Category: Textbooks

“A film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own.” Since 1979 Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, and now Co-Author Jeff Smith’s Film Art: An Introduction 12th edition (PDF) has been the most widely respected and the best-selling introduction to the unbiased analysis of cinema. Taking

Mirror for Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, 11th edition, (PDF) is written by a prominent scholar in the field, Conrad Phillip Kottak. This concise, college student-friendly, current introduction to cultural anthropology carefully balances coverage of core topics and contemporary changes in the field. New to this 11th edition,

An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor, PDF, provides a concise and accessible overview of psychologists’ research on humor. Drawing on research from a range of psychological perspectives, from cognitive and biological to social and developmental, the ebook assesses factors that affect our comprehension, detection, liking, and use of humor.

Everything any college student needs to know about medical genetics is here in the Emery’s Elements of Medical Genetics 15th edition of this award-winning etextbook. Thoroughly revised and updated throughout to map a fast-moving area, the latest 15th edition continues Emery’s enviable reputation for successfully balancing up-to-dateness in a rapidly

Tata’s Sentencing: A Social Process, (PDF) asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts worldwide to analyze, critique, and reform it, it remains an enigma. Sentencing: A Social Process shows how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism,