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Using the cat as a model for major human body systems, Dissection Simplified: A Lab Manual for Independent Work in Human Anatomy teaches students how to learn anatomy and complete dissections, even when an instructor is not available to answer questions. The manual features worksheets designed to help students master the information quickly.

Combines the knowledge, academic backgrounds, and life experiences of five educators to help first-year university students appreciate what college has to offer and acquire the skills needed for academic success. It addresses the intangibles that impact this success, and prepares students for the university experience.

Introduces students to statistics and processes that organise, summarise, and apply data to authentic situations. Instruction within the text is based on the principle of learning-by-doing. Each chapter first presents a specific theory or process for problem-solving, and then applies that theory or process to real-world problems.

Explores how anthropologists and historians have, over time, understood the dynamics between Africans and Native Americans. The book brings together four fields of anthropological knowledge and the historical record to illuminate the lived realities at the root of African and Native American contact.

Presents a compilations of articles and readings that centre around the topics typically discussed in general education academic readiness and career exploration courses. The readings are organised into four units which cover academic success, career exploration, education plans, and personal development.

Brings together an eclectic collection of theory-driven readings to help students understand and navigate the visual culture in which they live. Each reading is framed by an original introduction that explains its place and relevance in visual culture, and discerning questions to facilitate classroom discussion or serve as writing prompts.

Familiarizes readers with American Bar Association amended Model Rule 1.1 and added comment 8 in order to explain the risks of misusing technology in legal practice. The book teaches law students, as well as both newly minted and seasoned attorneys, how to avoid mistakes and the concomitant risk of suspension or disbarment.

Explains why speaking well is a necessary tool for professional success, and how to speak well in a variety of situations and genres. Using a workbook format, each chapter of the book discusses why a particular type of speech is useful and gives tips on preparation and provides two practice assignments.

Introduces research methodology to social work students and practitioners. This book provides hands-on examples of how to conduct data analysis in SPSS and Stata. It equips readers with the skills needed to become critical research consumers and to engage in agency-based research and evaluation.

Introduces students to the issues and processes that must be considered when developing sustainable housing, particularly housing that can approach net-zero energy performance. The material is rooted in a technological and systems-based approach. As such, it examines how community systems, energy and water systems, and building systems work.

Provides a big-picture view of modern world history by focusing on specific themes of particular relevance in contemporary society. Students become familiar with major problems and major possibilities in energy use, pollution, technological advancement, and more.

Provides an understanding of the history of the state of Virginia. Readers learn about the experiences of Virginia's citizens over four hundred years, as well as the impacts of these experiences and related events on American history.

Explores the educational ideas of Louis Farrakhan and demonstrates how these ideas could transform education. The book highlights human development and education - both focused on ongoing transitions through which individuals can attain the highest degree of personal achievement.

Get Flipped: Using Learning Technology to Engage Student Learning gives instructors ideas about general apps, forms of technology, and technological resources they can use to create assignments that get students excited about what they are learning.The book introduces ways to use video logging as a writing tool. It explains how to use popular sites and apps, such as Pinterest and Instagram, as tools for viewing a community, and examines how Myfitnesspal can be used to explore intersectionality in the social sciences. Each exercise has been developed to enhance critical thinking, information selection, and concept application. In addition, the book features three expanded assignments from special contributors which can be used in more involved projects.In a world where technology is an increasingly important aspect of life and education, the applications and activities will resonate with educators and students alike. All ideas and exercises can easily be adapted to different disciplines, topics, and levels. Get Flipped is an excellent resource for any teacher who wants to implement the most current technology to foster student engagement.Giovanna Follo holds a Ph.D. from Wayne State University in Detroit and is an assistant professor of sociology at Wright State University, Lake Campus. She is dedicated to creating an environment that enables students to view the world through a sociological lens and become active thinkers and agents of social awareness. Her current research focuses on popular culture, gender, and women - particularly in martial arts.

Offers readers the opportunity to travel through the universe, visiting a series of celestial destinations carefully chosen to span the extraordinary limits of space and time that bound our cosmos. The destinations in Alien Skies reveal the unusual skies seen from throughout the solar system, nearby stars, nebulae, and star clusters.

Introduces students to strategy and its impact on process and performance; helps students understand basic business processes and their inherent risks; and emphasizes the importance of managerial accounting information in making decisions about strategy, process, and performance.

Discusses relevant theories within their historical and philosophical contexts, explores the relationships of these theories to one another, and links them to their applications in family therapy practice. This revised and updated edition includes expanded chapters with additional information and new chapters on psychodynamic and Milan family therapy.

Helps students develop a thorough understanding of how the elements and principles of design can be applied to the understanding of composition. Students will then be able to apply this knowledge to unfamiliar works of art, beyond those typically presented in standard textbooks. Principles covered include visual elements such as line and pattern, shape and mass, light and colour.

Addresses three fundamental questions to be considered when making instructional planning and delivery decisions: what knowledge base students possess in order to approach varying levels of knowledge; the question of why social studies should be taught and learned; and how students should be taught. The book provides samples, examples, unit plan assignments, and reading resources.

Uses a step-by-step explanations and clear illustrations to explain how to implement a microprocessor interface and develop a robotic project. Based on real classroom experiences and projects, the text shares knowledge and experience rooted in real-world student implementation.

A mathematical economics textbook that synthesizes what the reader knows about mathematics and economics. The exercises in the book ask readers to translate verbal descriptions of an economic problem into mathematical terms for use with optimization techniques to analyse and then translate the mathematical answers back into economic language.

Developed for students in child and family science courses, this text provides foundational information and orients readers to professional parent education, both formal and informal. The text is organized into three sections that discuss the context of parenthood in the US, the content generally included in parenting programs, and specific strategies parent educators use to teach adults.

Introduces readers to neurobiology and provides detailed mechanistic explanations of how drugs work. After an opening explanation of normal nerve and brain function, the text goes on to explore how various drugs change the way a person feels and sees the world.

Analyses human beings as biological creatures capable of developing ideas and then manipulating their environments to conform to those ideas. The book presents culture as the intellectual medium through which ideas are made manifest. It takes readers on a stimulating journey from the origins of physical anthropology in evolution, genetics, and primatology to today's globalized world.