The Write Path: Communicating Your Way to Professional Success

Author(s): Chad Littleton, Tiffany Mitchell, Timothy Parker, Jean Paul Vaudreuil

With a combined total of over forty years teaching writing courses and over thirty-five years in the business and nonprofit worlds, authors Littleton, Mitchell, Parker, and Vaudreuil bring you an interactive textbook to help you reach your full potential for professional writing. The Write Path is d...

Music 101: A Guide to Active Listening for a Generation Online

Author(s): James E Shearer, Fred Bugbee

Music 101: A Guide to Active Listening for a Generation Online presents a balance of commentary, historical documentation, and insightful listening guides into the diverse world of classical, jazz, and world music. Music 101 is a highly readable text that offers students a lifelong guide into all fo...

Doing the Transcultural Thing: Explorations in Living in the United States

Author(s): Michael W. Schwartz

Whether we are aware of it or not, every utterance we produce is an expression of who we are as individuals and what we believe. When we begin the process of learning an additional language, we are not only learning a new linguistic code (basic vocabulary and structures) that allow us to ask for dir...

Introduction to Art Music

Author(s): Mary Dave Blackman

Develop Educated Listeners for the Next Generation of Audience MembersAn Introduction to Art Music gives students the opportunity to see as well as hear music – an enchanting experience! It also helps them learn that an art music performance is not like a rock concert!Supported by YouTube videos and...

Sacred Time: An Ethnographic Case Study of Historical & Fantasy Reenactors

Author(s): Karol Chandler-Ezell

Life/Death: Dipping Our Toes in the Water

Author(s): Regina Easley Young, Bonnie Luft

Life /Death…dipping our toes in the water…, 2nd edition, authored by Bonnie Luft and Regina Easley-Young, is written in a practical and useful format with the hopes that it will provide beneficial and insightful information about the one universal experience that we all will share…death.  This book ...

Experiments in the Determination of Mechanical Behavior of Engineering Materials

Author(s): Richard Queeney, Albert E Segall, ANDREA CHOPERENA GUERRA

Wellness for Life

Author(s): Steven Ross Murray, Kristin Heumann

Featuring a combination of an eText with a website, Wellness for Life teaches students how to improve their overall wellness so that they can live happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.While discussing topics such as disease, life expectancy, stress, physical fitness, nutrition, and weight m...

Macroeconomics

Author(s): Julie Holzner

In the first four chapters, in Part One, there is an overview of basic economic concepts.  In the last chapter of this part, the workings of markets is explained in great detail.  It is essential for everybody who studies economics to understand how the forces of supply and demand interact in market...

Dancing with Data

Author(s): Active Learning Lab