This second edition of New Media Futures anchors a foundational course in a New Media Program, which treats social research, media management, and media production as central to media education. While maintaining an emphasis on aesthetics, design, and production, this updated edition situates new media within broader questions of human behavior and disciplinary practice. The book examines intersections between communication and adjacent fields, and engages emerging debates in attention, information, artificial intelligence, and future-oriented methods. Designed to support intellectually-adventurous engagement, the text encourages readers to connect concepts across domains while developing a sensibility about communication’s role in shaping possible futures.

Inclusive Teaching Online: Evidence-Based Strategies to Support Student Success in Higher Education addresses the complexities of teaching diverse and often nontraditional adult students in asynchronous online environments. Centered in evidence-based approaches for creating welcoming, engaging, and supportive online classrooms, this text illustrates what inclusive online teaching looks like across disciplines in higher education. The book begins by discussing a curated set of learning design frameworks that complement the facilitation strategies recommended throughout the book, then unpacks key barriers that online students face. The heart of the book is a tool kit of inclusive facilitation strategies, including crafting instructor self-introductions; implementing practical tactics for getting to know students; forging meaningful connections; and making intentional choices that foster learning, belonging, and a sense of community among learners. The text includes considerations and special advice about some of the more challenging aspects of delivering online courses, such as facilitating discussions around a complex topic or teaching social justice themes. Ideal for instructors and teaching assistants, this book is a comprehensive guide to applying inclusive teaching practices online; it also offers valuable insights for instructional designers and faculty developers, student affairs personnel, academic advisors, and higher education administrators—making the case for intentional choices that connect explicitly to the needs of online learners.

Software engineering can help people create sustainable, extensible programs that solve problems people care about.

I won’t tell you how to be a software engineer; you’ll learn that over time by doing it. Instead, this book is about software engineering methods: Ways people achieve specific objectives in software engineering—that can save your project. My hope is that, after reading this book (or parts of it), you’ll feel better equipped for software engineering.

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Arguments are all around us. Everywhere we look, someone is trying to get our attention, change our minds, or sell us something. Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform those attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer–from evidence to structure to tone–impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.
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Thirty-five experienced and accomplished higher education leaders have come together to provide twenty-five essays on twelve topics about which all leaders, aspiring leaders and students of higher education should be informed. This is a labor of love, provided for free electronically, and there are no star turns here. Each essay is focused on providing the reader with advice based on wisdom acquired from lessons learned. Some topics covered include: beginning and completing a leadership position, responding to authority, establishing accountability, budget policy, long-term planning, affordability and student success, creating a safe community, fundraising, research funding, college athletics, and crisis management.
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Gender violence occurs within every country, continent, and cultural context, affecting women, girls, and LGBTQIA+ people of all racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, socioeconomic, ability, and age groups, including all sexualities. Gender violence is one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world.

Advances in drug development over the past 50 years for human diseases have facilitated an increase in prescribed drugs in veterinary medicine. This textbook reorients the general principles of pharmacology from humans to animals to better engage veterinary students and practitioners. It explores the general principles of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics before applying them to clinical pharmacology, dose calculations, and toxicity. Terminology is presented simply, and drug examples are omitted to maintain clarity and focus.

This textbook is focused specifically on the principles and concepts of a foundational Cell Biology course. The book takes a more conceptual approach that highlights how scientists study cells, and how to analyze and interpret experimental results. Rather than focusing primarily on historical experiments that were key to our understanding of cells, the book explores a range of more modern experimental techniques so that students can begin to understand how cells are studied now, in the 21^st century. The book includes over 200 newly created illustrations and animations, that were specifically designed for this book, as well as review questions at the end of each chapter, to help students explore and understand the material.

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During the past few years, we’ve witnessed how interconnected our world is. These instances of global interconnection—both positive and negative—have differing impacts on people based on gender while also creating and reinforcing the ways people experience gender. We see that experiences of gender are always shaped by nationality, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, social class, ability, age, and religion. This social construction of gender, its shaping of the world, and its effects on individuals and groups of people are at the core of this textbook.
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