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It’s All of Our Business: Communicating Competently in the Workplace is a brief, inexpensive, conversational and comprehensive text that balances practical skills and competence with scholarly insight. The text will address several topics often ignored or given only glancing coverage in competing texts including connecting bids, dialectics and conflict, anger management, difficult group members, virtual groups, cognitive dissonance, persuasion, p...

Canadian Prisons is the most current and comprehensive corrections text that brings together the expertise of Canada’s leading academics and practitioners to provide students with an engaging view of Canada’s correctional system.

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Economics for Business provides an engaging introduction to the core economic concepts that business students need to know, consistently emphasising how, and why, understanding economics is essential for their studies, and future business careers.

Statistics in Context offers a fresh approach to teaching statistics. Designed to reduce students' fear of numbers, the text aims to put statistics-wary readers at ease with uncomplicated explanations and practical examples drawn from real research and everyday life. Written in lively, accessible prose, the narrative describes the who, what, when, where, and why, and also the how, of statistics.

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.

The only book with a 'themes and issues' approach that encourages critical engagement with contemporary debates in the business environment.

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

Business Law provides practical, up-to-date coverage of company, partnership, taxation, and insolvency law. The manual provides all of the required material students need to understand the latest legal developments affecting business law transactions, with a particular focus on relevant taxation law and business accounts.

Written with business students in mind, Business Law puts the law into a context that they can grasp easily. Case studies open each chapter and readers are regularly asked to consider how the content applies to routine business problems so that they fully engage with the topics, understand, and can approach the law independently with confidence.

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The best-selling introduction to Canadian politics! This text offers a thorough grounding in the institutions and processes of Canadian government, focusing on issues of individual, group, and regional equalities and freedoms while raising thought-provoking questions about the nature of Canadian democracy itself.

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.

Practical, theoretical, global: provides thorough grounding in economic and international business theory complemented by real-world examples from a diverse range of companies and cultures.

A distinctive partnership with the Canadian Sociological Association, this collection of readings by leading and emerging sociologists reassesses and re-narrates the Canadian colonial project.

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This self-contained primer covers statistical thermodynamics in a rigorous yet approachable manner, making it the perfect text for undergraduates.

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Sylvius 4 Online provides a unique web-based learning environment for exploring and understanding the structure of the human central nervous system. Sylvius features fully annotated surface views of the human brain, as well as interactive tools for dissecting the central nervous system and viewing fully annotated cross-sections of preserved specimens and living subjects im...

Technical Editing: A Twenty-First-Century Introduction offers a comprehensive and fully current approach to technical and professional editing. With a first part covering core competencies of practicing technical editors and a second part examining the factors inherent in professional culture, Technical Editing's experienced author team makes accessible the most complete and up-to-date instruction in the field of technical and professional editin...

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
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Applied Business Ethics prepares students to tackle the moral challenges waiting for them in the business world. After opening with a thorough introduction to ethical theory, critical thinking, and moral reasoning, it moves on to cover the essential issues and debates in business ethics. Integrating over 120 passages from books and essays, content features that provide further support for students as they engage with morally charged business issu...

Basic Vision: An Introduction to Visual Perception demystifies the processes through which we see the world. Written by three authors with over 80 years of research and undergraduate teaching experience between them, it leads the reader through the intricacies of visual processing, with full-colour illustrations on nearly every page.

Business Law Concentrate is written and designed to help you succeed. Accurate and reliable, Concentrate guides help focus your revision and maximise your exam performance. Each guide includes revision tips, advice on how to achieve extra marks, and a thorough and focused breakdown of the key topics and cases.

Business Research Methods is a clear, comprehensive, and engaging guide designed specifically for business students on a research methods course or completing a research project. The thoroughly updated sixth edition offers extended coverage of quantitative methods and visual research with extensively-revised global examples throughout.

With contributions from Canada’s top scholars in the field, Canadian Families Today, 5th edition, presents the most current and comprehensive examination of families in Canadian society.

Contemporary and accessible, Inside Canadian Politics provides a fresh perspective on the institutions and issues at the heart of our political system. This text explores key concepts and topics in Canadian politics from federalism, regionalism, Indigeneity, and diversity, to the party system, media and political communication, and elections. Each chapter invites students to debate and discuss the effectiveness of government mechanisms in the dai...

The most multi-perspective, succinct, and applied guide to international business environments.

The bestselling textbook in this subject area, Introduction to Business Law introduces students to the core legal areas relevant to the world of business and work. Known for its visual approach and engaging writing style, the book features over 90 full colour diagrams to illustrate complex issues, while practical examples and case studies are included throughout to put the law into context.

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.

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...

Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith has educated over a million students worldwide.  Respected equally as a teaching text and reference, "Sedra/Smith" remains the best text for helping students progress from circuit analysis to circuit design, developing design skills and insights that are essential to successful practice in the field. Significantly revised, slimmed down, and updated with the latest innovations, this edition also con...

A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Second Edition, explains fundamental material in probability theory, experimental design, and parameter estimation for ecologists and environmental scientists. The book emphasizes a general introduction to probability theory and provides a detailed discussion of specific designs and analyses that are typically encountered in ecology and environmental science. Appropriate for use as either a stand-alone or supple...

Probability, Statistics, and Random Signals offers a comprehensive treatment of probability, giving equal treatment to discrete and continuous probability. The topic of statistics is presented as the application of probability to data analysis, not as a cookbook of statistical recipes. This student-friendly text features accessible descriptions and highly engaging exercises on topics like gambling, the birthday paradox, and financial decisio...

Providing the perfect balance of cultural and musical analysis, Rock: Music, Culture, and Business by Joseph G. Schloss, Larry Starr, and Christopher Waterman tells the full story of rock 'n' roll, from its earliest beginnings to today.

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Starting Out in Methods and Statistics for Psychology: a Hands-on Guide to Doing Research takes first year psychology students through the entire process of doing research in psychology from exploring designs and methods, to conducting step-by-step, by-hand data analysis, and writing up their findings, in a friendly and accessible way.

Victimology examines the causes in impacts on crime on victims, as well as the responses to crime on a both society and legal level. As the most comprehensive study of victimization from a Canadian perspective, Victimology outlines the ways in which victims are created, defined, measured, understood, and supported in Canada today. Through an exploration of classic and contemporary theory, paired with an examination of Canadian research data and s...

Designed for undergraduate readers, Canadian Environmental Policy and Politics, fifth edition, is an innovative look at cutting-edge issues in the field that will appeal equally to students, researchers, and practitioners of environmental policy.

Bringing together nineteen contributed selections by researchers and practitioners in the field, this accessible introduction examines the many ways social policy impacts our lives. Featuring case examples, international comparisons, and case studies on policy change throughout, the text illustrates how the study of social policy is a crucial dimension of all social work practice.

This compact version of Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, and documentation offers advice that is guaranteed to help writers of all skill levels master the writing process. With streamlined discussions of composition, grammar and style, spelling and punctuation, research practices, and a fully updated documentation section, this is an essential reference for all students.

Far-reaching and detailed, Card & James' Business Law is the definitive guide to the subject. Roach encourages students to understand the basics and challenges them to push their grasp of the legal principles further. Accompanied by an abundance of learning features and a suite of online resources designed to hone critical assessment skills.

This streamlined version of Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, and documentation delivers invaluable advice on every aspect of the writing process, from composing a sentence to producing a full-length research paper.

Labor and Legality is an ethnographic account of the lives of ten undocumented workers in Chicago, originally published in 2010. The book seeks to push past one-dimensional rhetoric and show that undocumented workers are neither mere victims nor criminals, but complicated people engaged in workaday struggles to make their lives better. The book follows these men through their daily routines and records their efforts to improve their fortunes and ...

The bestselling history of modern Japan, now with increased coverage of culture and the environment.

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...

Thoroughly revised to address a variety of contemporary issues, Social Problems: A Canadian Perspective uses diverse voices to take a concise, intersectional approach that encourages students to be active, engaged citizens in the pursuit of understanding and solving Canada’s—and the world’s—social problems. The book discusses and applies a range of theoretical perspectives – including structural-functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactio...

Thirty Readings in Introductory Sociology, Second Edition, introduces students to the field of sociology in an engaging, accessible manner. Designed to be used alone or with its companion,Ten Lessons in Introductory Sociology, the book is organized around four themes commonly examined in introductory courses: Why sociology? What unites society? What divides society? and How do societies change? Rather than provide encyclopedic responses to such q...

Youth Justice offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to youth crime and deviance in Canada. Written by experts from across the country to offer a range of perspectives on the patterns, theories, and emerging topics related to youth justice, this text blends empirical research with critical analysis while incorporating youth voices throughout. The book features a wide variety of chapters exploring unique areas in Canadian youth justice,...

American Criminal Procedure Today

Canadian Criminal Law and the Criminal Code is laid out to mirror the process by which each player in court (i.e. the accused, crown and judiciary) moves through the justice system chronologically, from pre-trial procedures through defences and sentencing. Key sections of the Criminal Code are included throughout and brought to life through contemporary case studies and compelling discussion questions aimed towards engaging the students fully wit...

This concise, accessible introduction to criminology explores how crime is defined, measured, and controlled within a Canadian context. In-depth and well-balanced, the text covers the fundamentals of the discipline before exploring sociological and non-sociological explanations of crime, criminological theory, social inequality and crime, organizational crime, and intersections between the law and the criminal justice system.

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...

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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Students are drawn to topics of urgent sociological concern by a need to both understand the forces that shape their world, and their desire to make the world better. It can be challenging, however, for students to link sociological concepts with real-world applications. Living Sociologically: Concepts and Connections, Concise Edition with Acrobatiq Adaptive Learning helps students make those connections. This brief, engaging and accessible text ...

Perspectives on Community-Based Corrections is a concise introductory text for students wishing to gain insight into community-based corrections. This text offers past experiences from practitioners, researchers, and individuals under community-based supervision, intending to provide students with a complete understanding of the environment. Along with extensive pedagogical tools, online resources, such as an Instructor's Manual, Test bank, and a...

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Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy, Fifth Edition leads the reader, step by step, through identifying and acquiring the sequences to be included in a tree, aligning the sequences, estimating the tree by one of several methods, and drawing the tree for presentatio...

Understanding and Using Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice shows students how to critically examine the use and interpretation of statistics, covering not only the basics but also the essential probabilistic statistics that students will need in their future careers. Taking a conceptual approach, this unique text introduces students to the mindset of statistical thinking. It presents formulas in a step-by-step manner; explains the te...

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...

Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public, and Critical Readings helps students think anthropologically by introducing core concepts through engaging case studies. The majority of the selections in this reader are contemporary pieces that emphasize public, critical, and applied anthropology. While the selections represent a range of geographic and cultural areas, the book includes many U.S.-based fieldwork examples so that students are inspired...

The Oxford History of Western Music, College Edition, Second Edition, immerses students in the engaging story of the Western musical tradition. By emphasizing the connections among works, both within each cultural era and across time and place, the text goes beyond a basic retelling of the music's history to build students' ability to listen critically to key works.

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Using Statistical Methods in Social Science Research, Third Edition is the user-friendly text every student needs for analyzing and making sense of quantitative data. With over 20 years of experience teaching statistics, Soleman H. Abu-Bader provides an accessible, step-by-step description of the process needed to organize data, choose a test or statistical technique, analyze, interpret, and report research findings.

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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.

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

Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Eighth Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of gendered experiences. Framework essays provide context and connections for students, while features like learning activities, ideas for activism, and questions for discussion provide a strong pedagogical struc...

Now in its eighth edition, this best-selling reader provides an introduction to the sociological study of social psychology, interpersonal interaction, embodiment, emotion, selfhood, inequality, and the politics of everyday realities. Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology presents thirty-nine selections that include both classic and contemporary theoretical work and empirical studies. Detailed introductions to...