Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Business Writing

Author(s): Cherilyn Boyer, Cheryl Brodersen, Mikel Chertudi, Caitlin Hills, Michael Mandel, Kimberly Marchesseault, Marisa Michaels, Diza Sauers

For early-career professionals, your first contact with prospective employers or customers is usually through your writing.  Email introductions, cover letters, and everyday correspondence play a large and important role in your professional success.  Cracking the Code: Successful Strategies for Bus...

Teaching Texas: A Complete and Practical Approach to Understanding and Applying the Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities (PPR) TExES

Author(s): Teri Bingham

Teaching Texas: A Complete and Practical Approach to Understanding and Applying the Pedagogy and Professional Responsibilities (PPR) TExES is a hands-on guide for preservice teachers to prepare for the TExES examination. The publication integrates real-life scenario-based questions, tips, theory, an...

Appearance Discrimination in 21st Century Global Workplaces: Lookism as an Overlooked Aspect of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Author(s): Cynthia H. Sims

Lookism is a broad term used to describe physical appearance discrimination.  It is synonymous with beautyism and encompasses colorism, weightism, heightism, ageism, and ableism, each granting power and privilege to those who are considered physically appealing and assumed to be more intelligent, ca...

Let's Get Personal! Creating Successful Relationships Through Effective Interpersonal Communication

Author(s): Dee Osorio, Michael Schulmeister, A Todd Jones

Let’s Get Personal! offers practical advice to initiate, maintain, and enhance the interpersonal relationships in both your private and professional life. The textbook writers model appropriate self-disclosure to teach readers how to create intimate communication that can lead to satisfying, meaning...

Humanities: Journeys from the Paleolithic to Postmodernism: Early Humanities to 1600

Author(s): Ralph Monday

This book informs the student or any reader about the importance of the humanities. The book uses comprehensive terminology, but every term is specifically defined, and as long as the individual is willing to learn, the definition of terms will prove helpful in a variety of courses even if the indiv...

Exercises in Environmental Science

Author(s): Michael Slattery, KRISTI ARGENBRIGHT

Exercises in Environmental Science contains 11 laboratory and field exercises that include both hands-on and data analysis labs to help students develop a range of skills in the environmental sciences. The manual is designed for use in an introductory course in environmental science and covers mater...

CommunicationShark: A Human Communication Guide

Author(s): Penny Waddell

New Third Edition Now Available! There’s a lot of fish in the sea, but it is the shark that sets his eye on a target and goes for the goal! The NEW Third Edition of Communication Shark: A Human Communication Guide takes an in-depth look at the way we communicate with others and helps readers n...

Planning, Writing, and Implementing IEPs: A Christian Approach

Author(s): Bunnie Loree Claxton

Written from the perspective of an educator with over 25 years of experience working with students receiving various levels of special education services, Planning, Writing, and Implementing an IEP: A Christian Approach goes far beyond completing paperwork and conducting meetings, and addresses the ...

Becoming a Better Communicator: A Basic Course in Interpersonal and Public Communication

Author(s): Rhonda Gallagher, Agena Farmer, Susan McMurray, Denise Miller, Matthew Olsen

Communication connects with every area of our lives, whether our professional lives, our friendships, our romantic connections, our educational opportunities, even our relationships with ourselves and God.Becoming a Better Communicator: A Basic Course in Interpersonal and Public Communication expres...

Communication & Popular Culture Coursebook

Author(s): COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY COMM DEPT

What is popular culture? How does popular culture communicate with us through media? Out of what historical, commercial, and creative contexts does popular culture emerge? Communication & Popular Culture Coursebook presents an introduction to U.S. popular culture, with an emphasis on its forms and f...