The Critical Eye: An Introduction to Looking at Movies

Author(s): Margo Kasdan, Susan Tavernetti

The Critical Eye: An Introduction to Looking at Movies, Third Edition Revised, prepares students to look beneath the surface of today's most pervasive and powerful form of art, entertainment, information and persuasion. How do movies communicate? How do viewers learn to "read" a film? Develo...

A Child's Odyssey

Author(s): Paul S Kaplan

A Child’s Odyssey offers students the combination of clear explanations of central concepts, interesting and sometimes humorous examples and vignettes, and an emphasis on issues in child development. Now in a 16 chapter format, A Child’s Odyssey provides greater coverage of physical and cognitive...

Inquiry into Physical Science: A Contextual Approach Volume 1: Global Warming: Is Global Warming Really Occurring?

Author(s): Roger Nanes

  INQUIRY INTO PHYSICAL SCIENCE: A CONTEXTUAL APPROACH, Volume 1 provides the fundamental underpinnings required for all three volumes and uses global warming as a context to introduce the ideas of heat, temperature and energy. For a one semester course, Volume 1 combined with Volume 2 or 3 is recom...