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What do GPS devices, iPods, LCD displays, airport metal detectors, and PET scans have to do with physics? This Ostdiek/Bord’s INQUIRY INTO PHYSICS 8th Edition (PDF) ebook answers these questions and many others, helping college students understand fundamental concepts using a unique inquiry-based approach. The textbook integrates real modern applications

Current Issues and Enduring Questions, 12th Edition, (PDF/AZW3) is a textbook and reader that serves as a comprehensive resource for teaching persuasive and argument writing, critical thinking, and research. It includes readings on topics that concern students, such as being seen as “the other” and student loan forgiveness, matters that

Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction To Language 10th edition, is appropriate for a variety of fields — including languages, education, psychology, anthropology, English, cognitive science, and teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) — at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. This completely updated 10th edition retains

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World, (PDF) explores the health/fitness interaction in a historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider transformations in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of

At an age when memoirs and other forms of life writing are being produced and consumed in unparalleled numbers, The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures (PDF) reminds readers that memoir is not only a “literary” genre or only entertainment. Likewise, letters are not merely epiphenomena of our “real