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Presents students with an exploration of the challenges to the power and authority of the criminal justice discipline that professionals may face during the course of their careers. Emphasizing the extraordinary responsibilities afforded to those in the criminal justice profession, this is an ideal textbook.

Introduces students to the fast-paced and ever-changing landscape of modern media. The text highlights the importance of embracing technology and social media while abiding by the ethical considerations that aspiring journalists must follow.

Provides students with an overview of the world of medicine with special emphasis on topics that are important to patients and consumers. The volume covers the basics of medical information and training, allied health professions, insurance issues, how to improve personal health throughout the lifespan, and more.

Examines the commonalities and differences among different popular music traditions in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The text explores the ways in which each tradition developed, evolved, eventually disseminated, and how they gained global reach.

Explores all aspects of Afro-Brazilian culture, including sports, music and dance, ideas of gender, socioeconomic and political disparities, and more. The anthology includes primary and secondary sources that emphasize and demonstrate the African influence in Brazilian culture from the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade to today.

Informed by intersectionality theory and queer theory, LGBT+ Issues in the United States helps students develop a deeper understanding of how homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, when compounded by racism, classism, ableism, or sexism, can result in the disempowerment of the LGBTQIA community in the United States.

Encourages students to analyze texts of various sorts - speeches, advertisements, memory sites, and more - to gain a clear understanding of what the text has to say and how it persuades or otherwise affects its audience. The book clearly and succinctly helps students build the skills required to easily and effectively practice rhetorical criticism.

Rooted in the author's experience as an entrepreneur and creative professional, Thrive! The Creative's Guidebook to Professional Tenacity helps those in creative fields acquire the skills and tools needed to successfully market their talents and manage their careers.

Helps educators harness the power of the large class to support student learning. The book features advice from instructors across disciplines, results from the initiatives they've tried, and scholarship to support their claims. The book argues that a large class represents an opportunity and scholarly teaching can occur in a class of any size.

Offers a passionate exploration of the important role played by editing in the process of film-making and a functional guide to using editing most effectively. The book explains how an editor is, in many ways, responsible for the final rewriting of a script - and that editing is in reality a pictorial form of writing.

Examines the major systems of ethics and principles of normative moral judgement in Western ethics, including religious, environmental, biomedical, and cultural moral values, from an evolutionist approach.

Provides an introduction to the emerging field of global security and reflects its growing knowledge base by educating readers about structures and processes that are the most serious threats on a planetary scale. Each chapter features text boxes to summarize key points and support retention, as well as questions to use in classroom discussion.

Offers students a carefully curated selection of readings that help them prepare for and make the most of their academic career. Readers learn the importance of asking the right questions, developing commitment and compassion, and making a difference in the lives of others to achieving an effective and rewarding educational experience.

Interpersonal scholars share the stories of their research programs, providing readers with a captivating exploration of the latest developments in the field. Through this unique lens, readers learn how scholars are addressing real-world issues, as well as the complex role interpersonal communication plays in our world today.

Demonstrates to students across various disciplines that they can assume leadership positions that positively impact communities, organizations, and the world, regardless of their interests, abilities, and career goals.

Provides the tools needed to understand the entire nutrition care process, as well as the management of nutrition care in various practice settings. The authors break down each step of the nutrition care process, with detailed information on nutritional assessment and diagnosis, planning interventions, and monitoring and evaluating outcomes.

Emphasizing intersectionality theory, this text encourages readers to consider the context and intersecting diversity factors of the older adult client and involve them in treatment decision plans, empowering older adults to select culturally preferred and highly meaningful care.

Provides instructors with the tools and knowledge to effectively build and teach foundational courses in criminology. Understanding that introductory criminology courses attract a wide variety of students, this text provides educators with a framework by which they can confidently teach the information that is most important and applicable.

Presents controversial issues related to using technology in the classroom, while also highlighting the benefits of technology as a pedagogical tool. This holistic approach to the subject matter emphasizes the complexity of the debate over technology in the classroom and challenges readers to think critically about it.

With bold, new translations, the author presents and discusses some of the most beautiful, stirring expressions of erotic desire from the ancient world of Greece and Rome, reaching across three thousand years of history to tap into the many kinds of passion we still know today.

An innovative anthology that not only provides students with engaging articles pertaining to brain processes of information processing and storage, but also teaches students how to strategically read, analyse, and digest scientific articles.

Introduces students to critical sociological theories used to understand and respond to gender violence. The text emphasizes feminist theory and demonstrates how other theories have supported, challenged, and expanded upon feminist theory to shape and enrich various approaches to and perspectives regarding the subject.

A comprehensive guide for students preparing to enter the human services workforce. The text identifies opportunities for students to sharpen their career knowledge and skillsets that support personal and professional growth. It incorporates critical topics for success including professional ethics, human diversity, and personal motivation.

Helps law enforcement officers improve their communication skills with diverse populations and difficult people. The book is founded on the premise that the better an officer is at communicating with others, the safer and more effective the officer will be in all areas of law enforcement.

Presents modern argumentative strategies that complement the technological and information-rich era in which we live. The text recognises that individuals today need practical evaluative techniques in order to effectively construct well-informed, critical stances on a variety of issues.

Encourages students to think critically about current issues in politics and policy and to question how and why America has achieved its current position politically. Students learn the fundamentals of democracy, the Constitution, and Federalism and become familiar with the judicial and executive branches of government, the President, and Congress.

Gives students an in-depth look at public health issues within the context of individual development and family systems. The text covers basic information about health conditions, how health conditions affect individuals across development, how health conditions affect families and communities, and prevention and intervention programs.

A concise and accessible textbook that covers the critical information a student will learn during a two-semester organic chemistry course. The book lays out the essential concepts of organic chemistry according to the requirements outlined by the American Chemical Society.

Provides a concise overview of major topics and recent findings in the fields of development and physiology. Unlike standard texts in the field, Development and Physiology keeps written text to a minimum. It relies on illustrations to illuminate key concepts and directs readers to first-rate internet animation to demonstrate biological processes.

Uses case studies and scenarios to educate engineering and other professionals and students about the role of ethics in the world of work. Using human rights as an international framework and a religiously neutral basis for ethics, this text focuses on honest ethics - people trying to be as ethical as possible given their actual work situations.