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Beyond Child's Play: Sustainable Product Design in the Global Doll-Making Industry
Sally Edwards
Sustainable product design is more than eco design: it goes beyond “green” to consider the work environment, community impacts, consumer health, economic viability, and environmental attributes. This concept is explored in the context of the global toy industry, through three case studies of doll-making in China, Germany and Peru.
Clothbound list price: $44.95 + p&h.
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Train Your Brain: How to Maximize Memory Ability in Older Adulthood
Robert G. Winningham
Scientifically based suggestions are provided on how older adults can improve their memory ability. Topics such as cognitive stimulation, nutrition, depression, social support, stress, and sleep are addressed in the context of memory and aging. The book contains many activities that can be used in a cognitive enhancement program.
Paperbound list price: $58.95 + p&h.
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Lucky Man: A Matter of Life and Death
Written by Kent L. Koppelman with Paul Dominic Heckman
Produced by Jan Koppelman
A one-act play originally performed for the International Death, Grief and Bereavement Conference at La Crosse, Wisconsin, June, 2007. SYNOPSIS: A middle-aged man named Adam Mensch receives a surprise visit from the Angel of Death. Mensch protests that he is not ready to go, but the Angel insists that his time has come. The play presents their discussion before Adam agrees to leave with his visitor.
mp3 download price: $4.99
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Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication
Edited by Margaret Hundleby and Jo Allen
This book presents a broad view of current work in assessment in technical and professional communication, demonstrating differing purposes, uses, methods, and focus for helping faculty and program chairs determine how well students are learning in classrooms and experiential settings. A chapter-and-response format represents the dialogic nature of quality assessment work.
Clothbound list price: $56.95 + p&h
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Step Into Our Lives at the Funeral Home
Jo Michaelson
Interspersed through every chapter are stories and vignettes shared by many funeral directors throughout the Midwest, concerning the lifestyle for the family living in the funeral home and true incidents of specific funerals. Some stories are sad. Others are tragic. A few are humorous. Embracing faith, hope, and love is a primary requisite for healing.
Clothbound list price: $39.95 + p&h
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From Black Codes to Recodification: Removing the Veil from Regulatory Writing
Miriam F. Williams
A critical discourse analysis of historical regulations and a contextual inquiry into contemporary public policy writing demonstrate how regulatory invention has evolved and how these changes affect the perceptions of a contemporary African-American audience—one negatively affected by historical regulations and one for whom regulations were an introduction to technical documents.
Clothbound list price: $39.95 + p&h
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Wrestling With the Angel: Literary Writings and Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement
Kent Koppelman
Wrestling with the Angel addresses the human struggle to cope with death, dying, grief, and bereavement. The book includes essays, a one-act play, a short story, and poetry, including shape poems, rhyming, structured verse, and free verse.
Clothbound list price: $39.95 + p&h
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New Perspectives on Technical Editing
Edited by Avon J. Murphy
This book examines the thriving discipline of technical editing from several viewpoints: research methodologies, history of technical editing, course development, editing within organizations, copyediting, electronic editing, science editing, and editing of technical
journals; includes an annotated bibliography.
Clothbound list price: $47.95 + p&h
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Suicide and Homicide-Suicide Among Police
Antoon Lenaars
This book investigates in evidence-based detail the probable epidemic of suicide and homicide-suicide among police. Not only does the book present effective predictions and controls to stop the epidemic, it also offers best practices. The officer and forensic specialist will understand better what they are investigating and what we can do about it, to prevent further deaths.
Clothbound list price: $48.95 + p&h
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