It’s time for a new approach to help students engage more fully with comparative politics. By elevating all of the components of identity as core elements of any political system, Lisa Baglione's Understanding Comparative Politics helps students better appreciate the lived realities of people around the world. The book puts issues of race, gender, ethnicity, and religion in context, encouraging students to think critically about world regions and individual countries through the lens of cur...

The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic and relevant areas of law today. Now in its third edition, this textbook provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering students and teachers a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The textbook contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, and useful discussion ...

From the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eleventh Edition, showcases exciting new authors, works, and textual clusters that demonstrate the relevance of literature to contemporary students and trace the creative arc that has yielded the ever-changing and ever-fascinating body of material called English literature. This anthology offers the experience of literature as part of the world—not apart from it. It is also now available in ebook f...

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts from statistics, machine/deep learning and responsible data science, useful techniques for network analysis and natural language processing, and practical applications of data science such as recommender systems or sentiment analysis. Topics and features: Provides numerous practical case studies using real-world da...

The debate on innate sources for morality continues – some argue for innate moral instincts, while others believe that morality is primarily shaped by social and cultural influence. The most powerful innate instinct is the individual survival instinct, which encapsulates the innate drive within living organisms to ensure their own survival. This belongs to man’s primal instincts and manifests itself in various ways, encompassing both physical and psychological responses to potential threa...

The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students is the only book specifically designed to teach today's history students how to successfully select and use sources--primary, secondary, and electronic--to carry out and present their research. Expanded and updated, the fourth edition of The Information-Literate Historian now includes expanded coverage of database searching, algorithmic searching, fake news, deep fakes, and AI, making it an indispensable reference fo...

A global look at social problems, using the UN′s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as a framework.

Strategic Management for Tourism, Hospitality and Events is the must-have text for students approaching this subject for the first time. It introduces students to fundamental strategic management principles in a tourism, hospitality and events context and brings theory to life by integrating a host of industry-based case studies and examples throughout. This fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the major changes in strategic direction for these industries due to the mo...

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, Research Methods for Sport Management provides a complete introduction to qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for sport management students and practitioners. Full of real-world case studies, data, and examples, and including international perspectives throughout this book to help the reader understand the challenges of research in different social and cultural contexts, this book links theory to practice, highlighting the importance...

Myers’ Psychology is your safe harbor in the storm

The best AP® psychology textbook is back and better than ever! Perfectly aligned to the new course framework, Myers’ Psychology for the AP® Course, fourth edition delivers the wit and poignant personal stories that you love as well as the new AP® skills development that you need. Also new to this edition, new co-author Elizabeth Yost Hammer brings a deep knowledge and understanding of the AP® psych course based on years of attending t...