Category: Non Fiction

This textbook, Culture and the Politics of Welfare: Exploring Societal Values and Social Choices (PDF) offers an in-depth examination of the influence of culture on welfare states. It suggests new ways in which cross-national differences in culture might be measured and, using a range of approaches, uses these measures to

Layered, Back-to-Basics Approach to Java Programming Newly updated and revised, Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach, 4th Global Edition (PDF) uses a layered strategy to introduce Java programming and counter the high failure rates that are usual in introductory computer science courses. The authors’ proven and class-tested “back

The first comprehensive scholarly treatment of bed bugs since 1966 This ebook, Advances in the Biology and Management of Modern Bed Bugs, expands and updates on existing material on bed bugs with an emphasis on the worldwide resurgence of both the tropical bed bug, Cimex hemipterus (F.) and the common

Adolescent Dating Violence: Theory, Research, and Prevention, (PDF) condenses the course, risk/protective factors, concerns, and treatment/prevention of adolescent dating violence. Dating violence is defined as physical, psychological, sexual, and cyber behavior meant to cause physical, emotional, or social harm to a current or former intimate partner. The ebook discusses the

Viewing our society from a conflict perspective. Taking a conflict approach, Stanley Eitzen, Maxine Baca Zinn, and Kelly Eitzen Smith’s Social Problems, 14th edition (PDF), examines social problems, how they are interrelated to other problems, and society’s role in their perpetuation and creation. This textbook addresses interesting subjects, such as