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The Science of Answering Questions: A Statistical Approach introduces students to the process of determining an answer to a question or problem through the collection of information, the use of statistical tools on the information, and reaching a conclusion based on the results. Opening chapters explore the evidence needed to answer the question of interest. Students learn about variables, levels of measurement, populations, samples, and sampling, as well as commonly used and freely available statistical software that can be used in statistical analyses. Additional chapters introduce ways to display and describe information collected from the sample, including summaries, summary tables, and graphs. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics are covered. Readers explore descriptors, predictors, point estimation, deviation and variance, probability distributions, and interval estimation. Chapters in the latter half of the text focus on answering different questions of interest or the same question with different types of collected information. These chapters cover hypothesis testing, one sample proportion, multinomial, pre-post, homogeneity, correlation, independence, and more. Appendices provide students with helpful references related to critical values and standard normal probabilities. Providing students with a complete yet accessible introduction, The Science of Answering Questions is an excellent introductory resource for a course in statistics.

La otra historia: Antología de autoras españolas is a literary anthology written entirely in Spanish and organized chronologically from Medieval times to the 21st century, beginning with the Jarchas and ending with Luisa Castro. The book features whole, uncut examples of poetry, drama, and narratives written by 25 Spanish women writers from all regions of Spain. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the author and her work, a short bibliography for the author, the chosen piece of literature, and the glosses for that piece. Each entry is glossed in Spanish and English to help readers identify and clarify unfamiliar lexical, historical, and cultural terms. The book fills a gap in the literature, affording Spanish women writers their own space to share their words. In doing so, students are introduced to the beauty of the feminine voice in the literature of Spain. A unique and vital resource, La otra historia is an ideal textbook for upper-division undergraduate or graduate-level courses and programs in Spanish language and literature.

Collective Trauma and Human Suffering: Energizing Systemic Change through Collective Healing Action provides readers with a compassionate and research-based framework for collective healing in an increasingly fragmented world. The text recognizes how the traumatic uprising of colonization and industrialized civilizations has subverted our foundational, social, and cultural knowledge of being human in favor of political, military, and materialistic needs for control and supremacy. The book outlines an original collective healing model that demonstrates how bringing intercultural communities together can integrate deep-seated trauma through collective resilience, healing action, and hope. Wisdom and knowledge of earlier world cultures has sustained the survival of human experience. This writing uncovers the ways in which systemic racism, natural disasters, mass trauma, agricultural development, slavery, control of resources, military power, and the evolution from village to the global has created fragmentation within our modern culture. Today, over half of the world's children do not have access to a healthy development. Readers will learn how the reclamation of interconnectedness, cultures, languages, and rituals can restore our systems prioritizing heart, humanity, and nature, thus infusing greater levels of human acceptance, compassion, communication, and love into the systems raising the future, our children.

The spiritually-attuned counselor is intentional about their own spiritual growth, practice, and development so they can support others in their own process. In Spirituality and the Helping Professions, author Miles Matise guides readers through a journey of personal spiritual growth and also provides them with the skillsets and knowledge they need to assist clients in the use of religious and spiritual means to facilitate growth and navigate their own lives. In opening chapters, Matise addresses the spiritual needs of our modern times and how most people are on a quest and searching for something, be that meaning, purpose, happiness, or some other aspect, to foster contentment and stability in their lives. The book addresses various challenges that can arise when working with a person around spiritual issues, common paradigms and approaches, and the importance of a developmental perspective to conceptualize the individual and their spirituality. It recognizes the shift for many away from religion and toward spirituality, and how that can influence how we choose to live our lives. Techniques to promote the emergence of the spiritual in a person's life are provided, as well as suggested activities to prescribe for further development. Presenting a unique viewpoint and modern framework for working with clients, Spirituality and the Helping Professions is an essential resource for courses and programs in counseling, psychology, and related helping professions.

Max Multi-Channel Messaging introduces budding copywriters, entrepreneurs, and marketers in every category to the ins and outs of creating strategic and compelling copy across a variety of marketing channels. The text features 12 chapters with each addressing a specific element of or approach toward the creation of effective copy. The opening chapter identifies the differences between traditional and multi-channel copywriting, defines the skillsets that are essential for a copywriter to possess, and pinpoints the basic differences between traditional media and today's digital media world. Additional chapters help readers understand how to construct a creative strategy, adapt copy for audio, leverage pitch and situation to increase a product's appeal, and incorporate music or create a song to drive and support sales. Readers learn how to create engaging videos, demonstrations, and imagery. Closing chapters explore creating content for the internet, broadcasting and podcasting, maximizing the efficacy and impact of copy across marketing channels, and keeping the creative spark alive. Each chapter includes exercises and assignments to increase student engagement and encourage practical application of the material. The revised first edition features a new chapter on content as a delivery for advertisers, as well as fresh image captions throughout the text. Max Multi-Channel Marketing is a concise, approachable guide to effective copywriting that is ideal for courses and programs in marketing.

Theatre Now: Reading It, Seeing It, Doing It is a fresh, accessible, twenty-first century guide to theatre with a balance of practical, experiential, historical, and scholarly approaches. The book provides strategies to get beyond simply lecturing about theatre, and instead offers ways to make it active, immersive, and stimulating for students, ensuring they leave the classroom with not only an understanding of the major tenets of theatre as an art form, but also an appreciation for the nuts and bolts of how theatre functions, as well as a sense of the durability and reach of its impact and presence. The opening chapter begins to define and categorize theatre, exploring how it can cover a range of happenings, events, and experiences that extend beyond plays and musicals. Additional chapters explore major figures, innovations, and movements within the theatre over time, and the function of the artists, disciplines, and vocations that go into creating theatre. Students learn how to read a play, analyze a script, and assess live performance as an informed audience member. Dedicated chapters examine the formation and evolution of musical theatre, provide students with an extensive list of seminal contemporary plays, and help them apply playwriting practices and strategies to create an original play. Engaging and enlightening, Theatre Now is an exemplary resource for theatre majors at all levels, as well as students enrolled in theatre appreciation courses.

FUNDED! leads readers from knowing nothing about writing grants to having a complete grant proposal. Based on personal experience, years of teaching, and the expertise of dozens of professional nonprofit grant writers, students learn about writing grants by completing exercises at the end of each chapter, moving from finding funding opportunities to submitting the completed proposal. The book provides material necessary to understand the larger context of nonprofits in American society and covers every essential grant writing topic: finding funding, writing needs statements, finding or developing evidence-based programs, developing logic models, writing evaluation plans, describing implementation plans, budgeting, sustainability planning, and submission to the funder. FUNDED! is an invaluable resource that provides flexibility for instructors, students, and professionals to learn about grant writing in a variety of settings and formats.Author Richard Hoefer incorporates essential updates in every chapter; specific changes include incorporating social justice principles, significantly more emphasis on advocacy to ensure adequate funding opportunities, and integrating stakeholders into program planning.

The Gravity of Typography: Exploring Type Across Various Design Mediums is a visual guide that provides students with an understanding of key principles of typography, as well as its importance and impact in design work. The book demonstrates that regardless of medium, typography is a critical component that has the power to make or break a design. Drawing on her vast experience as a graphic designer, Karyn Jimenez-Elliott has created an innovative and visually demonstrative guide that effectively introduces readers to how typography can enhance designs across a variety of mediums, including branding, print design, packaging and product design, editorial and publication, design for web, event design and environmental graphics, designing for social impact, and personal branding and portfolio work. The book highlights a diverse range of work and real-world examples from Jimenez-Elliott's colleagues, friends, former classmates, and students, as well as examples of her own work. Designer's project notes, written in their own words, accompany each example and help readers understand the thought process behind developing logos, selecting fonts, considering print and digital delivery of design work, creating a portfolio that reflects their personal brand, and more. Approachable, immersive, and grounded in visual impact, The Gravity of Typography is an essential textbook for courses and programs in graphic design.

With emphasis on practical application, Stress Analysis with an Introduction to Finite Element Methods equips engineering students with a solid, foundational knowledge base in strength of materials, the theory of elasticity, structural stability, the theory of plates, finite element analysis, and other pertinent topics that will well prepare them for more advanced coursework. The book consists of ten chapters and five appendices. Opening chapters explore stress tensor, strain tensor, and the theory of elasticity. Additional chapters cover failure by yielding theories, bending of beams, torsion, and energy methods. Readers learn about structural stability and receive an introduction to the theory of plates and finite element analysis. The appendices equip readers with a review of vector algebra, analytic solution to a cubic equation, matrix algebra, area moments and product of inertia, and systems of units. Examples, references, and practice problems throughout the text test student knowledge and reinforce the learning material. Though Stress Analysis with an Introduction to Finite Element Methods covers topics generally covered in an advanced strength of materials course, the book is designed to be easy-to-understand and approachable. It is an exceptional resource for courses and programs in aerospace, civil, mechanical, and biomedical engineering, as well as practicing engineers.

Designed to provide readers with an accessible introduction to international relations, Systemist International Relations introduces the systemist method, a visual approach that equips individuals with the ability to transform the key points of any work of scholarship into an easy-to-understand and salient graphic representation of the data. The opening chapters speak to how the world has changed in the new millennium, especially regarding the pace of everyday life, and how the international relations discipline has expanded considerably in step. With this growth comes the increased size and complexity of research in the field. The text posits that the systemist method is an effective way to render the influx of information and study in international relations more accessible to all. Additional chapters introduce systemism and its associated method for graphic representation of analytical arguments. The method is then applied to three key areas of study within international relations: international security studies; foreign policy analysis; and ethnicity, nationalism, and migration. The final chapter reviews what has been accomplished and looks ahead to what might be done in the future to advance research and teaching about international relations. Systemist International Relations is an ideal textbook for undergraduate and graduate-level courses and programs in international relations.

Featuring contributed chapters written by professionals within the field along with in-depth cases written by the editor, Gender-Based Crime: Learning through Experts and Cases provides readers with a diverse and enlightening exploration of the interplay between gender, crime, offending, and victimization. The book also explores how to deal with gender-based crime through criminal justice and alternative approaches. The text is organized into three distinct sections. Part I, Gender and Offending, discusses juvenile sex trafficking in the U.S.; gender and mass shootings; gender, homicide, and suicide; hazing in fraternities and sororities; and LGBTQ perspectives on crime and justice. In Part II, Gender and Victimization, readers learn about violence against transgender people in the U.S.; the experiences of young boys and men of color in urban spaces; separation and divorce violence against women; sexual violence on college campuses; and sexual harassment, gender, and the workplace. The final part, Criminal Justice and Alternatives for Gender-Based Harm, addresses the civil rights approach to gender-based harm, the restorative justice approach, community activism, and problems in the juvenile justice system. Gender-Based Crime is part of the Cognella Series on Family and Gender-Based Violence, an interdisciplinary collection of textbooks edited by Claire Renzetti, Ph.D. The titles feature cross-cultural perspectives, cutting-edge strategies and interventions, and timely research on family and gender-based violence.

Rather than focusing on the mechanics of operations management, Readings in Operations Management: Insights and Experiences presents students with a collection of articles and narratives that cover broadly based principles that are useful in practice and gleaned from real-world experiences. The anthology is organized into five chapters with each including a brief introduction to the topic and a selection of curated readings. The opening chapters address customers and competitors, capability assessment, and the roles of innovation and technology in operations management. Students learn how advancing technologies and/or external factors beyond a company's control can contribute to disruption and risk. The final chapter speaks to growth and globalization. A collection of supplemental case studies are included in the appendix and help students further apply the concepts addressed in the anthology to real-world practice. Designed to well prepare students for their future careers, Readings in Operations Management is ideal for courses and programs in business and operations management.

Culturally Responsive and Equitable Evaluation: Visions and Voices of Emerging Scholars presents an innovative evaluation paradigm that integrates diversity, equity, and inclusion in all phases of evaluation. The book spotlights the scholarly, philosophical, and best practices of emerging Black, Latino/x, Indigenous, and other scholars and practitioners from historically marginalized populations in support of culturally responsive and equitable evaluation (CREE). The book is organized into two major parts with the first presenting the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that provide the foundation of CREE and the second spotlighting practical applications of CREE in various evaluation contexts. Dedicated chapters examine the importance of positionality, reflexivity, and strengthening CREE to foster racial equity; and the ways in which evaluation approaches can empower people and communities. Readers learn about a Matriarchal Kwe Indigenous framework for practicing theoretical, cultural, and practical evaluation; how to embed CREE in the design and evaluation of a Cliff calculator; Communities of Practice best practices; and more. Closing chapters focus on CREE application within diverse communities and feature an overview of modern initiatives that demonstrate the possibilities available through CREE.

Elementary Korean II Activity Book features a variety of task- and usage-based activities designed to help students improve their communicative skills in Korean. The chapters focus on developing students' conversational abilities. They help readers practice everyday topics of conversation in Korean, including recapping winter break with classmates, giving and receiving presents, making plans for spring break, giving reasons why, making weekend plans, and talking about college life. Students learn how to express gratitude, ask for help and favors, purchase items at a store, order food in a restaurant, discuss travel experiences, and compare items. Featuring a highly practical focus, Elementary Korean II Activity Book is an ideal supplementary text for foundational courses in Korean.

Recognizing that counselors are often the primary source of therapeutic care, A Counselor's Guide to Psychopharmacology and Alternative Treatments provides readers with an overview of the fundamentals of psychopharmacology so they can help facilitate medication-based treatment plans and more fully meet their clients' needs. The text bridges the gap between the content-knowledge of psychopharmacology and the intentional incorporation of medication-based interventions into a larger, counseling-driven therapeutic process. The book is organized into three parts, which explore the basics of psychopharmacology, medications, and additional considerations. Opening chapters discuss models of treatment, pharmacotherapy in mental health, the role of the counselor, and foundational information on neurobiology and pharmacology. Additional chapters discuss antidepressant, antianxiety, and antipsychotic medication, mood stabilizers, and the interplay of substance abuse and medication-assisted treatment. Closing chapters provide readers with alternatives to pharmacotherapy, including electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, vagus nerve stimulation, and emerging alternatives, such as herbal supplements and hallucinogens. Medication noncompliance, malingering, and diagnostic considerations are also covered. In addition to critical content, the text features application-based exercises designed to help readers hone skills related to the analysis of complex cases, as well as the navigation of client interactions in a deliberate, empowering, and holistic manner. A Counselor's Guide to Psychopharmacology and Alternative Treatments is a critical resource for future and practicing counselors at all levels.

Digital Health and Public and Community Health provides students with an examination of digital health and its integration in public and community health services. Readers learn how digital health systems and initiatives require engagement from a plethora of stakeholders, individual healthcare providers, and interprofessional teams of healthcare providers, including input from health profession education, communities and government, insurers, health policy, health research, and consumers. The book demonstrates the application of the public health framework to support digital health services, compares different types of digital health services, and discusses the challenges and methods used to ensure the delivery of effective digital services. Students examine the relationship of social determinants of health, health equity, disparities, and vulnerable populations to digital health services. Coverage of the application of digital health services in nursing practice is included, as well as discussion of local, state, and federal government involvement in digital health services. Digital Health and Public and Community Health is part of the Cognella Series on Public and Community Health Nursing, a collection of concise, informative guides that explore critical topical areas, their nursing application, and their relationship to nursing practice.

Euclidean Linear Algebra offers a concise and theoretical introduction to linear algebra with a plethora of examples, a wide variety of problems, and preparation for more advanced mathematics rather than external applications. This text provides purely computational exercises and theoretical problems ranked by difficulty, allowing for a balance between computational practice and the development of critical thinking and theoretical mathematical thought. To support the emphasis on linear maps, linear maps are introduced immediately after the necessary background on linear systems and vectors. Additional chapters explore properties of linear maps, the image and kernel of linear maps, operations on linear maps, subspaces and dimension and their relationships to linear maps, different forms of subspaces and how they allow us to intersect and add subspaces, projection maps, eigenvalues and eigenvectors of linear maps, changing coordinates of linear maps, diagonalizing linear maps, coordinate independence, orthogonality, orthogonal projections, isometries, adjoints of linear maps, and linear algebra with polynomials, sequences, and over the complex numbers. An appendix supports student learning with a definitions reference, an objects chart, an introduction to proof frameworks, and answers to selected exercises. Developed to guide beginner students, Euclidean Linear Algebra is an ideal resource for programs and courses in mathematics. Sheldon Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right is a great follow up for a secondary course in linear algebra.

Voces de Aztlán: A Chicana/o History Reader, Vol. 1 provides students with a selection of primary and secondary sources that explore the rich, influential, and important histories of Chicana/o peoples in the United States. The volume is organized chronologically into nine chapters, beginning with coverage of early Mesoamerican cultures and concluding with a discussion of Mexicans and the American Civil War. Interstitial chapters explore the rise of Aztec civilization, Spanish contact and conflict, and colonial society in New Spain. Students also learn about Franciscan missions as an early form of mass incarceration, slavery along the Texas-Mexico border, and the removal of Indigenous peoples in the U.S. Together, these rich sources provide students with a new, broader perspective on the history of the United States. Voces de Aztlán: A Chicana/o History Reader, Vol. 1 is the first installment in a two-volume reader designed to help students rediscover American history from new viewpoints. It is ideal for courses in American history and Chicana/o history.

From Grad School to Private Practice: A Road Map for Mental Health Clinicians is an essential guidebook for anyone looking to succeed in the mental health profession. Featuring contributed chapters from experts in the field, this comprehensive resource equips readers with the necessary skills and resources to transition from academia to real-world practice. The book covers all aspects of building a successful private psychotherapy practice, including developing job interview skills, choosing a practice setting, deciding on postgraduate training, and making the most of supervision. Readers also learn essential tools for success, such as billing, marketing, and documentation through innovative mental health technologies. With this comprehensive toolbox in hand, mental health clinicians will be equipped to sustain a successful career and thrive as fee-for-service (FFS) clinicians. This invaluable resource is ideal for social work and mental health counseling courses, graduate students, and early career professionals. Whether starting their career or looking to expand their skills, From Grad School to Private Practice provides readers with a roadmap to success in the mental health profession.