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Development Across the Life Span, Global Edition
(Pearson, 2017)This book tells a story: the story of our lives, and our parents’ lives, and the lives of our children. It is the story of human beings and how they get to be the way they are. Unlike any other area of study, lifespan ... -
Brilliant employability skills : how to stand out from the crowd in the graduate job market
(Pearson, 2017)What makes you stand out in the market for that great graduate job? In the competitive market for graduate jobs, securing a good degree no longer sets you apart from other candidates – this book will provide you with the ... -
An introduction to group work practice
(Pearson, 2017)Widely used by professionals, educators, and students in undergraduate and graduate courses in schools of social work throughout the United States and the world, this text presents a comprehensive, coherent, organized ... -
Abnormal Psychology, Global Edition
(Pearson, 2017)This new edition of Abnormal Psychology has been redesigned to reflect the newest and most relevant research findings, presented in a way that is engaging to the newest generation of students. We’ve done a lot of updating! ... -
Employment law
(Pearson, 2017)This revision guide will help you to identify and apply the law. Its objective is to provide frequent reminders of the importance of understanding the legal definitions of key employment law concepts, such as ‘redundancy’, ... -
Fundamentals of Investing, Global Edition
(Pearson, 2017)Fundamentals of Investing helps individuals make informed investment decisions by providing a solid foundation of core concepts and tools. Smart/Gitman/Joehnk use practical, hands-on applications to introduce the topics ... -
Sociology, Global Edition
(Pearson, 2017)Sociology, Sixteenth Edition, provides you with comprehensive understanding of how this world works. You will find this book to be informative, engaging, and even entertaining. Before you have finished the first chapter, ... -
Introductory Statistics
(Pearson, 2017)Introductory Statistics presents the fundamentals of statistics, featuring data production and data analysis. Data exploration is emphasized as an integral prelude to statistical inference. This edition of Introductory ... -
Financial accounting and reporting
(Pearson, 2017)This market leading text provides comprehensive coverage of financial accounting and reporting to enable you to discuss and apply IFRS compliant financial statements. With the balance of theoretical principles and practical ... -
Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds
(MIT Press, 2011)This imaginative and innovative book should appeal not only to those with an interest in the individual cases, stories, and plays, but also to philosophers, historians, theologians, literary critics, and some specialists ... -
Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold Wa
(MIT Press, 2011)The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and political arenas of geographically far-flung countries emerging from colonial rule. Moreover, ... -
The Encultured Brain: An Introduction to Neuroanthropology
(MIT Press, 2012)The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and open to cultural sculpting at multiple ... -
Waves
(MIT Press, 2012)Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves. In the water, enthusiastic waders jump and shriek with pleasure when a wave hits them. But where do these waves come from? ... -
Oblique drawing : a history of anti-perspective
(MIT Press, 2012)For more than half a century, Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form has dominated studies of visual representation. Despite the hegemony of central projection, or perspective, other equally important methods of ... -
The Color Revolution
(MIT Press, 2012)When the fashion industry declares that lime green is the new black, or instructs us to "think pink!," it is not the result of a backroom deal forged by a secretive cabal of fashion journalists, designers, manufacturers, ... -
Brain and the gaze : on the active boundaries of vision
(MIT Press, 2012)How do we gain access to things as they are? Although we routinely take our self-made pictures to be veridical representations of reality, in actuality we choose (albeit unwittingly) or construct what we see. By movements ... -
Vision and Brain: How We Perceive the World
(MIT Press, 2012)In this accessible and engaging introduction to modern vision science, James Stone uses visual illusions to explore how the brain sees the world. Understanding vision, Stone argues, is not simply a question of knowing which ... -
Principles of Brain Dynamics: Global State Interactions
(MIT Press, 2012)The consideration of time or dynamics is fundamental for all aspects of mental activity -- perception, cognition, and emotion -- because the main feature of brain activity is the continuous change of the underlying brain ... -
Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making
(MIT Press, 2012)How do we make decisions? Conventional decision theory tells us only which behavioral choices we ought to make if we follow certain axioms. In real life, however, our choices are governed by cognitive mechanisms shaped ... -
From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy: Retrospective and Prospective Views
(MIT Press, 2012)Many things inform a country's choice of tax system, including political considerations, public opinion, bureaucratic complexities, and ideas drawn from theoretical analysis. In this book, Robin Boadway examines the role ...
