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Scientific and Technological Literacy

Author(s): Warren Rosenberg, Victor Stanionis, Louis Campisi

 INTEGRATED SCIENCE: THE ENERGY CODE is written to help students who are not following a career in science and/or engineering, develop a measure of scientific and technological literacy. It is designed for a one-semester course, with two hours of lecture and a two-hour "hands-on" laboratory session ...

MIS: A Field Guide

Author(s): Joe Faith

In MIS: A Field Guide, author Joe Faith introduces key concepts in business in a field book style - easily digestible and accessible to a general audience. Written with the business person in mind, the author cuts through technical jargon to present key technology concepts and how they are applied i...

Navajo Traditional Stories and the Science of Geology

Author(s): Dale Nations, Max Goldtooth, Henry Haven

The three authors of this book vary greatly in backgrounds and experience but share in the love of the land and a desire to impart their knowledge of it. Comparisons are made of the rock record of geologic events known to geologists, to the legends in stories known to traditional Navajos. Ages and e...

A Casebook for Health Care Ethics

Author(s): Julius A Ciaffa, Maria Howard

Jay Ciaffa and Maria Kulp draw on their years of experience as teachers, researchers, and ethics committee members to create a compendium of cases that are adaptable to diverse educational settings and teaching methods. In Medical Ethics courses at the University level, the casebook can be used as a...

Race and Ethnicity

Author(s): Naomi Zack

RACE AND ETHNICITY explores and challenges ideas about race and ethnicity in the United States, asking students to examine their own beliefs. The book focuses on the formation of modern-day racial classification and stratification as well as the histories and lived realities of U.S. racial and ethni...

Social and Criminal Justice in Moral Perspective

Author(s): Christopher Dreisbach

SOCIAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN MORAL PERSPECTIVE provides an overview of the different understandings of what justice is. The text will examine social and criminal justice and how it affects our private, public, and professional lives.  These elements include interpersonal relationships, beliefs, cu...