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Second Thoughts, Print plus Digital
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"Second Thoughts, Fourth Edition by Wanda Teays is a popular, user-friendly textbook in Critical Thinking. Its fifteen chapters address argumentation, analysis, inductive/deductive reasoning, syllogisms, fallacies of reasoning, advertising and news media, use of language, the Internet, and legal rea...
The City in the Western Tradition
Author(s): Peter Halvorson, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ellen Cromley
This text is designed for a course titled “The City in the Western Tradition.” The course surveys the broad sweep of the history of Western Civilization through the development of cities at different stages in that history. At least three broad sets of issues should be discussed at the outset for re...
The Secret of the Sea
Author(s): Donna Stevenson
During the summer of her thirteenth birthday, Arie McGinnis discovers three things that change her world and the way she sees herself; her long-missing mom isn't human; Dad has a girlfriend and wants to move to Indiana, taking Arie away from the ocean, her friends, and everything she loves; and chil...
Caring for Yourself is Caring for Your Child: Helping Parents of Children with Eating Disorders Seek Health Care for Themselves
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Abstract It is not always easy to change health behaviors. Just imagine how many times you have been told to do something “good” for your health, and you have ignored the message. The purpose of the “Caring for Yourself Is Caring for Your Child” case study is to demonstrate that formative researc...
Hawksbill Turtle Conservation in the Eastern Pacific: Weighing Biodiversity and Livelihood Risks
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Hawksbill Turtle Conservation in the Eastern Pacific: Weighing Biodiversity and Livelihood Risks
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Sample In this chapter we explore the rhetorical strategies that community members use to (a) define risk, (b) prioritize various aspects of risk, and then (c) motivate responses to risk that seem appropriate. This case illustrates the usefulness of Tansey and Rayner’s (2010) cultural approach to...
"What Do You Expect from Me?": Family and Marital Coping after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
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Abstract Cancer diagnoses are stressful, atypical events for families. When a family member is diagnosed with cancer, the nature of family relationships often transform as a result. The additional stress and uncertainty that accompanies cancer treatments may also create or intensify family confli...
Introduction to Aviation Safety
Author(s): Brandon Wild, Gary M. Ullrich, Ryan Guthridge
Introduction to Aviation Safety provides a detailed introduction into the current important issues affecting aviation safety. The book has been written for a basic, college level, aviation safety course and at 200 pages and thirteen chapters, the entire book can be covered in a normal semester leng...
OpenStax Chemistry hardcover
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"Chemistry is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the two-semester general chemistry course. The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The b...