Communicating the excitement and importance of criminal justice research, this practical and comprehensive book shows students how to perform and understand statistical analyses, while helping them recognize the connection between statistical analyses used in everyday life and their importance to criminology and criminal justice. This updated Fifth Edition is packed with real-world case studies and contemporary examples utilizing the most current crime data and empirical research available. E...

With a focus on the tools needed for working in the PR industry, Public Relations Campaigns: An Integrated Approach gives students a hands-on introduction to creating successful, integrated PR campaigns. Authors Regina M. Luttrell and Luke W.

Capizzo present the ROSTIR model (research/diagnosis, objectives, strategy, tactics, implementation, and reporting/evaluation) and PESO model (paid, earned, shared/social, and owned media) to show students a framework for practitioners to plan effectivel...

How to Think empowers you to pause, think twice and, above all, think well. A short and punchy essentials guide, it introduces the fundamental habits and practices for critical thinking and gives 10 key concepts for applying and building clear thinking for effective study.

A Super Quick guide to developing your information literacy skills, from identifying and evaluating sources to challenging misinformation and fake news.

Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field provides students with an understanding of sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations through an examination of a wide range of topics. Authors Andrew C. Billings and Michael L.

Butterworth address everything from youth to amateur to professional sports through varied lenses, including mythology, community, and identity. A comprehensive focus on communication scholarship gives attention to the ways that sports produce, maintain, or resist c...

Meeting the needs of gender science today, The Psychology of Sex and Gender provides students with balanced coverage of men and women that is grounded in psychological science. The dynamic author team of Jennifer K. Bosson, Camille E.

Buckner, and Joseph A. Vandello paints a complete, vibrant picture of the field through the presentation of classic and cutting-edge research, historical contexts, examples from pop culture, cross-cultural universality and variation, and coverage of nonbinary id...