Category: Textbooks

Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services (PDF) by Benjamin Shepard is an accessible and engaging ebook that will get today’s students excited about the very real prospect of achieving positive, lasting change within their communities. It outlines a distinct approach to community practice born out

Not like any other MIS textbook franchise, Baltzan’s Business Driven Technology, 8th Edition, (PDF) discusses numerous business initiatives first and how technology backs those initiatives second. The premise for this exclusive approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion in these textbooks first talks about business needs

This fully revised An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory and Practice 2nd edition (PDF) offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides college students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject’s most significant issues, debates, and methodologies. It begins by asking the

Lagrangian Mechanics: An Advanced Analytical Approach (PDF) explains the subtleties of analytical mechanics and its applications in rigid body mechanics. The expert authors demonstrate the primordial role of parameterization, which conditions the equations and thus the information obtained; the essential notions of virtual kinematics, such as the virtual derivative and

For non-majors biology courses. Interesting and relatable stories engage students in learning biology Virginia Borden Maier and Colleen Belk have helped university students understand biology for over twenty years in the classroom and more than ten years with their popular textbook, Biology: Science for Life with Physiology 5e. The comprehensively