Study and application of basic principles of effective extemporaneous speaking, including audience analysis and adaptation, topic selection, research, organization, and presentation skills.
Chapter 1: Why Public Speaking Matters Today
Chapter 2: Building Confidence
Chapter 3: Audience Analysis
Chapter 4: The Importance of Listening
Chapter 5: Ethics
Chapter 6: Researching Your Speech
Chapter 7: Supporting Ideas and Building Arguments
Chapter 8: Organizing and Outlining
Chapter 9: Delivery
Chapter 10: Introductions and Conclusions
Chapter 11: Language
Chapter 12: Presentation Aids
Chapter 13 Informative Speaking
Chapter 14: Persuasive Speaking
Chapter 15: Special Occasion Speaking
Chapter 16: Online Public Speaking

CK-12 Life Science Honors For Middle School covers seven units: Understanding Living Things; Cells: The Building Blocks of Life; Genetics and Evolution; Prokaryotes, Protists, Fungi, and Plants; The Animal Kingdom; The Human Body; and Ecology.

The Mass Media Landscape is a compilation of lessons to help audiences understand the evolution of U.S. mass media and disruptive media technologies. It includes overviews of media law, media ethics and media literacy.

Chapters contain interactive exercises, review quizzes, writing assignments, and multimedia content.

Series: digitalculturebooks
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/dcbooks.8232214.0001.001
Published: Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Theories of Media Evolution — w. russell neuman
Newspaper Culture and Technical Innovation, 1980–2005 — pablo j. boczkowski
From the Telegraph and Telephone to the Negroponte Switch — rich ling
Hollywood 2.0: How Internet Distribution Will Affect the Film Industry — eli noam
The Evolution of Radio — john carey
Inventing Television: Citizen Sarnoff and One Philo T. Farnsworth — evan i. schwartz
The Cable Fables: The Innovation Imperative of Excess Capacity — harmeet sawhney
Some Say the Internet Should Never Have Happened — paul n. edwards
Privacy and Security Policy in the Digital Age — amitai etzioni
Who Controls Content? The Future of Digital Rights Management — gigi sohn and timothy schneider
Contributors
Index

This textbook is designed to teach medical terminology, the language of medicine, in an engaging and meaningful way. Learning medical terminology will allow the learner to more easily understand the language of medicine and utilize this knowledge throughout their academic and medical-based career.
I. Introduction to Word Parts and Medical Language Rules
II. Directional Terms and Anatomic Planes, Regions and Quadrants
III. Body Structure, Color, and Oncology
IV. Musculoskeletal System
V. Nervous System
VI. Endocrine System
VII. Integumentary System
VIII. Cardiovascular System - Part I: The Heart
IX. Cardiovascular System - Part II: Blood and Blood Vessels
X. Cardiovascular System - Part III: The Lymphatic and Immune Systems
XI. Respiratory System
XII. Digestive System
XIII. Urinary System
XIV. Male Reproductive System
XV. Female Reproductive System
XVI. Embryology, Pregnancy, and Neonatology
XVII. Eye and Ear

Survey of World History from 1500 CE to the Present.
Chapter 1: The World at 1500
Chapter 2: New Encounters
Chapter 3: The Americas and the Impact of Columbus
Chapter 4: The Question of Freedom and the Age of Revolutions
Chapter 5: The Troubled Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6: Imperialism
Chapter 7: The Great War
Chapter 8: The Modern Crisis
Chapter 9: World War II
Chapter 10: Decolonization
Chapter 11: Cold War
Chapter 12: Globalization
Chapter 13: The Anthropocene

This text covers basic elements and vocabulary of music; appreciation and understanding of diverse styles of music past and present; developing listening skills. Includes opportunities for experiencing music (recorded and/or live).
I. Music Fundamentals
II. History of Western Music before 1600
III. History of Western Music after 1600
IV. Music of the 20th and 21st Centuries
V. Listening to Genres
VI. Music of Louisiana, the Americas, and the World

CK-12 Foundation's Basic Probability and Statistics - A Short Course is an introduction to theoretical probability and data organization. Students learn about events, conditions, random variables, and graphs and tables that allow them to manage data.