Risk Assessment and Negative Affect: Examining Compliance Gaining in the Context of Major Crises and Disasters

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Sample While a substantive body of research has explored compliance gaining processes related to environmental risks, the threats posed by impending environmental crises and natural disasters likely constitute a unique psychological state in which information seeking is paramount, in order to est...

My Sketchpad

Author(s): Sandy Guinn

My Sketchpad was written as a result of my students’ inability to properly engage with a blank sketch book. Students clearly struggled with the numerous blank pages that were calling out for content. It became clear that it was too big of a leap to expect students to engage with an empty sketchpad a...

You're Totally Her Work Husband: Managing Misconceptions in the Work-Spouse Relationship

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Abstract Jackson shut the door to his office, started up his computer, and read over the new job offer again. Two weeks ago he had been approached by Tyrone, the supervisor of a different department at Corp, about transferring from his current team to Tyrone’s department. He loved the team he wor...

Life in the Built Environment

Author(s): Gregory H. Tew

For several hundred thousand years Homo sapiens roamed the Earth as hunter gatherers, then about 12,000 years ago we stopped roaming – as much – and we started building. Life in the Built Environment explores the things that happened during those 12,000 years that made it possible for primitive huts...

Communication Accommodation Theory as a Lens to Examine Painful Self-Disclosure in Grandparent-Grandchild Relationships

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Sample Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT; e.g., Giles, 2016a) has emerged as a key interpersonal and intergroup theory, and has been studied across an array of languages, cultures, and applied settings (Soliz & Giles, 2014). This chapter, with its illustrative case accounts, focuses on one ...

Legitimizing Street Lit in the Classroom: Essays on Critical Connections of Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry and Sister Souljah

Author(s): Tracey Gholston

Street Literature. Urban Fiction. Thug Drama. Hip Hop Lit. The genre with many names has seen a surge in popularity in recent decades. For many hesitant readers, street literature is a gateway to canonical text. Yet, its reception in academic classrooms has yet to reflect the demand for this type of...

Watch, Listen and Learn

Author(s): Kevin Lambert

 CLICK HERE to Purchase Immediate Access to Online Course Content   Watch, Listen, and Learn is a music appreciation text that challenges students to think and engages them with questions to which there are no right or wrong answers, or perhaps no answers at all. Available as a webtext, Wat...

"Who's Included in #MeToo?": Difficult Discussions in the Classroom

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Sample A few years ago when Nora Webster was hired at Metropolitan University, she was on cloud nine. It had been a long process for her to earn a PhD in Gender Studies and Communication, and she attributed the end of her marriage to her dedication to work and her increasing sense of righteous in...

New Product Development for Technical and Nontechnical Managers: a 12 Step Approach

Author(s): Paul Lu

The ability to efficiently develop new products and services can be significant towards a firm’s ability to thrive, survive, and grow. In the everchanging marketplace, time to market, customer value creation, resource optimization, and many other key performance indicators (KPI’s) are becoming major...

Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry

Author(s): Pedro Irigoyen, Frank Rudo, DAVID SARNO, JUN HO SHIN, Paris Svoronos, Peter Wong

Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry, Fourth Edition updates and expands on earlier editions of this lab manual and is designed for the conventional two-semester General Chemistry sequence that is required for most STEM and pre-health programs. The experiments cover a wide range of topics in...