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Women and The American Experience, A Concise History
Nancy Woloch
Mcgraw-Hill College, 1995
Surprisingly Pleasant Read!
I had to read this book for a history course, and I was prepared for another dry, dusty history tome. I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book was not dry and dusty! It is packed with incredible information about women from all walks of life, including personal stories about hardship and ...
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News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media
Bruce D Itule, Douglas A Anderson
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006
News Writing and Reporting takes students on the beat, into the press box, council chambers, and courthouse, and to a speech and press conference. It introduces them to current issues such as cultural sensitivity, multimedia journalism, and legal and ethical considerations that journalists face every day. Throughout the text, reporters and editors offer their down-to-earth advice, and, whenever ...
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Public Policy in the United States: At the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Mark E. Rushefsky
M.E. Sharpe, 2002
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Dynamics of Mass Communications: Media in the Digital Age with Media World DVD and PowerWeb
Joseph R Dominick
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006
I had to get this book for class, but I still enjoyed it
This is required reading for the class I was taking, but it was a well wtitten book and well organized so I actually enjoyed reading it all 3 times. CD is a nice extra gives you a good overview of each chapter and prodution is nice and clean.
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The Political Economy of International Relations
Robert Gilpin
Princeton University Press, 1987
Thorough scholarship and somewhat prescient
+ An excellant work on political economics
+ Good for students new to IPE
+ Wait until the dust settles
+ A multi-course meal to political economy
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Public Speaking
Michael Osborn, Suzanne Osborn
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005
Public Speaking
+ Very colorful and contains many helpful sidebars
I used the text book for a "public speaking" course at California State University Hayward campus. The book does an excellent job of taking the reader through the steps in preparing public speeches. It contains numerous examples of speeches. The main thing I felt that the author did was to teach ...
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The Politics of United States Foreign Policy
Jerel A. Rosati, James M. Scott
Wadsworth Publishing, 2006
Have you ever wondered how U.S. foreign policy is made? THE POLITICS OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY is the definitive work on this topic and gives you insight into the real impact of politics. Comprehensible and informative, this political science text discusses the historical patterns of continuity and change, the president's ability to govern, and the tension between the demands of democracy ...
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Intercultural Communication: A Reader (with InfoTrac®)
Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, ...
Wadsworth Publishing, 2005
The Text is Excellent.
+ Great Book!! Very Informative
+ Order: Intercultural Communication : A Reader
I have taught with several of the major readers on the market: Samovar and Porter's, Nakayama and Martin, and others. This text has the most well written readings and contains articles on many seminal issues, context (Hall), time (Hall), etc. This text has the LEAST blatantly fluff filled articles ...
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Racial and Ethnic Relations (7th Edition)
Joe R. Feagin, Clairece Booher Feagin
Prentice Hall, 2002
Good basic survey on various U.S. ethnic groups
+ An Excellent Overview
Joe Feagin is one of America's foremost scholars in the area of racial/ethnic conflict and inequality. His latest textbook, "Racial and Ethnic Relations," is a very informative book detailing the multicultural history of the United States and the populating of the country by various ethnic groups ...
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Fundamentals of Management, Fourth Edition
Ricky W. Griffin
South-Western College Pub, 2005
Good book, was exactly what was needed for my class
Great book, very informative and the CD has a lot of good info on it as well.
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Organizational Behavior 7th Edition (Student Text)
Gregory Moorhead, Ricky W. Griffin
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003
Great book on organizational behavior
+ Well Nice bookie
+ Most helpful and insightful
This book presents the most recent research on many aspects of organizational behavior very clearly. Although it is targeted at students learning the material for the first time, people who have had more exposure to the subject could also benefit from reading sections of it.
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Nation Of Nations: A Narrative History Of The American Republic
McGraw-Hill College, 2004
AN EASY TO UNDERSTAND BOOK THAT HELPS OUT THE READER!
+ Nation of Nations is a history book that reads like a novel.
NATION OF NATIONS VOLUME TWO: SINCE 1865 WAS A FABULOUS TEXT BOOK. THIS BOOK HELPED ME TO BETTER UNDERSTAND ALL ASPECTS OF THE INFORMATION WITHIN. AS A FRESHMAN THIS YEAR I HAD A HARD TIME ADJUSTING TO MY CLASSES BUT WITH THIS TEXT I HAD NO PROBLEMS UNDERSTANDING MY READING ASSIGNMENTS AND ENDED ...
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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, ...
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
Great Purchase
+ This was a hard book to find in local stores
+ 4 1/2 stars.
Every American family should own this book! It has all the essential details presented in an organized, succinct manner. Easy to use, fun to flip to random pages and see what you do or do not remember from school.
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Southeast Asia: A Concise History
Mary Somer Heidhues
Thames & Hudson, 2001
a Southeast Asian history lesson
This book has an ambitious goal in bringing the reader information ranging from the very earliest to the most recent history of a vast area we know as Southeast Asia. I found it scholarly and interesting.
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The Investigative Reporter's Handbook: A Guide to Documents, Databases and Techniques
Brant Houston, Len Bruzzese, ...
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2002
An indispensable reference for students, journalists, and teachers — and endorsed by the Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE) — The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook is the most comprehensive classroom text available for courses in investigative reporting.
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