Read Write! Breaking Down a Text and Building Up an Essay

Author(s): Selena Stewart-Alexander, Patrice K. Johnson, Caitlin Stanford Kintner

New Edition Now Available!In order to improve your reading skills, you must write more, and in order to improve your writing skills, you must read more.Read Write! Breaking down a Text and Building up an Essay truly integrates reading and writing. Students gain an understanding of the reading and wr...

Media Praxis: Introducing Media Theory, Application and Context

Author(s): Alessandro Imperato

Media theory is a valuable resource for media producers and with the increased pervasion of digital media technology into everyday life, it has become necessary for understanding developments in culture. Media Praxis, introduces the reader to media theory and its application to art and design, anima...

Personal Leadership Insights-Gaining Clarity for Leadership and Life

Author(s): Brenda Booth, Shana Carroll, Robert Langewisch, Kevin Murnane, Brooke Vuckovic

Film Style Mode

Author(s): James Curry

Film Style Mode is a guide focusing on techniques the author believes are the foundations of what great storytelling and filmmaking are built upon. Whether you're creating shorts, music videos, features, commercials, documentaries or anything in between, you’ll find quick tips for camera setups, edi...

Blood Moon Over Rat Lake

Author(s): Ehor Boyanowsky

In the rough and ready environment of a northern mining town, Moishe, a young boy in love with horses and himself saddled with that strange, foreign sounding name, one that provokes mistreatment by bullies, navigates the increasingly  painful steps of  growing up.  He struggles to make sense of  his...

Introduction to Operations Management

Author(s): Terry Klinker

Introduction to Operations Management provides students with an understanding as to how effective operations and supply chain management contributes to the competitiveness and survival of an organization.  Students will be introduced to concepts, principles, and techniques that can be leveraged to a...

Children's Journeys: Exploring Early Childhood

Author(s): Guy R. Lefrancois

CHILDREN’S JOURNEYS explores the many paths children take as they develop through early childhood. This practical approach to child development introduces students to the science of development and then challenges them to think critically about how a child’s context impacts development and to apply ...

Security Management for the 21st Century

Author(s): Brian Johnson

By combining contemporary information from current social science and business literature, Principles of Security Management offers both students and practicing security managers a comprehensive look at security administration. Chapters range from leadership to effective supervision to recruitment a...

Writing About Literature: English Composition

Author(s): Xiao Wang

Writing about literature can present many challenges to students. With those challenges in mind, Xiao Wang has written Writing About Literature: English Composition, which offers a wide range of tools that can guide students to success as readers, writers, and thinkers. Because of the importance of ...

The Five Functions of Effective Management, Second Edition

Author(s): Donald Baack, Michael Reilly, Charles Minnick

THE FIVE FUNCTIONS OF EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT seeks to assist students in understanding the basic efforts and activities required of managers at every level in an organization. The text takes an in-depth look at the research and theories behind the processes of planning, organizing, staffing, leading a...