Category: Textbooks

Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing World, (PDF) considers the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences, and effects. It reflects the perspectives and thinking of 24 authors from all continents. All chapters are original papers shown at the Fifth World ISBEE Congress, that took place

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a ‘machine that would give you any experience you desired’. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the

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

Explains why and how human cultures vary so greatly across space and time Ember & Ember’s Cultural Anthropology, 14th edition, (PDF) helps college students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. It provides both a comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology. This latest

Pioneers of Psychology, A History (PDF) tells the stories of the women and men who have created our understanding of what it means to be human. The authors clarify major themes and controversies in psychology’s history through carefully designed stories of real people, their personal journeys and their intellectual insights.