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The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics
Charles W. Kegley Jr. and Gregory A. Raymond
THE GLOBAL FUTURE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS, Fourth edition is a concise overview of the study of world politics, based on the framework of Charles Kegley's best-selling WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION. Written in a way that speaks to students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, THE GLOBAL FUTURE provides concepts and analytical tools to help readers understand contemporary events and emerging global trends. Every chapter contains thought-provoking case studies, box inserts with rival views on current controversies, and a marginal glossary, as well as vivid graphs, maps, and photographs. Centering on the latest international developments, THE GLOBAL FUTURE: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO WORLD POLITICS encourages students to form their own opinions about the pressing security, economic, and environmental problems of the twenty-first century.
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Teaching Ethically: Challenges and Opportunities
R. Eric Landrum and Maureen McCarthy
Educators work within a fluid academic and social landscape that requires frequent examination and re-examination of what constitutes ethical practice. In this book, editors R. Eric Landrum and Maureen McCarthy identify four broad areas of concern in the ethical teaching of undergraduate psychology: pedagogy, student behavior, faculty behavior toward students, and considerations in the diverse classroom. Together with their team of experts, they provide evidence-based advice and case studies that illustrate the application of relevant ethical principles. Ethical teachers need to reflect on commonly accepted practices and make individual decisions about responsible teaching behaviors, such as honoring individual differences and respectfully challenging beliefs. Other challenges examined in this book include grading, textbook adoption, honor systems, online instruction, and conducting and using research on pedagogy to improve classroom practice. Infusing the undergraduate experience with ethics is the focus of chapters on supervising student internships, coauthoring research with students, and modeling appropriate professional boundaries. Readers will find a host of practical suggestions for approaching ethics proactively in both traditional and virtual classrooms. This book will become an instant resource for all teachers in the social and behavioral sciences who care about ethical interactions between faculty members and students.
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Turning High-Poverty Schools into High-Performing Schools
William H. Parrett and Kathleen Budge
What do high-performing, high-poverty schools do differently? Learn the day-to-day realities and the actionable research gleaned from hundreds of these schools--and discover how your school can adopt practices that make a positive difference, too.
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Water Aerobics for Fitness and Wellness
Terry-Ann Spitzer Gibson and Werner W. K. Hoeger
From aerobics and yoga — to bowling, tennis, weight training, and more — Cengage Learning offers a complete line of activities texts to meet your teaching needs. Written for individuals of all skill levels and backgrounds, the Cengage Learning Activity Series goes beyond the mere fundamentals, showing students how to improve, excel, and simply get more enjoyment from their favorite physical activities. Offering the latest information for obtaining and maintaining wellness, WATER AEROBICS FOR FITNESS AND WELLNESS, Fourth Edition, provides students with guidelines, exercises, and examples to develop a water aerobic program. The text includes unique chapters on fitness assessment, nutrition, and weight management as well as hundreds of illustrations to promote a healthy fitness and wellness program. The use of this text in your course will provide an excellent resource guide to all participants.
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The Neurobiology of Criminal Behavior: Gene-Brain-Culture Interaction
Anthony Walsh and Jonathan D. Bolen
Explores criminal behaviour from various aspects of Tinbergen's Four Questions. This book examines the neurobiology of crime from a biosocial perspective. It suggests that it is necessary to understand some genetics and neuroscience in order to appreciate and apply relevant concepts to criminological issues.
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Real-Time Digital Signal Processing from MATLAB® to C with the TMS320C6x DSPs
Thad B. Welch, Cameron H. G. Wright, and Michael G. Morrow
Mastering practical application of real-time digital signal processing (DSP) remains one of the most challenging and time-consuming pursuits in the field. It is even more difficult without a resource to bridge the gap between theory and practice.
Filling that void, Real-Time Digital Signal Processing from MATLAB® to C with the TMS320C6x DSPs, Second Edition is organized into three sections that cover enduring fundamentals and present practical projects and invaluable appendices. This updated edition gives readers hands-on experience in real-time DSP using a practical, step-by-step framework that also incorporates demonstrations, exercises, problems, coupled with brief overviews of applicable theory and MATLAB®applications.
Engineers, educators, and students rely on this book for precise, simplified instruction on use of real-time DSP applications. The book's software supports the latest high-performance hardware, including the powerful, inexpensive, and versatile OMAP-L138 Experimenter Kit and other developmental boards.
Incorporating readers' valuable feedback and suggestions, this installment covers additional topics (such as PN sequences) and more advanced real-time DSP projects (including higher-order digital communications projects), making it even more valuable as a learning tool.
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Urban West Revisited: Governing Cities in Uncertain Times
Stephanie L. Witt and James B. Weatherby
Urban West Revisited offers a colorful primer on challenges faced by elected officials in midsized western cities. Featuring ten bellwether cities--Boise, Eugene, Modesto, Pueblo, Reno, Salem, Salt Lake, Spokane, Tacoma, and Tempe--the exploration finds common problems and hard-fought solutions in difficult times.
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Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives
John P. Ziker and Florian Stammler
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Set Theory and Its Applications: Annual Boise Extravaganza in Set Theory, 1995--2010, Boise, Idaho
Liljana Babinkostova, Andrés Caicedo, S. Geschke, and Marion Scheepers
This book consists of several survey and research papers covering a wide range of topics in active areas of set theory and set theoretic topology. Some of the articles present, for the first time in print, knowledge that has been around for several years and known intimately to only a few experts. The surveys bring the reader up to date on the latest information in several areas that have been surveyed a decade or more ago. Topics covered in the volume include combinatorial and descriptive set theory, determinacy, iterated forcing, Ramsey theory, selection principles, set-theoretic topology, and universality, among others. Graduate students and researchers in logic, especially set theory, descriptive set theory, and set-theoretic topology, will find this book to be a very valuable reference.
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Crafting Truth: Short Stories in Creative Nonfiction
Bruce Ballenger
Crafting Truthintroduces students to the craft of creative nonfiction by showing them models from the best nonfiction writers and offering plentiful exercises to help them more artfully tell true stories.
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The Curious Writer
Bruce Ballenger
The Curious Writer by Bruce Ballenger is an assignment-oriented, all-in-one rhetoric-reader-handbook that stresses the connections between personal and academic writing.
Offering a unique, entertaining, and personal author voice, The Curious Writer, Third Edition is sure to grab student’s interest and motivate them to write. Also distinctive is The Curious Writer’s emphasis on inquiry as both a driving force behind the writing process and a method of discovery and learning. The book operates on the principle that writers who begin with questions, rather than answers, achieve better results in their work. It treats research, revision, and critical reading skills (of both texts and visuals) as organic components of every writing process. Each of the eight writing assignment chapters offers integrated coverage of these three key activities and also provides special attention to the Web as a resource for invention and research.
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Biosocial Theories of Crime
Kevin M. Beaver and Anthony Walsh
In response to exciting developments in genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, a number of criminologists have embraced the position that criminal behaviour is the product of biological, psychological, and sociological factors operating together in complex ways. This title gives an overview of the state of research in the field.
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The Legal Environment of Business
Michael Bixby, Caryn Beck-Dudley, Patrick J. Cihon, and Susan Park
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Business Statistics: A Decision Making Approach
David F. Groebner, Patrick W. Shannon, Phillip C. Fry, and Kent D. Smith
For one or two semester, undergraduate Business Statistics courses.
A direct approach to business statistics, ordered in a signature step-by-step framework.
Students could have a competitive edge over new graduates and experienced employees if they know how to apply statistical analysis skills to real-world, decision-making problems. To help students achieve this advantage, Business Statistics uses a direct approach that consistently presents concepts and techniques in way that benefits students of all mathematical backgrounds. This text also contains engaging business examples to show the relevance of business statistics in action.
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Volt: Stories
Alan Heathcock
A blistering collection of stories, in which the hard lives of Heathcock's characters try-- and sometimes fail-- to deal with the choices they have made.
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