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A hands-on approach to business writing which immerses students in the types of writing situations they will encounter throughout their working lives, with detailed guidance and numerous examples  to help students build the skills they will need to respond to these situations effectively. In each of the core chapters, students first learn how other writers addressed a particular writing situation, such as conveying disappointing news to employees, effectively or ineffectively, before applying what they've learned through guided activities. Additionally, the book emphasizes the potentially serious consequences of ill-considered business communications, especially those delivered electronically. A chapter dedicated to business writing gaffes provides many real-world examples of these mistakes and advises students on how to avoid them. A useful addition to any course building students business writing skills.

Now is the time for conservation science-a mission-oriented scientific enterprise that seeks to protect nature, including Earth's animals, plants, and ecosystems, in the face of unprecedented human demands upon the planet.

Goodman's textbook focuses on applications in optics, and in particular with applications to diffraction, imaging, optical information processing, holography, and optical communications. This textbook satisfies the needs of several different types of Physics and Engineering courses.

Designed to address the College Board AP Statistics Course, The Practice of Statistics combines a data analysis approach with innovative pedagogy and a number of new features.

Strive for a 5 Preparing for the AP (R) Psychology Examination provides a thorough review of psychology with essential tips for test preparation.

With an undeniable gift for writing, David Myers will lead your students on a guided tour of psychological science and poignant personal stories. Whether you are new to AP (R) Psychology or have many years under your belt, this uniquely AP (R) book program can help you achieve more.

This brief, affordable, and engaging text offers the ideal balance of motivational, study, and life skills. This is an ideal text for first-year experience courses, freshman seminar courses (particularly courses that are one or two credits) and modules on Personal Development and Employability.

Accessible and engaging, and based on fundamental psychological principles, this brief book helps students foster solid habits of scientific thought. With this increased level of scientific literacy, students will be better able to make sense of complex scientific information they encounter.

This edition of Othello reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. The text includes tracts on marriage, travel literature, military manuals, maps, ballads, royal proclamations, early modern descriptions of Africa and the Middle East, nineteenth-century scripts for performances of Othello, and scenes from contemporary re-envisionings of the play. The primary documents contextualize race and religion in the Renaissance, gender relations, military life, the passions, the notion of the "Other" in early modern England, and the afterlife of Othello on the stage.

This edition of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure reprints the Bevington edition of the play, accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and contextualise the early modern culture out of which the play emerges.Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an engaging general introduction, introductions to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling) and an extensive bibliography.

This globally-focused and renowned textbook spans the entire discipline of psychology - from the fundamental principles of psychology as a science, to more nuanced approaches in core disciplines such as cognitive, developmental, social and personality psychology.

Taalman and Kohn's refreshing new textbook is designed to help instructors do just that.Taalman and Kohn's Calculus offers a streamlined, structured exposition of calculus that combines the clarity of classic textbooks with a modern perspective on concepts, skills, applications, and theory.

Elementary Classical Analysis balances pure and applied mathematics with an emphasis on specific techniques important to classical analysis without vector calculus or complex analysis. It also includes detailed coverage of the foundations of the real number system and focuses primarily on analysis in Euclidean space with a view towards application.

This textbook is a whole new way to open students' eyes to the physical world around them, to learn how scientists explore it, and what we need to do to both protect ourselves from it (hazards) as well as protect it from us (global change).

This book is a catalogue of viral and cis-acting elements and expression vectors for obtaining optimum expression of foreign genes introduced into mammalian cells. It describes techniques for propagating cells and cell lines, DNA transfer, drug selection and gene amplification, expression cloning, retro-virus mediated gene transfer.

This is an accessible introduction to Developmental Psychology for students taking courses that focus on child and adolescent development. This book can also be purchased with the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which offers innovative media content, curated and organised for easy assignability.

Presenting current concepts in an experimental context, Kuby Immunology has been thoroughly updated to include a new chapter on innate immunity, a capstone chapter on immune responses in time and space, and many new focus boxes drawing attention to exciting clinical, evolutionary and experimental connections that help bring the material to life.

This text provides an informal, student-oriented guide to calculus. It contains practical explanations together with real-world examples and may be used alongside other textbooks

This brand new textbook on child and adolescent development reflects a scientist's understanding of key research, a psychologist's understanding of people, and a teacher's understanding of students.

Peter Gray's evolutionary perspective and emphasis on critical thinking have made his rigorous yet accessible introduction to psychology a widely respected classroom favourite, edition after edition.

Helping students make sense of evolutionThis bestselling text gives students a less rigorous, less mathematical way of learning inorganic chemistry, using the periodic table as a context for exploring chemical properties and uncovering relationships between elements in different groups.

Seamlessly integrating classic findings with cutting edge research in psychology, physiology and neuroscience, the new edition explores the questions researchers are seeking to answer today and the methods of investigation they are using.

This classic textbook is now in its fourth edition and Steven Stanley has teamed up with John Luczaj, an award winning field geologist. LaunchPad combines an interactive ebook with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing.

At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition.

Unlike most probability textbooks, which are only truly accessible to mathematically-oriented students, Ward and Gundlach's Introduction to Probability reaches out to a much wider introductory-level audience.

A comprehensive handbook that shows students how to reflect on the writing skills they already have and put them to use both in traditional academic work and in multimodal projects like blog posts, websites, and presentations.

Chapters don't just feature compelling stories of real people-each chapter is a newsworthy story that serves as a context for covering the standard curriculum for the non-majors biology course. Updated throughout, the new edition offers new stories, additional physiology chapters, a new Electronic Teachers' Edition, and new pedagogy.

This textbook was written for an audience of advanced undergraduates and graduate students who want a deeper understanding of the chemical reactions that take place in living organisms.