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Understanding Chemistry in Our World

Author(s): Coast Learning Systems

You're Holding the Key to a Complete Distance Learning Introductory Chemistry Course for Non-Science Majors.    Understanding Chemistry in Our World takes students on a journey of experimentation and investigation.  The concepts they learn will guide them to identify chemistry at work in every...

Forest Resources in U.S. History

Author(s): James P Armstrong

Forest Resources in U.S. History presents a broad-brush overview of the history of Americans and our forest resources. This text covers how Americans have shaped forests and used the resources that forests provide to create the most prosperous nation the world has seen.Forest Resources in U.S. Histo...

A Lone Star Reader

Author(s): Chuck Swanlund, Kirk Bane, SCOTT SOSEBEE

A Lone Star Reader is a Texas state history anthology designed for students and general readers alike. In its pages, readers will find the work of leading academics and lay historians. They will encounter a wide variety of writing styles and a broad range of views. The reader will find that every se...

The City in the Western Tradition

Author(s): Peter Halvorson, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Ellen Cromley

This text is designed for a course titled “The City in the Western Tradition.” The course surveys the broad sweep of the history of Western Civilization through the development of cities at different stages in that history. At least three broad sets of issues should be discussed at the outset for re...

Vascular Plant Taxonomy

Author(s): Zack E Murrell, Emily Laura Gillespie

Vascular Plant Taxonomy excites and encourages students to extend their own studies in the myriad of directions that attract their curiosity. It gives the reader a sense of accomplishment that the ever-broadening field of taxonomy is within their grasp. Vascular Plant Taxonomy is the only trul...

Exploring the Nature of Creativity

Author(s): Jon Michael Fox, Ronni Lea Fox

Exploring the Nature of Creativity provides an introduction to creativity for the curious, the uninitiated, the students of beginning classes, and all other interested persons beginning their inquiry into the field of creativity research. Conversational knowledge is not easily gleaned from formal re...