Where groups of people gather, there is always an elephant in the room: difference. 

Elephants are remarkable, complex creatures which take up much space. Likewise, matters of race, culture, and difference require creative and complicated conversations—which moves us beyond “we are all alike” or “we all matter”—to understanding the significance of difference, as both a gift and a challenge. 

Intercultural Communication in Your Life teaches readers the essential nature of difference, what to do with difference, and how to see…

Not everyone in Hospitality is in sales, but everyone in Hospitality sells.

Professional Sales and Selling for Meetings, Expositions, Events, Conventions & Groups provides a hands-on approach to the world of sales in a hospitality setting with a focus on MEEC events (Meetings, Events, Exhibitions, and Conventions). One of the largest sources of profit for the hospitality industry, MEEC influence is an imperative area of understanding for anyone entering the field, especially in a sales capacity. 

This practical handbook…

Sports stadiums are becoming bigger, louder, and more exciting. With so many people in one area, it takes quite a bit of planning and work to pull off an event successfully. This is where facility and event management comes in.

Perfect for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, Facility and Event Management covers everything from the history of sport facilities, to the construction of new stadiums, to customer service, and booking events.

Available in print and eBook editions, Facility and Event Management…

Casing Interpersonal Communication puts the proven concept of active learning to work for interpersonal communication students by immersing students in real life situations.

Easily adaptable to any existing interpersonal communication textbook, Casing Interpersonal Communication:

• is available in affordable print and an electronic format that is easily accessible on a multitude of devices (desktop, online, or mobile). Readers can create study notes, collaborate with teachers and classmates, and search…

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Introduction to the Music Industry: Midwest Edition is an introduction to the music industry, and can be considered a primer for two reasons.

1. It covers the primary, most important information about the present state of the music and entertainment industry and how we got here. You will also learn how music is recorded, marketed, licensed, and performed.
2. It is meant to help prime the pump and contribute to the development of the music and entertainment industry in the Midwest, by identifying and reporting on special opportunities…

You are an educator. You do the most important job imaginable. You help students learn and grow so that they can flourish now and in the future. In a time when distress and disruption can make the work exhausting, this book reaffirms the human values at the core of true education: love and wisdom.

Here you'll renew your sense of how love and wisdom can shape every dimension of education. You'll revisit your own "why", your sense of mission and vision, what brought you to teaching in the first place. You'll be reminded that you are not alone, that you are meant to flourish in a…

Introduction to Philosophy: Deducing Answers offers students a wide range of challenging readings from both historical and contemporary philosophy, while providing extensive commentary by the author geared to engage students in the deep underlying questions behind the text. The book provides a careful and precise introduction to philosophy focused on extracting arguments, at the same time as providing an anthology of background readings that an instructor can assign for students to recognize the sources of ideas. A detailed study guide is provided at the end…

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A Guide for the Hospitality Industry: Everybody Sells emphasizes the philosophy that EVERYONE in hospitality sells. Whether you are selling yourself, an idea, a product or a service, there are techniques one uses to influence and persuade others. The new edition presents the basic concepts of sales and helps readers develop skills by providing an applicable sales experience in addition to vital information. 

A Guide for the Hospitality Industry: Everybody Sells includes: 

• a "role-…

Congratulations! You've decided to become a teacher. You might still have some doubts and questions. That's normal. We all do when we start on this journey. This text will help you sort through your questions, determine your mission and vision, and take a deep dive into the wonders of teaching and learning. Here you'll find out how love and wisdom can shape every dimension of your teaching, from your understanding of learning to your classroom management strategies to your ability to include and empower all students. You'll learn to see every student through a strengths-based, asset-based…

A comprehensive Criminal Justice Internship Manual. The manual is adaptable to any internship program, but focuses upon the criminal justice fields. The manual provides a step by step process for starting and maintaining a field experience with academic rigor. Included in the manual are essential forms; applications, releases, agreements and quantitative assessments for the interns, as well as, for the agencies involved.

Most exciting is a program developed to partner with law enforcement to provide the most diverse and enriched experience for both the intern and the agency.…

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Suit the Action to the Word uses project based learning (PBL), a method of instruction that emphasizes learning and applying skills and knowledge in real life situations. By presenting students with project challenges that require creativity, collaboration, adherence to deadlines, and presentation skills, PBL more closely resembles adult life challenges that will be found in the workplace, home projects, hobbies, and civic engagement.

One may ask how these project challenge…

The Victimology Handbook prepares the student with a foundation of knowledge to initiate an understanding of the world that exists for victims of crime, and how criminal justice practitioners seek to provide assistance to this vulnerable, distressed population.

This handbook continues to serve in its fourth edition as a unique resource text for students as they journey to comprehend a victim’s journey at different stages of the criminal justice process. Conceptualizing the victim in separate crimes, coupled with descriptions of the numerous victim…

College students in the twenty-first century will venture into a complex society of diversity, multiculturalism, and global interconnectedness. This collection of essays encourages students to think about and respond critically and analytically to the opportunities and challenges posed by modern globalization. In Aspiration & Dissonance: Readings in History, Religion, and Global Affairs, the contributing authors provide eclectic perspectives on and interpretations of provocative topics, such as slavery, ideological revolutions, imperialism, religious tolerance…

"This hybrid textbook/lecture notes set is designed to provide an undergraduate-level, engineering-focused introduction to the topic of dynamics. To this end, the text covers the following key topical areas:

• Particle and Rigid Body Kinematics, including Cartesian, path, polar, and cylindrical descriptions of motion; relative and constrained motion; vector kinematics; instantaneous centers of rotation; and 2D and 3D moving reference frames.

• Particle and Rigid Body Kinetics, including Newtons Laws of Motion; the work-energy equation; and the linear…

Beginning Astronomy Laboratory courses can be difficult for students to learn and it is…

The doctoral program process is rigorous and robust, with great expectations placed upon students in this culminating experience of academic formation. Doctors for the Church was birthed out of a desire to assist doctoral students in divinity and theology programs in adopting the appropriate stance and practicing the correct academic disciplines that will help them to flourish and become doctors.

Chapter One opens the book by exploring the process of doctoral formation in theology as described by the magisterial reformer, Martin Luther. In the second…

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This Organic Chemistry Laboratory Manual is a compilation of basic techniques and classic chemical reactions studied during two semesters of Organic Chemistry. The manual is designed to accompany Organic Chemistry Lecture and is geared towards students who require the subject to advance in majors such as Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology and Neuroscience.

Students will learn techniques such as separation, extraction, recrystallization, and distillation; assay product purity and determine compounds…

Our fascination with personality is evident in almost all parts of contemporary society. We watch movies, read books and magazines, watch our favorite sitcoms, and feel like we know the characters we meet in these settings. We are not only interested in fictional characters. Most of us have a keen interest in figuring out who we are, how to understand our connection with others, and what our place is in the world. 

Theories of Personality presents the theories that are the…

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Research Methods in Psychology is an accessible and exciting textbook that introduces students to the various principles of research methodology and design in psychological research. The ultimate goal of the textbook is to encourage each student to gain a basic understanding of the scientific process
involved in conducting psychological research. Further, students will develop the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in their undergraduate and graduate pursuits as well as to be…

The College Writing Program covers the full range of writing skills and strategies needed for success in college.  During the course, students actually complete a college-level Process Essay from start to finish, moving step-by-step through the writing process, by utilizing the guidance provided.  Course uses fun, interesting activities to keep students moving forward.

The book is:

• Thorough and substantive
  • Research-based materials use the latest pedagogical theories
  • Each…

Rather than be the last word in copyright law scholarship or a two-ton casebook meant for an upper level law school class, my goal in writing this is to provide a quick, readable, and comprehensible guide to the key copyright areas that affect the 21st century composer, performer, and recording artist. Rather than dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” in each of the laws contained in the 448 pages of the Copyright Law (the number contained in the hard copy of the law published by the Federal government in June 2020), I will concentrate instead on presenting a sort of a plain English “…

We are pleased to present the 5th edition of Practical Earth Science Exercises, a laboratory manual originally conceived by Drs. Lisa Rossbacher, David Jessey, and David Berry in 1986 during their early teaching years at Cal Poly Pomona. 

Exercises in this volume will acquaint students with practical aspects of physical geology, natural hazards, and engineering applications of geology.  The chapter sequence is organized such that fundamental concepts and definitions are thoroughly introduced before exercises involving practical applications,…

Human Communication Studies Caribbean Scholarship: Research Knowledge and Stories (HCSCS) reviews the published scholarly literature for 2010-2020. It sets out to identify, summarize, and analyze this scholarly body of work from a non-traditional perspective. It focuses on human communication scholarship about the Anglophone Caribbean. It presents knowledge written by scholars from, beyond and related to the Caribbean. The knowledge created, gathered, and shared by resident, diasporic, non-resident, global scholars with an interest in topics of relevance to the…

Communication, Culture and Conflict (CCC) is a collection of research essays that explore the intersection of communication, culture and conflict outside traditional settings. This exploration occurs in a range of pedagogical, educational, labour and social contexts involving various media ranging from animated film to news coverage, as well as other human interactions in interpersonal relationships, groups and organizations. In doing so, this collection draws upon the canon of research that scholars would routinely expect to encounter in traditional books that focus on…

In the event of an outbreak of a highly pathogenic and transmissible disease, community officials, planners, healthcare providers and first responders at all skill levels will be called upon to protect the public. Recognition of an emerging infectious disease (EID) threat will most likely come from public health authorities who have surveillance programs in effect in many parts of the world.

Emergency planning and management level responders, healthcare providers and community officials at all levels should be involved in the preparation for and response to a possible outbreak of a…

Managing and working with people is important across all disciplines.

The NEW edition of Management is accessible to a wide variety of students.  Readers will find the book relevant whether their major is business, communications, engineering, fine arts, or science.

Featuring best practices from the authors 25 plus years of teaching experience, Management provides an up-to-date, practical, interesting, and easy-to-read introduction to management principles.

Management…

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Now available in a new fifth edition, the popular astronomy laboratory manual Astronomers as Observers and Experimenters: Exercises and Projects for the Laboratory and Night Sky integrates new exercises, connections between exercises, as well as all the favorite exercises from past editions - updated to connect to recent discoveries and news in astronomy.

Students will gain experience in making meaning out of observations and experiments by using observational results to make models of…

"Statics: A Lecturebook is a hybrid textbook/lecture notes set is designed to provide you with an undergraduate-level, engineering-focused introduction to the topic of engineering statics. To this end, the text covers the following key topical areas:

• Vector fundamentals: including basic definitions of vector operations; the writing of vectors in terms of unit vectors and magnitudes; and, extending the basic vector operation definitions to practical implementation with Cartesian components.

• Equilibrium: including drawing free body diagrams;…

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On a daily basis, the United States, and the entire world in general, face the reality and responsibility of managing hazards, emergencies, and disasters. A disaster may strike at any time with little or no warning. Incidents may also occur with speed, surprise, and violence. Any location is vulnerable to some form of hazard.

The 2020 COVID-19 outbreak is just one indication that dangers, often unanticipated, may impact an area, region, nation, or in the case of COVID-19, the global community. Thus, communities…

The second edition of Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Society expands on the topics and concepts discussed in the first edition and introduces a new chapter that explores how entrepreneurship has changed within the context of a “post-COVID” contemporary society. Disruption changes not only the way that people do business, but their mindsets as well, so this introductory text to the field of entrepreneurship is meant to challenge students to think about business differently and encourage them to embrace the new future. In addition, this book will cover the…

A fascinating doorway to music from around the world.

Based on the authors’ ten years of experience teaching the first edition, this new edition of An Introduction to World Music: Exploring the Sound of Cultures journeys further into the cultures and their music, adds to the appreciation of song collectors and their methods, includes added listening notes and links to both traditional and modern music (and the blending of the two), and offers Napster access and a greatly expanded array of photos, all helping bring the music…

A challenging and controversial topic, police use of force, covered in a way to explain the “why” in a straightforward and unbiased manner.

This book explores the aspects of police use of force in the United States. The text provides a framework to understand the controversies surrounding the evolution of what is considered the lawful implementation of using force, poses a significant problem for law enforcement and other personnel. Law enforcement must ensure they are performing their legal duties within the boundaries of case law; at the same time, uphold public trust and…

This book is intended for an introductory geology class for non-science majors. The seven chapters (minerals, rocks, geologic history, earthquakes and geologic hazard maps) in this textbook provide the fundamentals of a 15-week introductory geology laboratory course. The homework chapters on plate tectonics, the rock cycle and topographic maps may be used as review or introduction to digitally delivered lab assignments on these topics. Optimally, this manual is used in conjunction with digitally delivered assignments and local field trips.

For the instructor, this textbook provides…

Education: A Calling is an easy to read, practical guide for aspiring and experienced Christian school leaders and teachers. This books book tells the story of Dr. Keeney’s call and journey to starting a Christian school. This book provides useful ideas on how to effectively lead Christian school. This book features a look at the foundations of highly effective Christian schools along with a picture of what excellence in teaching and administration looks like. This book emphasizes the importance of communication and building partnerships with various stakeholders…

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Student-run advertising, public relations and integrated communications agencies mimic the structure of professional agencies, and provide students with real-world experience working for real clients. Student agency members are unique in that they are still learning basic communications principles, but are interacting with clients who expect them to conduct themselves professionally and understand how the business world operates.

The Student-Run Agency: Transitioning from Student to Professional…

The laboratories included in Cell Biology: A Research-Based Approach are primarily designed to introduce students to a number of standard, yet powerful, experimental techniques used in the modern-day cell biology laboratory. Notably, however, they are also organized as a set of experiments designed to shed light on a completely uncharacterized cellular protein denominated FAM171B.

Therefore, these labs allow students to perform "real research" trying to decipher the normal cellular function of this novel protein. FAM171B was originally…

Business and Technical Writing takes a rhetorical approach that emphasizes writing in context and aims to move students through a continuum of writing experiences ranging from less contextualized workplace simulations to more situated, more authentic, client-based projects.  

Business and Technical Writing develops multiple literacies, including rhetorical literacy, visual literacy, information literacy, computer literacy, and ethical literacy.

Business and Technical Writing by Jeffrey…

The Arts and Society: Making New Worlds, by Jeffrey Hoover, describes the evolving world of the arts and how it impacts our lives. This book was written to help one enter into a significant dialogue about the arts while leveraging ideas and values communicated by this mirror of society.

Both fundamentals and more advanced concepts are presented for the visual arts, music, theater, poetry, dance, architecture, and film. This book considers not only the product but also the process: how work is created, presented, the resources required, and how society is…

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