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List of contents
Unit I: Business
from Bovée/Thill:
Business Communication Today, Tenth Edition
Chapter 3:Communicating in a World of Diversity
Unit II: Allied Health
from Berman, Snyder, Kozier, and Erb:
Fundamentals of Nursing: Concepts, Process, and Practice, Eighth Edition
Chapter 45:Sleep
Unit III: Mathematics
from Bennett and Briggs: Using and Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, Fourth Edition
Chapter 1:Mathematics and the Arts
Unit IV: History
from Carnes and Garraty: The American Nation: A History of the United States, Thirteenth Edition, Volume One To 1877
Chapter 2:American Society in the Making
Unit V: Humanities and the Visual Arts
“Observation,” by Daniel Orozco
“The Other Two” by Elizabeth Wharton
Unit VI: Psychology
from Wood, Wood, and Boyd:
Mastering the World of Psychology, Third Edition
Chapter 10:Health and Stress
Summary
The Pearson Textbook Reader(formerly The Longman Textbook Reader) enables instructors to supplement their main textbook with sample chapters drawn from college textbooks.
Six full textbook chapters drawn various disciplines offer students more practice with actual college material and prepare them for readings they will encounter in later semesters. Each chapter includes an introduction to the discipline, additional comprehension quizzes, critical thinking questions, and group activities to help students develop schema and to reinforce their learning.