Category: Textbooks

Both innovative and reliable, The Bedford Guide for College Writers, 11th Edition, (PDF) plunges students into active learning right from the beginning, whether their writing class is available on campus or online. This new edition expands active learning into reflection, assisting students to engage with their own writing process to

Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis, (PDF) examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after the crisis, particularly poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The ebook argues that, identifying both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite

The most successful calculus ebook of its generation, Jon Rogawski’s Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 3rd edition, (PDF) offers an ideal balance of dedicated conceptual focus and formal precision, helping college students build strong computational skills while continually reinforcing the relevance of calculus to their future studies and their lives. Guided by

Explores traditional and alternative models in human behavior. Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 6th edition, (PDF) challenges college students to explore both non-traditional and traditional paradigms in examining human behavior and the social environment. Through this examination, students will better understand families, groups, individuals, organizations, communities, and globalization. College

In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters’ viewpoints, and sometimes those versions proved to be false. Films now plunged viewers into