Focus on Personal Finance is a brief, 14-chapter book, covering the critical topics in Personal Finance courses. This 4-color, paperback text is designed and written to appeal to a range of ages, life situations, and levels of financial literacy. A unique aspect of this text is its active approach. This text will not only get your students thinking about their current situation and financial go…
Secondary Classroom Management presents an introduction to classroom management in secondary schools. Written in a lively,engaging,conversational style,it combines what research has to say about effective classroom management with knowledge culled from practice. This text focuses on real decisions made by real teachers as they manage the complex environment of the secondary classroom. The text …
Media law constantly changes, with new cases and controversies cropping up daily. Written in a student-friendly style for undergraduates, "Mass Media Law" leads the market with a current and comprehensive approach to the most relevant aspects of mass media and communications law in the United States. This text covers a vast array of topics, from the history and adoption of the First Amendment, …
Clear, concise, and authoritative, American Education brings current issues and challenging perspectives to teacher educators’ classrooms. Revised every two years, the text provides an up-to-date introduction to the historical, political, social, and legal foundations of education and to the profession of teaching in the United States.
Overall it was informative, and made me think differently about interactions I had with people on a daily basis. My minor criticism was on the chapter on religion when they referred to Wicca as a quasi-religion ( almost, maybe?)most Wiccans and Pagans are still in the broom closet because of negative perceptions. The book traced the origins back to Gardner but in truth the religion goes back fu…
Seeing is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication uses semiotic theory, psychoanalytic theory and other theories to deal with various aspects of visual communication in an accessible, interesting and entertaining book. It has many new images that reflect the topics discussed in the book and a number of discussion of relevant topics such as postmodernism, tattoos, facial expression, n…
Jerry Pattengale's The Purpose-Guided Student: Dream to Succeed helps students to find their way, and to be excited about doing so! Through connecting class work to life passions, Pattengale helps students to persist to graduation and beyond. The Purpose-Guided Student has a practical and engaging big picture approach that helps students "to create dreams stronger than their struggles" and to d…