The Magazine From Cover to Cover : Inside a Dynamic Industry Review

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(More customer reviews)This book outlines the magazine publishing process from A to Z. For example, it discusses the pros and cons of subscription vs. newsstand sales, marketing, pricing, and even staff salaries. Business plans are outlined and commented on by various sources. Relatively recent magazines to "mainstream/suburban" American culture like VIBE are discussed with the respect they truly deserve. Even the quality of print paper is discussed (i.e. Rolling Stone's page quality/texture and size vs. VIBE's recent move to glossy pages). "The Magazine From Cover To Cover" is hands down, the most contemporary and authoritative guide to the magazine industry that I have come across. Look out for my 'zine, Pop Life coming to a media outlet near you, thanks to this book, and of course...Amazon!
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This fascinating overview examines the planning and organizing of a magazine and its staff and explains editorial, design, production, legal, and ethical issues, as well as industry trends.It shows how magazines reflect and influence the world around them.

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Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior Review

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(More customer reviews)This book came in on time and came in the condition as described. This book is a good and interesting read if you are not familiar with drugs.

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Drugs, Society and Human Behavior provides the latest information on drug use and its effects on society as well as on the individual.Trusted for more than 30 years by both instructors and students, this authoritative resource examines drugs and drug use from a variety of perspectives—behavioral, pharmacological, historical, social, legal, and clinical.The text not only gives students the tools and information to make better personal decisions about psychoactive substances but also promotes a deeper understanding of the individual problems and social conflicts that arise when others misuse and abuse these substances. Accompanying the text are instructor and student resources on the Online Learning Center.

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Report Writing for Business Review

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(More customer reviews)I purchased this book to use as a guide for students who needed help with industrial-setting report writing. It was a bit more than they needed or could digest at the time. It certainly is a college level text! Since I couldn't easily use it in the work setting I had in mind, I kept it for myself and am glad I did.
I particularly have found useful the chapters on the physical preparation of reports, since those are applicable to workbooks, and books and articles as well. The material on research--using email surveys for example--was very helpful and interesting.
This is not Report Writing For Dummies! It can be intimidating at first thumb-through. But it is a comprehensive look at an extremely wide variety of writing and presentation situations in business. It would be very helpful for almost any supervisor or manager, or for authors, trainers and teachers.

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Here's the most practical approach you'll find to report writing. This popular guide presents report writing as consisting of universal steps that help reaers break down each project into manageable components--defining the probem, collecting the facts, organizing the information, constructing the report, and writing it all up. Light on theory, heavy on practical guidelines and tips, no wonder this guide has had a host of loyal followers through ten successful editions.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Idiomatic English Review

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(More customer reviews)when i decided to buy this book, it was for many reasosn, the most important, it was in the way the writer explains all. It's like a teacher workig with you, when you work with the book, you are working with a teacher besides you. I recomend this book.You can make excersices, and analogies. It's an excelente book.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Idiomatic English contains selections from all four of the volumes of Mastering Idiomatic English. This overview volume introduces language relevant for daily life, including family, business, and shopping.

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Analyzing The Curriculum Review

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(More customer reviews)Posner's field is curriculum development, and he has written extensively about how teachers, administrators, supervisors, and ultimately the public thinks about curriculum and curriculum reform. In this book, Analyzing the Curriculum, he presents tools to understand the conflicts within education and education reform, by underlining the implicit assumptions in all forms of curriculum reform. These assumptions include (1) how learners learn, (2) how teachers teach, (3) the locus of reform (university-based, collegially based in the school); (4) the political contexts of reform. He provides several detailed examples of curriculum analysis, ranging from Jerome Bruner's Man: A Course of Study and Jerrold Zacharias' Physical Science Study Committee (both university-based reform curricula) to the "whole language" movement. In each case he is fair to the merits and demerits of the curriculum in question.
This is the kind of book you can imagine teacher education colleges use. It has a steep price and apparently is not discounted.

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This primary text provides the backbone for a basic curriculum course at either the senior or graduate level. The book shows how the parts of a curriculum fit together and helps students identify assumptions underlying curricula. In doing so, students develop the ability to determine why a curriculum proves better for some students than for others; what approaches to teaching are compatible with a particular curriculum; what difficulties a curriculum is likely to encounter during implementation; and what kinds of changes parents, students, and administrators are likely to demand.

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Essentials of Understanding Psychology Review

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(More customer reviews)The book is perfect. It is written in simple language, which is very important for undergraduate students. I found the review questions very helpful. It is like a textbook and study guide put together. This book is actually inspired me to go further into psychology studies. Thanks.

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Your students are individuals. Do your teaching materials treat them that way? Feldman's Essentials of Understanding Psychology does. From an adaptive diagnostic tool that provides a GPS for learning to a reader-friendly modular organization, Feldman ensures that every student gains a better understanding of psychology.Its new groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic tool generates a personalized study plan to help students "know what they know" while guiding them to understand and learn what they don't know through engaging interactivities, exercises, and readings.The thoroughly revised Ninth Edition continues with Bob Feldman's accessible pedagogy, hallmark research, and focus on diversity in a flexible modules-within-chapters format.

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Theories of Personality Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book. It covers many different theories on how personality works from different psychological perspectives. Each section helps the reader understand the different views of each theory of personality and how it functions within the mind. One comes away from this book understanding a little bit more about the hows and whys of personality. A great introduction to psychology in general for anybody ranging from student to non-student, specialist to non-specialist. I highly recommend it.

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The 7th edition of this trusted introduction to personality centers on the premise that personality theories are a reflection of the unique cultural background, family experiences, personalities, and professional training of their originators. The book begins by acquainting students with the meaning of personality and providing them with a solid foundation for understanding the nature of theory, as well as its crucial contributions to science. The chapters that follow present twenty-three major theories: coverage of each theory also encompasses a biographical sketch of each theorist, related research, and applications to real life.The primary focus of this revision was updating the theory chapters to reflect the most recent research.

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Chinese Demystified: A Self-Teaching Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)I've studied Chinese in China and also used other resources such as Pimsleurs. I have the book in my hands after needing to use up a gift voucher. I wasn't sure what level(s) "Demystified" would encompass and on inspection can see it's usually not exceeding what would be considered a beginners level. The preface notes explain that the book is intended as a supplementation resource to a more extensive language course.
The writing style is very matter of fact with little attempt to amuse the reader or provide incites into Chinese culture or explorations of the history and motivations behind the language. You may or may not care about that but often one's learning experience is enhanced by such inclusions.
Pinyin, Simplified and Traditional forms are used throughout and the book even provides a brief overview of strokes (writing/hanzi). I found that as a westerner learning all three; reading, spoken and written forms at once is an ambitious exercise and a student certainly shouldn't expect this text to serve as a hanzi reference. The vocabulary is admittedly low and embraces those stock terms and phrases language learners throughout the world are familiar with. Importantly grammar is given sufficient coverage as that's a large part of your language foundation. Extensive exercises are provided at the end of each chapter.
With no audio companion the true beginner will definately have to supplement the book with an appropriate resource to polish their pronounciation(a teacher?).
As a non-beginner I'm finding it works well as a refresher.

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Learning Chinese is a no-brainer with Demystified

Chinese Demystified walks you step by step throughthe fundamentals and moves on to more advanced topics. Each chapter concludes with a self-test that allows you to track your progress, and a comprehensive final exam at the end of the book gives instant feedback on new language skills. The book includescharacters in simplified and traditional formats along with pinyin phonetic translation for easy pronunciation.

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Annual Editions: Human Development 10/11 Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is well written, easy read, and well organized. I liked the fact that each article is short and yet you learn valuable information. Another thing I'd like to point out is that these are written yearly so that it uses current information and studies rather than 10 year old studies used in regular text books.

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The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is a general guide that provides a number of interesting and functional ideas for using Annual Editions readers in the classroom. Visit www.mhhe.com/annualeditions for more details.

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Tell It Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm surprised I'm the first person to review this book! Having recently read a half-dozen other titles on the subject, I find myself coming back to this one again and again. If you want to start writing creative nonfiction RIGHT NOW, this is the book for you. It's extremely well-written and accessible.
Each chapter offers plenty of exercises for the individual writer and variations on the exercises for writing groups. All of the various forms of creative nonfiction are explained, as well as the challenges they entail.
The authors divide the book into three major parts focusing on "unearthing" the material, the forms of creative nonfiction, and "honing your craft." They discuss such topics as sentence rhythm, exposition versus scene, the pitfalls of "revenge prose," basics of good writing, mining your memory, and writing groups.
There is a very good bibliography and plenty of brief examples of other writers' work. In short, a wealth of information can be found between the covers of this slim 185-page book. Buy this book before you buy any other book on writing creative nonfiction.


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Demonstrating the range of creative nonfiction from memoir to travel writing to the lyric essay, Tell It Slant combines practical guidance with an illustrative anthology of 34 essays from Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris, E.B. White, Virginia Woolf, and others. The result is a stimulating collection of writing and activities that makes it easy and enjoyable for students to begin to write and to try new modes of writing.

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Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar (Practice Makes Perfect Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)My son, 9, has completed about one-third of the workbook. I think the workbook is great and effective. Practice really does matter. My son tends not to read the directions or the tip sheets so he often gets many of the answers wrong. So I always have to remind him to read the instructions and the tips and I have him correct his mistakes. There are many worksheets for each subject so there's plenty of practice and the explanations are simple and understandable. When my son completes this workbook I will purchase another for him to complete again to reinforce what the workbook teaches. I would definitely recommend this workbook to anyone.

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Helpful instruction and plenty of practice for your child to understand the basics of grammar and vocabulary

Understanding grammar is essential for your child to speak and write with competence and clarity. Practice Makes Perfect: Exploring Grammar gives your child bite-sized explanations of grammar and vocabulary, with engaging exercises that keep her or him motivated and excited to learn. They can practice the grammar skills that are challenging, polish skills they've mastered, and stretch themselves to explore skills they have not yet attempted. This title features 170 activities (plus answer key) that increase in difficulty as your child proceeds through the book.

This book is appropriate for a 4th grade student working above his or her grade level, or as a great review and practice for a struggling 5th or 6th grader.

Your student will learn how to:

Recognize types of sentences
Understand sentence structure
Identify parts of speech
Use punctuation and capitalization together
Find her or his own grammar mistakes

Topics include: Sentences, Nouns, Verbs, Pronouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections, Punctuation and Capitalization,Usage and Proofreading

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5 Steps to a 5 on the AP: Writing the AP English Essay (5 Steps to a 5 on the Advanced Placement Examinations Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent review workbook for AP English writing exams. As a high school AP teacher, I am using this as a textbook in my junior and senior English classes with much success. The text is easy to read and very visual; that is, important points are highlighted, while activities are clearly noted with eye-catching icons. Most importantly, information found in this text is accurate and pertinent. Topics include modes of discourse (narration, exposition, etc.), rhetorical strategies and devices, in addition to vocabulary work, rubrics for scoring, etc. Adequate explanation and practice activities are provided, as well as sample student essays and AP exam questions. HIGHLY recommended for both students and teachers alike!

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75 Readings: An Anthology Review

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(More customer reviews)I adopted this book for two sections of ENG 101 at a community college. I know there is a controversy over teaching literature in ENG 101 and this is not a literary collection. Indeed, the selections are well rounded.
I approach teaching this class with several concerns foremost in my mind:
The poor vocabularies of today's young people.
The inadequate knowledge of science among the same group.
The manner in which discussions of history are conducted in this country.
The fact that so little literature is read by far too many of today's students.
The death of the sophomore literature survey course (Romantic Poets, Elizabethan Drama, Contemporary Drama, 19th C. American Literature, etc.)
I selected this book because it has selections on science, history and politics as well as memoirs and classics (Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal).
101 is the introduction to college writing and the course that teaches students how to research. I offer the students 8 choices of what I call projects, books which should serve as the basis for their research paper as well as for a compare and contrast paper (one of three essays). This semester, I offered them Shakespeare's 12th Night; The Short Stories of Eudora Welty; The Narrative of Frederick Douglass; Brave New World; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Poems of Love; the Ramona Quimby novels of Beverly Cleary, and Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould. The idea is to offer substance and choice; stimulate thought and dialog; familiarize them with history and science; look ahead to potential teaching careers and more.
I do not teach a political point of view. No responsible teacher should. That Buscemi and Smith included opposing views on global warming and social responsibility is wonderful. But, I do have problems with two of the essays, both in the cause and effect section. One is by Shelby Steele and the other by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. As both authors represent a conservative point of view, I would love to have the students read these essays. Steele's old essay, written in 1990, displays his anger and his conservative politics. Are these teenaged students sophisticated enough to tease out that his stance stems from both? Whitehead's piece earned from me the same criticism that others have leveled at the organization she co-directs, the National Marriage Project: that some of her (its) claims are not substantiated. Recognizing her tendency toward strawman arguments, I can choose to ignore her work, and, I probably will. However, I could pair it the Jonathan Kozal essay offered in the argument section of the book (and with a couple of selected installments of Mad Men, if I had the time), but. . . is there a value in offering an example of bad writing? That is the crux of the matter, isn't it?
So, why did Buscemi and Smith offer a flawed, incendiary piece (Steele's) and a sloppily written piece in an otherwise excellent anthology?

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75 Readings and 75 Readings Plus offer an outstanding collection of the most popular essays for first-year writing, at an affordable price.This edition boasts new readings about social issues and the environment, expanded argumentation coverage, and a section on mixed strategies—readings employing multiple rhetorical modes.

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Pocket Book of Technical Writing for Engineers & Scientists (McGraw-Hill's Best: Basic Engineering Series and Tools) Review

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(More customer reviews)Finkelstein does an alright job with this book. It includes a lot of examples to base your paper off of. It shows you business letters, proposals, technical mechinism reports. tech process reports, technical diffinitions, progress reports, resume stuff, formal letters, memos, etc.
It was required for my technical communications class for engineers. It's definately something to keep on the shelf for reference.

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The focus of this text is to teach engineering students the skill of technical writing. The book is unique in that it gets to the point, uses practical outlines throughout,and shows students how to produce the most common technical documents step-by-step, in a manner that is fun and interesting to students. Each chapter has an end-of-chapter critique which allows students to implement what they have learned in the chapter.
With ABET increasing the emphasis on technical writing,this affordable, straightforward, easy-to-understand text with flexible coverage, would be a perfect fit for your technical writing course.

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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form Review

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(More customer reviews)Fussell's foreword says that his book is for aspiring readers, not aspiring writers. But if you are an aspiring poet, I think Fussell has something to offer that is absent in most "handbooks".
One of the most important things Fussell addresses is how the form of a poem affects the meaning and impression of the total poem. For example, he notes how many poetic forms are inevitably coloured by their initial or most famous use. He says regarding Tennyson's In Memoriam stanza-form, that it "is now so closely associated with the sturdy, serviceable elegaic atmosphere of In Memoriam itself that...its uses now seem limited to occasions which either resemble or mock the original" (Ch 8 The English Stanzas).
Another chapter that poets will find helpful is Metrical Variations, in which Fussell examines how poets substitute variant feet to create particular effects. Or if your interest is in free verse, he devotes a chapter to examining the characteristics of successful free verse, including how line breaks create effects.
This is not a substitute for a general handbook of poetry, and assumes a minimal knowledge of poetic technique, meter, &c. But if you are serious about reading or writing poetry, I don't think you can afford to miss this book.


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The Dictionary of Criminal Justice (Textbook) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is a great referance book for students and people in the field of criminal justice. Not only can it help you acidemicaly but in real life situations. As a criminal justice student I use this book on a daily bases to complete a number of assinments not only for my teach Dr. Rush but other classes as well. I see myself in the future refering to this book often, to gain information about criminal justice related items. Once again I feel this is a great referance book.

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The Dictionary of Criminal Justice, Seventh Edition, brings together in one, easy-to-use guide more than 3,600 definitions from the many disciplines that compose the field of criminal justice—including U.S. and English common law, penology, psychology, law enforcement, political science, and business administration. The volume also features summaries of nearly 1,000 key U.S. Supreme Court rulings affecting criminal justice, an appendix of juried academic journals, and a new appendix compilation of websites in the field. Links to CRIMINAL JUSTICE websites are included. Visit www.mhhe.com/specialtopics for more information.

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Qualitative Methods in Social Research Review

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(More customer reviews)I have a fair amount of experience as a qualitative researcher (still lots to learn). I have also twice taught a qualitative research methods class for undergraduates. Based on my research experience, my knowledge of other research texts, and my experience and needs as a teacher, this is a terrific book. I am very glad I found it and recommend it without hesitation to other researchers, would-be researchers, and teachers of qualitative research methods, undergraduate or graduate.
Esterberg does a great job of presenting the essential approaches, techniques, and issues, in a very easy-to-read style. As a teacher, it was a pleasure to be able to assign a chapter to my students knowing that it would not be overly long, that they could read it with little difficulty, and that Esterberg presented what I wanted them to know. I didn't have to supplement to make up gaps, tell them to skip sections because the author tried to be encyclopedic, or spend a lot of time in class explaining portions that were unclear. I could instead build on what they read and focus on their actually learning what Esterberg presented.
Now if I could only find a text that does the same for quantitative methods...

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This accessible, engaging introduction to qualitative research methods covers a wide range of qualitative methods including ethnography, observation, interviewing, content analysis, and unobtrusive measures. The text also includes well-chosen research examples and exercises to help students understand and apply various research techniques.

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