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Biology: How Life Works was written in response to recent and exciting changes in biology, education, and technology with the goal of helping students to think like biologists. The connected resources of text, visual program, and assessments were developed together to provide students with the best resources to gain a modern understanding of biology. The third edition expands upon this approach by making both the text and media more flexible f...

Combining a student-centred approach with the reliability of a familiar and proven text, Discovering The Universe invites students to follow their curiosity and ask questions about astronomy, through features including What If? questions that explore alternative solar systems and universes and Meet the Discoverer interviews with working scientists throughout the text.

This globally-focused and renowned textbook spans the entire discipline of psychology - from the fundamental principles of psychology as a science, to more nuanced approaches in core disciplines such as cognitive, developmental, social and personality psychology. Woven together with engaging features, research boxes and activities that will help students to both think like a scientist and stretch their imagination. In-depth and yet written wi...

Now in its fourth edition, this highly regarded and critically acclaimed textbook offers an authoritative introduction to international political economy. It is unique in offering an accessible, broad introduction to the development of the global economy from its inception to today's complex relationship between states and markets in the midst of economic crises. Herman Mark Schwartz deftly shows that globalization is not a novel phenomenon b...

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This streamlined edition presents a straightforward, realistic, and intelligent review of the skills students need to succeed in college. The text focuses on the academic skills taught in college success courses while additional coverage of emotional intelligence, learning styles, diversity, and money help students get off to a great start. While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting, the new edition provides practical strategies acro...

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The hotly awaited second edition of this bestselling introductory textbook provides a truly comprehensive and accessible guide to international affairs. Bringing together the combined decades of experience in researching and teaching global politics of three acclaimed scholars, this text introduces students to what is happening in our complex and rapidly changing world as well as how to analyse those events. Pedagogically driven, the book is s...

Do you want a compact college success book with robust technology coverage? Gardner's user-friendly, class-tested, and authoritatively research-based Step by Step to College and Career Success is for you! This brief title focuses on the most crucial skills and the most important choices students make in order to succeed in college and beyond.This is an ideal text for students taking first-year experience courses and freshman seminar courses.

‘Both ambitious and appealing, this truly innovative book is a must-read for students and scholars across the social sciences.’ – Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK ‘A masterly introduction to the critical linguistic analysis of political speeches and political discourse in general.’ – Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia, UK What makes a political speech ‘great’? Which approaches can be used to analyse discourse? How can you use thes...

Janis Kuby's groundbreaking introduction to immunology was the first textbook for the course actually written to be a textbook. Like no other text, it combined an experimental emphasis with extensive pedagogical features to help students grasp basic concepts. Now in a thoroughly updated new edition, Kuby Immunology remains the only undergraduate introduction to immunology written by teachers of the course. In the Kuby tradition, authors Judy O...

This book fundamentally challenges the way in which PhDs are currently pursued. It applies lean methodologies - which have been embraced by start-ups - to the doctoral research process. It explains how to apply techniques such as the minimal viable product (MVP) approach, rapid prototyping and pivoting to each stage, from choosing a topic to seeking feedback, in order to save time, make the process more efficient and demonstrate impact. Chapte...

This succinct and engaging text rethinks the common wisdom that festivals, sites of collective celebration and play, provide a temporary reprieve from the grind of everyday, 'real' life. Keren Zaiontz explores the ways in which cultural performances of resistance that have their basis in festivals can migrate to other contexts, making festivals as much the domain of free markets and state power as that of vanguard artists and progressive socia...

This is a clear introductory text on personal construct theory and its application in therapeutic and counselling practice. It provides a simple guide for the student and clinician to the administration, analysis, and interpretation of personal construct assessment techniques, such as the repertory grid, and their use in therapy. Not only does it introduce the range of contemporary personal construct therapeutic methods available, it is the fi...

Now is the time for conservation science-a mission-oriented scientific enterprise that seeks to protect nature, including Earth's animals, plants, and ecosystems, in the face of unprecedented human demands upon the planet. Conservation scientists apply principles from ecology, population genetics, economics, political science, and other natural and social sciences to manage and preserve nature. The focus of this textbook is first and foremost ...

Laboratory Topics in Botany familiarizes students with recent advances in botany, while maintaining a strong emphasis on the basic facts and principles necessary for a sound foundation in the plant sciences.This manual complements Biology of Plants, Eighth Edition, and has been updated to reflect the changes made to the textbook.

Knowing how to handle data is an important part of succeeding life sciences. But let's face it: this can be an area students find difficult. Enter Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences. This book teaches students the essentials of statistics, helping them to understand important concepts. Using case studies from the worlds of biology, ecology, nursing and health sciences, the book brings statistics to life. Teaching large student numbers...