Category: Textbooks

J.D. Lewis-Williams, one of the well-known South African archaeologists and ethnographers, excavates meaning from the complex mythological stories of the San-Bushmen to make a larger theory of how myth is used in culture. He extracts their “nuggets,” the far-reaching but rarely unspoken words and concepts of language and understanding that

Mankiw’s Principles of Microeconomics, 8th Canadian Edition, (PDF) is designed with the student experience in mind by presenting a breakdown of concepts and focusing big ideas throughout its entirety. As the market leader, it continues to be the most commonly-used text in an economics classroom, perfectly complementing instructor teachings. University

Exploring Sociology, A Canadian Perspective, 3rd Edition, (PDF)  is a “students first” resource written with visionary students in mind, and with their help. Michelle Webber and Bruce Ravelli and, the authors of Exploring Sociology, believe that theory offers the foundation for sociology and that students need to examine both classical and

This fully revised Joyce Farrell’s Programming Logic And Design: Comprehensive, 8th Edition, (PDF) prepares computer student programmers for success by teaching them the basic principles of developing structured program logic. Widely used in initial Programming courses, this popular text takes an exceptional, language-independent approach to programming, with a distinctive focus

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers 8th edition (PDF) teaches college students to write and read critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its