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Thos volume gives professors the freedom to customize the material based on what is most relevant to their courses and allows students to engage deeply with classical music from the Middle Ages right up to the present day. Students will become conversant with music terminology, enabling them to talk intelligently about music with colleagues, family members, and friends.

Offers a comprehensive exploration of how communication affects prejudice, and how communication interventions reduce it. The book gives readers a well-rounded understanding of theories and current research on the topic, sustained with real-world examples that bring concepts and principles to life.

Challenges students to examine and analyse, as both consumers and potential creators, ethical issues in mass communication on a variety of levels. The book encourages students to think critically about the difficult choices and the ethical consequences of those choices they may encounter as mass communication professionals.

Examines key concepts in biomedical systems and signals in a laboratory setting. The book gives students the opportunity to complete both measurement and maths modelling exercises, thus demonstrating that the experimental real-world setting directly corresponds with classroom theory.

Equips readers with foundational knowledge of military culture and common issues experienced by service men and women. This crucial text helps future and practicing counselors compassionately and competently treat individuals who serve or have served in the United States armed forces.

Presents students with a carefully curated selection of readings that demonstrate how introductory concepts in sociology are applied in real-world contexts, including students' own lives. The book introduces students to foundational concepts in sociology, and focuses on how principles of sociology can help students better understand society.

Provides students with an accessible overview of the structure and function of the human body. The text provides practical information students can use to make healthful choices, better understand news and media about nutrition, medications, medical devices, and procedures, and grow their knowledge about genetic or infectious diseases.

Immerses students in astute and insightful essays by accomplished scholars and thinkers. The essays challenge readers to think through the important ethical and political issues of our time holistically. Through a series of cross-references and brief introductions, the text places the essays in conversation with one another.

Helps students, practitioners, and helping professionals understand the contributions of genetics to the behaviors of maltreated and maltreating persons. The book highlights new research findings about family violence across the lifespan accompanied by simplified information about their genetic foundations.

Provides students with engaging and enlightening readings that help them better understand what sociology is, how social problems emerge in society, the ways inequality impacts people, and the forces that enable social change.

Provides readers with strategies they can use to create hope and manage their careers throughout their lifetimes. The book introduces the hope-action theory, an empowering approach that highlights the connection between hope, academic engagement, student retention, job search success, career goal clarity, and cultivating a meaningful career path.

Introduces students to the foundational principles of anatomy and physiology in an accessible, conceptual, and fun manner. Avoiding detailed examinations of every aspect of anatomy and physiology, this volume is sleek, focused, and designed to help new students attain a solid understanding of the essentials of anatomy and physiology.

Equips students and leaders with a principle-based, award-winning methodology that recognises people want to be trusted, respected, engaged, and supported. Based on 40 years of research and consulting work, this book provides proven tools and processes that empower leaders, teams, and organisations to become collaborative.

Introduces students to foundational principles of modern economics with real-world applications. The text draws connections between key concepts and sports, music, entertainment, the housing market, the bond market, the stock market, the loanable funds market, and other related financial markets.

Designed to help international students and English language learners successfully navigate their studies and communicate more effectively. Students learn how to contribute in everyday scenarios and overcome potential communication challenges, with specific advice on academic interactions, social situations, leisure time, and job opportunities.

Equips students with tools, observations, insights, and exercises to help them write more effectively in the discipline and more generally. Better Writing in Psychology and Beyond is an ideal standalone or supplementary text for courses in the discipline and in related ones, especially courses requiring more than incidental writing.

Presenting historical events in the context of contemporary discourse on black incarceration and police use of force, Chained to the System provides an unflinching look at American criminal justice and its relationship with blacks.

Presents students with contemporary readings in the discipline that highlight the changing dynamics of ethics in today's business world and challenges readers to transcend the traditional leadership mindset. Featuring highly accessible readings, this is an ideal supplemental textbook for courses in business and leadership.

Provides students with engaging, thought-provoking articles that examine a wide array of current social issues, the types of behaviours that perpetuate such problems, and how these issues affect the daily lives of Americans.

Focuses on best practices in school and community health education. Filled with practical applications and examples, the book is written with students' future professional experiences in mind and provides teaching strategies and learning activities for diverse learning populations.

Helps students increase their multicultural competence by understanding how culture influences thoughts and behaviours. The anthology mixes carefully curated readings with inspirational quotes, tables, embedded video links, and personal reflection opportunities to create a text that not only provides rich content, but allows students to consider how new knowledge relates to and matters to them.

Provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary clinical social work practice. Featuring chapters contributed by experts in their respective fields of practice, this text covers frameworks for clinical practice, specific treatment modalities, and specialized clinical issues, themes, and dilemmas.

Helps mental health professionals build the vital cultural competencies needed to differentiate between cultural practice and the presence of psychopathology in practice. The book discusses and explores the differences among visions, dreams, and hallucinations from an American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawai'ian perspective.

Features uniquely contemporary readings that help shape students' understanding of Russia's history in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. While political and foreign history are still covered, the readings focus on large social and economic shifts, as well as the ways culture shapes and moderates Russians' experiences of their world.

Featuring contributed chapters written by experts within the discipline alongside valuable original material, Punishing Gender Past and Present exposes the disparities in how individuals within the system are treated according to gender.

Explores four diverse topics - chaos theory, metamathematics, quantum mechanics, and the theory of relativity - that each challenge the traditional Newtonian paradigm. In doing so, the text encourages students to question deeply ingrained beliefs regarding nature, physical reality, and human knowledge.

Offers a new approach to grammatical concepts to encourage and improve the grammar proficiency and writing skills for beginning writers. Far from a traditional handbook, the text presents innovative, engaging, practical, and accessible approaches to grammar that is often found difficult to first year college students.

Provides readers with a succinct history of rock and roll that demonstrates the linear quality of the music genre. The text is designed to inspire a greater appreciation for rock music as a whole, expose readers to styles and artists they may not have previously known, and, hopefully, motivate readers to expand their personal playlists.

Helps students build a theoretical and practical foundation for learning computer science. Rooted in fundamental science, this text defines elementary ideas including data and information, quantifies these ideas mathematically, and demonstrates the relationship between computer science and the universe itself.