Joe Cortina,
Richland College Janet Elder,
Richland College
ISBN: 0072997664 Copyright year: 2005
What's New
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
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