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A learner-centred, instructor-guided, integrated study skills primer that targets struggling high school students, underserved college students, and under-prepared entry level college students. Concise, accessible, and practical, the book uses specific task chains to help students assess themselves, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and recognise the study skills they need to master.

An ideal supplemental text for any Environmental Geology course. The manual introduces users to environmental issues facing contemporary society, including the differing types of environmental problems (both natural and anthropogenic), their origins, effects, and potential remedies.

This text is designed to help students learn how to assess the health of employees and utilize this information to design, implement, and evaluate an appropriate public health program. It illustrates the importance of healthy employees for corporations and delivers different strategies for implementing successful public health programs.

Although women painters and sculptors have often been the focus of academic research, they have not been fully integrated into traditional lower-division art history surveys. Politically Incorrect celebrates women who met the challenge of being female professionals and succeeded as artists at a time when such accomplishments were not expected or encouraged.

Provides an understanding the world of the ancient Egyptians by introducing primary sources that cover a broader spectrum, both temporally and geographically, than most ancient Egyptian readers. The book includes maps, introductions to the readings to place them in context and enhance comprehension, discussion questions to be used in class or as writing assignments, and a glossary.

Uses primary source documents to explore how the Supreme Court shaped civil rights throughout America's history. The book gives students of American history the opportunity to examine excerpts from court decisions and consider their consequences. This work provides fascinating insight for general readers and anyone with an interest in this overlooked aspect of history.

Helps students explore the language and culture of Italy in a meaningful, up-to-date context. Readers engage in and learn from the story of two brothers who embark on an adventure across Italy and explore some of the most beautiful regions. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly.

Helps students explore the language and culture of Italy in a meaningful, up-to-date context. Readers will engage in and learn from the story of a group of young artists who start their own company. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly.

A beginning Italian reader that tells the story of two young people from different continents who happen to meet and begin a relationship. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly. A visual dictionary provides pictorial clues to new words in the texts.

Gives educators insight into the eight most widely researched instructional practices known to have a powerful impact on diverse student populations. The material serves as an effective bridge to the best practices that can be used consistently with students, regardless of placement.

Used in conjunction with the main textbook, the Activity Manual for Introduction to Kinesiology provides outstanding, accessible, hands-on application of the concepts of kinesiology. This manual provides instructors with laboratory experiences that involve all the students in the introductory class, as well as activities for individual students in programs that do not offer lab sections.

Often considered separate and distinct disciplines, readings in this book demonstrate that there is considerable overlap between management and leadership, both in theory and practice. The materials chosen for the text reflect the author's experience as a business manager, followed by many years an educator at the university level and a business school dean at three major universities.

Examines what people need from nature, how we acquire natural resources to meet those needs, and how the choices of resource acquisition affect both nature and humans. The material covers concepts from natural science and other fields that are involved in issues of environmental design and problem solving.

This comprehensive volume is a resource for every manager who belongs to social organizations. By helping readers understand specific cultural identities, the text enables them to become multicultural, multinational managers who build their own cultural philosophies and match their corporate fitness to different business environments.

Prime Time: The Game of Television is a role-playing simulation of America's television business. This book is the players' manual to that simulation. It provides the rules, facts, and procedures through which students assume the roles of producer, network executive, and advertiser. Over the course of a semester, students live the history of television.

Centred around practical, engaging themes, the Elementary Italian Student Activities Manual is designed to accompany the textbook Elementary Italian. The activities manual features homework assignments and supplemental exercises suitable for first year students of Italian.

A resource for those interested in gaining a better understanding of vegetables and learning the best methods for producing vegetable crops in home gardens. The book presents important concepts in home gardening, including composting, soil improvement, fertilizer use, pest management, and season extension practices.

Provides a collection of readings, interviews, historical surveys, visual analyses, and theoretical discussions on the relationship between photography and film. The book provides an interdisciplinary, theoretical framework and a historical context for understanding the full impact of media on contemporary culture.

Patrick Hunt has taught a postgraduate course on the history of wine at Stanford University and has lectured at wineries and related venues around the world. Among over 100 published articles, he has also elsewhere written articles on global wine history and mythology as well as written and published twelve prior books.

Informative and highly relevant to contemporary global politics, the readings in this anthology teach students about fundamental international relations theories and explain the implications these theories have for nation-states, sub-national groups, surpranational organisations, and the people who comprise them.

Featuring first-time translations of numerous examples of modern Kazakh literature for publication in the USA, this anthology provides excellent examples of literary life in both Soviet and post-Soviet Kazakhstan, and introduces readers to the rich literary traditions of the region.

Offers a comprehensive survey of the field of learning from a psychological point of view. The book underscores the valuable perspectives psychology brings to our understanding of the ways all life forms, from the simple to the complex, acquire new behaviours and knowledge. Accessible and student-friendly, Learning Learning is ideal for students who are new to this field of study.

Focuses on Asian Americans as a frequently overlooked ethno-racial and ethno-cultural group, examining how stereotypes about Asian Americans are harmful both to students and their teachers. The material helps students gain a deeper understanding of the model-minority stereotype and its implications.

No one can deny the obvious link between statistics and sports, and many a sports fan can reel off a lengthy list of statistics about a favourite team or player. This anthology combines the study of statistics with the high interest area of sports to create a text that delivers an engaging and effective introduction to statistical principles.

A pioneering philosophy text designed to be a companion to online learning and instruction. The book takes advantage of the many opportunities the internet provides for online interaction through embedded video selections, journal writing assignments, group discussions, and WIKIS. This creates an ideal environment for lively participation in philosophical enquiry.

Presents a collection of essays that examines instances of definitional difference, of contested meaning. The essays move chronologically, but they are by no means comprehensive. The evolution of American history tracks along myriad similar disputes. Instead, each essay is exemplary of historical points where disagreements over language create contested space.