Media Matters

Author(s): RICHARD A. WILBER, John H Saunders

Media Matters presents a restructured and expanded exploration of media history, theory, and practice. Rather than simply updating visuals and adding newer platforms, this new edition reorganizes the book’s framework to strengthen its educational impact. By consolidating theoretical foundations at t...

Severe and Hazardous Weather: An Introduction to High Impact Meteorology

Author(s): Robert Rauber, John Walsh, Donna Charlevoix, Troy Zaremba

During the four years since the publication of the 6th Edition of Severe and Hazardous Weather, extreme weather and climate events have impacted every region of the United States and many regions throughout the world. The tragic fires in Los Angeles in early 2025, and the 2024 destruction from Flori...

Policing for the 21st Century: Realizing the Vision of Police in a Free Society

Author(s): Christine Gardiner, Matthew J Hickman

Policing for the 21st Century: Realizing the Vision of Police in a Free Society provides a thematic overview of policing and its role in American society. This text is unique in that it provides extensive information about how police identify community problems, the methods police use to respond to ...

Persuasion: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice

Author(s): Ann Bainbridge Frymier

Students want to learn how to persuade parents, teachers, and classmates.Teachers often view a skills approach as too limiting and focus on theories of persuasion.Persuasion: Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice features an unprecedented fusion of the persuasion skills that students seek, inte...

Public Speaking: Essentials for Excellence

Author(s): Shawn Wahl, LeAnn Brazeal, Mark Butland

By providing students theory and practical skills, Public Speaking: Essentials for Excellence prepares students to become effective public speakers in various speaking situations they may encounter in their lives (business presentations, tributes, eulogies, commencement addresses, small group, and m...

Criminal Justice

Author(s): Scott H. Belshaw, Lee DeBoer

Criminal Justice introduces the many facets of the U.S. criminal justice system in a logical, readily understandable manner. The reader will understand the complexity of the criminal justice system from the start of the process to the end, recognize controversies, and examine the breadth of the chal...

Criminology

Author(s): Robert J. Mutchnick, John A. Lewis

Criminology presents a unique perspective on the subject. It offers an excellent review of crimes, laws, and criminological theories. Criminology presents introductory material in an easy to follow format that will establish a solid foundation for students progressing through a criminal justice or c...

Cybersecurity: Bridging the Gap Between Technician and Management

Author(s): James Phelps, Ervin Frenzel

The ability to comprehend the language involved in this new and evolving cyber world is essential now more than ever.Cybersecurity: Bridging the Gap Between Technician & Management:Provides a dictionary of computer terminology.Delivers a synopsis of what we actually use computers to do.Gives an outl...

Strategic Communication at Work: Contemporary Perspectives on Business and Professional Communication

Author(s): Jennifer H Waldeck, Patricia Kearney, Timothy G. Plax

Strategic Communication at Work by Jennifer Waldeck, Patricia Kearney, and Tim Plax is designed to build students' communication competence in the dynamic business world. The turn-key comprehensive instructional package fuses seventeen chapters, work-based case studies, and sixteen modules to bring ...

Your Career Planner

Author(s): Cheryl L Bonner, Susan Musich

Your Career Planner was designed with an APP in mind – it is a tool, it is a self-contained program, and it is user friendly. This text is meant to provide you information and give you ways in which to put that information to use.Completely redesigned in a new 11th edition, Your Career Planner guide...