Category: Textbooks

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

The Politics of Education, 2nd Edition, (PDF) offers an introduction to both the political dimensions of schooling and the politics of modern educational reform debates. The ebook offers undergraduates and starting graduate students in education an understanding of various dimensions of the contested field of education, speaking of questions of

Hughes-Hallett/Lock/Gleason/Flath/Gordon/Lomen’s Applied Calculus, 5th Edition, (PDF) is praised for the creative and varied conceptual and modeling problems which encourage and challenge math students. The 5th Edition of this renowned text exhibits the same strengths from previous editions including the “Rule of Four,” a focus on concepts and modeling, exposition that

Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions First Canadian Edition (PDF) helps college students to understand the interplay of psychological, biological, and social factors in people’s health. It has a modular structure, which allows instructors to choose to cover all of the systems at once or distribute them to other chapters. The psychological

Principles of Animal Physiology, 3rd edition, (PDF), by Chris Moyes and Trish Schulte, is designed to provide third- and second-year, undergraduate university students enrolled in animal physiology courses with an approach that balances its presentation of comparative physiology with mechanistic topics. The ebook delivers the fundamentals of animal physiology while providing