The story line of this instructor- and student-praised video follows the humorous adventures of six university students in Costa Rica as they cross paths, meet, and (in some cases) fail to meet. Carefully structured to integrate chapter vocabulary and grammar, these segments progress in level of difficulty across the fourteen episodes. Additional thematically related cultural video footage is included after every even-numbered chapter. NEW geocultural video strands that tie into "Exploraciones culturales" sections are included in Chapters 2-13.

CUADROS offers Introductory and Intermediate Spanish students an individualized language learning experience within an easy-to-use, 4-volume, 4-semester framework. Each CUADROS volume sets a realistic pace, seamlessly transitioning students from Introductory to Intermediate Spanish. Preliminary Chapters at the start of Volumes 2, 3, and 4 review and recycle previously covered material to bridge the gap between semesters and prepare students to move on. Volumes 1 & 2 cover Introductory Spanish and Volumes 3 & 4 cover Intermediate Spanish. CUADROS follows a pay-as-you-go model, allowing your students to USE the volume they need, WHEN they need it! Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions. Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.

Help your students connect to the language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world with the completely integrated print and digital components that comprise the 2nd Edition of the NEXOS program. High-interest cultural themes and related activities encourage students to engage in meaningful communication using interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational modes. NEXOS' realistic pacing of material, easy-to-use grammar, practical vocabulary, and an engaging storyline video--which contextualizes grammar and vocabulary--all work together to help students gain confidence and move quickly toward proficiency. Whether you teach a traditional classroom course, a hybrid course (combination of classroom and online), or an online distance-learning course, the 2nd Edition of NEXOS offers solutions through carefully integrated resources that can be combined in any way, giving you the freedom to easily use the NEXOS program to teach your course your way.

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.

'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.