Category: Textbooks

From reading news on tablets to video calling on smartphones, digital media has transformed the ways in which we communicate. Placing merging at the center of the discussion, Pavlik/McIntosh’s Converging Media: A New Introduction to Mass Communication, 5th Edition, (PDF) uses the technologies we employ every day to explain our

John Gamble’s Essentials of Strategic Management, 6th edition, (PDF) by Gamble, Peteraf, and Thompson presents brief straight-to-the-point discussions timely examples with a writing style that grabs college students’ interest. It includes 10 chapters with 12 tightly linked cases. The content is firmly mainstream and balanced mirroring both insights of academic

Explains how and why human cultures vary so greatly across space and time Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology, 3rd edition, (PDF) helps college students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. It provides both a comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology. This

Decolonizing Foreign Language Education (PDF) questions current foreign language and second language education approaches that prioritize white, western thought. Edited by applauded critical theorist and linguist Donaldo Macedo, this volume includes leading-edge work by a select group of critical language scholars working to thoroughly challenge the marginalization of foreign language

Ways of Knowing in HCI (PDF) brings together both traditional and new research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include observations and interviews, ethnography, grounded theory, and evaluation of digital traces of behavior. Readers will attain an understanding of the type of knowledge every method provides, its disciplinary