Category: E-Books

How do many categories of people come to be seen as “different”? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? How does being “different” affect people’s lives? What difference does “difference” make? The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and

Using and Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, 6th edition (PDF) prepares college students for the mathematics they will encounter in college courses, their future careers, and life in general. Its quantitative reasoning approach helps all the students to build the skills needed to understand major issues in everyday life

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in

An interdisciplinary survey text on leadership theory grounded using critical perspectives – Leadership Theory: Cultivating Critical Perspectives (PDF) is designed specifically for use in graduate or undergraduate classrooms providing a comprehensive overview of essential theories informing the leadership studies knowledge base. The textbook infuses critical perspectives in a developmental manner

From memes to resumes, fairy tales to researched arguments, in an outstanding full-color visual design, The Bedford Book of Genres, 2nd Edition, (PDF)  invites students to undo how genres work in order to experiment with their own compositions. After capturing the imagination of students and instructors in its successful first