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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...

Engineering Career Playbook: A Strategic Approach

Author(s): Michael Venuto

If you are an engineering student or a recent graduate, I am sure you have questions and uncertainties on starting your engineering career. This book will provide a perspective to what is on the minds of students and early career engineers and an insight to frequently asked questions.I have studied ...

Quantitative Literacy for the 21st Century

Author(s): Jay Abramson

Quantitative Literacy for the 21st Century involves using mathematical methods across a wide variety of disciplines that are relevant today. To be able to digest the numbers found in the news, across websites, in publications, and even on social media platforms, we must be mathematically literate. T...

Business Analytics

Author(s): Carolyn Hulme Turner

Introduction to Business Analytics is designed with two goals in mind, readability and affordability.  All professors know how difficult it is to get students taking required courses to read the textbook.  I assign a few topics at a time within each chapter for them to read.  It helps to place those...

Human Resources Management, Second Edition

Author(s): Carolyn M. Youssef-Morgan

Human Resource Management is an integral component of every organization. This text introduces students to vital topics in the field of HRM such as strategic planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, compensation and benefits, and performance appraisal. Enriched by a variety of fea...

A Preparation Guide for a Career in Human Services: 16 Chapters of Applied Learning on Professionalism and Internship

Author(s): Emily Brinck, Nicole Achey

A Preparation Guide for a Career in Human Services is one of the most practical professional development workbooks available. It is an absolute stand out and an easily accessible tool for any young professional pursuing a career in the human services field. This forward-thinking workbook walks reade...

Applied Robotics Theory, Economics, and Practices for Engineering Technology Students

Author(s): Hazem Tawfik

Applied Robotics Theory, Economics, and Practices for Engineering Technology Students is designed to enrich the educational experience of engineering technology students with an in-depth understanding of the three main aspects of a robotics system: economics, theory, and practices. The purpose is to...

Readings in American Government

Author(s): Mary P Nichols, David K Nichols, KEVIN J. BURNS

  Readings in American Government provides a wide array of material on the fundamental themes of American political life.  Teachers will enjoy having a single volume, which combines more than 100 readings from both primary and secondary sources.  Students will benefit from the introductory essays...

Transcending Genre: An Introduction to the Elements of Creative Writing

Author(s): James Meetze, Adam Deutsch

TRANSCENDING GENRE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING introduces creative writing as a practice, a practical skill, and the essence of literary forms. Poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction are all discussed both as individual genres and as parts of our literary tradition. Studen...

Unconventional Plan

Author(s): Steve Camp

Perhaps time was Doug Johnson’s worst enemy, but there were several other factors that would make his decision to lend expertise to an unfinished community project a questionable choice.  A staff with little experience, a fast moving construction project and a political situation that could endanger...