Teaching students both the theory and practice of GIS using Arc GIS Pro.

Discovering GIS and ArcGIS Pro provides students with hands-on work with GIS software, while explaining the process behind each application. This text teaches students how to combine GIS concepts with ArcGIS Pro software skills, preparing them for successful careers in the real world. Each chapter focuses on using a variety of ArcGIS tools in a real-world context from calculating the distance between two library branches...

Innovative engagement. Enduring retention. The most effective way to explore psychological science, now with even more support for instructors.

Real stories, real engagement, real answers to student and instructor challenges

In this breakthrough student resource, two committed, tech-savvy professors, Deborah Licht and Misty Hull, combine years of research and teaching insights with the journalistic skill of science writer, Coco Ballantyne, who came to the project directly from Scientific Amer...

A Writer’s Reference helps you engage in and meet the challenges of your writing course. Clear How-to boxes help you complete common writing assignments like argument and analysis. Guidance about paraphrasing and fact-checking sources help you become a more responsible writer and reader. And Notes-to-self help you reflect on your progress and plan your revision. If your instructor has assigned Achieve, you have new ways to engage with course material and with your instructor and peers. Revi...

Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery.

Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok communicate economic principles in a clear, captivating way. This has had demonstrable effect through their successful blog, The Marginal Revolution. They bring this expertise to their Modern Principles titles where they emphasise the power of incentives, in particular highlighting to students how economics helps us to understand what we do. This focus on incentives shows students how the decisions we ma...

The gold standard of texts on the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Palestine 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...

Combined with new coverage on mental health, resilience, and mindset, Your College Experience speaks to the real needs of today's students, helping them overcome their barriers to success and become successful students in academic communities they can call their own.

Kathleen Berger's acclaimed introduction to childhood and adolescence development weaves together classic and cutting-edge research, contemporary topics (especially neuroscience and culture), and relatable real stories and personal experiences.

Writing 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...

Modern Principles means modern content and modern delivery and Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok deliver with a knack for revealing the 'invisible hand' of economics at work and a unique combination of vivid writing, up-to-date relevant examples and unparalleled online resources, perfect for your principles of economics course.

Signature storytelling reveals how economics play out in our world.

When it comes to explaining fundamental economic principles by drawing on current economic issues and events, there is no one more effective than Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author, Robin Wells. In this best-selling introductory textbook, Krugman and Wells’ signature storytelling style and uncanny eye for revealing examples will help students understand how economic concepts play out in o...