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Communication: Principles for a Lifetime presents an accessible overview of the fundamental theories and skills of communication. By organizing the text around 5 key principles of communication, authors Steven Beebe, Susan Beebe and Diana Ivy show the importance of the interplay among communication concepts, skills and contexts.

The 9th Edition reflects the latest in the field, with coverage of topics such as collaborating virtually, using AI in group research, parasocial relationships people develop with influencers and other online content providers and more. Fresh, contemporary examples, photos and illustrations throughout the text make the material relatable.

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Steven A. Beebe, Susan J. Beebe, Diana K. Ivy

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Engineering Mechanics: Statics is your clear, comprehensive guide to the theory and application of engineering mechanics. Drawing upon his decades of classroom experience and his knowledge of how students learn, Professor Hibbeler uses highly visual, methodical applications to help you conceptualize and master difficult concepts. A variety of problem types highlight realistic situations encountered in the field, with several levels of difficulty to give you the practice needed to excel in your courses and career.

The 16th Edition clarifies language and reinforces accuracy throughout, and adds new Fundamental Problems, photos, and homework problems.

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The Deitels groundbreaking How to Program series explores fundamentals, object-oriented concepts, and intermediate-level topics for further study. Java How to Program: An Objects-Natural Approach is a friendly, code-intensive, case study-oriented introduction to one of the worlds most popular programming languages. It offers real-world examples, early classes and objects, and the authors signature live-code approach. Along with a thorough study of Java fundamentals and algorithm development, youll master Javas basics by immersing yourself in hundreds of complete working code examples with meaningful outputs.

The 12th Edition introduces a new objects-natural approach that gives you ample practice using powerful existing classes, helping you to quickly create objects of those classes (typically with 1 line of code) and then tell them to strut their stuff with a minimal number of Java statements. Youll also master genAI, the key set of artificial-intelligence technologies that leverage your creative capabilities. In the examples and exercises, youll use prompts and build programs that produce original text, Java code, images, audio, speech, music, and even video!

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From Getting Started to Graduation: A Student Guide to the EdD, a volume in The Coming of Age of the Education Doctorate Series book series, pulls back the curtain on the hidden curriculum of the EdD experience for students, fully supporting their journeys by making what is too often anxious and abstract more clear and concrete. Drawing from years of experience from designing and directing an EdD program, the authors provide an end-to-end playbook for students to draw from as they navigate their own EdD program of choice.

Part I focuses on getting started. The book begins with an establishment of the why behind getting an EdD and how this is a distinct and unique experience unlike other graduate degrees. It pushes readers to think beyond the title, encouraging them to drill down into their core motivation for pursuing not just a degree but a transformative experience. Readers will then learn about finding the match quality between their goals and aspirations and the myriad program choices available to them. Once students have winnowed down their choices and found their fit, they will be coached on how to build survival systems that will help them thrive from the onset to the finish line. This includes learning how to pace themselves, how to lean on friends and family, how to create contingency plans, and how to create helpful constraints that make room for work-life balance. The book closes Part I with helpful tips for time and resource management, as well as how to build routines and habits that allow them to be kind of their future selves.

Part II explicitly explores how to navigate this years-long quest and stay the course. Readers will learn how to get curious and keep that door open across coursework in order to allow for innovative and creative ideas to flourish and eventually lead to fusionthe key to creative thinking. With the door opened to ideas and exploration, the book sets the stage for how to become a scholar-practitioner through key habits of mind such as the what-if and maybe mindset and tackling the tough task of synthesis. Part II ends with the call to team up and to take this winding road together. The EdD experience can be lonely if students go it alone, and the volume explains how and why teaming up is not just nice but necessary to persevere as the way to reach the finish line.

Finally, Part III pivots to helping students survive the intensive thinking, researching, and writing demands of the dissertation. Readers will tap into years of tips and tricks on how to break this mystifying and monstrous project into sizable and achievable small steps that fuel motivation for the long haul so that students avoid burnout during the final push as they near defending their projects and crushing their comps. When finished, EdD students will be able to leverage what is too often hidden from students and draw from the concrete examples, strategies, stories, and templates therein in order to start strong and finish strong.

Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Research; Research Methodology; Introduction to the EdD; The Scholar-Practitioner; Exploring Problems of Practice; Becoming a Change Agent

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Keri Carter, Kevin Krahenbuhl, John Lando Carter

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This new edition is brought to you by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER).

From the Core curriculum, which teaches the introductory basics of construction, to multi-level programs for individual crafts like carpentry, plumbing and more, NCCER provides industry-developed education for careers in construction in more than 40 craft areas. NCCER programs combine both knowledge and performance components to give students and trainees well-rounded preparation to work in the construction industry.

Features of the NCCER curricula include:
National standardization providing portability of skills Opportunity to provide students with industry-recognized credentials through NCCER accreditation Curricula developed by industry subject-matter experts Well-illustrated, up-to-date and practical information Cutting-edge courseware technology providing tools for instructors and students
For NCCER-accredited organizations, the online Registry System provides transcripts, certificates and wallet cards to individuals who have successfully completed training.

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Re-writing a New Identity Post-Discovery

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What does it mean to discover later in life an AuDHD identity and what impact does that have on an individuals sense of self?

Author Rachel Winder explores how 40 years of not knowing her AuDHD identity impacted her life from Autistic masking (a subconscious survival tactic to camouflage social differences and so avoid unwanted attention and rejection), through to developing complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (cPTSD). Discovering her neurodivergent identity gave her the tools to shed harmful and incorrect labels and to see her life through an AuDHD lens.

An Autistic-ADHD Journey explores a brief history of Autism alongside the authors unique lived experiences that aim to dispel the many harmful misconceptions surrounding Autism and ADHD. This book takes you one person closer to knowing more about AuDHD.

Through the exploration of a complex and shifting understanding of self, this book is ideal reading for AuDHD folk and allies, anyone wishing to understand Autism and ADHD more, carers, mental health practitioners, Medical Students, and students of Disability Studies, Autism and AuDHD Studies, and Mental Health Studies.

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Rachel Winder, Dr Damian Mellifont PhD, Dr Jennifer Smith-Merry PhD

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De la Chine en eruption a l'amour de Shu

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Immensite de la Chine en eruption quil traverse a pied lorsquil est enfant ; horizon sans cesse repousse de locean qui le porte jusqua la carapace de glace du Groenland ; et surtout, infini de la peau de Shu, cette femme-tuteur le long de laquelle il grandit. Ce sont ces etonnants voyages tresses qui font quun jeune garcon explore les sens, chemine dans les meandres de la vie et se construit dans lamour. Son pere, celebre gouteur de the, lui transmet mille reperes et ce gout particulier pour lamertume ultime du the, gout que partagent de nombreux vieux Chinois. Entre recit et conte initiatique, une subtile infusion dhumanisme.

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How to Start a Lifelong Daily Drawing Practice - Start Your Daily Drawing Journey Here!

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Make drawing a rewarding daily habit with this practical and encouraging guide.

What if drawing wasnt just something you did when inspiration struckbut an essential part of your daily life? Drawing Is Important by illustrator and educator Tom Froese is an inspiring and practical guide to building a sustainable daily drawing practice, embracing consistency over perfection.

Through insightful essays and creative exercises, Froese builds on his popular Skillshare class of the same name to make the case for why drawing every daywithout pressure for resultscan lead to greater creativity, artistic growth, and personal satisfaction. This book offers motivation, mindset shifts, and practical guidance to help you develop a habit of drawing regularly, no matter your skill level or experience.

Inside, youll find:
Encouraging insights on why daily drawing leads to creative breakthroughsExercises to build consistency and make drawing a natural part of your dayTechniques for overcoming perfectionism and creative fearsA beautiful design that inspires creativity on every page
Whether youre an experienced artist looking to reinvigorate your practice or a beginner eager to build confidence, Drawing Is Important will help you make drawing a joyful, meaningful part of your daily life.

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Basics of California Law for LMFTs, LPCCs, and LCSWs [12th edition]

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Written by a therapist for other therapists (and therapists in training), Basics of California Law takes the many nuances of California law and regulation and puts them in digestible, easy-to-apply language. It covers all three of California's major masters-level mental health professions: Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Clinical Counseling, and Clinical Social Work.

The 12th edition is updated to 2026 laws and regulations, with updated information artificial intelligence, documentation, disclosure requirements, planned changes to the licensing process, and more. Specific chapter topics include scope of practice, licensure, supervision, confidentiality, documentation, families and children, abuse reporting, technology, business and marketing, employment, unprofessional conduct, and advocacy.

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Jeder exzentrische Held braucht eine starke Frau an seiner Seite ... Mit geladenem Schusseisen und ohne Skrupel!

Der eigensinnige Archibald Leach und die waffenvernarrte Tuftlerin Sarah Goldberg werden in die Machenschaften des skrupellosen Marquis de Mortemarte hineingezogen. Der Schurke verwendet Okkultismus, Voodookult und Atherkraft, um die Welt mit seinen Monstrositaten ins Chaos zu sturzen.

Mit Hilfe skurriler Verbundeter, dubioser Artefakte und Erfindungsgeist versuchen die Abenteurer den drohenden Krieg zu verhindern. Dabei fuhrt ihr Weg sie uber vier Kontinente und die eigenen Grenzen hinaus.

Die Sarah Goldberg Chroniken 1

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Los profetas de todas las tierras y edades han triunfado en su busqueda de Dios, escribe Paramahansa Yogananda en el prologo de La ciencia sagrada. Entrando en nirbikalpa samadhi, un estado de verdadera iluminacion, tales santos se han identificado completamente con la Suprema Realidad que yace mas alla de todos los nombres y las formas. La sabiduria y la guia espiritual por ellos expresadas han llegado a convertirse en las sagradas escrituras del mundo. Aun cuando difieren externamente debido a sus diversas expresiones verbales, tales escrituras son todas declaraciones algunas abiertas y claras, otras ocultas y simbolicas de las mismas verdades basicas del Espiritu.
Swami Sri Yukteswar [...] estaba excepcionalmente dotado para distinguir la unidad subyacente en las escrituras [...]. Colocando los textos sagrados sobre la inmaculada mesa de su mente, el fue capaz de diseccionarlos con el escalpelo de su razonamiento intuitivo, separando las verdades tal como fueron originalmente expresadas por los profetas de las interpolaciones e interpretaciones erroneas de los eruditos.
Mediante la explicacion de pasajes semejantes en las escrituras hindues y cristianas, La ciencia sagrada pone de manifiesto la unidad esencial de las grandes ensenanzas religiosas de Oriente y Occidente. Con incomparable sabiduria y discernimiento, Sri Yukteswar explica la evolucion universal de la conciencia, la energia y la materia: la totalidad de la experiencia que llamamos vida.
El autor proporciona una base solida para la concepcion de una vision acendradamente holistica del hombre y del universo, y demuestra como la misma apoya los principios de la vida natural en el cuerpo, la mente y el alma. Enraizada en las mas profundas verdades religiosas, su vision ofrece una guia practica para alcanzar la plenitud en la vida diaria, mediante el delineamiento de los principios fisicos, mentales, morales y espirituales que gobiernan la expansion de la conciencia humana.

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Curar mediante el ilimitado poder de Dios

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Curar mediante el ilimitado poder de Dios es uno de los cuadernillos de la coleccion de ediciones de bolsillo sobre las ensenanzas de Paramahansa Yogananda, autor de Autobiografia de un yogui. Las charlas informales y los ensayos que contienen estas publicaciones ofrecen una guia inspirativa y practica para vivir en forma espiritualmente armoniosa: con rectitud y sencillez, con serenidad ante las aparentes contradicciones de la vida y, sobre todo, gozosamente, con la seguridad de saber que nos encontramos en todo momento circundados por el amante Poder Divino.</p>

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Citizenship, Central Banks, and Consumer Finance

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Politically independent central banks such as America's Federal Reserve have enormous sway over the financial lives of citizens globally and often affect citizens differently according to their wealth. In Picking Winners, editors Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King curate a selection of chapters with innovative theoretical frameworks and new research about political institutions and organized interests to demonstrate that central banks and financial regulators are not neutral servants of the "public good." 

The research introduced here spans several countries and includes findings from interviews with senior government officials and financiers. In Picking Winners, the contributors reveal how theoretically independent central banks and financial regulators are often swayed instead, by deeply resourced financial interests, the values and perspectives of capital over those of wage earners, and institutional designs that are biased to favor those with greater capital and income.

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Japanese myths present a significant barrier to entry for the Western reader. The primary sources are arcane, and their translations are not accessible to the non-specialist. Japanese deities (kami) have multiple, long names, and the myths exist in different and conflicting versions. Finally, the sheer number of kami makes grasping the pantheon difficult. 

Japanese Mythology: A Guide presents key Japanese myths in a format that is both rigorous and readable. Matthieu Felt brings together Japanese myths as they appear in the oldest extant sources and the various methodologies that have been used to study these myths during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Sources are indicated for readers wishing to do further research with original texts or to use Japanese myths in a comparative capacity.

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The "problem of the twentieth century" was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as "the color line" a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that promulgated legal segregation, cultural separation, and racial antagonism in the US from the end of Reconstruction through the Civil Rights era. A more familiar name, borrowed from the popular tradition of blackface minstrelsy, personified this elusive but ever-present racial regime: Jim Crow. Taking as its starting point the contemporaneity of the Jim Crow era and the modernist era in art and culture, Jim Crow Modernism explores how these phenomena informed one another, and how artists and thinkers on both sides of the color line worked in and against the "separate but equal" landscape and the organizing logic of Jim Crow. 

This collection of new essays by prominent scholars in several fields-from American literary studies to film, media, art history, politics, and performance-provides a broad and deep analysis of this vital aspect of modern cultural history. Contributors address well known modernist figures like T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Wallace Thurman, as well as many others, from the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay to the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi to the Afro-Latino writer Piri Thomas, whose peripatetic lives and careers initiated them into far-ranging traditions and contexts. At the same time, Jim Crow Modernism reaches well beyond the segregated US South to examine national and global spaces, networks, and migrations, from New York and Los Angeles to the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

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Professor Adam McKible, Professor Robert Jackson, Dr. Keith Clark

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Teaching Qualitative Research in Public Health

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Qualitative methods are increasingly seen as key to addressing critical public health problems. How should instructors introduce qualitative methods to public health students and prepare them to conduct and critically engage in a meaningful way? Teaching public health students about qualitative research is more than just training students to run a focus group or explaining how to know how many in-depth interviews are "enough". It starts with helping students understand the power of qualitative methods and why they can be useful in population health.

Designed as a resource for instructors teaching qualitative methods courses and classes for public health audiences, Teaching Qualitative Research in Public Health offers practical, creative ideas for designing both introductory and advanced courses and addressing the diverse learning goals of public health students inside and outside of the formal classroom. Written by experienced educators and qualitative researchers, this book discusses ways in which faculty can assist students in exploring different qualitative methods, how they should be undertaken, and how findings from qualitative studies can be analyzed and disseminated to inform public health programs and policies. 

This teaching companion offers numerous adaptable strategies, classroom-tested activities, and expert guidance to help instructors tailor their courses to diverse learning objectives and educational environments. With a focus on experiential learning, it equips educators to prepare the next generation of public health professionals with a strong foundation in qualitative research. Whether you're teaching a semester-long course, leading short-term training, or mentoring students in applied research, this book provides the tools needed to foster deep engagement and critical thinking in qualitative public health research.

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Katherine Clegg Smith, Jill Owczarzak, Caitlin Kennedy, Shannon Frattaroli

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In 1868 Japan opened its borders to the outside world and began a rapid modernization process which included importing European musical instruments, compositional practices, and repertoire. The operas and prose of Richard Wagner trickled into Japan during this time and, as in other parts of the world, agents in Japan manipulated the composer's prose and musical works to suit ideologies ranging from the fascist to the frivolous. 

Through the lens of global history, Japanese cultural studies, and musicology, this book presents a new way of understanding Wagnerism as it filtered through modern Japanese culture. Wagnerism is entangled in modernity, and in Japan these entanglements surfaced not only on the operatic stage, but also in sheet music, film, and popular literature. Author Brooke McCorkle Okazaki documents Wagner's opera premieres and utilizes mass media--such as film, magazines, and comics--to explore the interplay of modernity and Wagnerism in Japan. Okazaki first situates the discussion in the context of global historical methodologies, demonstrating how the story of Wagner's reception in Japan models a non-Eurocentric approach to one of musicology's most canonical composers. She then presents a series of case studies that consider how Wagnerism shaped individuals and institutions in Japan beginning from the late nineteenth century and to the present.

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A Cultural History of Intergenerational Justice

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The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational justice as an important field of study since the 1970s, the history of modern forms of obligation to the future has received almost no attention. This book traces the evolution of the Anglo-American concept of intergenerational justice, from its origins in eighteenth-century democratic revolutions to its flourishing in the 2000s. Thus, it illuminates the contours of a political conviction that has shaped modern culture.

Margolis's central claim is twofold: first, that fiction's capacity to imagine counterfactual worlds has made the most significant contribution to contemporary understandings of intergenerational justice; and second, that this contribution has been misunderstood. Rather than inspiring political change, fiction demonstrates that complex societies will inevitably clash over what counts as a good future and what should be done to bring this future into being.

From nineteenth-century utopian novels like James Fenimore Cooper's The Crater and Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora, to post-nuclear war dystopias, like Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker, and Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, to recent fiction about endangered children like Toni Morrison's Paradise, Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and Kazuo Ishiguru's Never Let Me Go, the tradition of future-oriented fiction recognizes that our obligation to the future is not the solution to an ethical problem, but an ethical dilemma in its own right.

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Attribution of Non-State Actor Conduct During Armed Conflict

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Armed conflict today involves a plethora of non-State actors including armed groups, private military companies, and hackers operating in the cyber domain. Frequently, these non-State actors act in a way that violates international law, for example by harming civilians, and they commonly act with the benefit of some form of State support. This raises critical questions about State responsibility. 

Attribution of Non-State Actor Conduct During Armed Conflict explores when and how international law attributes non-State actor conduct to a State, thereby triggering that State's international responsibility. Focusing on the six rules of attribution outlined in the International Law Commission's Articles on State Responsibility, the book provides a rigorous analysis of their practical application in the context of armed conflict. Using detailed case studies from the conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it examines each of the rules of attribution in turn, demonstrates when they would apply, and evaluates their effectiveness in holding States accountable for non-State actor conduct performed on their behalf. 

Critically assessing the legal and practical limitations of existing frameworks, the book argues that the predominant interpretation of the rules of attribution leaves an accountability gap, which enables States to act via proxy in a manner they could not lawfully operate via their own State organs. Combining doctrinal clarity with real-world relevance, it investigates how the inadequacies in the regulation of States' support to non-State actors in conflict situations should be remedied.