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Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals
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Geodesy for Geomatics and GIS Professionals is a college level textbook that provides an introduction to the subject of coordinate systems and datums. Designed as a textbook for a course for surveyors and GIS professionals the book centers on the three dimensionality that is essential in the modern ...
Scientific and Technical Writing: From Problem to Proposal
Author(s): William Magrino
The NEW 5th edition of Scientific and Technical Writing: From Problem to Proposal is built around a single concept - that students learn professional writing through ownership of their ideas. This text equips students with the real-world skills that today’s employers seek.Scientific and Technical Wr...
Parents Make the Best and Worst Coaches
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Abstract Some parents think they are coaches, and then some parents are coaches. This case study examines a specific instance of a parent coaching his own child and presents the problems that accompany that situation. As the head coach of the Ellerton Trojans football team, Mike Rollins coached h...
"You Don't have to Be Superwoman!": Navigating Professional and Chronic Illness Identities in the Family Business
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Abstract Under the best of circumstances, how family members communicatively negotiate the intersections of work and home life is fraught with tension. Running a family business, or being one of the 5.5 million American enterprises where multiple family members participate or have controlling int...
Footing as Influence Strategies During Small Group Discussion
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Sample Trial by jury is central to the American justice system yet little is known about influence processes during jury deliberation because rarely are such discussions made public, and for good reason—a juror must perceive that his comments are confidential in order for the process to have some...
Modern Music Appreciation
Author(s): Robert Brosh
Modern Music Appreciation takes a new direction to the study of music appreciation in today’s college classroom. Traditionally, most music appreciation textbooks (and supplemental teaching materials) have approached music history through the lens of Western classical music traditions. Standard music...
Pathophysiology Case Studies
Author(s): Hon-Vu Q Duong, NINA MARCELLUS
Pathophysiology Case Studies is designed to expose nursing students to disease processes in the format of clinical scenarios and essentially to allow them to “apply what they have learned.” It is designed to be thought-provoking. In order to answer the questions, the students will have to use not on...
Confronting the Master Narrative of Starting a Family: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Social Support
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Confronting the Master Narrative of Starting a Family: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Social Support
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Abstract Lucy and Jason just got married and are eager to start their family. Lucy has always dreamed of settling down, getting married, and having a baby right away. Plus, her parents, Maria and Dennis, are constantly asking about when they will have a grandchild. After a few months of trying to...
Sophie's Companion: Introduction to Philosophy
Author(s): Mark Curtis-Thames
Great books deserve to be read more than once. Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder, is just such a great book. Published in 1993 and in English in 1994, it remains a continual best-seller, translated into many languages. In Sophie’s World we watch fourteen-year-old Sophie come of age mentally, as a m...