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Risk Communication: Community Relations Efficacy or Calamity?

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Sample Risk communication is as old as human society. It, along with its partner, risk management, is qualitatively fundamental to the human condition. By that reasoning, society can be defined as the collective management of risk. Societies, communities, small groups, and even individuals that m...

Introduction to Environmental Science

Author(s): Rebecca Bourgault

Introduction to Environmental Science engages students with the scientific process and fundamental principles of environmental science, and provides an introductory analysis of several of the most important environmental issues of our time. The text focuses primarily on the physical environment and ...

OpenStax Chemistry: Atoms First 2e hardcover

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"Chemistry: Atoms First 2e is a peer-reviewed, openly licensed introductory textbook produced through a collaborative publishing partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association. This text is an atoms-first adaptation of OpenStax C...

A Guidebook to Presentation Speaking: Prepared for Business, Professional, Technical, and Trade Learners

Author(s): Janet McKenney

A Guidebook to Presentation Speaking, 7th edition, has been significantly expanded to follow the template of the Five Canon approach. Presentation speaking has been chosen as the title because presentations are used more frequently than public speaking. Presentation speaking includes situations wher...

Family Matters: An Autoethnographic Narrative of Addicted Selves and Addicted Others with/in the Family.

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Abstract This chapter explores the negotiation of family relationships in the context of addiction, based on my experiences living with and through family addiction. I use autoethnography to recall the ways in which a sister, her sister, and the family experienced addiction in the home. Within th...

An Introductory Text Book to Study General Psychology with the Integration of Theology, Spirituality, and the Personal Search for Truth and Meaning

Author(s): David Bailey

In An Introductory Text Book to Study General Psychology with the Integration of Theology, Spirituality, and the Personal Search for Truth and Meaning, students learn about the “meat and potatoes” of the study and profession of psychology. This text provides students with structure and a foundation ...

What Happened? How Did I Get Here?: Consent and Sexual Assault on a College Campus

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Abstract Abby was a first semester college freshman and, like many of her friends, her fall semester came with a learning curve. College had started a bit rocky for her—she was an hour away from her small, rural hometown and her high school boyfriend, Russell. She also quickly discovered the impo...

Moving Across Disciplines and Genres: Reading Identity in Illness Narratives and Reflective Writing Texts

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Sample For this chapter, we propose to discuss the concept of identity within the two text genres of life writing and reflective writing, situated within the larger field of illness narratives. We consider the concept of identity construction an ideal entry point for our analyses since both the r...