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Ethnobotany: A Modern Perspective

Author(s): Rani Vajravelu

Ethnobotany: A Modern Perspective focuses on the indigenous plants and their impact on modern society. It discusses more than 260 plants that originated in different parts of the world and how they relate to human lives every day. This comprehensive text is built on the indigenous plants used around...

Understanding Statistics: Activities and Exercises for a First Statistics Course

Author(s): Nicholas Pritchard, Lindsey Bell, Keshav Jagannathan

This text provides hands-on activities and practice exercises to supplement a standard introductory statistics course. Topics include data collection and summarization, probability and probability distributions, and statistical inference. The three components of the workbook include:Laboratory Activ...

Guitars, Gavels & Gold: Contemporary Legal Issues in the Arts, Entertainment, and Music Business

Author(s): Barry Neil Shrum

Guitars, Gavels & Gold: Contemporary Legal Issues in the Arts, Entertainment, and Music Business educates and informs anyone who wants to become a professional in the music industry, whether their desire is to write songs and/or create music or be a music mogul who manages or represents the talent. ...

Megatrends: The Transformative Forces Reshaping the United States

Author(s): Jake Aguas

The world continues to change, and the global environment continues to react to a group  of large-scale forces that are reshaping the values, ideals, attitudes, and psychosocial constructs of its population. Megatrends are transforming the way people live their lives here in the United States, affec...

How Should One Live? An Introduction to Ethics and Moral Reasoning

Author(s): Bradley Thames

How Should One Live: An Introduction to Ethics & Moral Reasoning challenges students to look at their own beliefs in a new light and recognize that a question  is often more valuable than its answer. The text is split into two halves: the first half focuses on the major ethical theories of utilitari...