Additional features

Pressbooks can create call-out boxes and pull quotes to make your text visually more appealing and highlight certain text elements. These boxes can be colored to help them stand out and separate them from the rest of your text and provide your students with structural clues.

To indicate where you want call-out boxes or pull quotes in your manuscript, add

Call-out box types

Call-out boxes can be the width of the readers’ screen or created as a right-hand sidebar. Call-out boxes are often used for the following purposes:

• Identify Learning objectives or outcomes that align with the textbook content, typically identified at the beginning of each unit, chapter, or chapter section.

An example of a colored box highlighting learning objectives in Pressbooks (State and Local Government and Politics: Prospects for Sustainability (2nd Ed.))

• Identify Exercises, discussion questions, essay questions, or other methods for the student to self-test during reading or for the instructor to use for grading.

An example of a colored box highlighting with discussion questions in Pressbooks (State and Local Government and Politics: Prospects for Sustainability (2nd Ed.))

• Sidebars – Useful to call attention to concepts or terms, key points, or key takeaways

Example:

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Your text will wrap around the call-out box. To request a right-side justified call-out box, please note in your text

• Identify Bibliography/suggested/additional readings or resources lists at the end of each chapter or in the back matter.

Reading List

Burby, Raymond J., Cooperating with Nature. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C.; 1998 pp. 356.
Burton, Ian; Kates. Robert W., and White, Gilbert P., The Environment as Hazard. 2nd revised ed. New York: The Guilford Press: 1993. 290 pp.
Coch, Nicholas K., Geohazards – Natural and Human. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: 1995 pp. 1- 481.
Cohen, Joel E., How Many People Can the Earth Support? W.W. Norton and Co., 1995.
Godshalk, David R., Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David J. Brower, and Edward J. Kaiser, Charles. C. Bohl, and R. Mathew Goebel. Natural Hazard Mitigation – Recasting Disaster Policy and Mitigation. Washington DC: Island Press. 1999. 575 pp.
Kunreuther, Howard; Roth, Richards, Paying the Price. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C. 1998. 300pp.
Mileti, Dennis S.: “Disasters by Design – A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States”. Washington DC, Joseph Henry Press; 1999. pp. 351.
Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents. Living with High-Risk Technologies. Basic Books (US), 1984. pp. 386.

An example of an uncolored box of suggestions for further reading in Pressbooks

Pull quotes

Pressbooks can generate pull quotes either on the left or right of the text. Please note that in the digital version of the text, it can be difficult to position the pull quote in a very specific spot since the text will reformat depending on the size of the reader’s screen.

Pull quotes should be used sparingly and only to highlight important points or ideas.

Example:

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To indicate a pull quote in your manuscript