Ethnic Diversity Source is a dedicated resource covering the culture, traditions, social treatment, and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides full text from a growing list of sources including peer-reviewed journals, magazines, e-books, biographies and primary source documents.
Trial runs through June 22, 2022
Ethnic Diversity Source database link: https://library.untdallas.edu/ethnic-diversity-source
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Image one: E-book titled 101+ Careers in Public Health (2016) - synopsis: Includes both familiar public health careers and emerging opportunities, including careers in the military, public health, and aging, as well as careers in cutting-edge areas such as nanotechnology and public health genetics. Readers will learn about modern approaches to public health programs, including the evolving study of implementation science and the increased role of community-based participatory research.
Image two: E-book titled Health Care for Veterans: Background, Education, System Reform, and Improvements (2020) - synopsis: The federal government’s role in providing health care to the nation’s veterans can be traced back to World War I. The VA provides health care and health-related services through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). VHA’s primary mission is to provide health care services to eligible veterans and some family members. The VHA is also statutorily required to conduct medical research, to train health care professionals, to serve as a contingency backup to the Department of Defense (DOD) medical system during a national security emergency, and to provide support to the National Disaster Medical System and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as necessary. This book provide information about veterans’ health care.
Image three: E-book titled The Management Game of Communication (2016) - synopsis: We still see many communication graduates with little business knowledge and business graduates with little communication knowledge. This schism leads communication scholars to assume that better communication is an end in itself while management see it as a means to an end – it must somehow contribute to the bottom line. How can strategic communication and public relations support corporations? What can communicators learn from management disciplines? Moreover, how should universities and business schools deal with the need to integrate research and education from different disciplines to advance the field? This book addresses these challenges and offers some answers.
Image one: E-book titled How to Break Bad News: A Guide for Health Care Professionals:(2016) - synopsis: Using plain, intelligible language, this book outlines the basic principles of breaking bad news and presents a technique, or protocol, that can be easily learned. It draws on listening and interviewing skills that consider such factors as: how much the patient knows and/or wants to know; how to identify the patient’s agenda and understanding; and how to respond to his or her feelings about the information. Also discusses reactions of family and friends and of other members of the health care team.
Image two: E-book titled Careers in Health Information Technology (2015) - synopsis: Describes 75 jobs and how to attain them. Information technology is one of the fastest-growing segments of the labor market. This practical, one-stop career guide describes the depth and breadth of job opportunities and careers currently available in health information technology (HIT), and helps readers to enter and advance within this expanding field. The book offers guidance for students in higher education and currently employed individuals looking for mid-career opportunities. It includes a description of educational requirements for success in the HIT field and major themes of the HIT workforce such as informatics, provider-based jobs, vendor, government, and payer-based employment.
Image one: E-book titled Working for Yourself: Law and Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers, and Gig Workers of All Types (2019) - synopsis: The all-in-one legal and tax resource every independent contractor and gig worker needs. Whether you’re starting a full-scale consulting business or booking gigs on the side, Working for Yourself provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place. This excellent, well-organized reference will also show you how to: decide the best form for your business (sole proprietor, LLC, or other); make sure you’re paid in full and on time; pay estimated taxes and avoid trouble with the IRS; take advantage of all available tax deductions; keep accurate records in case you get audited; and write legally binding contracts and letter agreements.
Image two: E-book titled Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide (2019) - synopsis: This book put together all the possible information with regards to cybersecurity, why you should choose it, the need for cybersecurity, and how you can be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit. Starting with the essential understanding of security and its needs, we will move to the security domain changes and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to secure systems. Later, this book will walk you through all the skills and tools that everyone who wants to work as a security personal needs to be aware of. Then, this book will teach readers how to think like an attacker and explore some advanced security methodologies.
Image one: E-book titled The Magic of Tiny Business: You Don't Have to Go Big To Make a Great Living (2018) - synopsis: Eco-Bags Products founder Sharon Rowe shares how a tiny business is built on maintaining a laser focus on what is essential by living an intentional life. As an entrepreneur and mother, Rowe is most concerned with putting family first, maintaining financial security, and doing something that makes an impact in the world. Using the success story of Eco-Bags Products, Rowe distills the step-by-step process of building a profitable, right-scaled, sustainable venture that doesn’t compromise your values. She shows you how to test your concept, manage your money and priorities, and more, while staying true to the “tiny” ethos.
Image two: E-book titled The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (2017) - synopsis: In The Work of Art, Alison Gerber explores art worlds to investigate who artists are (and who they’re not), why they do the things they do, and whether a sense of vocational calling and the need to make a living are as incompatible as we've been led to believe. Listening to the stories of artists from across the United States, Gerber finds patterns of agreements and disagreements shared by art-makers from all walks of life. For professionals and hobbyists alike, the alliance of love and money has become central to contemporary art-making, and danger awaits those who fail to strike a balance between the two. The stories artists tell are just as much a part of artistic practice as putting brush to canvas or chisel to marble.
Image one: E-book titled The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management (2017) - synopsis: This new handbook provides a context for approaching the world in which information professionals work; a tool, the Balanced Scorecard, to help demonstrate contribution and value; and a review of opportunities for new areas of employment and career development, ripe for applying the Information Services skill set. Through combinations of topical chapters with common themes, the professor and student will find a multi-perspective approach to the information management landscape.
Image two: E-book titled Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work (2019) - synopsis: Approximately 2.4 million Black youth participate in after-school programs, which offer a range of support, including academic tutoring, college preparation, political identity development, cultural and emotional support, and even a space to develop strategies and tools for organizing and activism. In Reclaiming Community, Bianca Baldridge tells the story of one such community-based program, Educational Excellence (EE), shining a light on both the invaluable role youth workers play in these spaces, and the precarious context in which such programs now exist.
Image one: E-book titled Occupational Stress: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Management Strategies (2019) - synopsis: Stress related work, although always present, is considered one of the new risks for occupational medicine. This is largely due to a general change in the organization of work, inevitable in a constantly evolving market. It is also due to the presence of objective and subjective indicators that allow a satisfactory, though very complex, risk assessment. Related work stress generates repercussions on the company at every level, with a reduction in productivity, a reduction in the corporate image, a reduction in the quality of service, an increase in absenteeism, and the dissatisfaction of workers. This book, written by authors from all over the world, will analyze some aspects of this increasingly relevant subject.
Image two: E-book titled The New Employee Manual: A No-Holds-Barred Look at Corporate Life (2019) - synopsis: Welcome to Corporate Life. The New Employee Manual is not your Dad's or Mom's employee manual. It's the new playbook for corporate survival, fitting today's realities and the challenges facing employees who join or work in large, seemingly successful companies. Those companies already issued very specific and detailed employee manuals covering everything under the sun except how to compete well in our brave new world. The New Employee Manual will help you navigate the Corporate (with a capital C) labyrinth.
Image one: E-book titled Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices (2019) - synopsis: This book is a compilation of manuscripts and studies that explore partnerships and strategies educators and educational leaders use to produce positive socio-educational outcomes for Black students in various contexts. Creating and Sustaining Effective K-12 School Partnerships: Firsthand Accounts of Promising Practices is unique because it illuminates examples of effective school-community partnerships that foster positive student outcomes. This book is intended as a practical text for committed educational leaders, at different professional points (e.g., practicing teachers, pre-service school counselors and teachers), who are eager to transform the current educational trajectory of Black children through interventions that show promise.
Image two: E-book titled Teaching ELLs across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies (2016) - synopsis: The book, Teaching ELLs across Content Areas: Issues and Strategies, is a unique, useful text written for K–12 teachers. This book is the culmination of the professional knowledge, expertise, and experience from the distinguished authors who represent the entire range of the content areas, including: language arts, science, mathematics, technology, arts, psychology, and Hispanic studies. This book provides the most needed information for K-12 teachers with issues and strategies that are important in content areas to help ELLs‘ success. Second, the book fills the gap related to teaching ELLs in content areas. There are some existing books with titles on teaching ELLs across content areas; yet, these books provide general information with fewer books that really address specific content topics. This book is unique because it has the dedicated chapters for specific content areas, e.g., Language Arts, Science, Math, Social Studies with issues and strategies in these respective contents as well as general information, e.g., L2 theories for teachers to know and work with ELLs. Third, each chapter begins with a scenario to catch the reader's attention, is followed by issues and strategies, and ends with a summary. A scenario begins with each chapter for teachers to get to know the ELLs with the content that focuses on the related information and teaching strategies.
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LinkedIn Learning Video Courses
Course title: Expert Tips for Answering Common Interview Questions
Course description: There are certain questions that interviewers volley at nearly all interviewees—regardless of the position or industry—in an attempt to get a read on their personality and potential. In this collection of bite-sized videos, get expert tips that can help you confidently tackle common interview questions—and, ultimately, ace your next job interview. Plus, get insights on how to dress for your interview, project confidence with your body language, negotiate your salary, and more.
Image one: E-book titled Saving the Earth as a Career: Advice on Becoming a Conservation Professional (2016) - synopsis: Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: Is this the right career for you? - Designing a program of study - Designing and executing a project - Attending conferences and making presentations - Writing papers - Finding a job - Making a difference
Image two: E-book titled Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse (2016) - synopsis: The written works of nature's leading advocates—from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few—have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite having in common a definitively rhetorical focus, the contributions in this book reflect a variety of methods and approaches. Some concentrate on a single speaker and a single speech. Others look at several speeches. Some are historical in orientation, while others are more theoretical.
Course title: Optimize Your Resume for Applicant Tracking Systems
Course description: In this course, career strategist Jenny Foss explains how recruiters use applicant tracking software, as well as how to create a winning resume—one that’s not just a compelling read for recruiters, but also optimized for the ATS. Discover how applicant tracking systems work and how to select keywords to maximize your chances for success. Explore how your choice of formatting, fonts, and graphics can trip up the ATS. Plus, learn about the best type of resume for the ATS, as well as how to rework your own resume to ensure it gets into the hands of the right person.
Image one: E-book titled The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Step-By-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear (2017) - synopsis: There’s nothing wrong with being shy. But if shyness or social anxiety keeps you from building meaningful relationships with others, advancing in your education or career, or simply living your best life, The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you confront your fears and become actively involved in the world. This book incorporates breakthrough new research and techniques for overcoming social phobia, including a new chapter on mindfulness-based treatments, updated information on medications, and an overview of treatment-enhancing technological advances. As you complete the activities in this workbook, you'll learn to find your strengths and weaknesses using self-evaluation, explore and examine your fears, create a personalized plan for change, and put your plan into action through gentle and gradual exposure to the very social situations that cause you to feel uneasy.
Image two: E-book titled Emotion and Proactivity at Work: Prospects and Dialogues (2021) - synopsis: Individuals’ behaviors at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments. In this pioneering work, expert scholars offer new thinking on the process by examining how emotion can drive employees’ proactivity in the workplace and how, in turn, that proactivity can shape one’s emotional experiences.
Course title: Writing a Cover Letter
Course description: In this course, join career strategist and Certified Professional Resume Writer Jenny Foss as she dives into the topic of cover letters, detailing how to craft one that helps you land the interview and—ultimately—the job. Explore the elements of an exceptional cover letter and learn how to craft a killer lead, provide direct evidence for why your skills align with a position, and close on a strong note. Plus, Jenny shares tips for getting your polished letter directly into the hands of decision-makers.
Image one: E-book titled Careers in Sports and Fitness (2017) - synopsis: Serves as a stepping stone in understanding specific careers and provides a wealth of information on the education and training needed within each profession along with a look towards the future of the field with an informative employment outlook.
Image two: E-book titled Occupational Outlook Handbook - synopsis: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings, and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
Course Title: Rocking Your LinkedIn Profile
Course description: Explore how to create a LinkedIn profile that brings your personal career story to life, whether you’re just starting out, seeking to advance, or making a career change. Instructor Lauren Jolda—head of the "Rock Your Profile" team at LinkedIn—offers tips on tailoring each section, starting with the key insight that a LinkedIn profile is unique and shouldn’t be approached exactly like a resume. Lauren covers ways to add media to a profile, methods for showcasing your career accomplishments and aspirations, and specific examples of profile phrases and language that can help inspire your personal story.
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Image two: E-book titled The Ultimate Job Hunting Book (2018) - synopsis: From crafting the perfect CV and finding the job of your dreams, to writing a great cover letter and winning at interview, The Ultimate Job Hunting Book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately.
Image three: E-book titled The Essential Job Interview Handbook (2013) - synopsis: The Essential Job Interview Handbook will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews.
