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College Ethics: A Reader on Moral Issues That Affect You is a collection of brief, engaging, and accessible readings on issues that directly affect--and matter to--today's college students. Ideal for courses in college ethics or introductory ethics, College Ethics can be used as either a main text or a supplementary reader.

The only contemporary moral problems text to focus directly on the ethics of current, divisive political issues, Ethics, Left and Right: The Moral Issues That Divide Us features newly commissioned essays on twenty contentious debates, written expressly with undergraduate students in mind. It offers two position pieces on each issue—one left-leaning, one right—followed by a reply from each author, giving you and your students the oppor...

Stoner and Swartwood’s Doing Practical Ethics is the first book to offer a framework for acquiring the component skills required to philosophize about applied ethics. The book accomplishes this by providing clear explanations and models of basic argument and critical thinking skills. Demonstration Exercises with solutions that provide clear and immediate feedback, and further Practice Exercises for honing skills.

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Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Sixth Edition, features fifty-nine selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great flexibility in designing and teaching a variety of courses in moral philosophy. Spanning 2,500 years of ethical theory, the first part, Historical Sources, ranges from ancient Greece to the twentieth century and now includes the complete text of John Dewey’s Theory of Valuation. The sec...

Ethics for Engineers offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to engineering ethics. Major ethical theories, professional codes of ethics, and case studies are included in a single volume that helps engineers better understand and address ethical issues in their profession. 

Award-winning, best-selling, and authoritative: the business ethics book of choice.

Classroom Management focuses on what teachers can do to create quality learning environments with their students.

Based on Russ Shafer-Landau's best-selling primer on ethical theory, The Fundamentals of Ethics, A Concise Introduction to Ethics offers a condensed and exceptionally well-written introduction to the essential moral theories. Its compact size and low price make this volume an ideal complement to any course where it is important that students understand moral theories.

Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works offers an essential introduction to a subject that will only become more relevant in the coming years. It gives students a way to define our responsibilities to and duties toward the non-human world through a variety of lenses.

Ideal for students with little or no background in philosophy, Ethical Choices: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy with Cases provides a concise, balanced, and highly accessible introduction to ethics. Featuring an especially lucid and engaging writing style, the text surveys a wide range of ethical theories and perspectives, including consequentialist ethics, deontological ethics, natural and virtue ethics, the ethics of care, and ethics and re...

The Ethical Life: Fundamental Readings in Ethics and Moral Problems, Sixth Edition, is ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems. Featuring forty-two readings divided into four parts, it introduces students to ethical theory and a wide range of moral issues. The essays include selections from such historically influential philosophers as Aristotle, Hume, Kant, and Mill alongside work by contemporary philosophers lik...

Ethics for Engineers offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to engineering ethics. Major ethical theories, professional codes of ethics, and case studies are included in a single volume that helps engineers better understand and address ethical issues in their profession.

In this remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy, Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ranging collection of fifty-two readings on ethical theory and contemporary moral issues. He has carefully edited all the articles to ensure that they will be exceptionally clear and understandable to undergraduate students. The selections are organized into three parts—Challenges to Morality, Mora...

In this remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy, Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ranging collection of fifty-six readings on ethical theory and contemporary moral issues. He has carefully edited all the articles to ensure that they will be exceptionally clear and understandable to undergraduate students. The selections are organized into three parts—Challenges to Morality, Moral Theo...

The most practical companion for students and trainee solicitors examining the law in practice, using extensive case studies and online resources to provide expert guidance on conduct and procedure.

The most practical companion for students and trainee solicitors examining the law in practice, using extensive case studies and online resources to provide expert guidance on conduct and procedure.

Engaging, supportive, and relevant. This is the ideal introduction to business offering diverse cases and coverage of the latest issues affecting businesses today to empower students on their course and beyond. With a contemporary approach to the topic, Foundations of Business provides a truly accessible and engaging guide that reflects current business environments and the global nature of business.

Foundations of Economics provides an engaging introduction to core economic concepts, consistently emphasising how and why an insight into economics helps us understand everything going on in the world today.

Each chapter introduces and demonstrates universally shared foundational concepts of music technology using hands-on, customized, software-based lessons, which can be applied immediately using the Fundamentals of Music Technology (FMT) software. A free, customized software application for Mac or PC demonstrates the basic concepts of music technology germane to all professional applications like recording, synthesis, digital notation, MIDI, automa...

Ideal for courses in introductory ethics and contemporary moral problems, The Fundamentals of Ethics employs a uniquely engaging writing style to introduce students to the essential ideas of moral philosophy. Author Russ Shafer-Landau carefully reconstructs and analyzes dozens of arguments in depth, at a level that is understandable to students with no prior philosophical background. Offering more comprehensive coverage of the good life, normativ...

This brand new textbook equips the next generation of managers with the skills to succeed in a global business environment. Skillsets help students improve both their academic work and their employability, a truly international range of case studies broadens their horizons, and practitioner insights show them how skills are used in the real world.

Living Ethics: An Introduction with Readings, second edition is an ideal all-in-one resource for courses in introduction to ethics and contemporary moral problems. In this hybrid textbook/reader, Russ Shafer-Landau brings moral theory and contemporary moral issues to life with a comprehensive and balanced set of readings, uniquely engaging explanations, and clear analysis of arguments.

Living Ethics: An Introduction with Readings, third edition is an ideal all-in-one resource for courses in introduction to ethics and contemporary moral problems. In this hybrid textbook/reader, Russ Shafer-Landau brings moral theory and contemporary moral issues to life with a comprehensive and balanced set of readings, uniquely engaging explanations, and clear analysis of arguments.

Management Consultancy provides a comprehensive introduction to the consulting industry. The text uses theory as a basis for critical discussion, ensuring students understand both the theory and its limitations. The authors' engaging writing style is combined with a wealth of real-world practical examples, putting theory into context.

Focusing on the day-to-day matters of running a PR operation, Managing Public Relations is the first book to balance both corporate and agency needs while addressing the management of a public relations function. Its unique approach stresses the function of PR within the larger scope of business, showing students how to think like their future bosses and colleagues and making them more competitive in today’s job market.

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Concise, engaging, relevant: light on quantitative techniques and packed with cases offering a real-world perspective, this text provides the most accessible approach to operations management.

Placing people and strategy at its core, this is the most relevant and forward-thinking text on project organizing.

Mexico's political, social, and economic landscapes have shifted in very striking ways in recent years and the country now moves cautiously forward, in the twenty-first century. Revised to address these remarkable transformations, The Course of Mexican History, now in its eleventh edition, offers a completely up-to-date, lively, and engaging survey from the pre-Columbian times to the present.

Economic Analysis of Industrial Projects, Third Edition, provides the best possible methods for applying economic analysis theory to practice. Completely revised and expanded in this new edition, the text now includes five new chapters and new material on real options analysis and replacement analysis.

The most up-to-date professional ethics reader available, Ethics Across the Professions: A Reader for Professional Ethics, Second Edition, analyzes the complex ethical issues that arise in such fields as engineering, finance, healthcare, journalism, and law. Featuring a wide array of both classic and contemporary sources, it ranges from works by Aristotle and Kant to selections by Michael Bayles, Sissela Bok, Paul Ekman, and Thomas Nagel. The boo...

The most up-to-date professional ethics reader available, Ethics Across the Professions: A Reader for Professional Ethics, Third Edition, analyzes the complex ethical issues that arise in such fields as engineering, finance, healthcare, journalism, and law. Featuring a wide array of both classic and contemporary sources, it ranges from works by Aristotle and Kant to selections by Michael Bayles, Sissela Bok, Paul Ekman, and Thomas Nagel. The book...

The most practical companion for students and trainee solicitors examining the law in practice, using extensive case studies and online resources to provide expert guidance on conduct and procedure.

Foundations of Criminal Justice asks important questions often ignored in the intro course: Why is our justice system the way it is? How do we decide which actions are crimes? How is policy made? What is justice and is it achieved? Having tackled these concepts and understood the ideas and motivations underlying our justice system, students are better prepared to understand what the police, courts, and corrections do and why—and to think cr...

Foundations of Neural Development is a textbook written with a conversational writing style and topics appropriate for an undergraduate audience. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette, or a “real-life story,” that the subsequent material illuminates. The “Researchers at Work” feature, available in every chapter, describes a classic study in detail, taking the reader through the hypothesis, test, result, and...

Foundations of Science Mathematics provides a clear, concise and accessible introduction to the maths skills required to be successful in your study of science subjects, alongside over 90 problems and worked solutions.

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Global Strategic Management reveals how business managers secure competitive advantage and make effective decisions on a global scale. Core theories are supported by diverse real-world examples from international organizations, including Ikea, Google, and Walmart.

Straight-talking, motivational, and easy-to-navigate: a reassuring and practical guide to doing an undergraduate social research project or dissertation.

Lean, Ethical Business Communication focuses on five key elements of business communication - strategy, content, outcome, presentation, and ethics ("S.C.O.P.E."). Through a series of case studies, students learn to apply this five-point focus to the complex communication challenges that they are likely to encounter in their future careers, including applying for a job, sending routine business messages, creating formal reports and presentati...

Medical Law and Ethics covers the core legal principles, key cases, and statutes that govern medical law alongside the key ethical debates and dilemmas that exist in the field.

The Classic work that shaped the field of biomedical ethics - fully updated to include cutting edge approaches and research. 

The Psychology Project Manual supports students through the whole of the empirical project. It is a practical guide addressing common challenges that students face when undertaking the project. Students can quickly and easily find the answer to a question they have. The authors' approachable writing style also provides information that is direct and straightforward.

The manual takes a student-centred approach by incorporating the student voice. I...

Psychology of Mental Health will place our current understanding of mental health in context, both historically and culturally. It will discuss various models for understanding mental health, research on causes of mental health problems, and will introduce recent psychology-led alternatives to diagnosis.

With strong foundations in theory and a wide range of current and international examples, Strategic Advertising Management presents an overview of how advertising works and what is required from a manager's perspective, in the development of an effective communication plan.

The only textbook that builds upon the traditional branding models to fully explore the emotional, social, and cultural impact real-world brands have on contemporary consumers.

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The most complete introduction for students looking for a briefer guide to strategic management, packed with real-life examples and an emphasis on the essential tools of analysis.

A complete and concise introduction to strategic management, packed with real-life examples and an emphasising on the essential tools of analysis.

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.

Based on author John Sloan's thirty years of teaching ethics--and on conversations with, and research conducted on--police officers, prosecutors, defense counsel, judges, and corrections professionals, Criminal Justice Ethics: A Framework for Analysis offers students a framework for analyzing ethical issues involving criminal justice practitioners. Sloan provides a unique template that is designed to help students reach conclusions about the ethi...

Essential Ethics for Social Work Practice provides students with clear and accessible explanations of the values, theories, and skills needed to practice ethical behavior written by a master ethicist and teacher. Brief and yet comprehensive, it covers as much ground as competing texts, but also presents the content in the most up to date and accessible manner. Its compact size and low price make it an ideal text for both standalone ethics courses...

Ethics and Legal Professionalism in Australia introduces the the concepts, rules and conflicts relating to legal ethics in addition to exploring the ambiguous ethical aspects associated with being a lawyer.

An analytical approach to the study of comparative European politics with a unique focus on the interaction between national and European-level politics.

Foundations of Global Health: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of highly readable articles with a significant amount of original text by the editors. Supplementary instructive materials include "conceptual tools" summaries, background information on authors and context, provocative section and article introductions, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading and internet exploration. Like the field of global health itsel...

Foundations of Molecular Structure Determination gives a broad introduction to a range of common spectroscopic and diffraction methods, with frequent worked examples and problem questions provided to assist beginning undergraduates in developing their structure analysis skills.

The Helping Professional's Guide to Ethics develops a comprehensive framework for ethics in the helping professions based on bioethicist Bernard Gert's theory of common morality. The prevailing model of ethics education is built upon adherence to codes of ethics applied largely through the use of decision-making trees. While a firm understanding of a profession’s code of ethics and all relevant laws is essential to responsible practice, this appr...

Succinct, applied, realistic: this highly-engaging introductory textbook is written by both an educator and two practitioners providing readers with the perfect balance of theory and practice.

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Introduction to Management is a uniquely accesible and engaging companion to managing in the real world. Placing issues of digital, environmental, and social disruption at the centre-stage, it guides students through the varied and complex reality of management with ease, encouraging them to develop their own critical view of this dynamic area.

Adapted to better meet the needs of American college students, The Oxford Latin Course, College Edition, retains its trademark reading-based approach, but does so now in two companion volumes–Readings and Vocabulary and Grammar, Exercises, Context–that cover all of the topics essential to a first-year Latin course. The College Edition features a streamlined organization; additional and more robust grammar explanations; revised cartoon...

Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues is the most comprehensive ethics anthology, essentially three books in one volume: history of ethics; modern ethical theory; contemporary moral issues.

An analytical approach to the study of comparative European politics with a unique focus on the interaction between national and European-level politics.

Designed for undergraduate, graduate, and executive business ethics courses, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader demonstrates that business ethics is primarily about the ethics of individuals. With a unique focus on the personal dimension of ethics, it challenges students to consider the relationship between the ways in which people do business and the kind of lives they want to live. It features 105 brief articles and 70 real-life case studies...

The most comprehensive and critical textbook on knowledge management, in an accessible, concise format.

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Social Media Management: Persuasion in Networked Culture is designed for graduate students taking courses in social media or digital media strategy. It will equip readers with the frameworks and tools to answer the “Now what?” question. Based on the author’s extensive experience in the social media industry and his qualitative and quantitative research on best practices, this book will uncover the formula for social media succes...

Nonprofit organizations need smart, informed managers. This comprehensive introductory textbook aims to expose students to the range of responsibilities expected from modern nonprofit organizations and their boards, executive management, frontline staff, and community volunteers. Section 1 focuses on the characteristics of a nonprofit organization, with an explanation of the specific attributes of both charitable and member-serving nonprofits. It...

Taking a unique approach that emphasizes careful reasoning, this cutting-edge reader is structured around twenty-seven landmark arguments that have provoked heated debates on current ethical issues. Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues, Second Edition, opens with an extensive two-chapter introduction to moral reasoning and moral theories that provides students with the background necessary to analyze the arguments in the follo...

Ethical Choices is a concise, balanced, and accessible introduction to ethical theory. It engages students by including compelling case studies and questions in each chapter that address everyday ethical issues and dilemmas. No other ethical theory book is more applied and case-driven.

The most commonly read introduction to the field, Mass Communication Theory has introduced thousands of young scholars to the discipline over two decades. Accessible, balanced, and clearly written, this book provides a complete history of mass communication theory to the present with thorough and effective coverage of both social science and cultural theory.

Ideal for introductory ethics courses, The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature, Seventh Edition, brings together an extensive and varied collection of eighty-eight classical and contemporary readings on ethical theory and practice. Integrating literature with philosophy in an innovative way, this unique anthology uses literary works to enliven and make concrete the ethical theory or applied issues addressed. The readings a...

Succinctly blends practical know-how with a sound theoretical base to empower students for success throughout university and beyond.