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• From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits
  From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits is a practical primer on the ways of understanding, building, designing and innovating an effective digital fundraising program. With a strong foundation, there’s no limit to what you will be able to build.
• Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience For Any Group
  Design to Engage is a “how to” book that will help you become an effective designer and facilitator of learning events.
• Librarian’s Guide to Games and Gamers: From Collection Development to Advisory Services
  As games grow ever-more ubiquitous in our culture and communities, they have become popular staples in public library collections and are increasing in prominence in academic ones. Many librarians, especially those who are not themselves gamers or are only acquainted with a handful of games, are ill-prepared to successfully advise patrons who use games. This book provides the tools to help adult and youth services librarians to better understand the gaming landscape and better serve gamers in discovery of new games.
• Unlocking the Potential of Puzzle-based Learning: Designing Escape Rooms and Games for the Classroom
  Discover the educational power of puzzle-based learning with escape games! Understand the principles of effective game design, the power of well-crafted narratives and how different game mechanics can support varied learning objectives. Applying escape room concepts to the classroom, this book offers practical advice on how to create immersive, collaborative learning experiences for your students without the need for expensive resources and tools. Packed with examples, including a full sample puzzle game for you to use with your students, this book is a primer for classroom teachers on designing robust learning activities using problem-solving principles.
• Intermediate Accounting
• Numerical Methods: Basics and Coding in MATLAB
  This book teaches the basics of numerical methods and how to code them in MATLAB. This book has been written by four authors from different universities: Foad Ghasemi (Laurier, Canada), Ahmad Ghasemi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA), Hamed Ghasemi (Shiraz University, Iran) and Hamed Aderang (Hormozgan Regional Water Company, Iran).
• Positive Psychology Arts Activities: Creative Tools for Therapeutic Practice and Supervision
  This book contains a wealth of practical arts activities that creatively bring positive psychology concepts to life. It gives overviews of different positive psychology concepts, with accompanying arts activities and case illustrations.
• Handbook of Group Decision and Negotiation
  The second edition of this defining handbook provides an up-to-date reference on approaches to the principles and practice of negotiation, group decision-making, and collaboration. It includes the origins, development, and prospects of electronic negotiation, as well as on-line or computer-based arbitration. It constitutes a comprehensive guide to how traditional issues in negotiation, such as knowledge, language, strategy, fairness and justice, have been transformed by technology.
• Field Guide to Solid State Physics
  This Field Guide provides an overview of the basic principles of solid state physics, focusing on the practical aspects and device applications. Topics include crystal structures and dynamics, band structures, quantum structures, semiconductors, superconductors, and magnetism. Essential equations and simple diagrams efficiently convey the concepts that form the core of this field.
• Linear Algebra
  This book is intended as a textbook for a one-term undergraduate second linear algebra course, which prepares students for both applied mathematics and pure mathematics, in particular, for Galois Theory.
• Group Dynamics in Sport
  Group Dynamics in Sport, 5th edition, provides readers with the most current theories and practices of group dynamics in sport teams. In this updated edition, each chapter identifies and discusses key theoretical concepts of group dynamics and offers extensive and relevant examples that reinforce the principles covered.
• Globalization and Diversity in Education: What Does it Mean for Teacher Education?
  This book is the result of a biannual working conference of the Canadian Association for Teacher Education. Education researchers from across Canada met to critically analyze and discuss the impact of diversity and globalization on teacher education.
• Introducing Linguistics: Theoretical and Applied Approaches
  Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain.
• The Oxford Handbook on Music and Medievalism
  The Handbook provides a snapshot of the growing field of medievalism—broadly construed as the retrospective immersion in the images, sounds, narratives, and ideologies of the European Middle Ages—in music, bringing together scholars to explore a wide variety of past and present genres in which medievalism is present. Thirty-four essays by international scholars writing on subjects from nineteenth-century opera to contemporary video game music. Co-edited with American, Stephen C. Meyer.