Category: Textbooks

For more than twenty centuries, from ancient Greece the ideal of natural law has been appealed to in Western moral and legal philosophy as a grounding for ethics and jurisprudence, based on capacities of a common “human nature”. From the early medieval advent of “Christendom”, it was embedded within theistic

From the innovative partnership of W. H. Freeman and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its effect on the way we live. In Biology for a Changing World, 2nd Edition, (PDF), two veteran educators and a science journalist explore the main ideas of biology through a number

Richard T. Schaefer’s Sociology Matters 6th edition (PDF) is a concise introduction to the discipline of sociology. Schaefer’s characteristic straightforward style, a great and streamlined design, and highly focused coverage make it the perfect ultra-brief, affordable, introductory textbook for instructors who use a variety of materials in their course. College

Compiled through a “student-tested, faculty-approved” review process, MGMT Principles of Management, 3rd Canadian Edition, (PDF) is designed to offer students with little-to-no management knowledge to “think like managers.” The Third Canadian Edition provides comprehensive coverage of main contemporary management topics such as innovation and change, ethics and social responsibility, and

Ways of Knowing in HCI (PDF) brings together both traditional and new research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include observations and interviews, ethnography, grounded theory, and evaluation of digital traces of behavior. Readers will attain an understanding of the type of knowledge every method provides, its disciplinary