Communicating in Your Personal, Professional and Public Lives

Author(s): Sara Weintraub, Candice Thomas-Maddox, Kerry Byrnes

Communication is everywhere in our daily lives. Whether we are interacting with a friend or with a supervisor, in today’s society, the ability to communicate effectively is imperative. Communicating in Your Personal, Professional & Public Lives covers a wide range of relevant topics that provide ...

Successful Hotel, Lodging and Resort Management: Delivering the Guest Experience

Author(s): Michael Collins, Gabriela Lelo De Larrea, Karima Lanfranco

Exceptional customer experiences and financial returns are interdependent, whether a lodging operation is a luxury resort and spa, or a select-service economy hotel. Successful Hotel, Lodging & Resort Management: Delivering the Guest Experience fully explores this synergistic relationship. Successfu...

Improving Reading: Strategies, Resources, and Common Core Connections

Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski

Improving Reading is perhaps the most comprehensive, useful reading resource available. It is full of ideas for professionals who work with whole classes, individual students, or groups of students. The eight chapters correlate with the main components of a comprehensive reading curriculum and the C...

Social Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Kevin Rawls

Our society is looking for ways to bring together conscience and consumption. The rise of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises represents the growth of a business model that leverages market forces for sustained, positive, social impact.Social Entrepreneurship helps readers to understand t...

Strategic Management for Hospitality & Travel: Today and Tomorrow

Author(s): Frederick DeMicco, Marvin J Cetron, Owen Davies

The world of hospitality and travel is rapidly changing. Sudden changes in the external environment can have an enormous impact literally overnight.Strategic Management for Hospitality & Travel: Today and Tomorrow focuses on strategy for companies during a time of prosperity and uncertainty. Written...

Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime

Author(s): Diana K. Ivy, Shawn Wahl

Designed to fuse a unique balance of theory and application, Nonverbal Communication for a Lifetime translates academic material based on sound research and theory into meaningful applications for the reader to utilize throughout life.The publication extends learning activities by including What Wou...

History of Rock and Roll

Author(s): Thomas E Larson

Here’s your backstage pass to the history of rock and roll.Thomas Larson’s History of Rock & Roll connects music and the culture in which it interacted. Designed for the college non-music major, History of Rock & Roll fuses a text, website, and online music library to cover the music’s story of cont...

Foundations of Marketing Practice: An Applied Approach

Author(s): KENNETH THOMPSON, David Strutton

You engage perpetually in marketing. Regardless of what you do or eventually do for a living or with your life, you are a marketer.Do you want more power, influence, and success; all the result of your own ethically and socially responsible behaviors, of course?Your ability or lack of ability to mar...

A Citizen's Guide to Economics

Author(s): Cohick Mikel, James Richards, GIAN ARYANI

A Citizen’s Guide to Economics helps readers understand the economics that affects them as they go about their daily lives – training and learning, working and earning, providing for their family, planning for the future, starting up and running a business, and being good citizens.Written in an easy...

Humanities 1 Interactive: A Customized Version of Lectures in Western Humanities, 2nd Edition, by Emmanuel X. Belena. Designed specifically for Humanities 201 at Hampton University

Author(s): Karen Turner Ward

New Fourth Edition Coming Soon!This publication helps readers sift through the earliest evidence so far unearthed of the very beginnings of humanity’s existence. They will discover how the human race begin and study the evidence of our immense diversity primarily in order to find what we have in com...