Vocal Health in Professional Voice equips readers with the knowledge, training, and practical tips they need to care for their voices, boost performance, and avoid developing preventable voice disorders. The opening chapter discusses normal voice and the physical process of human oral communication. Readers learn about the three individual ......
Voces de Aztlan: 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 ......
Voces de Aztlan: A Chicana/o History Reader, Vol. 2 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 eight chapters and covers a broad range of topics and themes, mostly from ......
Voices in Medial Sociology: Contemporary Perspectives provides health sciences students with a collection of articles written by sociologists, health care providers, public health professionals, lawyers, and students. The book exposes readers to the most salient issues in the field of medical sociology today. It covers controversial topics like ......
Voluntary Associations and Nonprofit Organizations in Our Current Uncertain World provides students with a collection of enlightening readings that present major topics related to voluntary associations and nonprofit organizations from a multidisciplinary perspective, including sociological. The text is organized into six units that cover: the ......
Through a carefully curated assemblage of readings, War and Warfare helps students explore and better understand how violent conflicts have shaped political life and wrought far-reaching consequences throughout history. Readers learn about the major contentions and arguments behind warfare, how conflicts unfold, how nations and international ......
Web App Development: A Computer Science Approach provides students with insight into how web applications are created and how they act as the glue that holds many of our devices and computers together. A variety of computer science and software engineering concepts are covered within the context of web application development with Ruby on Rails ......
A Guide to Effective Composition and Transformational Leadership
Well Composed: A Guide to Effective Composition and Transformational Leadership provides students with an innovative approach to English composition and rhetoric. The book uniquely challenges students to develop writing skills and delve into the study of the foundational concepts in transformational leadership. Throughout, students are encouraged ......
Designed to help students better understand how science works and how it impacts their daily lives, What's Up with Astronomy? provides readers with an illuminating discussion of how astronomy became a science, the lived experiences and contributions of key astronomers throughout time, and how modern scientific theories are questioned and checked. ......