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Race and ethnicity is a contentious topic that presents complex problems with no easy solutions.(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader, edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions. With more than thirty collective years of teaching experience and research in race ...

Thoroughly optimistic, A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox, Fifth Edition, invites students to approach ethical issues with a reconstructive intent--to make room for more and better options than the rigid "pro" and "con" positions that have developed around tough problems like abortion, climate change, and racism.

Academic Acts provides a streamlined approach to academic writing by exploring three crucial acts—summary, analysis, and synthesis—while covering the basic skills that students need to read, write, and research effectively.

Academic Writing introduces core concepts used across a variety of disciplines in order to help students recognize patterns that appear in all academic reading and writing situations.

Accounting for Business provides a crystal clear, accessible introduction to the core accounting topics non-specialist students need to master, helping them to apply accounting concepts to real business decisions.

Engaging and lively, clear and practical, this is the most applied accounting for non-specialists book whose fully integrated case study emphasises the relevance of accounting to the world of business.

The Active Reader offers a practical, integrated treatment of academic reading and writing at the post-secondary level. Thirty thought-provoking readings that highlight a variety of disciplines and rhetorical patterns are accompanied by comprehension and analysis exercises that encourage students to apply critical thinking skills to their assignments.

Written by authors with extensive experience as practitioners and educators, this text serves as a straightforward resource for undergraduate and graduate students who have a goal of becoming counselors or therapists in the field of addiction. While many books on the subject follow a similar format (i.e., introduction, classification of drugs, theories of counseling, etc.), Addictions Counseling takes one client and follows her through the entire...

Exceptionally clear and incisive, Administrative Law is the essential guide to understanding this challenging area of the law. 

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Exceptionally clear and incisive, Administrative Law is the essential guide to understanding this challenging area of the law.

Adolescence, Seventh Edition, by Nancy J. Cobb.

Recognized as one of the leading texts in the field, the Seventh Edition of Cobb's Adolescence provides an up-to-date and thorough review of current research and theory. Praised for its accessible writing style, this book is distinguished by its comprehensive coverage of identity research, gender, ethnic diversity, and issues relevant to early versus late adolescence and emerging adulthood.

Written by a master teacher, Advanced Organic Chemistry presents a clear, concise, and complete overview of the subject that is ideal for both advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. In contrast with many other books, this volume is a true textbook, not a reference book.

Since the publication of its first edition in 2005, Advocacy Practice for Social Justice has served as a clear, comprehensive, and practical resource for social work courses in advocacy, community practice, and macro practice. Now in its fourth edition, this text provides extensive information on the value base for advocacy; an examination of why people get involved in advocacy; and step-by-step instructions for social workers and others who want...

Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the Aeneid in a pleasant modern idiom. On-page notes explain obscure literary and historical references, while the rich visual program lightens the text and educates students in the history of Western art by presenting a single topic as represented over 2,000 years.

This text will help students understand the process of aging by considering intersectional and strengths-based frameworks. It will challenge readers to consider new ways to think critically about aging and society.

Alternate Process in Photography: Technique, History, and Creative Potential offers a unique, practitioner's perspective on the history and practice of photographic processes. The book emphasizes handmade, largely historical photographic techniques, and provides detailed information for both beginning and advanced photographers.

America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, Sixth Edition, is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural  history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the era–Maurice Isserman, a historian of American radicalism, and Michael  Kazin, a specialist in social movements–this book provides a compelling tale of this tumultuous era filled with fresh and persuasive  insights.

Leading historian Dell Upton's Architecture in America reveals the dazzling richness of America's human landscape. It tells the complete story of American architecture, from pre-European conquest sites to the latest post-modern structures.  The text covers indigenous, folk, ethnic, and popular architectures like Chaco Canyon, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Native American houses while also exploring the great monuments of traditional histories lik...

Featuring the insights of criminal justice scholars G. Larry Mays and Laura Woods Fidelie, American Courts and the Judicial Process, Second Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courts courses. It examines the many elements of the U.S. court system–its structures, functions, and key actors–addressing the major problems facing the system and considering potential solutions. This unique text also provides students with a practic...

American Criminal Procedure Today

American Government in Black and White: Diversity and Democracy, Sixth Edition, covers the standard topics found in an Introduction to American Government text while also speaking to today's students who want to examine how racial inequality has shaped--and will continue to shape--who we are and what we believe. Authors Paula D. McClain and Steven C. Tauber address issues of inequality in American government, including the U.S. Constitution, key ...

American Horizons illustrates the relevance of U.S. history to American students by centering on the matrix of issues that dominate their lives. The author team uses the frequent movement of people, goods, and ideas into, out of, and within America's borders as a framework that provides a fully integrated global perspective that seamlessly contextualizes American events within the wider world.

American Musical Theater provides a chronological history of musical theater within a cultural context. Covering the major artistic trends, seminal works, and leading figures in the field, the text uses case study musicals in each chapter as a lens through which to explore themes and developments in the evolution of musical theater over time. In addition to exposing students to the musical theater canon, author James Leve encourages them to think...

Explore the rich terrain of American popular music with the most complete introduction of its kind. With the sixth edition of the bestselling text American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3, Starr and Waterman help students hear more in the music around them with a cultural and social history of popular music.

American Women: A Concise History offers the most succinct narrative approach to US Women’s History, enriched by ample primary sources, and color maps and photos that offer students the most accessible and engaging introduction to the history of American women.

Revised and updated throughout, the fourth edition of Ancient Greece presents the political, social, cultural, and economic history and civilization of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety. Written by six leading authorities on the classical world, this captivating study covers the entire period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic Era.

Challenging the stereotypes and myths that typically characterize students' understanding of antiquity, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations: From Prehistory to 640 CE, Third Edition, focuses on continuity and connections, along with cultural diffusion and cultural diversity, to show how history is a cumulative process and that numerous similar themes recur in different times and places. The text also explores sensitive issues and debates includin...

Ancient Roman Civilization: History and Sources: 753 BCE to 640 CE integrates in a single volume both a historical narrative and parallel translated primary sources. The book's unifying theme of cultural confrontation--how the Romans interacted or engaged with a multitude of other Mediterranean, Asiatic, and African cultures--is interwoven throughout.

This title provides a comparative and integrative overview of how and why animals as diverse as insects and humans behave the way that they do, linking a diversity of behaviors and their adaptive functions to the brain, genes, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding ecological and social environments. Just as so many modern studies in animal behavior are taking advantage of neurobiological and molecular approaches, this book introduces these ...

Animal Behavior: Concepts, Methods, and Applications, Third Edition, takes a conceptual approach that highlights the process of science and the real-world applications of animal behavior research. In an engaging, question-driven style, Shawn E. Nordell and Thomas J. Valone offer readers a clear learning progression for understanding and evaluating empirical research examples.

Featured studies illustrate each concept and emphasize research methods...

Written primarily for 16–19-year-old students, this primer introduces the subject of developmental biology through a diverse range of organisms.

Animal Physiology: an Environmental Perspective provides a broad review of animal physiology, demonstrating how an understanding of the physiology of animals in their natural habitats helps us to understand how and why animals evolved the way they did, as well as how we can protect them from the extreme effects of changes to their environments.

The digital resources for Animal Physiology, 5e address the following key issues faced by instructors:

1. Providing in-class lecture resources
2. Providing instructors with a comprehensive test bank for assessment
3. Engaging students via self-assessments
4. Engaging students through interactive layered figures

Anthology of World Religions introduces and explains religious traditions by coupling objective explorations of their history, beliefs, and practices with annotated selections from their texts and scriptures and from contemporary commentary by adherents and knowledgeable observers. This text covers each major religion’s history, teachings, founder, leaders, and the factors that are now challenging and changing it–secularism, modernism, pluralism,...

A unique alternative to more traditional, encyclopedic introductory texts, Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human?, Fifth Edition, takes a question-oriented approach that incorporates cutting-edge theory and new ways of looking at important contemporary issues such as power, human rights, and inequality. With a total of sixteen chapters, this engaging, full-color text is an ideal one-semester overview that delves deep into anthropology witho...

Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, Third Edition, demonstrates how viewing the world through an anthropological lens enhances our understanding of current topics like globalization, the new economy, jobs and careers, world trade, the condition of inner cities, and racial and ethnic relations. It makes anthropology accessible and even fun, with examples from “driving the porcelain bus” as an illustration of negati...

Anthropology takes a holistic approach that emphasizes critical thinking, active learning, and applying anthropology to solve contemporary human problems. The organization of each chapter around compelling questions engages students in the material and invites them to participate in the investigation of ideas. Building on the classical foundations of the discipline, the book shows students how anthropology is current and relevant by connecting it...

The only introductory anthropology book adapted for Canadian students, Anthropology, 3Ce continues to follow a question-oriented approach that illuminates major concepts in the field while also helping students see the relevance of anthropology in today’s world. With a mix of international and Canadian examples, this textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the four major subfields of anthropology — biological anthropology, archaeology, li...

Applying Critical Thinking to Modern Media is the only book that teaches critical thinking skills by applying them to the consumption of modern media. Author Lewis Vaughn emphasizes the habits of mind that are prerequisites for making sense of today's media landscape--reasonable skepticism, metacognition, overview perspective, openness, intellectual humility, and responsibility--and develops these dispositions by showing students how to apply cri...

Revised and updated in its sixth edition, Approaches to Social Research is a rigorous yet clear and engaging introduction to research methods. Covering all of the fundamentals in a straightforward, student-friendly manner, it is ideal for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses across the social sciences and also serves as an indispensable guide for researchers. Striking a balance between specific techniques and the underlying logic of scientif...

Whether filtered through the media or through the classroom, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become a pervasive--and often misunderstood--subject of our contemporary cultural landscape. In this compelling new edition of The Arab-Israeli Conflict, widely respected scholar David W. Lesch presents the most balanced and accessible account of the conflict. Combining narrative history, primary sources, and informative analyses, The Arab-Israeli Conflict ...

This textbook for the prehistory course in archaeology introduces the archaeological past from approximately seven million years ago through later politically complex stories. The author does not attempt to discuss every archaeologically important site and development in prehistory and early history, but instead presents key issues from earlier prehistory and then organizes the chapters on politically complex societies using a similar framework. ...

A comprehensive history of the Civil War based on fresh research, written by an eminent scholar, and complemented by digital learning resources designed expressly for college students.

Art Matters 2e introduces students to the wide range of art that is around them. Featuring an enormous assortment of types of art that numerous diverse artists have created for different people around the world, it demonstrates how pervasive and critical art is in our lives-from the emojis we text, to the furniture we sit on, to the buildings we live in, to the photographs we see.

Through stories, examples, thoughtful pedagogy, and in-depth discu...

Art and Design Fundamentals is a contemporary introduction to art and design that emphasizes ideation and critical thinking. Written for visual learners, the text offers thorough yet succinct coverage of both traditional topics and new technologies, with diverse visual examples and a wealth of projects and resources that help students hone the skills they need to produce exceptional work in a dynamic field.

Originally written for students at Chemeketa Community College, Art for Everyone is a practical and accessible guide to art appreciation that emphasizes artists' creative process and the importance of art in our everyday lives. Written by practicing artists, Art for Everyone pairs a thorough exploration of art techniques with the most concise introduction to art history available, highlighting topics that are meaningful to today's students.

Art of the Non-Western World is an in-depth, contextual exploration of the art of the larger world outside of the Western Tradition. It covers the arts: painting, sculpture, pottery, graphic arts, and architecture of Asia, the Americas, Africa, Austrailia, and the Pacific Island.

As the Romans Did offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, c...

Unlike textbooks that emphasize the memorization of facts, Asking Questions About Cultural Anthropology: A Concise Introduction, Third Edition, teaches students how to think anthropologically, helping them view cultural issues as an anthropologist might. This approach demonstrates how anthropological thinking can be used as a tool for deciphering everyday experiences. The book covers the essential concepts, terms, and history of cultural anthropo...