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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...

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...

This two-volume workbook includes approximately thirty-five reference maps and fifty outline maps that provide opportunities to deepen understanding of world history through coloring exercises.

Blending classic scholarship with exciting new developments in the discipline, Biological Psychology offers a fresh perspective on the brain's interaction with its environment.

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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Musics of the World offers a rich introduction and eighteen area chapters that consistently locate the reader in a region’s cultural context before exploring what makes each place musically unique. Each chapter features three very different musical genres with links to videos, timed musical tracks, definitions, color photographs, recipes, and discussion questions. The writing style is upbeat and welcoming, and instructors can use the book with co...

• Emphasis on real-world examples and contemporary athletes in every chapter
• Connects to students on a personal level through "Test Yourself" features that enable students to rate themselves on various issues, attitudes, and behaviors and apply what they've learned to their own lives
• Emphasizes research with a thorough review of research methods in the first chapter and "Research in Action" boxes throughout that explore thought-provoking topics li...

A next-generation textbook that presents Visual Culture in the arts and sciences, Visual Worlds is designed to introduce students to visuality across all the fields that theorize it. Highlighting examples ranging from traditional “artworks” to the physics of candle flames to the visualization of neurons, it gives a full introduction to the visual world for undergraduate students. The text offers students across disciplines -- from the...

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.

An accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the field of comparative psychology. Combining behavioural, psychological and biological insights, students are encouraged to make connections within and beyond psychology, while discussion of cutting-edge research stimulates students to explore the topic further.

This core text for sociology of gender or intro to gender studies courses takes a balanced, global, intersectional approach to gender.

The authors:

1) look at how concrete forms of gender, race, class, and sexual inequality operate transnationally;

2) examine the impact of globalization on local and everyday life experiences; and

3) identify how local actors re-imagine social possibilities, resist injustice, and work toward change. Integrating th...

Multicultural Psychology combines quantitative and qualitative research with anecdotal material to examine an array of multicultural issues and capture the richness of diverse cultures. The text focuses on compelling topics such as differences in world views, communication, racial and cultural identity, development, racism, and immigration. Other issues covered in the text include gender, sexuality, age, and ability. The authors provide a strong,...

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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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...

Uncovering World History, Volume 1 offers the following modules:

• Making History: How Do Historians Turn Evidence into Narratives?
• The Amarna Age: What Can Ancient Letters Tell Us About Their Authors?
• Rashid Al-Din’s Jāmi' al-tawārīkh: How Should We Tell the History of the Mongol Empire?
• The Many Faces of Sir Francis Drake: Global Pirate or National Hero?

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The Urban World, Eleventh Edition, provides a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, and cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a twenty-first-century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarship with an accessible style, J. John Palen is one of America's leading urban sociologists. He adds fresh data and insights to each e...

Through its lively and accessible narrative, The World Transformed provides students with an account of the political, socio-economic and cultural developments that have shaped global events since 1945. The book’s focus on three central and profoundly interconnected stories–the unfolding of the Cold War, the growth of the international economy, and the developing world’s quest for political and economic independence–offers...

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,...

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.

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.

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.

Empires and Colonies in the Modern World takes on world history 1450-present through the sweeping events and human experiences of empires, imperialism, and colonialism. More than just a history of one or more empires, this volume ties together all of the modern empires, and also considers the development of global commerce, shared ideas about race and gender, and the political development of the international system in which we live. It is more t...

In Forging the Modern World: A History, Third Edition, authors James Carter and Richard Warren offer an accessible explanation of key transformations in global economic, political, and ideological relationships since the sixteenth century. The book is distinct from most world history texts in three important ways. First, it explores the ways in which historians use and produce information. Each chapter delves deeply into one or two specific issue...

Bringing together an internationally respected team of experts, the second edition of Fundamentals of Health Psychology continues to offer a comprehensive introduction to the key topics and approaches in the fast-growing field of health psychology.

We study world history to discern common rituals, problems, and patterns that do not stop at a territorial boundary. A history that accurately reflects the past must recognize that wars, battles, and empires barely touch how lives were lived, whether as an artisan, slave, trader, soldier, pilgrim, or doctor. World history is not about merely analyzing documents and amassing or memorizing facts. It is about learning to consider big questions that ...

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...

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.

Featuring a unique, consistent, and modular chapter structure--"Teachings," "History," and "Way of Life"--and numerous pedagogical features, Invitation to World Religions, Fourth Edition, invites students to explore the world's great religions with respect and a sense of wonder. This chapter structure enables students to navigate each religion in a consistent and systematic way and to make comparisons between religions. The book describes the ess...

Featuring a unique, consistent, and modular chapter structure--"Teachings," "History," and "Way of Life"--and numerous pedagogical features, Invitation to World Religions, Fifth Edition, invites students to explore the world's great religions with respect and a sense of wonder. This chapter structure enables students to navigate each religion in a consistent and systematic way and to make comparisons between religions. The book describes the esse...

Patterns of World History, Fourth Edition, offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, interactions, and adaptations. Authors Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George B. Stow examine the full range of human ingenuity over time and space in a comprehensive, even-handed, and critical fashion.

The authors' use of a broad-based understanding of continuity, change, and innovation allows them t...

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A People’s History of the World emphasizes the process of change over time from the ground up without losing the essential nature of history as “story.”

The only introduction to politics in the developing world to combine theoretical approaches, society-state relations, and policies with a series of illustrative country-based case studies.

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...

The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour is a thrilling and comprehensive introduction to the psychological theories of criminality and violence. It examines how psychology and biology both play a role in understanding what may lead individuals to commit crime. Theoretical in approach, The Psychology of Criminal Behaviour ensures that material is presented in a way that meets the needs of both psychology and criminology students. ...

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.

Research-based but highly accessible, this fresh, contemporary, and engaging volume helps students appreciate the science of psychology and understand how its principles apply to their own lives.

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.

A complete introduction to strategy in the contemporary world, which critically explores the enduring, present and emerging issues dominating strategic debate.

Revealing the significance of religion in contemporary life, World Religions Today, Seventh Edition, explores major religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, South Asian religions, East Asian religions, indigenous religions, and new religions—as dynamic, ongoing forces in the lives of individuals and in the collective experience of modern societies. This unique volume accomplishes two goals: it connects today's religi...

Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, The World of Myth, Fourth Edition, offers a uniquely comprehensive collection of myths from numerous cultures around the globe. Featuring a thematic organization, it helps students understand world mythology as a metaphor for humanity's search for meaning in a complex world.

Deftly written and beautifully illustrated, The Worlds of Medieval Europe, Fourth Edition, presents a distinctive and nuanced portrayal of the Greater West during its medieval millennium. By integrating the histories of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds into the main narrative, author Clifford R. Backman offers an insightful, detailed, and often witty look at the continuum of interaction--social, cultural, intellectual, and commercial--that existe...

Biological Psychology, Second Edition, is centered around the tenets of effective presentation, accessible writing to all students regardless of their level of scientific preparation, and engaging storytelling which brings the context of the brain's design and psychology to life.

Biological Psychology 2e offers research and clinical case studies, contemporary real-world examples, and research techniques to effectively draw readers into the compel...

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.

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.

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...

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 ...

Latin America in the Modern World is the first text to situate the history of Latin America within a wider global narrative. Written by leading scholars, the book focuses on five themes: state formation; the construction of national identity through popular culture and religion; economics and commodities; race, class, and gender; and the environment. Emphasizing the distinct experiences of each of the Latin American countries, the book provides s...

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...

Public Policy: Investing for a Better World presents a contemporary introduction to public policy, covering all the major theories, approaches, and substantive policy areas. Grounded in the tradition of theoretically driven, evidence-based analysis, this text offers the tools that students need to discuss, debate, and chart future directions for government.

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...

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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Thinking World Politics Otherwise is a different kind of textbook. It includes a variety of critical approaches and perspectives that seek to challenge and rethink orthodox understandings of International Relations. Thinking World Politics Otherwise brings together prominent voices in the field that recognise the importance of engaging with global politics from a range of perspectives and through a variety of approaches. It includes a multitude o...

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...

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...

World Religions: Eastern Traditions, Fifth Edition, provides students with an accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking survey of Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese religions. The expert contributors offer an authoritative examination of the origins, central teachings, divisions and branches, rituals and practices, influences on culture, and responses to modern challenges for each tradition.

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World Religions: Western Traditions, Fifth Edition, provides students with a thought-provoking survey of Jewish, Christian, Muslim, ancient, indigenous, and new religious traditions. The expert contributors offer an authoritative examination of the origins, central teachings, divisions and branches, rituals and practices, influences on culture, and responses to modern challenges for each tradition.

Featuring a renowned author team and the best recent scholarship, World in the Making: A Global History is the first world history text to explore both the global and local dimensions of world history. Abundant full-color maps and images, along with other special pedagogical features that highlight the lives and voices of the world's peoples, make this new synthesis accessible and memorable for students--all at an affordable low price.

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Accessible, flexible, and affordable, The World of Philosophy: An Introductory Reader, Second Edition, presents philosophy in all its diverse array of thought and practice, offering a distinctive combination of standard analytical materials and Western historical texts alongside writings reflecting Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Arabic, African, South American, Chicano, and Native American sources. Approximately 25% of the contemporary readings are b...

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.

Critical Multiculturalism and Intersectionality in a Complex World guides the reader through a process of critical self-reflection that allows for examination of social identities, biases, and experiences of oppression and privilege. Its exploration of the history, sources, mechanisms, structures, and current manifestations of oppression -- complimented by case examples (with new stories from across the globe) and guiding questions -- provides a ...

Global Politics covers all of the standard topics in the undergraduate level IR/Global Politics course, and also provides more robust coverage of global ecology; gender and race; the different security challenges of our day that go beyond armed conflict; IPE coverage that highlights the divergent paths of the Global North and South; and the growing reliance upon international law, international organizations, and global and regional governance. U...

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 ...

With its real-world focus and comprehensive coverage, Personality and Intelligence encourages students to take an analytical eye to the psychology of individual differences. It pairs foundational theory with contemporary research insights, weaving conceptual and social issues throughout, to offer a complete insight into this stimulating field.

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 quantitative and qualitative research in psychology is the most hands-on, accessible, and approachable guide to the entire research process, which fully explores both quantitative and qualitative methods to give students the knowledge and confidence they need to succeed.

Richard Ingersoll's World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History, Second Edition, provides the most comprehensive and contemporary survey in the field. Each chapter within the text's chronological organization focuses on three unique architectural cultures, giving instructors the flexibility to choose which traditions are the most relevant to their courses. The text also provides students with numerous pedagogical tools, including timelines, comp...

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...

Europe in the Modern World, Second Edition, is an engaging narrative history of Europe since 1500. Written by an award-winning teacher and scholar, it highlights the major episodes of the European past and vividly connects those episodes to major international events. Each chapter opens with a compelling biographical sketch that gives the book's ideas a vibrant, human face.

Europe in the Modern World pays considerably more attention to economic h...

Global Politics covers all of the standard topics in the undergraduate level IR/Global Politics course, and also provides more robust coverage of global ecology; gender and race; the different security challenges of our day that go beyond armed conflict; IPE coverage that highlights the divergent paths of the Global North and South; and the growing reliance upon international law, international organizations, and global and regional governance. U...

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.

A full suite of instructor resources, a free open-access student Companion Websit...

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.

This introductory-level online environmental science textbook with labs focuses on specific environmental issues and the scientific approaches used to address them, employing an inquiry-based, hands-on approach. Students learn to:

• appreciate the importance of uncertainty and risk in the practice and interpretation of science
• explore the science, economics, and policies of prevailing issues in the environment, and
• discover how human activities dr...

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...

Global Issues, Tangled Webs: Transnational Concerns in an Interconnected World provides students with an overview and greater understanding of issues and trends in global politics. Global Issues, Tangled Webs demonstrates how some of the most important issues—such as climate change, refugee crises, food supply chains, global diseases, transnational crime and more—are linked to and affected by one another. It also explores how the actions of gov...