Category: Textbooks

This ebook, An Anthropology of Learning: On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies (PDF) has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models – a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections – tied to the everyday meaningful use

Drawing on, international law, treaties, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and particularly personal experiences, Marie Battiste records the nature of Eurocentric models of education and their upsetting impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Reporting the negative consequences of forced assimilation, the racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure

Reilly’s Worlds of History: Volume 2 Since 1400, 7th Edition, (PDF) presents a flexible comparative and thematic organization that accommodates a number of teaching approaches and assists students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Thoughtfully organized by a distinguished world historian and community college instructor, each section presents a broad array of

Anthropology of Infectious Disease, (PDF) synthesizes the thriving field of anthropology of infectious disease in a biocultural, critical framework. Expert medical anthropologist Merrill Singer holistically combines the behaviors of microorganisms and the activities of complex social systems, presenting how we exist with pathogenic agents of disease in a complicated process

Designed for the one-term introductory economics curriculum for non-majors, Boyes’s Fundamentals Of Economics, 6th Edition, (PDF) involves students with business decisions of actual, headline-making companies and converses the economic policies of today’s world leaders. The Sixth Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the present economic condition in the United