Category: Textbooks

This thought-provoking ebook, The Biology of Beauty: The Science behind Human Attractiveness, (PDF) explores the science behind human attractiveness—the proportions, ratios, and other factors that to a large extent determine what we find “beautiful.” It’s said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but the latest scientific research

Applied Behavior Analysis, 3rd Edition, (PDF) offers a comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the field, providing a complete description of the procedures and principles for changing and analyzing socially important behavior. The 3rd Edition includes coverage of advances in all three interrelated domains of the sciences of behavior–basic research, theoretical, and

The first ebook to provide a unified framework for both single-level and multilevel modeling of ordinal categorical data, Applied Ordinal Logistic Regression Using Stata: From Single-Level to Multilevel Modeling (PDF) by Xing Liu helps readers learn how to conduct analyses, interpret the results from Stata output, and present those results in

The field of Personality Psychology is now entering a golden age of sorts and the changes made to this first edition convey a discipline that is vibrant in a way it never has been before. After all, no other field is devoted to the study of all that it means

The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality (PDF/Mobi) for ethnic and race relations courses, is written by 3 leading scholars — Rodney D. Coates, Abby L. Ferber, and  David L. Brunsma — and reflects a very contemporary way of looking at minorities, race, and intergroup relations. Older textbooks use