Category: Textbooks

In this multi-faceted case study of one advanced institution of adult higher education, the contributors and editors to the volume layout significant challenges facing not just non-traditional post-secondary colleges and universities but all organizations of higher education in today’s swiftly changing context. Competing that nontraditional institutions are especially challenged in

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6th Edition continues to show the vital role research plays by integrating in-depth, real-world case studies with a comprehensive discussion of research methods. By coupling research techniques with practical examples from the field, Ronet D. Bachman and Russell K. Schutt equip

Wade/Tavris’ Invitation to Psychology, 6th Edition, (PDF) shows college students why critical and scientific thinking is so important in the decisions they make. In lively, clear, warm prose, this revised edition continues the title’s integration of culture, gender, and ethnicity. By the end, psychology students will learn how to infer

In Digital Data Collection and Information Privacy Law (PDF), Mark Burdon debates for the reformulation of information privacy law to regulate new power outcomes of ubiquitous data collection. Scrutinizing developing business models, based on collections of sensor data – with an emphasis on the ‘smart home’ – Burdon shows the

After the publication of the popular first edition, planetary and stellar scientists have produced numerous new theories, observations, and interpretations, including the “demotion” of our previous ninth planet Pluto as a dwarf planet. Including all of these new discoveries, Planetary Science: The Science of Planets around Stars, 2nd Edition, (PDF)