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A Practical Guide to Happiness: Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life
Author(s): Stephen C. Goodwin
In this book, A Practical Guide to Happiness, each chapter explores relevant topics grounded in research, to enhance the reader’s opportunities to select behaviors that may strengthen their happiness potential. Each chapter offers definitions, research, stories, quotes, and activities that the reade...
"You Don't Know What You Don't Know": Mitigating Uncertainty in Transracial Adoption
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Abstract While families have long been viewed as complex and interrelated entities, many factors, such as transracial adoption, can add compounding layers to family dynamics. Transracial adoption represents a process that can be affected by many layers of uncertainty because not only do the adopt...
The Media in Our Daily Lives, Preliminary Edition
Author(s): Jennifer Louise Gregg
There are very few things adults agree on. The media is one of them: we agree it’s everywhere. It is embedded in our daily lives and informs how we perceive reality and the world. It’s nearly impossible to avoid and is accessible, in some form or other, to everyone. What we don’t agree on? How it af...
Music Theory for Singers Condensed Course
Author(s): Sarah Sandvig
New Second Edition Now Available! Music Theory for Singers is geared specifically for voice students and singers. This book was written to help students understand the fundamentals of theory related to voice, apply it to the varied repertoire they learn throughout the year and become not only bet...
Applied Math for General Studies
Author(s): Dawn Dabney
Applied Math: General Studies is math workbook for non-STEM majors. The book answers real-world questions using real-world information in the areas of consumer math, finances, very basic statistics, and some linear and exponential modeling. What makes Applied Math: General Studies different? The...
OpenStax Introduction to Sociology softcover
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"Introduction to Sociology 3e aligns to the topics and objectives of many introductory sociology courses. It is arranged in a manner that provides foundational sociological theories and contexts, then progresses through various aspects of human and societal interactions. The new edition is focused o...
Leadership in Intercultural Dialogue: A Discursive Approach
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Sample The emerging scholarship on intercultural dialogue has adopted a working definition of the term as promoting “an open and respectful exchange or interaction between individuals, groups, and organizations” (Ganesh & Holmes 2011, 81). The goal of such exchange is to develop a deeper understa...
Friendship When Facing Infertility: Challenges and Dilemmas of Social Support
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Abstract Communication about health often occurs in our everyday conversations with friends and family members. The communication of social support is one particular type of everyday talk that has important consequences for physical and psychological health. The following case study explores some o...