Category: Textbooks

The new 2nd edition of the popular survey of Near Eastern civilization from the Bronze Age to the era of Alexander the Great. A Companion to the Ancient Near East, 2nd edition, (PDF) explores the history of the region from 4400 BCE to the Macedonian conquest of the Persian Empire

The Urban Forest: Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment, (PDF) emphasizes on urban “green infrastructure” – the interrelated web of vegetated spaces like parks,  street trees, and peri-urban forests that offer essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach represents the idea that these services, such as

Employing the central integrative theme of power, Power and Society: An Introduction to the Social Sciences 14th Edition (PDF), introduces you to each of the social sciences and demonstrates how they differ in their methods and focus. It also presents an interdisciplinary viewpoint to illustrate the uses and nature of

A modern approach to macroeconomics – Williamson’s Macroeconomics 5th edition (PDF) uses a thoroughly modern approach by showing college students how to build macro economic models from micro economic principles. This approach helps to make the textbook consistent with the way macroeconomic research is conducted today. NOTE: This is the

The languages of Western Asia belong to a variety of language families, including Indo-European, Semitic, Kartvelian, and Turkic, but share numerous features on account of being in areal contact over many centuries. This volume, The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective (PDF) presents descriptions of the modern