Category: Textbooks

Cengage Advantage Books – Understanding Arguments: An Introduction To Informal Logic, 9th edition shows readers how to construct arguments in everyday life, using everyday language. In addition, this easy-to-read etextbook also devotes 3 chapters to the formal aspects of logic including forms of argument, as well as categorical, propositional, and

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

Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology 3rd Edition (PDF) examines the latest research in the context of a retrograde political climate on such topics as women’s leadership backlash against competent women, transgender identity, sexual harassment, reproductive justice, and feminist activism. Students are introduced to the concepts of feminism multiculturalism diversity and

Exploring Physical Anthropology, 3rd Edition, (PDF) is a complete, full-color lab manual aimed for an introductory laboratory course in physical anthropology. It can also serve as a complementary workbook for a lecture class, mainly in the absence of a laboratory offering. This laboratory manual allows a hands-on approach to learning

Doing without Free Will: Spinoza and Contemporary Moral Problems (PDF) introduces Spinoza into the present-day discussion on moral problems and free will surrounding this discussion. Old Western moral philosophy, for the most part, has been built on the assumption of free will as a special human capacity to liberally choose