NEW TO THE 4TH EDITION OF OPENING DOORS:

• 8 new selections:

  • Selection 1-2 Getting Ready for Prime Time: Learning the Skills Needed to Succeed Today and Tomorrow by Bill Nickels, Jim McHugh and Susan McHugh (Business)

  • Selection 2-1 Music Revolution: Napster and Recording in the Digital Age by Joseph R. Dominick (Mass Communications)

  • Selection 3-1 African Americans: The Struggle for Equality by Thomas E. Patterson (Government)

  • Selection 5-1 Identity Theft: You Are at Risk (Personal Finance)

  • Selection 6-1: Diabetes: A New Epidemic by Paul Insel and Walton Roth (Health)

  • Selection 8-1: Think Before You Speak: Public Speaking in a Multicultural World by Stephen E. Lucas (Speech Communication)

  • Selection 10-1: The Age of Globalization by Alan Brinkley (History) CHAPTER-LENGTH SELECTION

  • Selection 11-1: Cultural Diversity: Family Strengths and Challenges by David Olsen and John DeFrain (Marriage and Family) CHAPTER-LENGTH SELECTION

• Enhanced use of illustrations and graphics, and enhanced exercises on interpreting graphical material

• Expanded quizzes: The first 27 reading selections each now offer 25 "Reading Skills Application Questions" questions (instead of 20), with increased attention to testing students’ powers of inference