Profiled Life: A Systems Approach to Understanding the Foundations and Persistence of Racism in America

Author(s): Raja Staggers

Profiled Life helps to explain the adverse outcomes that People of Color experience, especially Black and Brown people, across all major social indicators including mortality, morbidity, college preparedness, income and wealth potential, prison rates, infectious and chronic disease outcomes, homeown...

Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education

Author(s): Tiffany A. Flowers, Dorian Harrison

Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education provides an abundance of information does more than just list dates, facts, and figures. It challenges the reader to look to the past, present, and future - encouraging beliefs, practice, and perspectives that encourage justice and belongin...

Philosophy of Education: Modern and Contemporary Ideas at Play

Author(s): Jaime Grinberg, Dorothy Rogers, Maughn Gregory

Philosophy of Education: Modern and Contemporary Ideas at Play offers a space of questioning and imagination where students are asked to suspend what they think they have come to know and think critically, imaginatively, and playfully about the status quo. Future teachers are given an opportunity to...

Village Economics: A Storybook on Economic Theories

Author(s): Chris Anderson

Village Economics presents microeconomic theories in an entertaining and understandable format.  Village Economics will help students more easily understand the theories they encounter in their Economics textbooks. Village Economic’s storybook format will help readers retain an understanding ...

Writing for Physics: The Laboratory Report

Author(s): Lene Jaqua

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. ~ Francis Bacon Laboratory courses are challenging on many levels. We are trying to familiarize students with equipment at the same time that they are to connect the uses of that equipment to the theoretical physics...

Introduction to Composition, Literature, and Critical Thinking

Author(s): Sharmain van Blommestein

Reforming the Juvenile Justice System: Be The Change, Preliminary Edition

Author(s): Ann Hobbs, Monica Miles Steffens

Eating for Your Genes

Author(s): Deborah J. Good, Daniel Miglia

Eating for Your Genes integrates genetics training with genetic conditions, in particular those that have a nutritional intervention. Each chapter has an introduction to a genetics concept, and an activity, which is either a kitchen-based exercise or a recipe. The authors of this text include a prof...

Message Received: Mass Communication in the Digital Era

Author(s): Andrea Thorson, Erin Auerbach, Olivia Garcia

The Logos Within Us: Introduction to Informal Logic

Author(s): MARIN SMILLOV

The Logos Within Us introduces readers to the subject of Logic by giving a reflection on where logic can be found in their lives, the basic concepts of logical arguments, and covers the informal fallacies. The transition from Aristotelian to propositional logic is also examined. The Logos Within ...