Category: Textbooks

Examine how American democracy is developing. The Struggle for Democracy, 2016 Election Edition 12th edition (PDF), offers students the tools they need to critically analyze our American political system and make judgments about how well our system of government works. Taking a unique and fresh approach to common American government

Pursuing Happiness: A Bedford Spotlight Reader, 2nd Edition, (ePub) examines questions around the key concept of what makes us content: What is the psychology of happiness? How should we question what makes us happy? Can we buy or make our own happiness? Does technology make us happy? How can we

A student-friendly, clear and easy introduction to the fundamentals of Python In Tony Gaddis’ Starting Out with Python, 4th Global Edition (PDF), accessible coverage introduces college students to the basics of programming in a high-level language. Python, an easy-to-learn and increasingly popular object-oriented language, allows students to become comfortable with

This brief introductory criminal justice textbook uses an interdisciplinary approach to introduce students to the field’s foundations and individual components, in addition to many contemporary controversies in the justice system. Through the use of existing issues, like the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, efforts to reform sentencing and reduce prison

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