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Offers a well-organised and detailed approach to the numerous aspects of the ceramic medium and the use of the potter's wheel as a mode of artistic expression. Students learn through detailed text and over eighty process video demonstrations that walk individuals through a strategic hierarchy of forms from beginning to advanced construction.

Written to provide students with a comprehensive look into the world and complex responsibilities of a crisis counselor, this text is ideal for courses in clinical mental health counseling, addiction counseling, social work, family counseling, and school counseling.

Discusses the ways that marketing managers can assess the potential for global expansion and help their firms capitalize on opportunities. The book explores which companies and products should expand internationally, what countries offer the best opportunities, and which marketing plan will lead each product or company to success.

Diverse in subject matter and intensely personal, Living and Being a Therapist gathers together many of the seminal chapters, articles, and essays written by renowned psychotherapist and author Jeffrey Kottler. The text explores the complex personal challenges therapists and counsellors experience during practice.

Provides students with foundational principles, concepts, and theory regarding capacity analysis to prepare them for work as an operational traffic engineer. Students learn how the mastery of capacity analysis applies to signal operations and optimization, roadway and intersection design, transportation planning, and traffic impact analysis.

Offers simple, practical strategies designed to lead students to a successful college career. These strategies have a wide range of applications and can be useful tools for both students and teachers seeking new ways to engage developmental students.

Most college students know that regular exercise can improve their health and overall well-being, but with essays to write, labs to complete, and chapters to read before class, who has time to exercise? This book provides practical advice and suggestions that will help you balance a healthy, active lifestyle with academic success.

Provides instructors of introductory policing courses with creative and effective teaching methods to better engage students and guide them to a greater understanding of the US law enforcement system and its role in the administration of justice.

Provides social work students with video modules that expose them to clients and social workers in a safe and simple, but no less real, environment. The video modules are supplemented by written material and discussion questions that further apply social work concepts to practice and inspire in-depth analysis and critical thinking.

Introduces readers to a variety of recent works on applied ethical issues. While providing summaries of seminal works on applied ethics so that students are aware of the classics in the discipline, the book focuses on new ways of thinking about applied ethics that are representative of contemporary discourse.

By introducing students to vital primary sources and supplementing these with insightful secondary readings, this volume encourages students to think critically about key components of the American political system. It features readers on topics such as voter turnout, political parties, and influences on decisions made within the political system.

Examines the events that led to the establishment of the Department of Defense and how national security has changed since then. Chapters provide historical perspective, describing the nature and practice of national security. The latter half of the book provides an examination of homeland and national security concepts as we now understand it.

Interpersonal skills and the way in which you present yourself are paramount to success. This book is designed to help you develop the communication, interpersonal, and self-presentation skills required to successfully interact with instructors and peers during your academic career, and managers, colleagues, and teams in your working life.

Provides students with additional opportunities for practice and analysis using a three-step approach. For each section of the guide, students first review key learning objectives, read a full chapter outline, then test their knowledge and comprehension with multiple choice and short answer questions.

An application-focused guide for mental health providers delivering clinical supervision to diverse populations in a variety of contexts and settings. The casebook emphasizes the need to not only provide competency-based supervision, but also for supervising clinicians to understand and practice cultural competency within their work.

Provides simple, effective ways to think about and live a healthier lifestyle as you settle in to college life. The guide offers an holistic approach to self-care, presenting research and best practices you can easily apply to your daily life to foster mental, emotional, and physical well-being throughout your academic career.

There's more to college than studying and going to class. A Student's Guide to College Transitions highlights the myriad opportunities that are available to you outside the classroom and why it's in your best interest to get out there and participate in them.

Introduces students to fundamentals of the American political system and addresses both historical and contemporary issues. Readers become familiar with standard documents such as the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation, but also benefit from exposure to outstanding writing from scholarly works.

Provides an integrated presentation of relational competencies, microskills, and theories. Clear and concise, this book gives an overview of current theories, presents best-known evidence-based relationships and practices, and explains how theories apply to counselling and psychotherapy.

Supplies world language, dual language, and English as a second language educators with a research-based model for using creativity to support language acquisition. The book includes innovative learning exercises and teaching guidelines that are based on research of the cognitive and sociocultural aspects of creativity and learning.

Features the work of seminal thinkers such as James Madison J. Edgar Hoover, and Clarence Darrow. The thoughts and writing of these contributors to the American tradition of criminal justice enlighten readers about its long history, and provide insight into the biases that are inherent within a system that dates back to 1619.

Invites the reader to explore and engage in positive classroom management and behaviour-change support. The book shares a wealth of information ranging from practical tips on arranging a classroom and its contents, to suggestions for fostering connection through collaboration, to recommended on-the-spot responses to unconstructive behaviour.

Provides readers with a strong foundation in marriage and family therapy history, theory, and clinical assessment, and supports the development of skills and competencies needed to be effective, ethical counselling practitioners.

Explores the dynamics and practice implications of diverse communities, organisations, and social service networks and helps students develop the skills to work in these contexts. The book emphasizes the relationship between structural and institutional inequalities and the experiences of individuals, families, communities, and organisations.

Written for students with some previous exposure to algebra, Intermediate Algebra focuses on explanations of steps and practical advice on how and why things are done in certain ways when solving algebraic equations. It will help students become comfortable with the small details in math that make a big difference in overall competence.

Provides students with a fresh approach to the study of world geography through a topical exploration of ten major world regions. The text explores landscapes and societies in order to appreciate the environmental diversity of the planet and the cultural richness of humanity from the interdisciplinary perspective of geography.

Introduces students to fundamental concepts in world religion. Lively, humorous, and engaging in its presentation of material, The Basics of World Religion is an ideal resource for introductory undergraduate courses in religion.

Developed for use in both on-line and blended courses, Deep in the Heart: A Brief Texas History is an interactive textbook with embedded links. This unique textbook connects the facts of Texas's founding and development to the mystique and mythology that surround it.

Written from a comparative perspective using examples from animal physiology, this text illustrates key principles and sheds light on what is known about physiological mechanisms in humans. Over the course of ten chapters the book examines and describes these various mechanisms in detail.

Includes articles, excerpts, and case studies that address socio-cultural factors influencing the roles of women and men from the perspectives of the visual and performing arts. This text offers perspectives that examine underlying social structures that affect how we define art and artists and how those structures inspire the art from a perspective of gender.