Social Issues Books

• Land Management
  Urbanization
  Energy Policy
  Government Regulation
  Environmental Policy
  Sustainability
   
  

  Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy

  Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy examines the history, current practice, and unmet needs of land use planning and regulation in the United States. Rutherford H. Platt, a ...  > read more
• Internet
  Archaeology
  Communications
   
  

  Annual Editions: Archaeology, 8/e (Annual Editions Archaeology)

  This eighth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ARCHAEOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an ...  > read more
• Personalized Medicine
  Genetics
  Human Biology
  Genes
  Human Evolution
  Biology
   
  

  Human Molecular Genetics, Third Edition

  Following the completion of the Human Genome Project the content and organization of the third edition of Human Molecular Genetics has been thoroughly revised.* Part One (Chapters 1-7) covers basic ...  > read more
• Human Biology
  Bacteria
  Industrial Relations
  Psychology
  Microbiology
  Microbes and More
   
  

  Microbiology: A Human Perspective w/ARIS

  Appropriate for the non-major/allied health student, this authoritative text carefully explains the fundamentals of microbiology, providing a general overview of the principles followed by more ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  New Species
  Fossils
  Earth Science
  Ice Ages
   
  

  The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World

  Forty years ago, an amateur prehistorian discovered an engraved mastodon bone near Mexico City, showing a virtual bestiary from the Ice Age. Harvard University took notice and excavated nearby ...  > read more
• Charles Darwin
  Religion
  Spirituality
  Physics
  Big Bang
  Anthropology
   
  

  When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?

  We're closing in on the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species, but clearly not closing in on any resolution of the debates that the book stirred up between science and religion. In this ...  > read more
• Computer Programming
  Economics
  Mathematical Modeling
  Statistics
   
  

  A First Course in Optimization Theory

  This book introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines. The first of its three parts examines the existence of solutions to optimization problems in Rn, ...  > read more
• Engineering
  Civil Engineering
  Computational Biology
  Disability
  Energy Technology
  Medical Imaging
   
  

  Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Second Edition (Biomedical Engineering)

  Under the direction of John Enderle, Susan Blanchard and Joe Bronzino, leaders in the field have contributed chapters on the most relevant subjects for biomedical engineering students. These chapters ...  > read more
• Geography
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Racial Disparity
  Psychology
   
  

  The Incas (The Peoples of America)

  The great empire of the Incas at its height encompassed an area of western South America comparable in size to the Roman Empire in Europe. This book describes and explains its extraordinary progress ...  > read more
• Birds
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Social Psychology
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
   
  

  In the Company of Crows and Ravens

  “Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the PrefaceFrom the cave walls at Lascaux to the ...  > read more

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