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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...

Franken Food: Fact or Science-Fiction - Principles of Critical Thinking

Author(s): Cheryl Rock

Franken Food: Fact or Science Fiction is a textbook that addresses how the US population is constantly bombarded with conflicting and ambiguous information about issues such as health claims, ingredient avoidance, processed food, food additives, hormones and genetically modified organisms (GMO) as w...

Statistics for Psychology

Author(s): Gayle Dow

How can someone detect danger? Are left-handed people smarter than right-handed people? Is it possible to prove discrimination at work? Can you accurately predict behaviours that people lie about, such as the willingness to accept a bribe? To address these questions, we can employ statistical method...

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...

Communication Disorders: Foundations and Clinical Applications for Emerging Clinicians

Author(s): Rachel Glade, ALLIETE ALFANO

New Second Edition Now Available!Communication Disorders: Foundations and Clinical Applications for Emerging Clinicians is presented in an innovative e-book format that combines functional content knowledge with clinical application skills. The purpose of each chapter is to provide a brief review of...

World Music: Diversity in Styles, Instruments and Culture

Author(s): Paul Buyer

World Music: Diversity in Styles, Instruments, and Culture travels to the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, India, Japan, Indonesia, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, and Brazil, with a final chapter on Playing for Change.Written in an engaging, interactive, and concise format, students e...

Relationships and Intimacy: Learning about Relationships While Building Them

Author(s): Jan Todd

Understanding ourselves and what we need and want from relationships in our lives is often a subject left for us to discover on our own as we age and develop.  Yet, what would it be like if one could learn about the relationships we have and the ones we want in the safety of a group focused on that ...

Agricultural Systems Technology

Author(s): WILLIAM HOOVER

Mechanical systems and system designs have been an important part of agriculture for well over a century. The early years of development for modern agricultural practices and systems occurred during a time when animal power was being replaced with machines and mechanized processes. Purely mechanical...