Category: Textbooks

Rubenstein & Alcock’s Animal Behavior 11th edition (PDF) is an updated, integrative and comparative overview of how and why animals as diverse as humans and insects behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the genes, brain, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding social and ecological environments.

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

Art History 5th Edition (PDF) continues to balance formal analysis with contextual art history in order to involve a diverse student audience. Authors Michael Cothren and Marilyn Stokstad, both scholars as well as teachers, share a common vision that survey courses should be filled with as much enjoyment as learning,

Emphasize the practical skills and important developments in business The recent events in global and domestic economies are presenting unparalleled challenges, excitement, and disappointments for businesses — and want for change in the introduction to business courses and textbooks. Ebert & Griffin’s Business Essentials, 12th Edition, (PDF) captures the widespread significance

Hegemonic Transformation (PDF) contends that the Chinese economic reform initiated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the part of the Chinese state has been changing from directing the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It