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Forensic and Legal Psychology: Psychological Science Applied to Law
by Mark Costanzo Daniel KraussMark Costanzo and Daniel Krauss’s text show students how psychological science can be used to reduce crime, improve legal decision making, and promote justice. Fully integrated discussions of real cases and trials, along with other examples of the legal system in action, show how research and theory can deepen our understanding of suspects, criminals, police, victims, lawyers, witnesses, judges, and jurors.
The Making of the West, Value Edition, Combined: Peoples and Cultures
by Barbara H. Rosenwein Bonnie G. Smith Lynn Hunt Thomas R. MartinThe Making of the West has all of the tools students need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history. This Value Edition, with the complete narrative, selected images and maps, and no primary documents, is the lowest price option for this title.
The Girlfriend
by Michelle FrancesSOON TO BE A PRIME ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING ROBIN WRIGHT AND OLIVIA COOKE!She&’s selfish. She&’s conniving. She&’s a liar.She&’s coming to dinner.Meet THE GIRLFRIEND. Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a twenty-three-year-old son, Daniel, who is kind, handsome, and talented. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young, beautiful, and smart but hasn&’t led Laura&’s golden life. And she wants it. When tragedy strikes, a decision is made and a lie is told. A lie so terrible it changes their lives forever… The Girlfriend is a taut and wickedly twisted debut psychological thriller—a novel of subtle sabotage, retaliation, jealousy and fear, which pivots on an unforgivable lie, and examines the mother–son–daughter-in-law relationship in a chilling new light.
Student Companion to Accompany Biochemistry
by John L. Tymoczko Jeremy M. Berg Lubert Stryer Gregory J. Gatto, Jr.For four decades, this extraordinary textbook played a pivotal role in the way biochemistry is taught, offering exceptionally clear writing, innovative graphics, coverage of the latest research techniques and advances, and a signature emphasis on physiological and medical relevance. Those defining features are at the heart of this new edition.The ninth edition of Stryer/Berg Biochemistry focuses on the themes of visualization and assessment and is now paired for the first time with SaplingPlus, the most innovative digital solution for biochemistry students. SaplingPlus offers the best combination of media-rich resources to help students visualize material and develop successful problem-solving skills to master complex concepts in isolation, and draw on that mastery to make connections across concepts. Built-in assessments help students keep on track with reading and become proficient problem solvers with guidance from hints and targeted feedback, ensuring every problem counts as a true learning experience.
A History of World Societies, Value Edition, Volume 2: Since 1450
by Jerry Davila John McKay Roger Beck Clare Crowston Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks Patricia Buckley EbreyA History of World Societies provides a concise overview of world history by sharing the cultural stories of global people -- all through a regional lens.
Writing That Works: Communicating Effectively On The Job
by Gerald Alred Charles Brusaw Walter OliuMore than ever, Writing That Works is the right choice for the most up-to-date coverage of business writing. Real-world model documents are grounded in their rhetorical contexts to guide students in navigating the increasingly complex world of business writing. Now in full-color, the thirteenth edition continues to reflect the central role of technology in the office and the classroom, showcasing the most current types of business documents online and in print, providing succinct guidelines on selecting the appropriate medium for your document, communication, or presentation, and featuring new advice on creating a personal brand as part of a successful job search. Also available as an e-book and in loose-leaf, Writing that Works offers robust but accessible coverage at an affordable price.
The Pocket Guide to College Success
by Jamie ShushanThe Pocket Guide to College Success provides straightforward and easily consumable coverage on all the topics typically found in a full-size college success text in a handy, affordable, highly-customizable format. Chapters on academic skills like time management, academic planning, and note-taking get students ready for success in class, while life skills like goal-setting, money management, and interpersonal communication help them throughout their entire collegiate experience and beyond. Perfect for use as a self-directed student reference outside of a first-year course (or where there is no such course), Pocket is also a full-course solution, available with a robust instructor’s manual and suite of digital resources to empower your first-year program. The third edition is included in the Bedford Select database, making it easy to take out chapters, add pre-built modules, or include campus-specific content such as campus maps, course outcomes, letter from a dean, or directory of campus resources. Choose your binding, customize your cover, and add digital resources like the ACES self-assessment—all with transparent pricing that updates with every change. From a full-course solution to a credible print companion for your programs online modules, there is a pocket for everyone.
Psychology in Modules
by David Myers C. Nathan DeWallIn Psychology, Thirteenth Edition in Modules, David Myers and Nathan DeWall break down the content of the new edition of their chapter-based Psychology into 55 independent modules, assignable in any sequence and brief enough to be read in one sitting. This flexible format is favored by a wide range of students and instructors, and supported by research showing that students working with shorter reading assignments are better able to retain the concepts. From its beginnings to this remarkably fresh and current new edition, Myers and DeWall have found extraordinarily effective ways to involve students with the remarkable research underlying our understanding of human behavior. But while the content and learning support evolves edition after edition, the text itself continues to be shaped by basic goals David Myers established at the outset, including to connect students to high-impact research, to focus on developing critical thinking skills, and to present a multicultural perspective on psychology, so students can see themselves in the context of a wider world. This new edition offers 2100 research citations dated 2015–2020, making these the most up-to-date introductory psychology course resources available. With so many exciting new findings, and every chapter updated with current new examples and ideas, students will see the importance and value of psychological research, and how psychology can help them make sense of the world around them. The abundant, high quality teaching and learning resources in LaunchPad and in Achieve Read & Practice, carefully matched to the text content, help students succeed, while making life easier and more enjoyable for instructors.
A Guide to Course-Based Undergraduate Research
by Erin Dolan Gabriela WeaverCourse-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are being championed by high profile organizations (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011; Olson & Riordan, 2012) for their potential to engage undergraduates in research at scale. CUREs are learning experiences in which whole classes of students address a research question or problem with unknown outcomes or solutions that are of interest to the scientific community. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the benefits of CUREs for student learning, development, and persistence in the natural sciences (Corwin, Graham, & Dolan, 2015; Gentile, Brenner, & Stephens, 2017; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2015; Rodenbusch, Hernandez, Simmons, & Dolan, 2016). This guide will walk you through designing and implementing an Undergraduate Research Experience.
The Practice of Statistics for the AP® Course
by Josh Tabor Daren StarnesExperience the best: The Practice of Statistics is the ultimate choice for AP® Statistics.Authored by seasoned high school AP® Statistics educators, Daren Starnes and Josh Tabor, along with a team of experienced AP® teacher/leaders, the Seventh Edition of The Practice of Statistics brings a fresh perspective through 9 Units that align perfectly with the CED.Created to instill a deep understanding of the core principles of statistics and the problem-solving methods involved, TPS7 equips students with the essential statistical thinking skills necessary for future endeavors, careers, and everyday decision-making, while also ensuring success on the AP® Statistics Exam. With a multitude of worked examples and practice exercises strategically placed throughout, students have plenty of opportunities to strengthen their skills on a daily basis and prepare for the exam format.And thats not all - the renowned resource program now offers even greater support with the introduction of the new Achieve digital platform. The online homework program has been revamped to provide an extensive homework and assessment system, offering comprehensive support for daily assignments, quizzes, and tests. For students who may be struggling or seeking an extra challenge, the extensive video program is there to offer guidance. Meanwhile, teachers are backed by the most comprehensive Teachers Edition and resource program available. No matter if youre a first-time or experienced AP® Statistics teacher, this program is perfect for you.Better than ever: The Practice of Statistics is the most trusted program for AP® Statistics.
Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A History with Documents
by Charles D. SmithPalestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides a comprehensive, balanced, and accessible narrative of a complex historical topic. The narrative is supported by more than 40 primary documents that highlight perspectives from all sides of the struggle. Throughout the book, the author examines how underlying issues, group motives, religious and cross-cultural clashes, diplomacy and imperialism, and the arrival of the modern era shaped this volatile region. Maps, photographs, chronologies, public opinion polls, and discussion questions help facilitate student understanding. A fully updated final chapter makes this the most current history of the topic.
Sustainable Design from Vision to Action
by Jeremy FaludiThis book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems. It goes beyond concept explanations to provide you with practical instructions on how to apply the tools and methods to your own designs. The world is finally waking up to the necessity of sustainability, especially in the design and engineering of all the physical products that surround us every day.Sustainable Design from Vision to Action not only provides a thorough understanding of the high-level values and goals of sustainable design, but also gives readers actionable step-by-step guides for how to implement them on the ground, in daily practice. This includes quick reference tables and other resources for practical design, with lists of resources for greater depth. The activities can be used by designers and engineers, in classrooms, or in industry. This innovative textbook focuses primarily on physical product development, but also applies to services, systems, and digital products. It includes a thorough range of quantitative and qualitative methods across the whole product life cycle, including material choice, energy use, systems thinking, design for recycling, user behavior change, business models, equity and inclusion, and more. The book aims to change your design practice to help build a world that is healthy, abundant, beautiful, and fulfilling for all species, for all time.This highly illustrated text will provide an excellent introduction to sustainable design in practice for industrial design and mechanical engineering students. It will also be useful for professional designers, engineers, and managers in industry.
Interpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice (Developing Qualitative Inquiry)
by Sally ThorneInterpretive Description: Qualitative Research for Applied Practice has established itself as the key resource for novice and intermediate level researchers in applied settings for conducting a qualitative research project with practical outcomes.This book takes the reader through the qualitative research process, from research design through fieldwork, analysis, interpretation, and application of the results; provides numerous examples from a variety of applied fields to show research in action; and uses an accessible style to be the ideal book for teaching qualitative research in clinical and applied disciplines. In this new, third edition, leading qualitative researcher Sally Thorne retains the clear, straightforward guidance for researchers and students in health, social service, mental health, and related fields. This new edition includes additional material on positionality, disciplinary blindspots, design logic, arts-based approaches, diversity, mixed methods, writers' block, and dealing with critique. It has been comprehensively updated with new references and case examples throughout.Interpretive Description is an ideal resource for instructors and advanced students interested in qualitative research across a range of disciplines.
Protein Intake in Health and Disease
by Victor R. PreedyProteins are fundamental to human health, serving as building blocks for cellular structures, providing essential energy, and supporting tissue function. In Protein Intake in Health and Disease, the critical biomedical and nutritional roles of protein in the diet are explored in depth. Topics include protein quality, the impact of both low and high-protein diets, and the metabolic disorders and diseases linked to protein malnutrition. The book delves into protein’s influence across the lifespan, from maternal health and early development to the nutritional needs of children, adolescents, and the aging population. Each chapter is enriched with practical insights for broader health applications and concise summary points to aid understanding.Features Contains a mini dictionary of terms and summary points in each chapter to facilitate clear understanding Highly illustrated with figures and multiple tables in each chapter Chapter contributors represent global coverage This book is written for nutritionists, food scientists, and health care professionals, as well as research scientists and practitioners. It is also practically designed for policy makers and libraries.
Sources of The Making of the West, Volume 2: Peoples and Cultures
by Lynn HuntSources of The Making of the West helps bring the history of the west to life. Thoroughly revised and designed to be used independently or as a companion reader, this two volume collection parallels the major topics and themes covered in each chapter of The Making of the West. A broad range of source types and themes illuminate historical experience from a diversity of perspectives. Now with a visual source and a comparative source pairing in every chapter, this reader offers instructors even more opportunities to promote classroom discussion of primary documents and to help students develop essential historical thinking skills. Sources of The Making of the West is FREE when packaged with The Making of the West, Sixth Edition or when packaged with The Making of the West, Achieve Read & Practice. It is included for FREE in the LaunchPad for The Making of the West.
Practical Strategies for Technical Communication: A Brief Guide
by Mike Markel Stuart SelberPractical Strategies is the best way to keep up with all types of writing required in today’s constantly changing workplace. It covers everything you need to know about audience and purpose, document design, research, style, and more.
Macroeconomics
by Paul Krugman Robin WellsKrugman/Wells uses a storytelling style and current events to help you understand how economic concepts play out in our world.
Contemporary Human Geography: Culture, Globalization, Landscape
by Roderick Neumann Patricia PriceWith each chapter organized by five themes (region, mobility, globalization, nature-culture, cultural landscape), Contemporary Human Geography introduces students to geography concepts through fascinating topics such as the distribution of college sports, the relationship of beauty pageants and cultural identity, texting and language modification, and more, continually reinforcing geographers’ contributions to our understanding of how we live in a globalized, modern world. The authors frame this coverage using specific learning objectives to help students focus on essential concepts and prepare for class discussions, assignments, and exams. Contemporary Human Geography comes with two of Macmillan’s online course spaces, allowing instructors to choose how much media and assessment they’d like to make available for their students, and at what price point. SaplingPlus offers innovative media content, curated assessments, and brand new mapping activities powered by Esri. Achieve Read & Practice combines the accessibility of a VitalSource e-book with our self-paced, formative quizzing engine, LearningCurve.
Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence
by Kathleen BergerKeep this book to understand the development of children and adolescence Investigate childhood and adolescent development with The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence. Compelling stories connect classic and current research and the lives of real people from a variety of cultures to the field’s core theories and concepts, giving readers a more complete picture of this area of study.
Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences, Digital Update
by David Moore Brigitte BaldiThe Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences helps students understand how to apply essential statistical skills across life sciences including nursing, public health, and allied health.
Defending Slavery: A Brief History with Documents
by Paul FinkelmanThis new edition of Defending Slavery: Proslavery Thought in the Old South introduces the vast number of ways in which educated Southern thinkers and theorists defended the institution of slavery. This book collects and explores the elaborately detailed pro-slavery arguments rooted in religion, law, politics, science, and economics. In his introduction, now updated to include the relationship between early Christianity and slavery, Paul Finkelman discusses how early world societies legitimized slavery, the distinction between Northern and Southern ideas about slavery, and how the ideology of the American Revolution prompted the need for a defense of slavery. The rich collection of documents allows for a thorough examination of these ideas through poems, images, speeches, correspondences, and essays. This edition features two new documents that highlight women’s voices and the role of women in the movement to defend slavery plus a visual document that demonstrates how the notion of black inferiority and separateness was defended through the science of the time. Document headnotes and a chronology, plus updated questions for consideration and selected bibliography help students engage with the documents to understand the minds of those who defended slavery. Available in print and e-book formats.
Thinking Through Sources for Exploring American Histories Volume 1: To 1877
by Nancy Hewitt Steven LawsonThinking through Sources for Exploring American Histories is a two-volume primary sources reader that supplements the document projects in the textbook. Each chapter of the reader presents five carefully selected documents that connect to topics in each chapter of Exploring American Histories. New Central Questions at the beginning of each chapter provide a framework and a focus for the documents that follow. Headnotes placed strategically before each document give students just enough context, and Interpret the Evidence and Put It in Context questions at the end of each chapter provide a starting point for classroom discussion or a written assignment. This collection of sources is available both in print and in LaunchPad with innovative auto-graded assessment.
Comparative Government: Stories of the World for the AP® Course
by Carol Ann Drogus Stephen Orvis Karen WaplesTry something different for AP® Comp GovGet ready for the AP® exam through comparison and analysis of different political systems. You’ll find everything you need to get to a 5.
Exploring American Histories, Volume Two: 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.
Exploring Psychology
by David G. Myers C. Nathan DeWallIn this brief text, Myers and DeWall help you look at the world from the perspective of a psychological scientist, relating psychology ideas and applications to your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.