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A Student's Companion to Joining the Conversation: A Guide for Writers
by Mike Palmquist Barbara Wallraff Elizabeth CataneseThis new supplement supports students taking a co-requisite or ALP course alongside first-year composition. Authored by Elizabeth Catanese (Community College of Philadelphia), this supplement offers thorough support for students in ALP/co-requisite courses. The text includes coverage of college success strategies; activities to help students develop thoughtful, college-level essays; and additional practice in correcting writing problems, from revising topic sentences and developing paragraphs to correcting fragments.
Exploring American Histories, Volume One: A Survey with Sources
by Nancy Hewitt Steven LawsonExploring American Histories guides you through the nation’s history, giving voice to an extraordinary variety of Americans, while teaching you to work with historical documents in the same way as professional historians.
A History of Western Society, Concise Edition, Volume 2
by Joe Perry John McKay Clare Crowston Merry E. Wiesner-HanksPraised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the new Concise Edition of A History of Western Society provides the full narrative of the comprehensive edition, as well as a selection of features and tools to engage todays students and save instructors time. This edition includes an enhanced primary source program, a question-driven narrative, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout. Available for free when packaged with the print book, the popular digital assignment options for this text bring skill building and assessment to a highly effective level. The active learning options come in LaunchPad , which combines an accessible e-book with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically graded learning tool that—when assigned—helps ensure students read the book; the complete companion reader with quizzes on each source; and many other study and assessment tools. For instructors who want the easiest and most affordable way to ensure students come to class prepared, Achieve Read & Practice pairs LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and our mobile, accessible Value Edition e-book, in one easy-to-use product.
Collaboration in Psychological Science: Behind the Scenes
by Eugene Borgida Richard ZweigenhaftThis remarkable collection of essays gives students and other researchers a firsthand look at how collaborative scientific research is done. The 21 contributors here are leading psychological and social scientists with extensive experience working as members of a research team. Each author offers a distinctive perspective on the collaborative research process—its pros and cons, challenges and benefits, practical implications and ethical dilemmas. Each essay focuses on a set of guiding questions:What motivated the collaboration?What about the collaboration made the research work more effective (or less?)Does the substantive domain in which the collaboration occurs shape the nature of the collaboration?How have technological advances changed collaboration? Are there particular issues that arise for students collaborating with faculty members, or faculty members collaborating with students?
Ideas in Literature: Building Skills and Understanding for the AP® English Literature Course
by Elizabeth Davis John Williamson Mary Jo ZellWith this book, you’ll get all the prep and practice you need for AP® Literature course and Exam.
Freedom on My Mind (High School): A History of African Americans, With Documents
by Deborah Gray White Mia Bay Waldo Martin, Jr.A living history of the African American experience.
Solutions Manual for Quantitative Chemical Analysis
by Daniel Harris Charles LucyThe solutions manual for the tenth edition of Quantitative Chemical Analysis, 10th edition, contains fully worked-out solutions for all the problems in the text. Written by the authors of the book, Daniel Harris and Charles Lucy, the solutions manual is a helpful study tool for students of analytical chemistry.
Writing about Literature: A Hacker Handbooks Supplement
by Diana Hacker Nancy SommersWriting about Literature is a practical guide to interpreting works of literature and to planning, composing, and documenting papers about literature. Students will find help with forming and supporting an interpretation, avoiding plot summary, integrating quotations from a literary work, observing the conventions of literature papers, and using secondary sources. Writing about Literature also includes two sample student essays — one that uses only a primary source and one that uses primary and secondary sources.
Working with Sources with 2021 MLA Update: Exercises for Hacker Handbooks
by Diana Hacker Nancy SommersThis ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021). With more than 55 exercise sets and specific feedback for each one, Working with Sources gives you the practice you need to become a stronger research writer and to succeed in your college career.
Team Writing: Bedford Series for Technical and Professional Communication
by Joanna WolfeInformed by new research into conflict management and equity in teamwork, Team Writing, 2e helps you contribute to team projects meaningfully.
Slavery in the Atlantic World of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Urmi WilloughbyThe primary sources in this collection illustrate the perspectives of slavers, slaveholders, abolitionists, and enslaved people during the height of the Atlantic slave trade. They reveal the horrors of slavery, the experiences of slaves in Africa and the Americas, and the agency of enslaved people. The geographical scope of the sources provides the opportunity for students to compare and contrast the experiences of enslaved peoples in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Students will be guided in their analyses by a learning objective, central question, historical background, source headnotes, source questions, project questions and suggestions for further research.
Lissa on the Sidelines
by Jen JonesWhen Lissa is sidelined with an injury, the Greenview girls need to perform without her. She can't wait to get back to what she does best! After a few weeks, Lissa is ready to return, but it doesn't seem the cheer team wants her back. Is Lissa stuck on the sidelines for good?
The Essential Guide to Visual Communication
by Ryan McGeoughThe Essential Guide to Visual Communication is a concise introduction to the evolution, theory, and principles of visual communication in contemporary society. This guide helps students develop the skills they need to become critical consumers of visual media by examining images through the lens of visual rhetoric. Students see how images influence and persuade audiences, and how iconic images can be repurposed to communicate particular messages. Images selected and discussed throughout the text highlight examples of visual communication from earlier generations and the current digital environment that students encounter in their everyday lives.
Understanding and Composing Multimodal Projects with 2021 MLA Update: A Hacker Handbooks Supplement
by Diana Hacker Nancy SommersThis ebook has been updated to provide you with the latest guidance on documenting sources in MLA style and follows the guidelines set forth in the MLA Handbook, 9th edition (April 2021).
The English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion: A Soldier's Diary of the 1689 Siege of Bombay, with Related Documents
by Margaret Hunt Philip SternUtilizing a previously unpublished diary by an English officer who participated in the 1689 Siege of Bombay, English East India Company at the Height of Mughal Expansion chronicles the armed conflict between the East India Company and the Mughal Empire.
Psychology in Everyday Life
by David Myers C. Nathan DeWallMyers and DeWall’s briefest introduction to psychology speaks to students of all kinds, making no assumptions about student level or background.
An Introduction to Brain and Behavior
by Bryan Kolb Ian Whishaw G. TeskeyThe new edition of An Introduction to Brain & Behavior takes you the frontiers of the study and practice of behavioral neuroscience.
The First World War: A Brief History with Documents (Seminar Studies)
by Susan GrayzelA brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel’s new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them.
Patterns for College Writing: A Rhetorical Reader and Guide
by Laurie Kirszner Stephen MandellPatterns for College Writing provides instruction, visual texts, diverse essays, and student writing examples to help you develop your writing skills using rhetorical patterns like narration, description, argumentation, and more.
Psychology
by Daniel Gilbert Daniel Schacter Daniel Wegner Matthew NockThe introductory psychology textbook that inspires a love of science.
Modern Principles: Macroeconomics
by Tyler Cowen Alex TabarrokWorking toward developing your economic way of thinking, Cowen and Tabarrok focus on modern content and modern delivery, teaching economics in a way that makes it more memorable for you.
EasyWriter with Exercises
by Andrea LunsfordWith coverage of critical reading and writing skills, EasyWriter with Exercises empowers you to make effective writing choices for all your writing situations. It’s easy to use and easy to afford!
Principles of Life Digital Update: For The Ap® Course
by David Hillis David Hall Richard Hill Mary Price Marta Laskowski Lauren O'ConnellPOL helps you build the skills and understanding you’ll need to succeed in the intro biology course, and give you a solid foundation for subsequent science courses as well. This version of the text is matched up with Macmillan Learning’s breakthrough online platform, Achieve.
Essentials of Economics
by Paul Krugman Robin WellsPaul Krugman and Robin Wells’ signature story style helps one-semester Survey course students understand how economic concepts play out in our world. The new edition, revised and enhanced throughout, now offers holistic digital learning tools as part of SaplingPlus, a complete, integrated online learning system.