The current reform movement in the United States began in the 1990s and has manifested itself as a standards movement. It is a movement to establish state and national frameworks, to which local school districts are encouraged to link their efforts to implement local standards. The linchpin that holds together the standards framework is that…
Read moreFrauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology 10th Edition by Kenneth L. Feder, ISBN-13: 978-0190096410 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Oxford University Press; 10th edition (December 23, 2019) Language: English 352 pages ISBN-10: 0190096411 ISBN-13: 978-0190096410 Frauds, myths, and supposed mysteries about humanity‘s past are moving targets for anyone committed…
Read moreWindow on Humanity: A Concise Introduction to Anthropology 10th Edition by Conrad Kottak, ISBN-13: 9781260727036 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: McGraw-Hill College; 10th edition (20 Jan. 2022) Language: English ISBN-10: 1265677875 ISBN-13: 9781260727036 Window on Humanity is a brief introduction to general anthropology. It covers the four subfields – biological anthropology anthropological archaeology…
Read moreIntroduction to Sociology Seagull 12th Edition by Anthony Giddens, ISBN-13: 978-0393538021 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Seagull Twelfth edition (July 1, 2021) Language: English 984 pages ISBN-10: 0393538028 ISBN-13: 978-0393538021 Everything students need to understand and navigate our changing social world. The Introduction to Sociology, Twelfth Seagull…
Read moreYou May Ask Yourself: An Introduction to Thinking Like a Sociologist 7th Edition by Dalton Conley, ISBN-13: 978-0393537741 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Seventh edition (July 1, 2021) Language: English 952 pages ISBN-10: 0393537749 ISBN-13: 978-0393537741 The bestselling “untextbook” that makes the familiar strange. The market leader…
Read moreMoral Philosophy: A Reader 4th Edition by Louis P. Pojman, ISBN-13: 978-0872209626 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; Fourth Edition,4 (September 1, 2009) Language: English 475 pages ISBN-10: 9780872209626 ISBN-13: 978-0872209626 This collection of classic and contemporary readings in ethics presents sharp, competing views on a wide range of…
Read moreParenting: A Dynamic Perspective 3rd Edition by George W. Holden, ISBN-13: 978-1506350424 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc; 3rd edition (February 13, 2020) Language: English 584 pages ISBN-10: 1506350429 ISBN-13: 978-1506350424 The Third Edition of George W. Holden’s Parenting: A Dynamic Perspective provides a highly accessible and intellectually rich review…
Read moreIn the 1970’s and 1980’s, students, even incoming first-year students, were considered moral arbiters at universities: they sat on the most sensitive committees (regulations, by the way, that I doubt anyone bothered to change formally to reflect the new infantilization of students); they destroyed most of the in loco parentis functions of the university; they…
Read moreThe Broadview Introduction to Philosophy by Andrew Bailey, ISBN-13: 978-1554813827 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Broadview Press (May 21, 2019) Language: English ISBN-10: 1554813824 ISBN-13: 978-1554813827 The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy is a comprehensive anthology that surveys core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion, theories of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, social-political…
Read moreA Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Method 4th Edition by Stephen S. Carey, ISBN-13: 978-1111305550 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Cengage Learning; 4th edition (January 1, 2011) Language: English 160 pages ISBN-10: 1111305552 ISBN-13: 978-1111305550 This concise yet comprehensive guide provides an introduction to the scientific method of inquiry. You will not only…
Read moreSociology in Action A Canadian Perspective 3rd Edition by Diane Symbaluk, ISBN-13: 978-0176725068 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Top Hat; 3rd edition (Feb. 16 2018) Language: English 400 pages ISBN-10: 0176725067 ISBN-13: 978-0176725068 The essence of sociology lies in the sociological imagination. Sociology in Action: A Canadian Perspective, Third Edition, articulates the…
Read morePolitical Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal 11th Edition by Terence Ball, ISBN-13: 978-0367235116 [PDF eBook eTextbook] Publisher: Routledge; 11th edition (July 31, 2019) Language: English 426 pages ISBN-10: 0367235110 ISBN-13: 978-0367235116 Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal analyzes political ideologies to help readers understand individual ideologies, and the concept of ideology,…
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