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Image one: Need data or statistics? F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting - Data and statistics on crime in the United States; law enforcement officers killed and assaulted; hate crime statistics; cargo theft; and human trafficking. URL: www.ucr.fbi.gov
Image two: Need data or statistics? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Data and statistics on alcohol use; deaths and mortality; healthy aging; life expectancy; and more. URL: www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics
Image three: Need data or statistics? United States Census Bureau - Data on population, economy, education; employment, and more. URL: www.census.gov
Image one: E-book titled Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills to Handle Stress and Everything Else (2016) - synopsis: Presents a unique, evidence-based approach to help you make important life decisions with clarity and confidence. As a twenty-something, you may feel like you are being pulled in dozen different directions. The Koru Mindfulness program, developed at Duke University and already in use on numerous college campuses and in treatment centers across the country, is the only evidence-based mindfulness training program for young adults that has been empirically proven to have significant benefits for sleep, perceived stress, and self-compassion. Now, with The Mindful Twenty-Something, this popular program is accessible to all young adults struggling with stress.
Image two: E-book titled Studying Film with Andre Bazin (2019) - synopsis: Offers an entirely original interpretation of major concepts from Bazin’s legacy, such as auteur theory, realism, film language and the influence of film on other arts (poetry and painting in particular). By examining mostly unknown and uncollected texts, Blandine Joret explains Bazin’s methodology and adopts it in a contemporary reading, linking his ideas to major philosophical and scientific frameworks as well as more recent media practices such as advertising, CGI, 3D cinema and Virtual Reality.
Image three: E-book titled I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (2017) - synopsis: Presents the autobiographies of thirteen Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College, ten of them current and recent students. The autobiographies contained in I Am Where I Come From explore issues of native identity, adjustment to the college environment, cultural and familial influences, and academic and career aspirations.
Image one: Resources - HeinOnline is a database containing legal journal articles, government documents, and legal treatises.
Image two: Resources - Nexis Uni features more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources - including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Image one: E-book titled The Public Domain: Find and Use Free Content for Your Website, Book, App, Music, Video, Art, and More (2020) - synopsis: The only book that helps you find and identify which creative works are protected by copyright and which are not, The Public Domain covers the rules for: writings, music, art, photography, architecture, maps, choreography, movies, video, software, databases, and collections. For the first time in decades, new works began to enter the public domain in 2019, and more are entering each year. The 9th edition is completely updated to include new public domain resources and to cover the latest legal changes to copyright protection of songs, books, photos, and other creative works, as well as public domain rules outside the U.S.
Image two: E-book titled Keywords for Environmental Studies (2016) - synopsis: Keywords for Environmental Studies analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences, and the sciences of nature.
Image one: Resources - WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music, and movies - all the physical items you can get from a library.
Image two: Resources - Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of over 3,000 published reference works from more than 100 publishers in a variety of major subjects, including general and subject dictionaries, as well as encyclopedias.
Image one: Becoming a Scholar: Cross-cultural Reflections on Identity and Agency in an Education Doctorate (2021) - synopsis: This book provides a window into the lives of nine non-traditional doctoral students. As mature, part-time, international students enrolled in a professional doctorate program, the students reflect on the transformation process of becoming scholars, as their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section of cultures, identities, and communities. The volume brings the “human face” behind the doctoral journey to the forefront, as the narratives draw much-needed attention to the personal journey that inevitably parallels and intersects with the academic journey.
Image two: A Beginner's Guide to Critical Thinking and Writing in Health and Social Core (2015) - synopsis: This bestselling guide takes you through every stage of becoming a critical thinker, from approaching your subject to writing your essays or dissertation in health and social care. Each chapter tackles a different aspect of critical thinking and shows you how it's done using examples and simple language.
Image one: Resources - EBSCO Host provides users with a streamlined search of multiple databases through a single search box.
Image two: Resources - ProQuest is the largest single periodical resource available, brining together complete databases across all major subject areas.
Image three: Remember! Before you search for articles, make sure both "Full Text" and "Scholarly/Peer Reviewed" are check marked.
Image one: E-book titled The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide (2019) - synopsis: All the tips, ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications, are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively. Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications studies.
Image two: E-book titled Fundamental College Composition (2017) - synopsis: Provides a sub-structure of grammar study sufficient to bring a modern student to a basic understanding of the foundations of compositional language arts. It confronts struggling writers with their compositional shortcomings, presents them with a kit of fundamental grammatical tools, explains the tools' purposes and functions, and invites students to write, revise, and re-write in short bursts of directed prose. It avoids every intricacy of grammatical science that does not apply directly and practically to the production of clear, concise sentences and structured paragraphs.
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Image two: E-book titled Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence (2016) - synopsis: Designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes.
