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Provides a thorough foundation in the theory, research, and skills of communicationHuman Communication: The Basic Course provides an in-depth look at the concepts and principles of human communication, emphasizing public speaking, interpersonal communication, and small group communication. Designed to allow flexibility in teaching approaches, Human Communication: The Basic Course offers instructors a wide range of topics to discuss and apply to real-world experiences.

Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life Sociology, 15/e, empowers students to see the world around them through a sociological lens, helping them better understand their own lives. The textis written to help students find and use the science of social behavior in everyday life. John Macionis takes students step-by-step through the theories and research that make up the discipline of sociology. This narrative, along with a global perspective, makes for an accessible and relevant introduction to sociology. MySocLab is an integral part of the Macionis learning program. In concert with the main text, it helps readers build their critical thinking skills while learning the fundamentals of sociology. Engaging activities and reliable assessments provide a digital learning system that helps students succeed in the course. With MySocLab, students can watch the latest entries in the Core Concept Video Series in sociology, explore real-world data through the new Social Explorer, and develop critical thinking skills through facilitated writing activities.

Explains the basics of political science Political Science: An Introduction, 13/e, provides a comprehensive and jargon-free introduction to the fields basic concepts and themes. It draws examples from the U.S. and other countries to introduce the entire field of political science to new readers. The authors stress how exciting politics can be, balancing practical and theoretical knowledge.

Stresses the importance of argumentation in everyday life Critical Thinking and Communication, 7/e, encourages students to develop skills in constructing and refuting arguments in contexts ranging from informal conversations to structured debates. The authors stress the importance of argumentation in everyday life while building student competence and critical awareness. Through exercises and examples, students learn to create arguments and develop, understand, and interpret extended cases.

Fully updated and compliant with Excel 2013, this clearly explains the basic calculations for mathematical finance, backed up with simple templates for further use and development, and a workbook with exercises and solutions at the end of each chapter. The examples used are relevant to both managers and students in the UK and overseas. New to this edition Updated glossary of key terms Functions list in English and Euro languages Continuity check on all formats, layouts and charts More worked examples Additional exercises at the end of each chapter to help build models Templates and models available online

For undergraduate courses in Human Relations, Applied Psychology, Human Relations in the Workplace, Career Development; also appropriate for a course in Interpersonal Skills Training. Accomplished author and national speaker, Andrew J. DuBrin brings his expertise of Human Relations and Business Psychology to this exciting Twelfth edition. Focusing on todays work environment, the book takes a two-pronged approach that improves interpersonal skills by first presenting basic concepts and then by featuring a heavy component of skill development and self-assessment. Human Relations: Job-Oriented Skills 12e is not just a textbook. The twelfth edition includes a wealth of experiential exercises, including new cases and self-assessment quizzes that can be completed in class or as homework. This program will provide a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Heres how: Relate Concepts to Whats Happening Today, Personally and in the Workplace: Give students hands-on ways to develop practical human relations skills and stay involved in class. Reinforce Concepts and Build Skills: Proven pedagogy, exercise sets, and endof-chapter material are all geared towards ensuring students grasp the concepts. Keep your Course Current and Relevant: New examples, research findings, and examples appear throughout the text. Twelve of the case openers and twenty-four cases are new.

From the creators of the UKs bestselling Law Express revision series. Maximise your marks for every answer you write with Law Express Question and Answer. This series is designed to help you understand what examiners are looking for, focus on the question being asked and make even a strong answer stand out.

For introductory courses in IT Security. A strong business focus through a solid technical presentation of security tools. Corporate Computer Security provides a strong business focus along with a solid technical understanding of security tools. This text gives students the IT security skills they need for the workplace. This edition is more business focused and contains additional hands-on projects, coverage of wireless and data security, and case studies. This program will provide a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Heres how: Encourage Students to Apply Concepts: Each chapter now contains new hands-on projects that use contemporary software. Business Environment Focus: This edition includes more of a focus on the business applications of the concepts. Emphasis has been placed on securing corporate information systems, rather than just hosts in general. Keep Your Course Current and Relevant: New examples, exercises, and research findings appear throughout the text.

Assembly Language for x86 Processors, 7e is suitable for undergraduate courses in assembly language programming and introductory courses in computer systems and computer architecture. Proficiency in one other programming language, preferably Java, C, or C, is recommended. Written specifically for 32- and 64-bit Intel/Windows platform, this complete and fully updated study of assembly language teaches students to write and debug programs at the machine level. This text simplifies and demystifies concepts that students need to grasp before they can go on to more advanced computer architecture and operating systems courses. Students put theory into practice through writing software at the machine level, creating a memorable experience that gives them the confidence to work in any OS/machine-oriented environment. Teaching and Learning ExperienceThis program presents a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. It will help: Teach Effective Design Techniques: Top-down program design demonstration and explanation allows students to apply techniques to multiple programming courses. Put Theory into Practice: Students will write software at the machine level, preparing them to work in any OS/machine-oriented environment. Tailor the Text to Fit your Course: Instructors can cover optional chapter topics in varying order and depth. Support Instructors and Students: Visit the author's web site http://asmirvine.com/ for chapter objectives, debugging tools, supplemental files, a Getting Started with MASM and Visual Studio 2012 tutorial, and more.

The best-selling guide to writing about art Sylvan Barnets A Short Guide to Writing About Art guides students through every aspect of writing about art. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they need to present their ideas through effective writing. Coverage of essential writing assignments includes formal analysis, comparison, research paper, review of an exhibition, and essay examination. New to the 11th edition is a chapter on Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials.

For courses in Introduction to Management Accounting This text helps students make the connection between managerial accounting concepts and the businesses they deal with everyday through strong coverage and effective practice. By presenting actual accounting decisions made in companies like Target and J. Crew, the texts precise coverage of the core concepts engages students in the learning process. MyAccountingLab for Managerial Accounting is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students in learning. It helps students better prepare for class, quizzes, and examsresulting in better performance in the courseand provides educators with a dynamic set of tools for gauging individual and class progress.This program provides a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Heres how: Personalized learning with MyAccountingLabthe online homework, tutorial and assessment program that helps students succeed in the classroom and beyond. Students see the connections between accounting concepts and the businesses they interact with everyday. Students learn from the latest information on important topics in the field

Start your own business, be your own boss and still get change from 100. This friendly, step-by-step guide will show you how you can live your small business dreams. Covering everything you need to know about making your idea a reality you'll finally be able to stop dreaming, and start doing - and all for less than 100.

Applies Successful Aging to Adult DevelopmentJourney of Adulthood, 8/e by Barbara R. Bjorklund discusses the aspects of successful aging, covering growth and development from emerging adulthood to old age. The author combines new and classic research as well as first person experience of adult development. This title helps students understand the development of adults as they leave adolescence and move through their adult years until the end of life. Comprised of both large longitudinal studies and major theories of adult development as well as smaller studies of diverse groups, students will see the influences of gender, culture, ethnicity, race, and socioeconomics background on this journey.

For undergraduate Introductory Management Information Systems courses.Exploring how people use IS to solve business problems, this engaging introduction explains why MIS is the most important course in the business schoolshowing students how businesses use information systems and technology to accomplish their goals, objectives, and competitive strategy. Three unique Guides per chapter focus on the themes of ethics, security, and other timely topics; a number of illustrative cases, exercises, projects, and other aids ensure that students connect the knowledge in the text to everyday life. With a new edition now publishing each year, MIS Essentials, Fourth Edition contains fresh, new, and current material to help keep your students up to date.Teaching and Learning ExperienceThis program will provide a better teaching and learning experiencefor you and your students. Heres how: Focus on important themes of ethics, security, and other timely topics through texts Guides, designed to help students improve their skills as future business professionals. Connect classroom knowledge to everyday life with illustrative cases and a number of exercises and other interactive features. Keep content current to help keep your students up to date with the most recent events. This title is available with MyMISLab, an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to work with your Pearson text to personalize learning and improve results. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyMISLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Fed up of doing the same old things day in, day out? Tired of working hard for average results? Have the feeling that you could do more, be more?How to Be Brilliant has been helping people to be brilliant for ten years. This international bestseller shows you how to make the critical steps from average to good and from good to brilliant at work and in life. Itll help you work out whats happening right now and get clear about how it could be so much better. Then youll be given strategies and powerful methods to help you get there: as quickly as possible as economically as possible with as much fun as possible. And once you know the secrets to being brilliant you can apply them to all areas of your life. Dont be good. Be brilliant.

Business thinking skills that really workBetter creative thinking leads to brilliant decision making and successful, innovative solutions to business problems. Using the proven practical skills, techniques and advice in this book, you will learn how to think better, faster and more productively, enabling you to shape, train and inspire your thinking to deliver more effective results. Improve your critical analysis and thinking skills Become confident in making better and more creative decisions become faster and more effective at problem solvingThis book will enable you to become a calm, logical and well-argued decision maker with the ability to deliver better solutions and outstanding results - and win the accolade for your work well thought through, persuasively argued with a creative set of options. Well done.

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Were you looking for the book with access to MyLawChamber? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyLawChamber. Buy Law of Contract with MyLawChamber access card 12e (ISBN: 9781292063829) if you need access to the lab as well, and save money on this brilliant resource. Law of Contract, part of the Foundations Series, offers a comprehensive, clear and straightforward account of the law ideal for LLB and GDL students. Need extra support? This product is the book alone, and does NOT come with access to MyLawChamber. This title can be supported by MyLawChamber, an online homework and tutorial system which can be used by students for self-directed study or fully integrated into an instructor's course. You can benefit from MyLawChamber at a reduced price by purchasing a pack containing a copy of the book and an access card for MyLawChamber: Law of Contract with MyLawChamber access card 12e (ISBN 9781292063829). Alternatively, buy access to MyLawChamber and the eText an online version of the book - online at www.mylawchamber.com.For educator access, contact your Pearson academic consultant. To find out who your academic consultant is, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator

From the BESTSELLING Law Express revision series. Law Express Question and Answer: Human Rights is designed to ensure you get the most marks for every answer you write by improving your understanding of what examiners are looking for, helping you to focus in on the question being asked and showing you how to make even a strong answer stand out.

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The definitive guide on how to price services to deliver profit, fund for product development and meet the needs of the customer/client at a price they are happy to pay. As traditional manufacturing companies move to service provision, how should they price their services? What pricing model should they develop and what buyer behaviour model should they nurture? What will happen if you get your services offering right, but your pricing model wrong? Mastering Services Pricing shows you how to create pricing that allows you to deliver maximum profit and high client satisfaction. Learn that the cost plus model wont work for service provision Understand how your competitors will use pricing to gain market share, create growth and tie in existing customers Recognise that Product pricing is coercive, services pricing is collaborative Understand that services pricing includes lots of frees Understand market positioning and how this affects your price and how you can communicate this to clients Discover how to maximise profit and client satisfaction Be confident in your pricing strategy by having a sound basis for your decision making

This concise introduction to Organisational Behaviour has been developed specifically for short courses and/or non-specialist business students. It focuses on the core topics of the discipline in a detailed and engaging way, providing a readable introduction to the key theory and offering real-life examples to show its application in practice.Written for students on undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, this text is particularly suitable for students of non-business disciplines (e.g. engineering, IT, social sciences and others) who are taking an introductory module in business.

'A must read for any aspiring executives looking to improve their professional communication skills.'Gordon Tobin, Head of Global Sales University, LinkedIn Insightful, practical and easy to follow. This leads the charge on how to communicate effectively.Mairead Fleming, Managing Director, Brightwater Recruitment Specialists Be the best you can be in communicating effectively with your audience. The three-step approach in preparation before you speak is at the heart of it all. Michael McDonnell, MBA Programme Manager, UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Effective communication is too vital for you to leave to chance. Make sure what youre saying is simple, clear, compelling and gets results. The Communication Book is your straightforward, practical and expert guide to the secrets of great communication for all the important scenarios you face in business today. With Emma Leddens expert help, quick tips and proven three-step visual approach, youll learn how to: Plan and prepare focus on what you want to say and how youre going to say it. Know yourself understand what you want, how to get there and how to know when youve succeeded. Know your listener understand what they want, what theyre thinking and how they will feel about what youve got to say. Keep in control learn the secrets to staying on track, feeling confident and managing your reactions.Learn to communicate like a pro so you can instantly connect, engage, influence and get the results you want.

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Law of Tort, part of the Foundations series, offers a comprehensive, clear and straightforward account of the law ideal for LLB and GDL students.

For a three-semester or four-quarter calculus course covering single variable and multivariable calculus for mathematics, engineering, and science majors. This much anticipated second edition of the most successful new calculus text published in the last two decades retains the best of the first edition while introducing important advances and refinements. Authors Briggs, Cochran, and Gillett build from a foundation of meticulously crafted exercise sets, then draw students into the narrative through writing that reflects the voice of the instructor, examples that are stepped out and thoughtfully annotated, and figures that are designed to teach rather than simply supplement the narrative. The authors appeal to students geometric intuition to introduce fundamental concepts, laying a foundation for the development that follows. The groundbreaking eBook contains over 650 Interactive Figures that can be manipulated to shed light on key concepts. This text offers a superior teaching and learning experience. Heres how: Reflects how students use a textbookthey start with the exercises and flip back for help if they need it. Organization and presentation of content facilitates learning of key concepts, skills, and applications.