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A Lone Star Reader

Author(s): Chuck Swanlund, Kirk Bane, SCOTT SOSEBEE

A Lone Star Reader is a Texas state history anthology designed for students and general readers alike. In its pages, readers will find the work of leading academics and lay historians. They will encounter a wide variety of writing styles and a broad range of views. The reader will find that every se...

Vascular Plant Taxonomy

Author(s): Zack E Murrell, Emily Laura Gillespie

Vascular Plant Taxonomy excites and encourages students to extend their own studies in the myriad of directions that attract their curiosity. It gives the reader a sense of accomplishment that the ever-broadening field of taxonomy is within their grasp. Vascular Plant Taxonomy is the only trul...

The City in the Western Tradition

Author(s): Peter Halvorson, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ellen Cromley

This text is designed for a course titled “The City in the Western Tradition.” The course surveys the broad sweep of the history of Western Civilization through the development of cities at different stages in that history. At least three broad sets of issues should be discussed at the outset for re...

Exploring the Nature of Creativity

Author(s): Jon Michael Fox, Ronni Lea Fox

Exploring the Nature of Creativity provides an introduction to creativity for the curious, the uninitiated, the students of beginning classes, and all other interested persons beginning their inquiry into the field of creativity research. Conversational knowledge is not easily gleaned from formal re...