Social Issues Books

• Communications
  Neuroscience
   
  

  Concise Guide to Technical Communication, A (3rd Edition)

  A Concise Guide to Technical Communication takes a situational approach, emphasizing issues of audience and purpose for any technical communication task. The first text of its kind to acknowledge ...  > read more
• Anthropology
  Bioethics
  Government Regulation
  Nature
  Cosmology
  Archaeology
   
  

  History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History

  Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so ...  > read more
• Hurricanes and Cyclones
  Severe Weather
  Accident and Trauma
  Disaster Plan
  Social Issues
  Psychology
   
  

  Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

  When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these ...  > read more
• Fibromyalgia
  Pain Control
  Joint Pain
  Today's Healthcare
  Neuropathy
  Public Health
   
  

  Fibromyalgia: The Complete Guide From Medical Experts and Patients

  Fibromyalgia is a severe musculoskeletal pain and fatigue syndrome that afflicts approximately 3 to 6 million Americans. Fibromyalgia: The Complete Guide from Medical Experts and Patients is a ...  > read more
• Anthropology
  Educational Policy
  Cultures
  Social Psychology
  Educational Psychology
  Children's Health
   
  

  Cultural Anthropology (4th Edition) (MyAnthroLab Series)

  Successfully integrating attention to globalization, gender, class, race and ethnicity throughout, Miller’s up-to-date text engages students with compelling ethnographic examples and by ...  > read more
• Earth Science
  Geology
  Earthquakes
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Nature
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
   
  

  Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (9th Edition)

  To understand timely issues such as natural disasters and environmental challenges–and to evaluate solutions to related problems–the average citizen needs a basic awareness of the ...  > read more
• Statistics
  Zoology
  Hacking
  Mathematics
  Social Issues
  Encryption
   
  

  Introductory Statistics (8th Edition)

  KEY MESSAGE: Weiss Introductory Statistics, Eighth Edition, features a thorough presentation of the reasoning behind statistics, balanced with analysis and exploration of real data. This book ...  > read more
• Menopause
  Sustainability
  Gender Difference
  Environmental Policy
  Trees
  Forest
   
  

  The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

  Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and became ...  > read more
• Caving
  Archaeology
  Extreme Survival
  Ancient Civilizations
  Nature
  Anthropology
   
  

  The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

  The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Nature
  World Development
  Fossils
  Monkeys
   
  

  The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk

  A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history.Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally ...  > read more

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