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Offers a comprehensive study of the joint history of sports and the media from the early instances of athletic competition to today's multi-billion dollar industry replete with million-dollar players, marketing, advertising, and merchandising deals.

Provides an overview of the main environmental problems facing today's world. While many books on the environment place a heavy emphasis on political actors, processes, and institutions, Global Environmental Problems highlights not only environmental actors, but the causes of and potential solutions to environmental crises.

This text is designed to help students learn how to assess the health of employees and utilize this information to design, implement, and evaluate an appropriate public health program. It illustrates the importance of healthy employees for corporations and delivers different strategies for implementing successful public health programs.

Offers historical and contemporary perspectives on critical issues in the administration of justice and places these issues within a variety of theoretical and sociological contexts. The book focuses on each stage of the criminal justice system - police, courts, and corrections - and examines the way justice is administered differently to certain groups within the overall population.

Although women painters and sculptors have often been the focus of academic research, they have not been fully integrated into traditional lower-division art history surveys. Politically Incorrect celebrates women who met the challenge of being female professionals and succeeded as artists at a time when such accomplishments were not expected or encouraged.

Provides an understanding the world of the ancient Egyptians by introducing primary sources that cover a broader spectrum, both temporally and geographically, than most ancient Egyptian readers. The book includes maps, introductions to the readings to place them in context and enhance comprehension, discussion questions to be used in class or as writing assignments, and a glossary.

Emphasizes the value of effective vocal communication in both the professional and private spheres. The book presents the tools necessary to develop successful speaking skills. It provides exercises, drills, and basic information on inflection, intonation, and articulation, and addresses dialogue emphasis, gesture, oral interpretation, and emotional expression.

Designed for introductory courses, Introduction to Civil Engineering serves as both a textbook and a professional guide. It addresses all aspects of education and professional preparation for civil engineers, beginning with major technical areas and attributes and concluding with hiring opportunities.

Examines the contributions of African thinkers to epistemology and affirms that African-centered thought processes are systematic. Framed by an original introduction and conclusion, the selected readings draw upon notable thinkers to explore the role of the African Union in promoting peace, the nexus between African languages and mathematics, and philosophies born of human struggle.

Provides a compact but detailed analysis of significant genres, artists, and trends characterizing popular music's evolution after the emergence of rock & roll. It addresses the creative, economic, social, and political contexts of key creative and commercial transitions in the recording industry.

Developed for allied health professionals, this anthology offers a collection of readings on the uses, effects, and modes of actions of drugs. Rooted in human biology, the text familiarizes students with the structure of the body and features an organisation chart to help contextualize the material and the pharmaceutical remedies.

Thoughtfully examines the major functions of the criminal justice system and considers some relevant ethical implications. By including ethics, morality, and social justice as foundational concepts, this book serves to provide a sensitive and realistic view of the system to students newly introduced to the criminal justice discipline.

Provides practical and accessible advice to college students and pre-professionals on how to present effectively in a work environment. This book is a collaborative effort of the Communication Department at Southern Connecticut State University and represents their time-tested method of teaching students to design and deliver professional presentations to clients.

Helps students explore the language and culture of Italy in a meaningful, up-to-date context. Readers engage in and learn from the story of two brothers who embark on an adventure across Italy and explore some of the most beautiful regions. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly.

Helps students explore the language and culture of Italy in a meaningful, up-to-date context. Readers will engage in and learn from the story of a group of young artists who start their own company. An immersion text, the language, grammar, and cultural instruction come together seamlessly.

Makes use of ethical dilemmas confronting today's college students to build the skills they need to confront professional ethical dilemmas in a business environment. It presents ""College Situations"" that prompt questioning and critical thinking, and then asks students to apply what they have learned to ""Business Scenarios"".

Gives educators insight into the eight most widely researched instructional practices known to have a powerful impact on diverse student populations. The material serves as an effective bridge to the best practices that can be used consistently with students, regardless of placement.

Teaches students the essential geology content needed to understand how the earth works. The material focuses on selected geology topics including discussions of how they impact the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and climate. This text is ideal for introductory survey courses that focus on geoscience's role in the earth system.

What are you allowed to do to protect yourself or another person from harm? Force in Law Enforcement explains the justifications for the use of force by both citizens and law enforcement officers. The book offers a step-by-step process for making a citizen's arrest and presents sample scenarios in preparation for the board interview for law enforcement officers.

Explores the critical role plants play in our lives, and in our societies. It explains plants, from their molecular structure to their place on the dinner table. The book addresses contemporary issues in horticulture, and how these issues impact the planet.

"Talking Helps: An Evidence-Based Approach to Psychoanalytic Counseling is a unique textbook for those new to the mental health field and for those experienced with other forms of therapy. It contains case studies, practical suggestions, and exercises that are absent of superfluous language and serve two purposes. First, it introduces students to talk therapy and its importance as a viable researched treatment method. Second, the book prepares aspiring therapists to blend psychodynamic treatment with the approaches of community-based systems, particularly educational institutions. Many treatments focus on pathology and symptom relief. In contrast, Talking Helps focuses on psychoanalytic counseling and the process of freeing a patient from patterns that no longer provide satisfaction or impede life goals. Talking Helps teaches students about understanding what behavior communicates, the importance of slowing down, being in the moment, thinking, feeling, and authentically listening. The book encourages careful and thoughtful approaches to counseling and intervention so that talk therapy can be successfully implemented inside and outside the treatment room, Written for the aspiring practitioner interested in self-awareness and self-reflection as important professional competencies, Talking Helps is designed to complement the most common types of treatments in the field. It can be used for upper level undergraduate courses in psychotherapy or clinical psychology, as well as graduate courses in counseling, psychology, and social work. Dr. William Sharp is a lecturer at Northeastern University and in private practice as a psychoanalyst. His research interests include theories of personality, human development, applied clinical psychology, and counseling/counselor training. Dr. Sharp has written about the practice of therapy for Modern Psychoanalysis and the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy and has presented workshops on social and emotional development. He is adjunct faculty at Wheelock College and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where he earned his doctorate in psychoanalysis."

Why? This most basic of questions is one now rarely asked. The anthology What Does it All Mean once more brings this question, and others, to the forefront. The book presents philosophy and thought as interactive human experiences, motivating people to ask the questions they have been socially, culturally, religiously, and politically conditioned to avoid.

Offers a fresh, conceptually driven challenge to the traditional elaborate, style-based approach to western art history. The book asks students to consider what is or might be art, and why as well as what art history is. Each chapter is presented as a separate, distinct essay with observations designed to spark reflection on the status quo.

Introduces readers to the history and cultures of the peoples of the contemporary Middle East. Rather than rendering dry information or relying on outdated examples, this reader offers contemporary, relevant, and ethnographic account of the Middle East and contributes to larger debates about modernity, globalization, power, and knowledge.

Concisely pulls the curtain back on the reality of crime and punishment and the role media has played in the United States becoming the world's leader in incarceration. By addressing literacy rates that have remained virtually unchanged since 1935, the stark ramifications of the communication disconnect between those who study key issues and the ordinary citizen is explored.

Places mass media within the context of the greater cultural, social, historical, and ideological world. Students will learn that mass media is not created in a vacuum, but rather it sits at the intersection of all the social sciences.The book provides a firm foundation for studying mass media through chapters on how media works, semiotics, ideology, and media literacy.

Explains how everyone can benefit from learning acting skills and techniques. Readers learn to view their daily actions as performances that influence the perceptions of observers. They discover how to use their voices, bodies, and acting skills to express themselves with clarity and build strong social and professional relationships.

A comprehensive reference for academics, global executives, and policymakers interested in the region. The book provides clear insight into the business environment as viewed from the perspectives of multiple disciplines.