Criminal Justice and Mental Health: An Evidence Based Approach

Author(s): Hayden Smith

Criminal Justice and Mental Health: An Evidence Based Approach details the historical, social, and policy influences that have led to the criminal justice system now serving as a default mental health system. The three largest mental health facilities in the United States are jails and prisons and t...

An Applied Approach to Macroeconomics

Author(s): Jack A Chambless

Some people would rather perform root canal surgery on a rabid wolverine than sit through a discussion of Federal Reserve policies.Jack A. Chambless’ An Applied Approach to Macroeconomics prepares readers to become economically literate human beings by presenting real world issues in a somewhat cont...

Introduction to Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

Author(s): Paul Gannon

Human society has never before faced challenges like the present. Population has more than doubled since 1970; currently over 7 billion and growing fast. Much of this growth occurs in regions with developing infrastructure, placing increasing demands on natural resources and taxing ecosystem service...

Insects, Science and Society: Laboratory Manual

Author(s): AUSTIN JONES

The worksheets and activities in Insects, Science and Society: Laboratory Manual are designed to help bring students into a hands-on laboratory-style setting while maintaining a structure for entry level study. By understanding the characteristics associated with arthropods and the “Super Seven” lar...

Science and Society: The Influence of Genetics on Human Life and Society

Author(s): Joseph Francis

The genetic revolution in biology we are experiencing today began early in the last century as biologists noted that dead bacteria could be resurrected by a “transforming principle.”  The structure of the transforming principle was determined to be DNA, in the middle of the last century, and within ...

Humans Unmasked: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Author(s): Arnaud Lambert

Humans Unmasked is intended to provide students with an engaging introduction to the discipline of cultural anthropology as a distinct way to understand people in societies around the world and why they do the things they do. Students will explore how people make a living in very different (sometime...

Physical Space and Earth Sciences

Author(s): Nicholas A. Nesh

This book is the result of the author's twenty-five years of college teaching experience. It is designed to help non-science majors fulfill their natural science course requirements as a part of their general studies. The book is geared toward students with no prior familiarity with college-level ph...

Christian Doctrine

Author(s): James Lemons

Interdisciplinary Teaching: Movement-Based Solutions for the Whole Child

Author(s): MATTHEW CUMMISKEY

A mind that is wholly engaged in immersive teaching modalities learns best. Expand beyond education's narrow focus on visual and auditory teaching modalitites. Harness the power of kinesthetic and tactile instruction and of children's natural inclination and joy towards movement to make learning fun...

Service-Oriented Computing and System Integration: Software, IoT, Big Data, and AI as Services

Author(s): Yinong Chen, GENNARO DE LUCA

Service-Oriented Computing and System Integration: Software, IoT, Big Data, and AI as Services focuses on service-oriented computing, web application development, and service-oriented system integration. It covers WSDL services, RESTful services, their development and applications, XML and related t...