Guitar History

Author(s): Jesse McCann

Guitar History offers an exciting view of the guitar’s development from antiquity to today. Each chapter contains vivid narratives accompanied by video lectures, audio and visual demonstrations, and special spotlight sections that offer a closer look at the diversity of contributors to the instrumen...

Music Appreciation: A Socioeconomic Perspective

Author(s): GRANT MANHART

New Fourth Edition Now Available! This unique and student centered approach to a standard university Music Appreciation text was developed by Dr. Grant Manhart during 20 years of teaching at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota.  This approach has shown elevated student engagement,...

She Singled Me Out Because I'm a Woman: Gender/ed Dynamics and Workplace Bullying

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Sample After finishing a 9-month internship while pursuing her animal ecology degree, Emery was about to graduate and was very excited for her next career move. She had always known that she wanted to work in nature, and the environmental education internship she had just completed (along with th...

Readings in U.S. Foreign Policy

Author(s): Guy Ziv

This textbook e-reader introduces undergraduate students to the historical foundations of American foreign policy; key theoretical approaches to the study of foreign policymaking; the central actors, institutions, and political processes of U.S. foreign policy; and contemporary challenges to U.S. pr...

The Official Emergency Responders Had Infrastructure: We Had iPhones

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Sample The decade that started in 2010 saw a host of natural disasters in the world. From the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan in 2011 to Hurricane Sandy on the East Coast of the United States in 2012 to the wildfires across Australia in 2019 to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic in 2020, we have heard ...

Starting Life With a Clean Slate: Transgender Woman Starting a New Job

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Abstract Kylie stared at the computer screen, feeling the panic rise inside her as she read and reread the e-mail. It was April of her senior year, and she had already secured her dream job with a Fortune 500 company. Just weeks after graduation, movers would arrive in her small college town in t...

Classically Speaking

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"Classically Speaking: Dialects for Actors is meant for anyone interested in learning well-spoken Neutral American Speech (aka General American). It is also an effective tool for learning Classical American, Mid-Atlantic and Standard British dialects. Each Neutral American vowel, diphthong and conso...

Principles of Management

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"Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of...

Booms and Busts: The Story of Colorado History

Author(s): Karen Patrice Dropps

Booms and Busts: A Story of Colorado History takes a look at the history of Colorado through the lens of the people who made it what it is today.  From the creation of the mountains to first European settlers, to modern day, this book looks at how each event has shaped the Centennial state.  This bo...

Public Relations: The Changing Global Landscape

Author(s): Kathryn Lancioni

The goal—to discover how the world of public relations is changing from the perspective of the professionals working in it. Public Relations: The Changing Global Landscape looks at predictions about the future of the public relations and digital marketing as reflected in industry surveys and the ...