Does it Follow? A First Course in Logic

Author(s): Patrick Kenny

Does it Follow? A First Course in Logic guides first-time students of formal logic through the fundamentals of the discipline. Traditionally, logic has been a part of the discipline of philosophy, but throughout this book you will see different symbols that suggest a addition to another academic dis...

Linear Programming: An Introduction

Author(s): Shokoufeh Mirzaei

The Process of Gender

Author(s): Jennifer A Linde, Belle A Edson

The Process of Gender encourages students to critically examine the ways that their gender has influenced his/her values, attitudes, behaviors, experiences, and communication. The publication contains sixteen published readings that examine the multitude of ways that gender influences the process of...

Statistics for Everybody

Author(s): Daniel Barch

Statistics for Everybody is an introduction to the field of applied statistics. Its goal is to explain the simple concepts, the complicated concepts, and all of the in-between concepts of introductory stats in plain and (hopefully!) entertaining language. To help guide the reader, the text contains ...

The Invariable Evolution: Police Use of Force in America

Author(s): Jeffrey Len Schwartz, Michael Virga

A challenging and controversial topic, police use of force, covered in a way to explain the “why” in a straightforward and unbiased manner. This book explores the aspects of police use of force in the United States. The text provides a framework to understand the controversies surrounding the evo...

Biosocial Criminology: A Primer

Author(s): Kevin M Beaver

New Fourth Edition Now Available! Thousands of studies have been published attempting to uncover how the brain works, the functions of different regions of the brain, and how specific parts of the brain contribute to the development of certain disorders. The overwhelming majority of this work ...

Avanzando: Lengua y cultura: An intermediate course for heritage learners of Spanish

Author(s): Delia Montesinos

Avanzando: Lengua y cultura is the intermediate-level continuation of Conectando con mi herencia: Lengua y cultura, an introductory book for heritage learners of Spanish. Like its predecessor, Avanzando takes into account that these learners live in an environment in which another language is domina...

Acting in Faith: A Christian's Guide to the Acting World

Author(s): Michael Kary

Fear, Empathy, and Inspiration. These three elements are tied to the most common roadblocks actors face. Through exercises, anecdotes, and Scripture, Acting in Faith: A Christian's Guide to the Acting World offers a Biblical roadmap to a great performance. It guides actors through the audition, r...

Theatre: Its Nature, Its Variety, Its Development

Author(s): Robert Smith

Theatre: Its Nature, Its Variety, Its Development is laid out in a nontraditional format for introductory theatre courses. The nature of theatre is difficult enough to understand without imposing a 2,500 year barrier to that process. Accordingly, this text starts with an understanding of the nature ...

Evidence-Based Obstetric Nursing

Author(s): Sondae Stevens

Evidence-based Obstetric Nursing views pregnancy and birth as a normal life event that includes family members as a part of the health care team. It supports students to discover and apply new knowledge through the use of current evidence-based research. This text also provides a historical framewor...