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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.

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.

Case studies offer students the opportunity to explore critical incidents and develop effective strategies for resolution. Featuring the exclusive, real-life case studies of top communication scholars, Case Studies for Organizational Communication: Understanding Communication Processes, Third Edition, employs a unique applied approach that allows students to use their knowledge of organizational communication to analyze typical organizational pro...

Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies is the most contemporary, interdisciplinary, and intersectional introduction to women’s and gender hybrid text/reader on the market. By providing historical, intersectional, and interdisciplinary perspectives, it guides instructors and helps students to have a deeper and clearer understanding of the field.

The Issues of Globalization series introduces key analytical concepts and theories of globalization in the contemporary world through rich and compelling ethnography. It offers new research through case studies in a style and format that is appropriate for both students and scholars of Anthropology and related fields. We showcase ethnographies that push the field forward in a scholarly way and serve as good teaching tools for undergraduate and gr...

Teaching an introductory course in gender and women's studies today presents a number of challenges. Students come to class with preconceived notions about feminism, and many believe the course is only about issues related to women, with little understanding of the importance of an intersectional perspective. Some students are resistant to the material, with little exposure to identities different from their own. In addition, some students do not...

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. 

Gangs: An Introduction provides a wide-ranging overview ideal for courses on gangs. Opening with a discussion of early research and perspectives from the late 1920s until the early 1970s, the book then moves on to cover sociological and legal definitions of gangs; daily life and risk and protective factors; race and immigration; female gang members; drug use and selling; violence and victimization; the cultural criminology of gangs; theories on g...

With clear explanations and many contemporary examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life, author Paul Herrick untangles the complexities of logical theory in Introduction to Logic. Offering a unique combination of two approaches—the historical and the technical—he presents logic as both a fascinating, evolving story and a body of essential technical information with applications to every area of human thought.

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With an author team led by Bonnie S. Fisher, one of the preeminent scholars in the field, Introduction to Victimology: Contemporary Theory, Research, and Practice is ideal for victimology survey courses at any level. In contrast with competing texts, this unique volume employs an integrated approach that focuses on theory, research, and practice. It covers a wider range of issues than other texts and also addresses unique topics such as victim de...

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

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.

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...

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 textbook will deliver a comprehensive, systematic introduction to homeland security today, including its conceptualfoundations, legal underpinnings, historical evolution, constituent federal agencies, emerging technologies, and linkages tobusinesses, non-profits, civic groups, and individual citizens.

An Introduction to Behavior Genetics introduces concepts from the field of behavior genetics at a level readily comprehended by upper-division undergraduates, or graduate students from a variety of disciplines including Psychology, Biology, Chemistry, Anthropology, and Sociology.

Active, accessible, and assuming no prior knowledge: the ideal text for biologists encountering bioinformatics for the first time.

Pollock's introductory text intends to present corrections in a new way for instructors who desire to prepare students in a problem-based, data-driven, media-savvy approach to achieve competency as correctional professionals or knowledgeable consumers of corrections' news. Each chapter will utilize current news and governmental reports along with academic studies, and have a discussion of race/ethnicity when appropriate.

Combining the rigour of econometric theory with an accessible style, Dougherty's step by step explanations and relevant practical exercises ensure students develop an intuitive understanding of econometrics, and gain hands-on experience of the tools used in economic and financial forecasting.

This Introduction to Engineering text fills a need for a highly affordable, CEAB-compliant, gender-inclusive approach. No other text offers all this in addition to a full suite of digital ancillaries that will help professors engage their students and provide them with essential opportunities to apply their knowledge.

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Rigorous, yet friendly and accessible, Introduction to Formal Logic provides a nuts-and-bolts introduction to formal deductive logic, covering syntax, semantics, and natural deduction for propositional and predicate logics. Over 2,000 graduated in-text exercises offer a wealth of material for in-class work, hom...

The most current, complete and compellingly written textbook for those studying Genomics for the first time.

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.

Introduction to Mineralogy 4e provides a comprehensive survey of mineralogy and optical mineralogy and focuses on describing minerals within their geologic context. Presenting the important content of mineralogy--including crystallography, chemical bonding, controls on mineral structure, mineral stability, and crystal growth--it provides students with a foundation for understanding the nature and occurrence of minerals. New boxed topics focus on ...

Integrating original texts with explanations, interpretations, and theory, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, Fourth Edition, introduces students to a wide range of myths drawn from sources all around the world and approached from various critical perspectives.

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Hailed as 'superb', 'thorough', and 'contemporary', this is the essential orthodontics text for all staff involved in orthodontic treatment, whether they are dental students, orthodontic therapists, postgraduate students at the beginning of their career, or more experienced clinicians wanting an evidence-based, concise update on the foundations of contemporary orthodontic care. 

Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings is the most comprehensive topically organized collection of classical and contemporary philosophy available. Ideal for introductory philosophy courses, the text offers a broad range of readings and depth. The text includes sections on God and Evil, Knowledge and Reality, the Philosophy of Science, the Mind/Body problem, Freedom of Will, Consciousness, Ethics, Political Philosophy, Ex...

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An Introduction to Population Genetics is intended as a text for a one-semester biology course in population genetics at the undergraduate or graduate levels. The goal of the book is to introduce both classical population genetics theory developed in terms of allele and haplotype frequencies and modern population genetics theory developed in terms of coalescent theory. Numerous applications of theory to problems that arise in the study of human a...

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.

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Contemporary Security Studies is a uniquely engaging introduction to Security Studies, covering the key theories and contemporary issues in the field. A team of expert scholars strike a careful balance of depth and clarity, providing the essential companion for students exploring the modern security agenda.

Contemporary Security Studies offers a uniquely engaging introduction to Security Studies, addressing key theories and contemporary issues in the field. A team of expert scholars strikes a careful balance between depth and clarity, making it an essential companion for students exploring the modern security agenda. For second- and third-year undergraduates studying security studies as part of a politics or international relations degree, and serve...

Contemporary Terrorism Studies is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to terrorism studies, examining key issues and debates, and featuring dedicated sections on terrorism and counter-terrorism. This textbook uniquely provides interdisciplinary coverage, and is written by an expert author team.

Criminal Evidence: An Introduction, Third Edition, provides comprehensive and applied coverage of the rules of evidence, along with numerous case excerpts that clearly illustrate those rules. Using engaging, straightforward language, authors John L. Worrall, Craig Hemmens, and Lisa S. Nored offer an invaluable and innovative resource for both students and instructors. Concentrating on the Federal Rules of Evidence, this distinctive text presents ...

A complete and practical introduction to employment law for the workplace written with human resources and business students in mind. Conversational and contextual, the authors guide readers through this technical subject supportively.

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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 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...

The sixth edition provides an updated, integrated presentation of the study of hormone-behavior-brain interactions. Emphasizing a comparative approach, the text explores the endocrine mechanisms that have evolved in both human and nonhuman animals to solve common challenges in survival and reproduction. The text describes interactions among hormones, brain, and behavior from a historical perspective, emphasizing connections among key theories and...

The leading textbook on this subject, Introduction to Business Law is an ideal companion to law modules for business, management, and finance and accounting students. Its visual and practical approach will enable students to engage with the legal essentials required for success in study and a business career.

Fully revised and updated in its third edition, An Introduction to Conservation Biology is well suited for a wide range of undergraduate courses, as both a primary text for conservation biology courses and a supplement for ecological and environmental science courses. This new edition has been expanded and updated with hundreds of new examples, explanations, citations, and figures to enhance learning and excitement for the subject. Coverage of re...

Introduction to Criminology: A Brief Edition provides students with coverage of core concepts supported by student-tested pedagogical tools that promote student engagement, thought-provoking classroom discussions, and critical-thinking skills.

An Introduction to Drug Synthesis explores the central role played by organic synthesis in the process of drug design and development - from the generation of novel drug structures to the improved efficiency of large scale synthesis.

Acclaimed for its clear, concise explanations of difficult concepts, its comprehensive problem sets and exercises, and its authoritative coverage, Introduction to Electric Circuits has set the standard for introductory circuit resources in Canada and is the most accessible, student-friendly text available.

Introduction to Environmental Assessment: A Guide to Principles and Practices provides a practical, easy-to-follow guide to the principles, procedures, tools, and methodologies at the heart of environmental assessment.

In an era the United States is often presented as the only relevant player in the arena of International Relations, Introduction to Global Politics, Seventh Edition offers readers a truly global introduction to the discipline. By establishing a solid framework based on the history and ideologies that influence the ways in which world powers interact with one another; features and activities that promote active learning; and an intuitive textbook ...

Introduction to International Development integrates the work of leading experts to present foundational overviews as well as in-depth coverage of issues at the heart of today’s most pressing international debates. Fully updated to reflect our dynamic, changing world, this text provides students the conceptual tools required to understand the challenges, successes, and failures of international development.

The most accessible, succinct introduction to the principal international relations theories, with an emphasis on how theory can be used to analyse key global issues.

An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry is the market-leading undergraduate medicinal chemistry textbook, offering practical and focused coverage through its supportive online resources. Clear and practical, the resources found here help students to effortlessly make the link from theory to real-life applications.

Introduction to Physical Hydrology explores the principal rules that govern the flow of water by considering the four major types of water: atmospheric, ground, soil, and surface. It gives insights into the major hydrological processes, and shows how the principles of physical hydrology inform our understanding of climate and global hydrology.

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.

Neuroanatomy through Clinical Cases is widely acclaimed for bringing a pioneering interactive approach to the teaching of neuroanatomy. The book uses over 100 actual clinical cases and high-quality radiologic images to bring the subject to life. The third edition is fully updated with the latest advances in the field, and includes several exciting new cases. This approach allows students to appreciate the clinical relevance of structural details ...

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

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.

Featuring vibrant full color throughout, A Brief Introduction to the New Testament,Fourth Edition, is a concise version of Bart D. Ehrman’s best-selling The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, Sixth Edition. Retaining the approach of the longer textbook while condensing and simplifying much of its material, this volume looks at the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative p...

This is the concise version of Bart Ehrman’s The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, which is the #1 best-selling New Testament book in the market. This book condenses and simplifies The New Testament for instructors who do not have time to teach the unabridged version of the text. Ehrman’s exceptionally engaging writing brings the story of the New Testament to life for students, and the book’s introduction f...

Engaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context, Third Edition, is an updated and concise version of Michael D. Coogan’s best-selling The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, Third Edition (OUP, 2013). Coogan works primarily from a historical and critical methodology but also introduces students to literary analysi...

Engaging and accessible to students from all backgrounds, A Brief Introduction to the Old Testament: The Hebrew Bible in Its Context, Fourth Edition, is an updated and concise version of Michael D. Coogan’s best-selling The Old Testament: A Historical and Literary Introduction to the Hebrew Scriptures, Fourth Edition (OUP, 2018). Coogan works primarily from a historical and critical methodology but also introduces students to literary analy...

Based on the best-selling World Religions: Eastern Traditions and World Religions: Western Traditions, A Concise Introduction to World Religions, Fourth Edition, is ideal for single-semester courses. Renowned contributors trace the origins and evolution of the major traditions, explain their essential teachings, outline their practices, and examine their interactions with modern culture and society, while insightful introductory and concluding es...

The fourth edition of Crime and Criminology is a concise, comprehensive overview of criminological theory. By relating classical and contemporary theories to current criminological concerns through case studies and examples—such as racial profiling, sex trafficking, domestic violence, and cybercrime—the fourth edition is an up-to-date and remarkably accessible introduction to the study of theory in Canadian criminology.

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...

Criminology is a textbook with a distinctive, contemporary approach, both student-focused and research-engaged. Written for today’s undergraduates and drawing on its author team’s wealth of experience and expertise, this book provides the framework of knowledge core to exploring, understanding and explaining crime. Its goal is simple and bold: to help the reader not just think like but become a criminologist; intrigued, enga...

For instructors who teach through a critical approach, Critical Concepts takes what most texts consider alternative frameworks for understanding political science - feminism, environmentalism, disability - and shows their centrality to the contemporary study of politics, offering students an inclusive, accessible introduction to politics in Canada and beyond.

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...

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...

Human Sexuality, third edition, is the most engaging and up-to-date Canadian introduction to the diversity of human sexual experiences. Balancing biological coverage with an insightful exploration of social and cultural issues, this Canadian contributed text helps students understand human sexuality from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Incorporating the latest research, clinical practice, and developments, and revised with an eye to ...

An Introduction to Family Social Work celebrates social work's proud history as the first professional group to work with families. This book is written for BSW and MSW students who are employed in agencies that do not offer traditional office-based family therapy. Many beginning and community-based social workers are employed in agencies that provide support, teaching, and concrete services to families experiencing a wide spectrum of needs and p...

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.

An Introduction to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics offers an engaging yet highly informative narrative to demonstrate how molecular data can be used to answer evolutionary questions.

This comprehensive introduction to social work integrates perspectives from English, French, and Indigenous peoples in Canada to provide an inclusive treatment of the history, foundational skills, and specific fields of social work practice and research. With an emphasis on diversity and drawing extensively on Canadian statistics and scholarship, this is an ideal text for introduction to social work courses. This updated, new edition features a s...

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The only introduction to critical security studies to take an issues-centred approach, with a unique emphasis on equipping students with the knowledge and skills to think, analyse and debate using critical perspectives

The most practically focused guide for first year psychology students, created to give them the skills and confidence they need to begin their undergraduate studies.

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Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences is an invaluable guide to getting the most out of your degree, and enhancing your employability skills. The motivational writing style is accessible to students of all levels and a wide range of skills are covered, making this essential reading for all bioscience students.

World Regional Geography: A Short Introduction is a compact, focused, and affordable book that provides foundational materials with an emphasis on contemporary issues. The crisp text introduces students to the character of world regional geography--the distinctiveness of different parts of the world--but also the linkages and connections. Part One sets the scene: one introductory chapter discusses the opportunities and dangers in using maps, data...

Learning to write arguments in college Composition classrooms can sometimes seem artificial, pointless, or even contrived, which leads to disengaged students--and disengaged writing. By teaching argument within the context of case studies, instructors can provide greater opportunity for student engagement. Students often respond enthusiastically to a case, which offers them a dynamic environment to work within, rather than simply a static paper t...

Contract Law: Text, Cases, and Materials provides a complete guide to the subject of contract law. The book comprises a balance of 60% text to 40% cases and materials. Its clear explanations and analyses of the law provide support to students, while the extracts from cases and materials promote the development of essential case reading skills and allow for a more detailed appreciation of the practical workings of the law and of the best legal sch...

Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers comprehensive legal coverage and insightful analysis alongside expertly selected extracts from key cases and academic sources.

With a focus on empirical evaluation and practical application, Criminological Theories: Introduction, Evaluation, and Application, Eighth Edition, helps students draw connections between criminological theory and practical applications. In clear, engaging language, authors Ronald L. Akers, Christine S. Sellers, and Wesley G. Jennings explore each principal criminological theory using a three-part analysis: An Introduction presents a succinct exp...

Environmental Law: Text, Cases, and Materials has been designed to provide students with everything they need to approach the subject with confidence. Experts in the area, the authors combine clear and insightful commentary with carefully chosen extracts from UK and international sources to offer students a well-rounded view of environmental law.

The most engaging and student-focused text, cases, and materials on equity, providing an authoritative account in a single volume.

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.

The text is supported by substantial online resources, which features regular updates on the law, further reading suggestions, and revision questions to accompany each chapter.

Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. The authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law, illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources.

The only introduction to foreign policy to combine theories, actors and cases in one volume.

Departing from the style of typical manuals, Hands-On Introduction to LabVIEW for Scientists and Engineers, Fourth Edition, uses a learn-by-doing approach to guide students through using this powerful laboratory tool. It helps students--who are not assumed to have prior experience--master the computer-based skills they need to carry out effective experiments.

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...

Social work is rooted in the values of service, social justice, and strong interpersonal relationships. But as the profession evolves, so must the approach to education. Michael E. Sherr and Johnny M. Jones have created an introductory textbook written for the future of social work. The second edition integrates the knowledge of practice, policy, research, HBSE, and field work with the skills and practice behaviors necessary for students to becom...

Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Brief Edition 2e provides students with a mainstream table of contents and critical perspective, supported by boxed features to promote engaging and thought-provoking classroom discussions. The text includes extensive pedagogical tools to help students succeed and develop critical thinking skills.

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The most accessible, succinct introduction to the principal international relations theories, with an emphasis on how theory can be used to analyse key global issues.

The most concise, annually updated introduction by an author active in law reform gets students involved in debates from day one of their degree.

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This book is accompanied by online resources, including: questions for reflection and discussion; multiple choice questions; a glossary; further reading materials; web links; and a link to Martin Partington's blog, which covers key developments in the English justice system. ...

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

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Engaging, up-to-date, and accessible, Mediated Communication & You introduces you to crucial questions and issues in media use, the possible negative effects of media, and theories and research on mediated communication.

Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Second Edition, is a vivid and engaging introduction to key issues, research, and opportunities in the field. Starting with the vision of mindware as software and debates between realists, instrumentalists, and eliminativists, Andy Clark takes students on a no-holds-barred jour...

The Past in Perspective is geared toward students with little-to-no previous coursework in prehistory and archaeology--the majority of students who take this course. It engages students with a humorous, conversational, story-telling style, and introduces them to "the big picture"--the grand sweep of human evolutionary history - without overwhelming them with unnecessary detail that they are unlikely to retain. It also encourages discussion in the...

Practices of Looking, Fourth Edition, bridges visual culture studies, media studies, communication, and design to investigate how images and the activity of looking carry meaning across different arenas in everyday life. The fourth edition has been updated to represent new trends in design, digital art and media, Indigenous art, disability, and environmental media, and new directions in social media and computing, including artificial intelligenc...

Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials explores how the law works in practice. The key institutions, legal principles, and conventions that underpin the public law of the UK are brought to life through the inclusion of extracts from key sources, which are explained and critiqued by the authors.

Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials explores how the law works in practice. The key institutions, legal principles, and conventions that underpin the public law of the UK are brought to life through the inclusion of extracts from key sources, which are explained and critiqued by the authors.

Religion: A Study in Beauty, Truth, and Goodness covers the wide array of elements, including the concepts of ultimate being, scripture, ritual, morality, and beauty, which make up the fascinating entity known as religion. Taking a phenomenological approach that emphasizes the standpoint of the religious believer--a view from the inside of religion--Kent Richter uses the categories of experience, belief, and behavior ("Beauty, Truth, and Goo...

The only text to focus on study and communication skills specifically for chemistry students.

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...

Case-Based Learning for Group Intervention in Social Work provides essential information on planning and facilitating groups in a clear and easy-to-understand format. Current practice challenges, such as working with people that are mandated to group services and the proliferation of open-ended groups, are taken on directly with an array of strategies. To develop student competency, this volume uses a contemporary pedagogy--case-based learning--a...

Concepts, cases, and commentary combine to stimulate active learning, critical thinking, and perceptive analysis.

Complete Land Law is supported by clear author commentary, choice extracts, and useful learning features. The explanations and examples in this textbook have been crafted to help students hone their understanding of land law.

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...

Daly and Doyen's Introduction to Insect Biology and Diversity is respected for the balanced presentation and evolutionary perspective it brings to the study of entomology.

This engaging text gives readers a practical guide to the many ways in which social workers effect change in their communities and the world. The authors offer an overview and history of the profession; introduce readers to the practice of social work at the micro, mezzo, and macro level; and look closely at the many settings and populations that social workers work with.

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...

A comprehensive portable library for trusts and equity students incorporating an impressive range of relevant and interesting case law, statutory material, academic writing and official proposals for law reform. Linked together by Gary Watt's engaging commentary, this is an essential resource for a subject that is heavily case law based.

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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. ...

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

This text provides comprehensive coverage of the effects of the digital age on juveniles, specifically social media, sexting, cyberbullying, and child pornography and abduction. A separate chapter covers the effects of media violence on juveniles,including how television, movies, and modem virtual reality video games have advanced in both content and accessibility. At the end of each chapter a world view of the topics covered offer comparative pe...

Focused on the period 200 BCE to 200 CE, this contributed volume provides a thematic introduction to the social aspects of ancient Rome - its composition, institutions, structures, and cultural products - and challenges students to consider Roman society as more than a series of chronological events.

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Introduction to Human Services and Social Change: History, Practice, and Policy is a core, introductory text that provides a foundation for future human service professionals interested in the intersection of theory, research, and practice. Providing an exciting blend of theory and research, the text uses frameworks derived from contemporary learning science to provide students with thought-provoking opportunities to apply concepts to service lea...

This book is accompanied by a selection of online resources, including detailed annual updates, useful web links, and outline answer guidance to selected in-text questions.