Designed and written specifically for career college students this book is built around 10 Essential Cornerstones identified and reviewed by the... foremost in career college instructors, administrators and students.  The book includes features to engage the career college student in topics of interested that will impact them both personally and professionally.  It begins by teaching students to discover their potential, embrace change, and thrive through goal setting.  The book builds academic success with: learning styles, personality types, becoming an active learner, listenting and note taking, empowering memory, test taking, critical thinking and problem solving.  It concludes by addressing all the topics a student needs to prepare for the global economy and move into the workplace.  As with all books in the well-known Cornerstone franchise, you will find concrete applications, a conversational tone, and a motivational tone.  

The Third Edition is written specifically for the career college student focusing on their unique needs with financial aid, study tips, motivation,... learning strategies, and technology.    Cornerstones for Career College Success will help career college students adjust to life in higher education, become self-motivated, master technology, use study strategies successfully, communicate more effectively, and create a dynamic job-search plan. Every student story is written by a student who graduated from a career college. New to this edition is the addition of Bloom's Taxonomy (critical thinking) integrated throughout and the total incorporation of SQ3R (reading comprehension).  New chapters include, Connect, that focuses on using technology in the educational setting, Prosper, which offers updated financial management strategies such as information about student loans, scholarships, and managing debt, and Plan, the career planning chapter has been completely revised with many sample cover letters and resumes including scannable and electronic resume preparation.   

For Orientation, Introduction to College, and College Seminar courses.  This book is written especially for community college students. While it... follows in the tradition of the Cornerstone franchise, the content, examples, and exercises are specifically dedicated to the interests, challenges and needs of the community college student.    Cornerstones for Community College Success includes all the traditional subjects found in student success courses, but goes above and beyond the average book. A wide variety of academic skills is presented, as well as chapters designed to guide students of all ages and backgrounds including creating a successful future, introducing college culture, and planning for transition. Extensive coverage of Information Literacy and Emotional Intelligence is included. A comprehensive Transfer guide and "Four Year Success Plan" are provided. Every chapter has an inspirational story written by community college graduates that tell how their experiences changed their lives. Exercises that promote critical thinking, problem solving and decision making are interwoven throughout.

The Second Edition is written specifically for college students who are preparing to go into the workforce.    Cornerstones for... Professionalism prepares students for the workplace through a wide variety of techniques and strategies and shows them how to continue their upward mobility once on the job. Significantly expanded and updated to cover every aspect of the graduate's role in the workplace, the book focuses on a full gamut of preparation skills designed to assist students in getting the right job and maximizing their performance. It is filled with timely information including ethics development, personal financial management, goal setting strategies, priority and stress management related to the workplace, navigation of the human resource management maze, delivering excellent customer service techniques, working effectively with multigenerational colleagues, functioning on a global virtual team, using technology to work more productively, managing conflict and difficult people, finding the right career and driving productivity, and learning to navigate change while in a career. Unique features include Digital Briefcase © and Professionals from the Field. Among several new chapters, Understanding Financial Intelligence and Effective Communications for the Social Media Generation are sure to benefit students. 

This introduction to coaching text is for beginning coaching education courses and for sport coaches at all levels interested in improving their... coaching skills. It is designed to be used as a classroom text or as a resource guide for any online, seminar, or self-directed coaching education course. This text introduces and covers all 40 of the most recent NASPE National Standards for Sport Coaches and all of the criteria listed under the 2009 NASPE position statement on Coaches Code of Conduct. Contents:

Providing the most up-to-date and thorough coverage of cost management topics, Hansen/Mowen's CORNERSTONES OF COST ACCOUNTING provides students with a... solid foundation with its unique Cornerstones approach. Created from our research on student learning behavior, this step-by-step format helps students understand the How, Why, and What Ifs of solving and mastering basic cost management topics, while also getting at the conceptual nature of each equation or topic. This relevant text also addresses some of the most recent processes affecting the discipline such as a chapter on productivity measurement and lean accounting.

Providing the most up-to-date and thorough coverage of cost management topics, Hansen/Mowen's CORNERSTONES OF COST ACCOUNTING provides students with a... solid foundation with its unique Cornerstones approach. Created from our research on student learning behavior, this step-by-step format helps students understand the How, Why, and What Ifs of solving and mastering basic cost management topics, while also getting at the conceptual nature of each equation or topic. This relevant text also addresses some of the most recent processes affecting the discipline such as a chapter on productivity measurement and lean accounting.

Introduce students to the how and the why of cost management with Hansen/Mowen's CORNERSTONES OF COST MANAGEMENT! This text provides a strong foundation... with its unique step-by-step Cornerstones learning system and asks them to take understanding to the next level by getting at the conceptual understanding that students often struggle to grasp.

Get your students where they need to be with CORNERSTONES OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING. Cornerstones is the only text that delivers a truly unique learning... system that is integrated through the entire introductory managerial accounting journey--ensuring they will leave the course with the needed elements to be future business leaders. Students are guided through: Building A Strong Foundation: Students learn the basic accounting concepts through clear and consistently-formatted Cornerstones Examples and Exercises. Understanding Relationships: Students see the relationships between the numbers & concepts and how variables impact each other. Seeing Real-World Connections: Student understanding is brought full circle as they see how these concepts are applied in real world situations. Making Decisions: Students practice actually making decisions based on the information they have now gathered and analyzed. Students love this approach because it presents materials the way they learn and professors love it because it gets students to master the foundations more quickly and allows more time to learn and apply the analysis and decision making of accounting. Get There with Cornerstones!