organizational Communication: Strategies for Success

Author(s): Theodore Avtgis, Corey Liberman, Andrew S Rancer

Organizational Communication: Strategies for Success is theoretically-enhanced through the application of traditional organizational communication theory fused with real-world practical applications. Authors Theodore Avtgis, Andrew Rancer, and Corey Liberman have created an innovative organizational...