Category: Textbooks

The ebook that professors trust to get college students thinking analytically about the American government now does more than any other text to assist students to understand the quantitative data they face in the course and in political news. American Government: Power and Purpose, Core 14th Edition, (PDF) also implements

Varieties of Capitalism in Southeast Asia, (PDF) explains the political origins and evolution of capitalist institutions in developing countries by observing distinct patterns in the electronics industry in three Southeast Asian countries: Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore. An investigation of the political determinants of these patterns has a number of theoretical

Calvin Schermerhorn’s stimulating study observes the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, (PDF) follows ships and money as well as enslaved human beings to show how slavery was a national business

Discover Sociology: Core Concepts (PDF) explores sociology as a discipline of curious minds, with the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical tools needed to analyze, understand, and even change the world — all in a more streamlined format. It is adapted from Discover Sociology, 3rd Edition (also available), and offers in-depth coverage

Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives, 3rd edition (PDF) presents all the key areas of cultural anthropology as well as providing original and nuanced coverage of current and cutting-edge topics. An exceptionally clear and readable introduction, it helps college students understand the application of anthropological concepts to the contemporary world