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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...
Crime in California: A Case Reader in California Criminal Law
Author(s): Laurie Kubicek
Prepare Students for Criminal Justice / Legal Careers in California Crime in California offers an innovative approach to teaching California criminal law to undergraduate students. Covering substantive criminal law, this publication includes elements of the most important crimes in California. N...
Communicating Online: Theories and Applications
Author(s): Katherine Hampsten
Communicating Online: Theories and Applications offers a concise, accessible approach to communication concepts. This text covers introductory communication, emphasizing how these concepts apply to mediated communication. Each chapter includes key theories, terms, application activities, and discuss...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...