Category: Textbooks

It inspires students to think like anthropologists in a multicultural and global age. Covering the essential concepts that drive cultural anthropology today, Kenneth Guest’s Cultural Anthropology: A Toolkit for a Global Age, 2nd edition (PDF) shows college students that now, more than ever, global forces affect local culture and that

In Understanding Nanomaterials 2nd Edition (PDF) eBook, the authors provide the perfect training tool for the workforce in nanotech development by presenting the fundamental principles that govern the characterization, fabrication, and application of nanomaterials. This 2nd edition represents a complete overhaul, giving a much more complete, self-contained introduction. As before,

Construction Project Management, 6th edition, (PDF) is a thoroughly updated edition of the classic guide to project management of construction projects. For more than 30 years, Construction Project Management 6e has been considered the preeminent guide to all aspects of the construction project management process, including the Critical Path Method

Well-integrated and clear, Managing Human Resources, 12th Edition, (PDF) uses the authors’ (Jackson/Schuler/Werner) well-established Integrative Framework for Managing Human Resources to explain specific human resource (HR) activities including recruitment, performance management, training, and compensation. An important learning objective for students using Managing Human Resources is to build an understanding of

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the