Cyber-Warfare: State and Local Governments Caught in the Crosshairs

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Cybersecurity is a high priority in today’s world.Cyber-Warfare: State and Local Governments Caught in the Crosshairs addresses highly important and current topics in a plain English, nontechnical manner. This text bridges the gap between what the state and local government executive needs to know i...

Juvenile Justice: Connecting Theory to Practice

Author(s): Megan Kurlychek

Studying and understanding human behavior in society and societal reaction to human behavior is not enough.Juvenile Justice: Connecting Theory to Practice looks closely at some of society’s most vulnerable members – troubled youth. This text draws concrete connections between theory and practice, tw...

Exploring the World of Plants: General Botany Laboratory Manual

Author(s): Amanda Chau

Exploring the World of Plants: General Botany Laboratory Manual by Amanda Chau:Is an excellent companion to Introductory Plant Science. Lab exercises are arranged to complement the lecture materials and provide hands-on experience to enhance student understanding of plant biology.Each lab exercise h...

Ethnowise: Embracing Culture Shock to Build Resilience, Responsiveness, & Connection

Author(s): MICHAEL KIMBALL

Negative intercultural encounters have diverse causes – fear, anger, ignorance, actual danger in some cases. But many simply boil down to culture shock – a knee-jerk reaction to the culturally unfamiliar. The signs of culture shock are everywhere these days—on social media, between nations and gr...

Conflict Between Persons: The Origins of Leadership

Author(s): Ronald C. Arnett, Leeanne McManus, Amanda McKendree

We live in an age of ethical disputes, making conflict inevitable as we meet others with contrasting ethical positions and contrary communicative expectations. An ethical position held with conviction frequently generates conflict when one encounters another with a differing ethical standpoint embra...

The Tourism System

Author(s): Alastair M Morrison, Xinran You Lehto, Jonathon Day

Tourism System: a set of interrelated parts working together toward shared outcomes and goals. The Tourism System, under the guidance of a new authoring team, have made this new 8th edition more global in scope through examples, cases, and approximately 120 Quick Trips.   The Tourism System: ...

Intercultural Communication in Your Life

Author(s): Shawn Wahl, Jake Simmons, Jeffrey McCune, Jr.

Where groups of people gather, there is always an elephant in the room: difference.  Elephants are remarkable, complex creatures which take up much space. Likewise, matters of race, culture, and difference require creative and complicated conversations—which moves us beyond “we are all alike” or ...

Business Law: Foundations for the 21st Century

Author(s): Terrence Dwyer, Thomas A. Miller

“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.” - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes - The Common Law Terrence Dwyer and Thomas Miller’s Business Law: Foundations for the 21st Century has evolved from the authors’ experience teaching the subject matter as well as their practical exp...

Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality

Author(s): Nicholas Thomas, John Walker

There is a distinct difference between managing a human resources team and leading it, and those in leadership positions must evolve with the industry.Human Resources Leadership in Hospitality addresses one of the biggest challenges that hospitality managers across the board express: finding and ret...

Organizational Communication: Strategies for Success

Author(s): Stephen Spates, Theodore Avtgis, Shawn Wahl, Andrew S Rancer

The focus of Organizational Communication: Strategies for Success is theory and relevant skills orientation, serving those who study relevant organizational theory as well as those developing the necessary skillsets required for conducting communication training, assessment, and organizational devel...