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Author(s): J. Edward Lee, Susan B. Autry
J. Edward Lee and Susan B. Autry's America: A Work In Progress series provides a fresh glimpse of a nation which continues to evolve, shaped by a multitude of themes and issues.
This volume explores the Gilded Age with its use of monopolies and the Captains of Industry who built the cities of America, with their skyscrapers and bridges. This emphasis on “bigness” continued until the 1901 assassination of William McKinley and the rise of Theodore Roosevelt, who declared war on “bigness.”
Author(s): Deborah Ferguson
Tapestry Voices of the Marginalizes and the Masters: American Literature helps students manifest and maintain a love of the English language while learning to appreciate the vast diversity of American voices in the literary arts. Accordingly, the fictional stories, poems, memoirs, manifestoes, essays, stage play, and nonfiction articles present literature in a historical context, but also have messages relating to readers and the issues of today.
Author(s): Evan Kalkus, John Styles
The Rudiments of Formal Logic: With Trees and Natural Deduction explores the formal structure of arguments in both sentential and first order predicate logic. Formal logic is the science of making valid inferences. As such, this book covers a variety of ways to demonstrate the validity of argument forms with emphasis given to truth trees and natural deduction.
Author(s): Jan Todd
Understanding ourselves and what we need and want from relationships in our lives is often a subject left for us to discover on our own as we age and develop. Yet, what would it be like if one could learn about the relationships we have and the ones we want in the safety of a group focused on that conversation? This is what this course is all about.
