Understanding Lifespan Development is an excellent selection for college courses such as Lifespan Development, Developmental Psychology, and Human Behavior in the Social Environment. Some unique features make this book particularly attractive for instructors and students.
Drawing on many years teaching lifespan courses at the university level in Psychology and Social Work programs, the authors have created a textbook which covers critical theory, issues, and concepts in terms of physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development across the lifespan. In…
Recommended as a companion text in lower-level criminal justice and criminology courses, Filling in the Gaps offers a contextual examination of race, sex, culture, and class within the criminal justice system. Going beyond mere understanding of the process of sentencing and punishment, this text allows students to critically assess how experiences of punishment differ for individual within a biased and often prejudicial system.
The text begins with a look at class and culture, followed by examining varying experiences based on gender and race. The last two chapters examine class,…
Visual Culture, Representations, & Misrepresentations confronts and addresses social and cultural issues through the exploration of visual culture. The goals of this exploration of visual culture include challenging biases, discriminatory representations, and practices within our society that hinder democracy and social justice.
The text and activities in this book and course encourage: 1. the investigation of multiple social and political factors present in visual culture; 2. the reflection upon social, political, and cultural identity construction…
Good, sound reading, researching, and writing skills are essential if students are to successfully meet criteria for completion of academic degrees. Equally important is the development of strong voices for thinking aloud critically, posing and solving problems, and participating as engaged students in classroom discussions. Professors encounter multiple levels of preparation in composition courses, especially in this climate of technological advancements.
Students’ social lives are distanced from physical, face-to-face communication, enabling them to create personas and grow…
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Hashtags and Social Media Have a Powerful Influence…
Hashtag: How One Symbol Revolutionized and Terrorized Social Media examines how social media can change society in both positive and negative ways. Hashtag examines the entire gamut of social media, from the history of both the hashtag and social media, to current users, to the future of social media and hashtags.
Consisting of 14 chapters and created for college students,…
Microbiology for the Non-Science Major was written with the sole purpose of taking a topic that some find difficult to understand and making it easy and enjoyable. The content of the book is not weighed down with inessential chemistry and biology. It contains information on all types of microbes ranging from the Ebola virus to flesh-eating bacteria.
The microbiological concepts are explained in a clear and straight forward manner which makes the study of infectious diseases accessible to all. Topics covered include the transmission of disease, antibiotics, epidemiology and bioterrorism…
What is Theatre? An Introduction to Theatre is a textbook written for and geared towards those who are not familiar with the ancient and lively art known as theatre.
Available in a convenient and affordable eBook format, What is Theatre? is an introductory and interactive look at the theatrical history, artists, skills and expertise needed to create live art to a new generation of theatre artists and audiences.
The text contains unit objectives, web links (to articles and videos), and interviews with professionals to…
Although cinematic storytelling shares many of the same elements as other art forms, film tells a story in a unique way. Concentrating on careful analysis of the formal aspects of specific films for each chapter, Persistence of Vision is an ideal text for both face-to-face and online introduction to film studies courses. By examining the practice of filmmaking and the evolution of the significant developments in the cinematic narrative and the unique elements by which films communicate, this textbook serves as a guide through the journey of movies.…
This new manual takes students of organic chemistry through a multitude of basic laboratory techniques such as reaction setup, reflux, distillation, recrystallization, thin layer chromatography and many others. Modern spectroscopic techniques such as UV-Vis, FT-IR, and NMR are reviewed and utilized as a part of many experiments. As with all editions of this manual, the authors include pre-laboratory hand-in assignments and post experiment study questions.
Emphasis on the study of green chemistry, and its “12 principles” are focused on in many experiment to keep focus on learning…
According to the CDC, eight million people die from cancer around the world each year.
In this interactive book, Cancer Biology: An Inquiry-Based Approach examines different characteristics of cancer, and immediately follows up with questions to drive home the material being covered in the chapter.
Cancer Biology: An Inquiry-Based Approach not only covers the types of cancer, but the complexity of treating cancer, how different areas of life can affect cancer, and the history of cancer theories.
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Take a comprehensive, video-based tour through the Adobe Photoshop© and Adobe Illustrator© applications with an experienced college instructor with over 14 years in the classroom and 23 years working with these applications.
Chris Nielsen’s An Introduction to Computer Graphics presents an in-depth discussion of the Adobe Photoshop© and Illustrator© applications from the basics (like Setting Up your Preferences) to working with some of the most recent, advanced methods.
Chapters are…
Explorative Microbiology is intended to serve as a supplement to the material discussed in Microbiology. It helps students to see the real-world, everyday application of Microbiology.
Explorative Microbiology discusses:
- important molecular biological tools that scientists have harvested from microbes to solve crimes, cure diseases, and do basic research.
- how microorganisms…
Take a comprehensive, video-based tour through the Adobe Illustrator Application with Chris Nielsen - An experienced college instructor with over 14 years in the classroom and 23 years working in Illustrator.
Chapters are set up to focus on particular topics and include:
- Over 700 Step-by-Step Tutorial Videos
- ALL Tutorial Videos are Sub-Titled for better understanding.
- Exercise Lesson Files are included in each chapter so you can follow along.
- PDF Chapter Introductions
- PDF Chapter SLOs (Student Learning…
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Music Through Time: An Appreciation of Music in Europe and America encourages the reader to discover not only information applying to music, but also to rediscover the big ideas that shaped Western Civilization over the centuries. These “big ideas” are represented through music, musicians, composers, instruments, and genres of music.
Music Through Time seamlessly integrates an interactive website with video/audio, online music library, and textbook to meet the evolving needs of the next generation of music appreciation students in…
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Reading for Life provides an inspiration for living an improved life in a workbook format. Based on five uplifting works, the guide attempts to show the reader that no matter the adversity one must face, there are ways to improve one’s outlook and living. The five thought-provoking works included in the guide are: Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, We Beat the Street by the Three Doctors, Learning From the Heart by Dr. Daniel Gottlieb and…
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Written specifically for Arizona's science and CTE standards, A Dynamic Natural Approach to Instruction, Biotechnology I: The Fusion of Imagination, and Inquiry includes 39 protocols perfected for students to preform in 50 minute lab periods. Good laboratory practices of sterility, chemical handling, and reproducibility are reinforced throughout this year-long text. Students perform…
For centuries, puzzles have fascinated audiences all over the world. Here are a century's worth of puzzles, over one hundred in all, from four teambuilding experts with collectively more than one hundred years' worth of experience. Learn how to use puzzles and challenging activities for building creative problem solving skills, creating consensus within a group, exploring diversity, creating an inclusive atmosphere, dealing with change, working with group decision making, setting goals, communicating clearly, working with limited resources, and exploring leadership and teamwork.…
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The purpose of Kinesiological Bases for Exercise and Sport is to present an anatomical foundation for the analysis of human movement and how muscle forces involved in facilitating or inhibiting movement are modified.
The first part of the book deals with anatomical structures, reference frames involved in movement, movement terminology, and worksheets for analyzing movements. The second part of this book examines muscles of the axial and appendicular skeleton, their attachments (origins and insertions), roles, and actions possible at single and…
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