This rhetorically-driven, genre-based handbook prepares university writers to write in different ways for different courses, professional contexts, and civic and everyday scenarios. It helps them to be every kind of writer - one who slips in and out of a range of roles, writing situations, and conversations. It gives novice writers the versatility and confidence to succeed. It helps them to enter coversations, plan documents, cite sources, check facts, and understand (even question) language ...

This is a condensed companion text to Technical Communication, offering a brief guide to practical strategies for technical communication.

*A New York Times Notable Book*

*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice*

*A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year*

Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him as a chaos of loud and colorful sounds: the hair dryers at his mother's beauty parlor, black mamba bicycle bells, mechanics in Nairobi, the music of Michael Jackson-all punctuated by the infectious laughter of his brother and sister, Jim...

Worldwide Destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism is a unique text that explores tourism demand, supply, organisation and resources for every country worldwide. The eighth edition is brought up to date with features such as: An exploration of current issues such as climate change, overtourism, expedition cruises, film tourism, economic and cultural impacts of tourism. New and updated case studies throughout.

More emphasis on South-east Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Online resour...

Writing about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays — one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary...

A concise title that connects students to the field of developmental psychology

This title connects students to the field of developmental psychology in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way. With just 15 concise chapters and an epilogue this text is the right length for a single term. Throughout this brief presentation, students will encounter an extraordinary range of research breakthroughs, theories, practices, and stories, all conveyed in Berger’s signature narrative voice. ...

The updated sixth edition of International Human Resource Management is an authoritative resource that focuses on international human resource management (IHRM) within multinational enterprises (MNEs). The book includes fifteen chapters with rich pedagogy students have come to expect and is organized into four sections:Strategic ContextNational and Cultural ContextGlobal Talent ManagementRole and the Future of IHRMEach chapter has been designed to lead readers through key topics in a highly e...

Technical Communication prepares students to make the leap from writing in college to writing in a variety of workplace settings and contexts.

Proven advice for an evolving field Technical Communication prepares you to be a strong technical writer outside the classroom, giving you the tools to adapt to changing professional contexts. Full of clear, practical advice and real-world examples, the thirteenth edition shines a light on the challenges of writing in different contexts across a variet...

The Dynamics of International Business offers a comparative, chronological overview of the strategic and structural evolution of international firms. Organized around eras of global economic development, the text synthesizes research on the internationalization of firms, highlighting crucial turning points in the evolution of the international economy. A particular emphasis is placed on the relationship between historical evidence and the theoretical frameworks available for its interpretation.

Each period is illustrated by a selection of short case studies from a variety of industry sectors, including the Levant Company, Nestle, Singer, Saint Gobain and NEC. An essential textbook for courses in business and economic history, this book will also be a valuable resource for scholars and students of international business more generall...

A tale from the Brothers Grimm provides inspiration for three gifted students from the world-renowned Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Khang Le, Mike Yamada, and Felix Yoon were guided by their instructor, Scott Robertson, to create original design solutions for the environments, characters, props, and vehicles found within The Skillful Huntsman . The trio's sketches and full-color renderings thoroughly document the creative process of concept design, revealing a host of ...