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The Introduction to Politics Anthology: Knowledge, Power, Action provides students with a curated collection of articles that familiarize them with key concepts and perspectives related to the study of politics and political science. The anthology is organized into 11 units. The opening units introduce students to the concept of politics and the discipline of political science; explore the interconnectedness of political philosophies, ideologies, and beliefs; and underscore the importance of political participation, active citizenship, and collective action. Additional units discuss civil rights, civil liberties, the relationship between media and politics, power dynamics within political systems, and the influence of money on power and politics. Students read about the effects of political institutions on policy outcomes in legal, economic, and social systems; the policymaking process and those who play roles in creating, developing, implementing, and enforcing public policy; international relations; and how to prepare to enter the globalized workforce. Questions for reflection, discussion, and research complement each reading to stimulate critical thought, support discussion, and increase retention of the material. The Introduction to Politics Anthology is an ideal resource for foundational courses in politics and political science.

Introduction to School Counseling: Becoming a Leader, Advocate, and Change Agent introduces readers to the evolution of the role and function of the school counselor and their emergence as leaders, advocates, and collaborators in the provision of quality and equitable education for all students.The primary goal of the text is to provide readers with not only information but inspiration in service of their developing professional identity as a school counselor. Each chapter opens with a reflection from a school counselor, which provides readers with valuable insight into the lived experience of the school counselor. The chapters also employ case illustrations and guided exercises to foster greater understanding of the profession.Dedicated chapters explore the unique dynamic and breadth of the role of the school counselor, how to advocate for systemic change within school environments, ethical standards and behavior, and multi-tiered systems of support. Readers learn how to assist those with educational challenges, address threats to socioemotional development, connect with parents and caregivers, and better understand the nuances and requirements for serving in elementary, middle, and high school environments.Introduction to School Counseling is an inspiring and informative resource for foundational courses in school counseling.

Crisis Communication Reader provides students with a carefully selected collection of articles to help them better understand the heritage and practice of crisis communication. The anthology defines the discipline and provides a framework to understand how contemporary public relations professionals anticipate, react, and deploy crisis communication approaches. Unit I introduces readers to the discipline, presents respected theories of crisis communication, including Situational Crisis Communication Theory, and offers strategies for time management and communication approaches to protect an organization's reputation during crisis. Unit II underscores the importance of crisis communication plans and shows readers how to assess various stakeholders at risk during a crisis. The readings also explore the impact of technology and web-enabled communication in crisis communication situations. The final unit focuses on assessment and features readings that address image repair and how to restore stability in the aftermath of a crisis. Engaging case studies help readers learn from real-world examples and consider the implications of both national and local perspectives on crisis communication. Each unit includes editor introductions and post-reading questions to enrich the student learning experience and encourage greater levels of retention and participation. Crisis Communication Reader is an ideal resource for courses and programs in communication and public relations.

Group Counseling Leadership Skills for School Counselors: Stretching Beyond Interventions equips readers with the foundational knowledge and effective techniques they need to create diverse spaces and lead groups in PreK-12 schools and communities. The text employs the TRATE My Group framework to help future school counselors and leaders approach daily group interactions with a new perspective and increased intentionality on the larger process. Opening chapters provide a summary of professional training and practice standards, present key theoretical concepts and terms, and introduce the TRATE My Group framework, an approach designed to foster culturally engaged group work practices for task, psychoeducation, and counseling/growth groups. Additional chapters narrow the focus on specific populations commonly served in public PreK-12 school settings and illustrate how to apply the TRATE My Group framework. They address various social issues that affect public school environments, including social justice advocacy, technological competence, and inclusive excellence. The final chapter provides readers with resources, articles, professional development opportunities, and activities that can be applied in multiple situations.

Exploring Boundaries in Social Work Practice: The Space In Between is designed to create opportunities for social work students and professionals to explore and expand their awareness about boundary development and expression in the context of professional helping.The book is focused on the client-social worker relationship and presents a universally understood definition of professional boundaries. Readers learn about the factors that inform how boundaries are interpreted by clients, discover opportunities to explore and clarify boundary expression, and receive practical guidance on ethical decision-making according to the NASW Code of Ethics.Discussion is interwoven throughout the book regarding the practice of ongoing self-assessment, supervision, and consultation to ensure self-awareness as the foundation for maintaining healthy professional boundaries. The book underscores the benefits of clear boundaries and also highlights how unhealthy or unclear boundaries can potentially harm clients, influence professional burnout, and have far-reaching implications for the social work profession.The text features self-reflection opportunities, practice exercises, discussion questions, and case examples to inspire self-inquiry, critical thinking, problem-solving, group discussion, and consultation.Emphasizing self-awareness and practical application, Exploring Boundaries in Social Work Practice is an essential resource for social work students and professionals.

Recognizing that peace officers have become this nation's first responders for calls involving those experiencing mental health crises, Policing and Human Behavior provides readers with information that will help them gain a better understanding of those living with mental illness, and people in general.

Resilience-Centered Counseling: A Liberating Approach for Change and Wellbeing provides readers with a therapeutic approach that is resilience-focused, strength-centered, and grounded in the cutting-edge principles of postmodernism, humanism, cybernetics, and neurobiology. The text recognizes that people are far more than the challenges they face and that counseling is a collaborative invitation to better oneself. The book reimagines how clinicians can work efficiently and pragmatically in assisting others while also becoming the heroes of their own lives. With an emphasis on evidence-informed practice, each chapter seeks to engage the reader in a new way of understanding the clinical encounter. Individual chapters explore the counselor as healer, interdependency, trauma, feminism, resilient counseling relationships, wonderment, building resilient communities, and more. Resilience-Centered Counseling helps those in the helping professions form authentic counseling relationships and join their clientele in seeking liberation from the weight of depression, anxiety, trauma, and fear. The book is an exemplary guide for courses in counseling theories, interventions, and psychotherapy at the master's and doctoral level.

Building Environmental Control Systems Illustrated provides students with an easy-to-use and highly visual guide to building environmental control systems. By coupling diagrams, drawings, and pictures with concise text, the book offers readers a digestible and simplified way to learn about cutting-edge technologies, standards, and tools within the discipline. Opening chapters explore thermodynamics, comfort, and climate; heat transfer; sun and shading; and passive heating and passive cooling. In additional chapters, students learn about light and lighting; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems (HVAC); electricity and electrical systems; water and plumbing systems; and sound and architectural acoustics. Closing chapters address vertical transportation and fire safety/fire protection. Throughout the text, theoretical considerations are accompanied by real-world examples that help students connect key concepts with practice. The text also features end-of-chapter review problems and an appendix that contains the solutions to all of the review problems. Presenting students with an accessible and dynamic approach to the subject matter, Building Environmental Control Systems Illustrated is an ideal resource for courses and programs in architecture.

Which Evidence-Based Practice Should I Use? A Social Worker's Handbook for Decision Making provides readers with a step-by-step guide for applying the original evidence-based practice (EBP) model to carefully select interventions from the research base for individual clients.Readers learn how to obtain and integrate information from three key components-the best available evidence; clinical expertise; and the client's characteristics, values, and preferences-to support their choice of an effective intervention for the client.The text employs problem-based learning and case method approaches to teach readers how to access intervention literature; how to evaluate what is "best evidence"; what the research endeavor represents and who it excludes; how to rely on the expertise of the practitioner community; and how to consider the client's view of the problem. Ultimately, readers are guided to select an EBP for a client and write a case paper that articulates the steps they took and the reasoning for their selection.Filled with brief lectures, reflection questions, activities, and case examples, Which Evidence-Based Practice Should I Use? is an ideal text for social work practice and research courses and for mental health practitioners who wish to sharpen their skills for using the evidence base.

Juvenile Justice for the 21st Century provides students with engaging articles and the latest research on emerging topics within the field. This anthology provides readers with valuable information on the current issues facing contemporary youths and the professionals who work with them on a daily basis.The text is composed of one original piece and seven research articles that cover issues related to race, substance abuse, LGBTQ identity and community, mental health, technology, and reentry success. Individual topics include minority disproportion in the system, the impact of juvenile mental health court on recidivism rates among youth, the overrepresentation of LGBTQ youth within the child welfare to juvenile justice crossover population, and more. The text recognizes the critical role of treatment and rehabilitation in the juvenile justice system and underscores the importance of leveraging current research to guide effective practices and approaches.Featuring timely, scholarly information, Juvenile Justice for the 21st Century is an ideal supplementary text for courses within criminal justice and sociology, especially those with focus on juvenile justice and delinquency issues.

Readings in International Relations: Theory and Practice provides students with a collection of articles that help them connect theoretical discussions on international relations and global politics with real-world events. Through foundational, seminal readings, the text introduces readers to four fundamental schools of thought-realism, liberalism, Marxism, and constructivism.The anthology is organized into four units. Unit I features realist readings that explore the origin of modern political thought, anarchy, self-help, power balancing, and war. Unit II focuses on liberal readings that address ideas and theories related to peace and peacekeeping in the context of world politics. In Unit III, students read articles that examine the principles and tenets of Marxism. Unit IV contains constructivist readings that explore the concepts of good and evil, and the social construction of power politics. Featured theorists include Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Alexander Wendt, among others.Developed to make political theory and international relations more approachable to novice students, Readings in International Relations is an excellent supplementary textbook for courses in political science, political theory, and global studies.

The Law Lab Book: Case Studies for Legal Learning surveys the historical development and modern application of key areas of law in the United States. Through a collection of dynamic role-playing exercises, the book challenges students to apply the law in different scenarios and learn about the varied work of different legal professionals. The book is organized into 17 chapters. Within each chapter, students read about key legal concepts and then work together in a group as prosecutors, legislators, justices, ethics panelists, and others to resolve a Law Lab. For each Law Lab, students review the substance of the law and then consider the central issue of the lab, focusing on the facts and legal rules that apply to it. The group is challenged to work together to complete a legal test or answer questions. In doing so, they are encouraged to share their opinions, talk through legal complexities, and work toward a resolution. The book unites theoretical legal learning with concrete application, while also teaching students about the law and the legal profession. The Law Lab Book is an excellent core textbook for law survey courses or any course with the goal of introducing students to American law.

Introduction to Probability Theory with Engineering Applications provides students with a solid foundation in probability theory, which deals with the modeling of uncertainty, and illuminates several modern applications of probability in engineering, physics and data analysis.The text is organized into five chapters and three appendices. The opening chapter introduces the notion of probability as a model or representation for the uncertainty associated with statistical experiments. In additional chapters, students learn about random variables through explanations of discrete and continuous variables, conditional distribution, and statistical distribution. Students examine functions of one random variable, two random variables, and extensions to multivariable distributions. The final chapter covers random processes.Helpful appendices include six computer laboratories that correspond with the content in Chapters 2-5, assessment and review questions for each chapter, and basic results from linear algebra.The book is an ideal resource for courses in engineering, computer science, biomedicine, physics, and mathematics. It is also an excellent text for researchers seeking an overview in applied probability theory. It is assumed readers have a background in introductory calculus and computer programming.

Biology for the Global Citizen is an accessible, introductory learning resource for students with varying backgrounds in biology. The text encourages students to be inquisitive, sensible, and attentive, so they may seek and demand truth in all areas of life and act as informed global citizens. Through engaging material, personal applications, and active learning experiences, students develop a basic understanding of how science, and biology in particular, are pertinent to their lives.The text is comprised of a series of modules that include related laboratories. Each module explores key concepts in biology and features sections on applying science to life, quick review questions, and points of inquiry to facilitate learning. The laboratories, using computer simulations accessible through the free software tool NetLogo, reinforce the material, apply the scientific method, enhance students' quantitative literacy, employ data to support conclusions, and emphasize critical thinking and analysis. The units within the text cover essential chemistry concepts, cells, genetics, evolution and natural selection, and ecology and the environment.Developed to increase students' interest in biology and demonstrate how key concepts in the discipline have application in their everyday lives, Biology for the Global Citizen is an exemplary resource for foundational courses in science and biology.

Readings on Correctional Programming: Needs, Interventions, and Approaches explores research-based programs and interventions that has proven to be effective in institutional and community corrections. Students are provided with curated readings that examine various types of programs in the field of corrections and discuss them in the context of their setting, target populations, criminogenic needs, and treatment approaches.The anthology feature seven distinct units. Unit I includes readings that underscore the benefits of effective correctional programs in reducing recidivism, increasing the chances of offenders in securing employment, and helping offenders treat challenges related to substance abuse and behavioral issues. The readings in Unit II provide an overview of programming considerations relative to program setting and delivery. In Unit III, students examine different target populations, including sex offenders, drug-addicted offenders, juveniles, and antisocial and psychopathic offenders. Units IV and V explore the principles of effective correctional rehabilitation, including the Risk-Need-Responsivity model. Closing units review specific programs in prisons: educational, vocational, and work programs, as well as correctional recreation and religious programming.Readings on Correctional Programming is designed to help readers recognize the value of correctional programming and discover their passion for correctional rehabilitation.

The Confluence of Racial Politics in America: Critical Writings compiles articles written by Earnest N. Bracey, Ph.D. that explore critical political issues facing African Americans, past and present. Students learn about the history of racism in American and sustained transgressions against people of color. The text empowers them to confront systemic racism and the structural racial injustices that continue on today. Part I features articles that discuss the relationship between Blacks and higher education. Students read about the significance of historically Black colleges and universities, the complex legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education, and more. In Part II, readers examine issues related to civil rights and Black politics. Selected readings cover the nonviolent politics of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, the social activism of Ruby Duncan, and the continued relevance of the Congressional Black Caucus. The final part encourages discussion of social justice, with articles that examine racial disparities in the criminal justice system, questions of equality in America, and the politics and impact of environmental racism. Unflinching in its truths and undeniably timely in nature, The Confluence of Racial Politics in America is well suited for courses in political science, American history, Black American history, and race and ethnicity.Earnest N. Bracey, Ph.D. is a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, with over twenty years of active military service, and a professor of political science and African American history at the College of Southern Nevada. He holds a Ph.D. in education from Capella University and a doctorate in public administration, with emphasis in public policy, from George Mason University. Dr. Bracey received a M.B.A. from California Coast University, a master's degree in international affairs from the Catholic University of America, and a master's degree in public administration from Golden Gate University.

Enterprise Excellence: A Modern Approach to Organizational Change and Leadership using Blended Quality Management prepares students to utilize strategic thinking and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) practices and techniques to improve operations and reduce inefficiencies. Using Six Sigma's DMAIC-define, measure, analyze, improve, control-process, students apply concepts and tools by leading and participating in an actual LSS project. The book is organized so that it walks students, practitioners, and leaders through each step of the LSS DMAIC process through interactive, hands-on modules. In the opening module, students select a project and describe the process, opportunity, and goal (Define). Additional chapters guide students through collecting data and defining metrics (Measure); identifying potential solutions (Analyze); testing theories, piloting solutions, and rolling out solutions (Improve); and monitoring results to assess and maintain the overall gain (Control). The text includes a project guide and a collection of case studies to help students connect critical concepts with practical application. Enterprise Excellence helps students build their understanding of process improvement, practice running a team project, achieve meaningful results, and apply their new skills and tools in real-world projects. The book is an exemplary resource for courses and programs in business and organizational change/management.

Advanced Public Speaking: Theory and Techniques Based on the Rhetorical Canons provides students with classical and contemporary theory, detailed guidance and techniques, and explorations of various aspects of argumentation related to the development and delivery of a variety of speeches.The book leads students through the five rhetorical canons-invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery-offering them a conceptual overview, followed by an operational framework, and ending with cautions on what to avoid in order to become stronger speakers. This structure provides students with a highly practical model they can use when constructing their own speeches.The text presents a myriad of rhetorical strategies, stylistic devices, and practical examples for students to draw upon, including vital insights for crafting informative, persuasive, argumentative, and storytelling speeches, as well as effective visual presentations. Two appendices feature outline templates for the various ways to organize a speech and a visual depiction of hand gestures to aid students in their delivery and performance.Advanced Public Speaking equips students with the information they need to develop into confident and capable public speakers. The book is an exemplary guide for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level courses in public speaking.

Advertising in Practice chronicles the stories of 10 advertising professionals and how they began their careers within the industry. The narratives underscore the diverse nature of the advertising field and the myriad career options that are available to students.Each chapter represents a guest lecture from a qualified, talented, and unique member of the advertising community. Readers learn about each professional's particular education path, training, misunderstandings, common pitfalls, and best practices. The chapters address foundations, strategy, tactics, and contexts of advertising based on the author's own experiences and in the author's own words. Most importantly, each chapter takes the reader through a case study from the author's career and emphasizes the ways in which they think, exposing readers to the unique mindset, passion, and drive that is required to succeed within the advertising field.Designed to help students envision their future careers, Advertising in Practice is an ideal resource for courses in advertising, public relations, marketing, and communication.

Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Justice provides students with an introduction to criminal justice theory, offers them a greater understanding of the differences between system behavior and offender behavior, and demonstrates how criminal justice theory is reflected within key scholarly works.The text is divided into six units. Each unit provides a historical foundation to the theoretical concepts discussed, followed by carefully selected articles that encourage readers to compare more recent research within the system to the prior purpose and intent of each component of the criminal justice system.The opening unit examines the differences between offender behavior and system behavior and provides students with an overview of criminological theories and their micro, meso, and macro applications. Proceeding units focus on a specific area of the criminal justice system, including law and government; law enforcement; courts and sentencing; corrections; and probations and aftercare. Specific topics addressed within the articles include procedural justice, legitimacy, and the effective rule of law; concepts and strategies that have influenced community policing; realism about judges; the scale of imprisonment in the United States; and more.Emphasizing critical thought and real-world application, Theoretical Foundations of Criminal Justice is an ideal textbook for courses in criminal justice theory.

Resistance, Rebellion, and Reason: An Anthology of Ancient Philosophy brings together writings from both ancient and modern political thinkers whose activism laid the foundation for our political and social understanding of justice.The volume emphasizes the ideas of the Greeks and demonstrates their timeliness and application in words from authors including Kant, Tolstoy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other historically relevant dissenters. Embedded in each writing is a strong sense of empathy, compassion, and a desire to imprint upon the next generation the important ideas of political and social justice. The writings encourage students to develop critical thought, challenge their own beliefs and ideas, and draw connections between the past and the present.The anthology features four units that cover the investigation of classic philosophical thought, ethical leadership, living the good life, and political excellence. Students read selections from Thomas Cahill, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and others. Throughout, the readings are framed by introductions, philosopher biographies, post-reading questions, and reflection prompts to provide context and inspire discussion.Resistance, Rebellion, and Reason encourages readers to draw upon the wisdom of the past to better understand the present and shape the future. The anthology is ideal for courses in philosophy, politics, social justice, and psychology.