Category: Textbooks

Wired Youth, 2nd Edition, (PDF) provides a research-based analysis of the online social world of adolescence, integrating additional research findings that have appeared during the last decade. Mesch and Talmud take a realistic, sociological approach to online adolescents’ communication, showing how online sociability is implanted in the larger social structure

Miller’s Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World, 4th edition, (PDF) presents a balanced, brief introduction to the world’s cultures, focusing on how they interact and change. Expert author Barbara Miller encourages college students to think critically about other cultures as well as their own and offers frequent opportunities to engage

The Psychology, 5th Edition, (PDF) by an expert author team of Schacter/Gilbert/Nock/Wegner brings the up-to-date developments in psychology to students in a signature writing style that will stimulate a lifelong love of science. The authors — very respected writers and researchers of popular press titles — invite college students to

In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, (PDF) Alan I Marcus examines a comparatively understudied period in the history of cancer by giving a careful investigation of the first public crusade to find the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause during the stimulating era of

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reflect a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as personalities such as Hobbes, Hume, Locke, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and supporting mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to educate how political and moral theorists think about the world in