The Academic Encounters series uses a content-based approach to help ESL/EFL students acquire the skills they need to meet the demands of college courses taught in an English-speaking environment. Native speakers who need to improve their academic skills will also benefit from the series. This 2-book set consists of Academic Encounters: Human Behavior and Academic Listening Encounters: Human Behavior.The content focus of these two books on human behavior is psychology and human communications. Academic Encounters: Human Behavior uses authentic college texts on these topics to teach reading, study skills, and writing. Academic Listening Encounters: Human Behavior includes both academic lectures and interviews on the same topics as those in the reading book and uses them to teach listening, note taking, and discussion skills. The shared content focus of the two books enables them to be used together to teach a complete four-skills course in English for Academic Purposes.