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Author(s): Glenn Dolphin
Stories in Geology: What We Know and How We Figured it Out gets students thinking about the process of generating scientific knowledge and gives them the necessary skills to be critical of this knowledge. This text provides the history of how science knowledge came to be. It features short stories, poetry, art, and more as ways to demonstrate how science “fits” into the rest of life.
Author(s): Kevin Salfen
Maybe you’ve noticed? Traditional music appreciation textbooks aren’t cutting it anymore. Conceived as streamlined, even “dumbed-down” chronological surveys of Euro-American music, they are increasingly distant from students whose literacy is more diverse. When these textbooks feature music from other cultures, it’s sidelined—often literally—a counterexample, a complement, reinforcing a hierarchy that today’s university students have every reason to challenge.
Author(s): Dean Cleavenger
This package includes access to electronic textbook and course supplements (chapters and quizzes).
Author(s): Christian Goergen, Henny A Keuben
New 6th Edition Now Available!
Political science is important because it can help us to better understand and eventually solve or alleviate the problems we face as a society…
Featuring the most recently available real-world data, Politics in a Globalized World: A Problem-Based Introduction to Politics and Political Science provides the reader with a unique and innovative style to the dynamic world of politics by discussing the major political problems the world faces at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Author(s): Mark Lanter
Who’s music will endure when looking back to the 20th Century 250 years from now? Will there be a composer comparable to Beethoven, Mozart, or Bach?
Author(s): Matthew Barton, Jonathan Holiman
A groundbreaking publication unlike others on the market, Introducing Communication: A Digital Learning Experience provides an immersive multimedia introduction to the dynamic field of communication. The turn-key course package promotes active learning and independent discovery by integrating objectives, knowledge-check questions, interactive activities, links to concepts in popular culture examples (Harry Potter, The Office, Sherlock, etc), self-graded quizzes, gradebook and more.
