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Known for its detailed and authoritative approach, Smith & Wood's Employment Law provide a comprehensive, yet accessible guide to employment law. The authors expertise in case law and legislation is complemented by insightful commentary and critique, as well as providing thorough explanation of social and historical contexts behind the systems in place.

In Harm's Way: A History of the American Military Experience offers a fast-paced, highly readable synthesis of modern scholarship on every era of the nation's experience in war.

Based on the central role that the study of documents plays in the history classroom, Modern Empires: A Reader presents the history of modern empires across the globe from the late fifteenth century to the present. The anthology's chronological, geographical, and thematic range offers special pedagogical benefits in light of the growing attention to the history of empire. Featuring voices from all levels of society and all parts of the world, thi...

Now in a new edition, Writing Public Policy is a practical, concise guide to writing and communicating in public policy processes. Designed to help students understand and perform common types of communication used in solving public problems, this text explains the standards and functions of communicating in the public sector and teaches the use of selected public policy communication genres. Catherine F. Smith presents a general method for plann...

International Human Rights Law provides a concise, wide-ranging introduction for students new to the subject.

This unique text/reader, used primarily in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Family Theory, engages students in critical thinking by presenting not just the history and scholarship of each theory, but also by presenting critiques of each theory. The book further engages students by presenting illustrations and examples that augment and clarify the theories, and application questions that help students relate them to the real world. T...

Mathematical Techniques provides a complete course in mathematics, covering all the essential topics with which a physical sciences or engineering student should be familiar. It introduces and builds on concepts in a progressive, carefully-layered way, and features over 2000 end of chapter problems, plus additional self-check questions.

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...

Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and an authoritative text in the field. Featuring stimulating, anecdotal boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the primary countries and themes of the region over the past 200 years. For each country, Peter H. Smith, and James N. Green continue the impeccable scholarship of Thomas Skidmore, who passed away in 2016. They examine such central themes as the Iberian-New World interaction, ra...

The Visual Arts of Africa: Power, Gender, and Life Cycles, Second Edition, presents a broad geographical coverage of the rich, diverse art traditions found on the vast continent of Africa. Beginning with North Africa and the Sahara and ending with South Africa, the book introduces students to major art traditions ranging from important ancient, archaeological finds to the work of artists active today, both those working with received traditions a...

Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter is a module in Oxford University Press’s new series, Debating American History. This series embraces an argument-based model for teaching history and encourages students to participate in a contested, evidence-based discourse about the human past. The series rejects the idea of history as an undisputed narrative and instead presents the past as understood through the direct engagement wit...

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.

The best-selling introduction to international relations offers the most comprehensive coverage of the key theories and global issues in world politics, written by the leading experts in the field.

Written primarily for students completing an undergraduate bioscience degree, Governing Synthetic Biology provides a concise introduction to the relationship between synthetic biology and society.

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.

Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and an authoritative text in the field. Featuring stimulating, anecdotal boxes, the book uses case studies to discuss the primary countries and themes of the region over the past 200 years. For each country, the authors continue the impeccable scholarship of Thomas Skidmore, who passed away in 2016. They examine such central themes as the Iberian-New World interaction, racial prejudices and pol...

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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Police & Society offers an in-depth and analytical look at policing, from police behavior and organization to operations and historical perspectives. Focusing on the relationship between the police and the community and how it has changed throughout the years, the authors explore the most important theoretical foundations and incisive research on contemporary policing and show how that research is put into practice.The text is enhanced by exp...

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.

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...

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 ...

Pithy discussion, sharp analysis, and a laser-like focus on key cases combine to offer students the perfectly balanced contract resource.

Written primarily for students embarking on an undergraduate bioscience degree, this primer will introduce students not only to the essentials of microbial biotechnology but also to topics at the forefront of the subject. These include its applications in agriculture, diagnostics, and urban and artistic conservation, as well as the potential threats of genetic modification in the context of public health, the environment, and intellectual propert...

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Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Criminal Law: This text is rightly regarded as the leading doctrinal textbook on criminal law in England and Wales. It continues to be a key text for undergraduates and an essential reference source for practitioners.

Smith, Hogan & Ormerod's Text, Cases, and Materials on Criminal Law: Ormerod and Laird present a thorough...

Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Criminal Law is rightly regarded as the leading doctrinal textbook on criminal law in England and Wales. Published in its first edition over fifty years ago, it continues to be a key text for undergraduates and an essential reference source for practitioners.

Your gateway to criminal law: drawing on the exceptional clarity and authority of Smith and Hogan, with a wealth of unique supportive learning features and guidance on assessment.

This textbook is part of the Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod criminal law resources collection.

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

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.