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Provides students with an engaging collection of readings that explore everyday remedies for common health concerns, including homeopathy, vitamins, and cultural treatments, that are not typically included in academic discussions of health psychology.

Chronicles the experience of African Americans in the United States from their first arrival in 1619 to the present day. The reader demonstrates how African Americans and their experiences have shaped America's historical, political, economic, and cultural history, as well as how the black experience continues to influence American life.

Presents a valuable collection of readings about early childhood curricula, providing students with a solid overview of available options for and approaches to education for young children. Throughout the text, post-reading questions inspire critical thought, meaningful discussion, and further exploration of each type of presented curricula.

Provides students with scholarly essays and articles to familiarize them with the field of international studies and prepare them to conduct undergraduate research while abroad. Students learn how to successfully navigate another culture and how to conduct meaningful cross-cultural comparative research.

Engages learners with a proven framework to design, develop, and go to market with innovative products that solve consumer problems while also supporting the mission, values, and brand of the company which created them. The book's framework emphasizes two key practices for innovative product development - speed and creating aura.

A comprehensive and unique ""how to"" guide covering every area of entertainment law including fundamental principles, detailed business models, legal foundations, contract terms, practical advice, and full legal citations for cases and statutes.

Invites students to not only hone their writing skills, but to participate in and contribute to timely academic conversations. Students learn how to effectively ""listen"" to others and ""hear"" their ideas through reading texts written for a variety of audiences.

Presents students with scholarly articles and chapters that take a multidisciplinary approach to understanding family violence across the lifespan. This is an ideal resource for courses in criminology, psychology, counselling, and social work that prepare students to support or interact with individuals who have endured acts of violence.

Explores the technical aspects of the filmmaking process, the ways in which certain elements of cinema are creatively combined toward emotional and intellectual effect, and the myriad ways cinema both interacts with and reflects culture.

Addresses economic issues that students are likely to hear about in the media. The text focuses on the interconnectedness of economics, underscoring how large issues can be traced back to small origins, as well as how the welfare of individual economic agents and aggregate social benefits are not mutually exclusive.

Explores the changing notions of identity and diversity as they apply to gender and its intersection with the digital age. Through exposure to a carefully selected collection of readings and a variety of scholarly perspectives, students gain the knowledge and competence needed to successfully communicate in the broader arena of gender diversity.

Featuring chapters written by leading scholars in the social work discipline, this volume examines how American social welfare policies, both historical and current, have sought to control the lives of marginalized populations. It also explore how people of colour have organised to critique and resist the racial control aspects of these policiess

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.

Helps students prepare for and thrive within clinical rotations, internships, and residencies. The text provides readers with practical communication skills and techniques to foster positive and productive interactions with patients and other clinicians.

Fosters a greater awareness of those who develop substance abuse problems and the treatment of these individuals. The book provides a basic overview of the addiction process, with a special focus on what the experience is like for the addicted person. The second edition also implements the new DSM-5 criteria.

Featuring diverse chapters written by thirty principal scholars in the discipline, this innovative book examines what communication theory is and how it functions. Throughout the text, each scholar offers unique and insightful perspective, exposing readers to the myriad ways in which to analyse, understand, and think about communication.

Provides clinicians with a wide range of personal loss and grief examples from seasoned therapists while also considering grief through the lens of diverse cultural, religious, and theoretical perspectives. This unique text shares practicing clinicians' personal journeys of loss in myriad forms.

The first textbook explicitly designed for graduating seniors in a Communication Capstone course, whether taught in small or large sections, or taught as a conceptual review or as a project- or skills-based course. The text features chapters authored by active, well-published, award-winning scholars and teachers in their respective areas of study.

Provides aspiring and practicing faculty members with a timely and complete exploration of the issues they are likely to face during their career. The text addresses issues of mentorship, microaggressions, gender, race, sexual minority, disability, and other matters that are often unaddressed by the majority within the academy.

Helps students build a conceptual appreciation for critical mathematical methods, as well as the physical feel and intuition for select mathematical ideas. Throughout the text, examples are provided from the field of optics and photonics to clarify key concepts.

Explores what different traditions, mythologies, religions, and academic disciplines have to suggest about what facing death teaches us about living and ourselves. The text employs scholarly depth, breadth, and rigor to explore ethical and human questions as well as philosophic concepts pertaining to life, death, and dying.

Uncovers the nature of primary trauma and its purpose from a descriptive and explanatory framework. The book establishes foundational tenets from the Lakota culture and features alternative perspectives that contribute to the explanation of primary trauma, as well as approaches to combat it's deleterious impact.

Explores the differences and similarities in family structures around the globe. Students learn how factors such as location, culture, and globalization influence how families function and shape the unique experiences of family members. The lens is that of a gendered journey through which we see how families operate as a result of global forces.

An excellent resource for programs and courses in elementary literacy education. This volume teaches spelling as word study, the approach that underscores the rudiments of phonics in analyzing the structure of words. It is intended for the instruction of teacher candidates, as well as those educators who are already in the classroom.

Offers students a concise and accessible exploration of our developing world. Readers learn about globalization, the interconnected nature of our world, and how these connections influence our daily lives. The text demonstrates how all individuals are actors in both the localized and globalized world.

Exposes students to the unique and influential viewpoints of authors and scholars who are currently conducting research related to cognition. The essays and readings introduce readers to a broad spectrum of topics related to cognitive psychology to provide them with a strong, foundational knowledge of current theories, applications, and attitudes.

Provides students with a collection of readings that explore the current state of crime and punishment of America, as well as the empirical methods by which the successes or failures of the system are evaluated. This is an ideal resource for introductory criminal justice and criminology courses.

Provides students with a balanced collection of readings that reflect various perspectives on immigration, the politics of immigration, and the question of immigration's relationship to crime. Devoid of overt ideology, the anthology challenges readers to consider multiple viewpoints and think critically about these complex and timely issues.

Featuring engaging and enlightening readings written by professors in philosophy, psychology, sociology, education, English, communication, and library science, University Matters for Your Success helps students excel in academic life and prepare for a successful future.

Provides students with critical information, thought-provoking readings, real-world vignettes, and reflection exercises to guide them through their counselling internship experience. Each chapter includes clear and actionable considerations for working with individuals from diverse backgrounds.