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Entering Research
A Curriculum to Support Undergraduate and Graduate Research Trainees
2019 || Paperback || Janet L. Branchaw e.a. || Macmillan
Entering Research provides practical guidance to support a wide diversity of students in successfully navigating their first research experience
For students whose experience with science has been primarily in the classroom, it can be difficult to identify and contact potential mentors, and to navigate the transition to a one-on-one, mentor-student relationship. This is especially true for those who are new to research, or who belong to groups that are underrepresented in research. The Enteri...
Lecture Tutorials in Earth Science
2019 || Paperback || Karen M. Kortz e.a. || Macmillan
An easy-to-implement resource for any introductory earth science course.
Kortz and Smay bring their highly successful tutorial approach to this easy-to-implement resource for introductory earth science courses. The brief activities here get students actively involved in the practical application of earth science concepts, while helping them navigate common pitfalls and misconceptions. Activities are built around answering crucial questions and increase in conceptual difficulty as students pro...
Understanding Earth / 8th edition
2019 || Paperback || John Grotzinger e.a. || Macmillan
A modern, scientific approach to teaching our changing planet.
Geology is everywhere in our daily lives, in the materials and resources extracted from the Earth, in the alarming rates of climate change and in the major catastrophes as a result of earth’s processes. Understanding our earth has never been more important and this text leads the way by fully integrating the study of climate science into the core introductory geology curriculum, offering a text that places our changing climate a...
Readings About The Social Animal
2019 || Paperback || Joshua Aronson e.a. || Macmillan
Dig into the details of classic and contemporary studies in social psychology with this up-dated collection
Exploring the key ideas in social psychology, this collection of classic and contemporary readings includes accounts of specific experimental findings as well as more general articles summarizing studies on such topics as attraction, prejudice, and aggression. The new edition adds 15 new readings while retaining a number of classics by leading psychological thinkers such as Stanley Milg...
Statistics: Concepts and Controversies
2019 || Paperback || David S. Moore e.a. || Macmillan
Statistics for the liberal arts students.
Statistics: Concepts and Controversies is a book on statistical ideas and statistical reasoning and on their relevance to public policy and to the human sciences from medicine to sociology. Many fundamental graphical and numerical techniques are included in the text to give flesh to the ideas and muscle to the reasoning. Students learn to think about data by working with data, however technique does not dominate concepts. This author’s intention her...
Introductory Statistics: A Problem-Solving Approach
2019 || Paperback || Stephen Kokoska || Macmillan
Promotes a lifelong skill of problem solving.
This text helps students develop the fundamental lifelong skill of solving problems and interpreting solutions in real world terms in a way that is accessible and easy to apply in many situations. We certainly want students to appreciate the beauty of statistics and connections to so many other disciplines. However, it is even more important for students to be able to apply problem-solving skills to a wide range of academic and career pursuits, in...
Achieve for Universe 11 Edition
2019 || Paperback || Roger Freedman e.a. || Macmillan
Explore scientific reasoning by exploring the universe.
Geller and Freedman’s Universe strikes the right balance between scientific rigor and student comprehension and excitement. Available as the full 27-chapter text or split into Stars and Galaxies and The Solar System, Universe provides all the detail you need to prepare students for engaging with the astronomical ideas and theories, while also inviting students in through stunning visuals and relatable narratives.
Living Physical Geography
2019 || Paperback || Bruce Gervais || Macmillan
Living Physical Geography focuses on interactions between people and physical geography, using pedagogical features (in the textbook and online) to create a modern synthesis of the science of physical geography.
The new edition of Living Physical Geography is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for Geography students. It houses all of our renown...
Psychology
Third European Edition
2019 || Paperback || Daniel Schacter e.a. || Macmillan
An engaging introduction to psychology for a globally-focused course.
Written by a world-renowned team of psychologists and researchers, this globally-focused 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 li...
Universe: Stars and Galaxies
Stars and Galaxies
2019 || Paperback || Roger A. Freedman e.a. || Macmillan
Universe by Robert M. Geller and Roger Freedman strikes the right balance between scientific rigor, student comprehension, and excitement. Available as the full 27-chapter text or split into Stars and Galaxies and The Solar System, Universe provides all the detail you need to prepare students for engaging with astronomical ideas and theories, while also inviting students to explore through stunning visuals and relatable narratives.