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COMMUNICATING FOR RESULTS: A GUIDE FOR BUSINESS AND THE PROFESSIONS, 11th Edition, equips you with the basic concepts and techniques you need to successfully communicate in today's business world, regardless of your current level of experience. Covering every aspect of the communication process, the text gives you a competitive edge in any business situation -- using social media more effectively, conducting professional interviews, making skilled presentations with professional visual aids, assuming a leadership role, participating in successful teams, and more. Online video clips of common professional scenarios paired with chapter concepts give you a realistic view into the business world, while Polishing Your Career Skills features provide diagnostic tools to help you sharpen your skills. In addition, MindTap Communication provides an interactive learning solution to help you maximize your course success.

Prepare for programming success as you learn the fundamental principles of developing structured program logic with Farrell¿s fully revised PROGRAMMING LOGIC AND DESIGN, COMPREHENSIVE, 9E. Ideal for mastering foundational programming, this popular book takes a unique, language-independent approach to programming with a distinctive emphasis on modern conventions. Noted for its clear writing style and complete coverage, the book eliminates highly technical jargon while introducing you to universal programming concepts and encouraging a strong programming style and logical thinking.Frequent side notes and Quick Reference boxes provide concise explanations of important programming concepts. Each chapter also contains learning objectives, a concise summary, and a helpful list of key terms. End-of-chapter material ensures your comprehension with multiple-choice review, programming and debugging exercises, and a maintenance exercise that encourages you to improve working logic.

Get ready for academic and workplace success! This robust learning package integrates advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skills within a single text, along with a strong emphasis on honing skills by competing projects in a realistic office environment. Using Microsoft¿ Word 2016, you will format advanced business correspondence, tables, reports, mail merge files, graphics, and a broad range of common document types, including meeting, travel, news, legal, medical, and human resources/employment, as well as practicing real-time co-authoring on OneDrive. The text includes nine modular projects and two comprehensive projects to help you apply what you learn and prepare to be productive immediately when beginning your professional career. Combined with Skills Assessment Manager (SAM), the text makes learning even easier and more effective, allowing you to work independently from anywhere.

Listening, Speaking and Critical Thinking 21st Century Communication is a four-level series that uses powerful ideas from TED Talks to teach learners to think critically and communicate effectively. Through authentic models of effective communication, students build fluency in the listening and speaking skills needed to achieve academic and personal success.TED Talks are used to develop essential 21st century skills, including critical thinking, collaboration and visual literacy.Speaking, pronunciation and presentation skills, inspired by TED speakers, prepare learners to deliver successful presentations of their own.Extended listening based on real-world situations and TED Talks provide listening and note-taking practice.Online Workbooks include the entire audio and video program, and automatically graded language practice activities - ideal for both hybrid and blended courses.

Get ready for academic and workplace success! This comprehensive learning package integrates keyboarding, essential and advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skills within a single text, along with a strong emphasis on honing skills by competing projects in a realistic office environment. Using Microsoft¿ Word 2016, you will format advanced business correspondence, tables, reports, mail merge files, graphics, and a broad range of common document types, including meeting, travel, news, legal, medical, and human resources/employment. The text includes 15 modular projects and three comprehensive projects to help you apply what you learn and prepare to be productive from day one when beginning your professional career. Combined with Skills Assessment Manager (SAM), the text makes learning even easier and more effective, allowing you work independently from anywhere.

ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA, 8E, INTERNATIONAL METRIC EDITION's clear, careful, and concise presentation of material helps you fully understand how mathematics works. The author balances theory with examples, applications, and geometric intuition for a complete, step-by-step learning system. To engage you in the material, a new design highlights the relevance of the mathematics and makes the book easier to read. Data and applications reflect current statistics and examples, demonstrating the link between theory and practice. The companion website LarsonLinearAlgebra.com offers free access to multiple study tools and resources. CalcChat.com offers free step-by-step solutions to the odd-numbered exercises in the text.

Jansson's BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE POLICY ADVOCATE teaches you the ins and outs of conducting policy practice, preparing you to become an effective policy advocate during your own career. The eighth edition's coverage includes discussion of such events and issues as Barack Obama's presidency, the presidential primaries and election of 2016, the battle over equality among national politicians in 2016, and many issues facing social agencies. By going beyond the traditional foundational approach to policy, this text helps you develop the skills you need to become an advocate for social change. It offers you practical guidance on how to develop social media campaigns, and discusses ways you can participate in reducing inequality -- the issue that drew the attention of millions of millennials in the presidential election of 2016.

Give your students a 360-degree education and career advantage with ILLUSTRATED COURSE GUIDES: PROBLEM-SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING - SOFT SKILLS FOR A DIGITAL WORKPLACE. Part of the Illustrated Series Soft Skills, this book, like all others in the series, makes it easy to teach students the essential soft skills necessary to succeed in today¿s competitive workplace. Timeless information highlights marketable skills that students need for success in the technological workplace. This book addresses 40 critical skills that equip your students with extensive knowledge they can bring with them into today¿s real world.

Inspiring communication Featuring remarkable people communicating passionately and persuasively, TED Talks provide inspiring ideas and an unparalleled source of authentic language. Keynote invites learners to explore life-changing stories for a deeper understanding of the world, developing the confidence and skills needed to express themselves powerfully and proficiently in English.

Impact helps teenage learners to better understand themselves, each other, and the world they live in.By encouraging self-expression, global citizenship, and active participation, Impact motivates students to explore who they are and who they want to be, all while learning English!

Reflecting the idea that social justice is a primary mission of the social work profession, this text provides a thorough grounding in policy analysis -- with coverage of policy practice and a unique emphasis on the human dilemmas inherent in the pursuit of social justice. Aligned with current standards and core competencies, FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL POLICY, 6th Edition introduces you to philosophical perspectives on what constitutes social justice, and identifies values and assumptions reflected in contemporary policy debates. Students have said they like how this book deepens their understanding of current developments, including topics straight from the headlines. The book also introduces you to people whose lives are influenced by U.S. policies, as well as to those who have shaped the policies.

This text provides the conceptual and practical information on key issues and problems that you will need to prepare effectively for work with at-risk youth. Each chapter has resources that direct you to interesting and informative You Tube, TEDTalk, and research sites to expand upon and illustrate the written information. The authors describe and discuss the latest research-supported, evidence-based prevention and intervention techniques that will help you perform your job successfully and improve the lives of young people at risk.