Sociology: Recent submissions
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Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
(MIT Press, 2018)Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand but funding for materials shrinks. Even as middle- and low-income countries expand ... -
Translating Happiness : A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
(MIT Press, 2018)How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being -- from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch -- can enrich our emotional understanding and experience. -
Being Ecological
(MIT Press, 2018)Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. ... -
Globalizing Innovation: State Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Economies
(MIT Press, 2018)The impact of host country institutions and policy on innovation by multinational firms in emerging economies. In the past, multinational firms have looked to developing countries as sources of raw materials, markets, or ... -
The Targeting System of Language
(MIT Press, 2018)In this book, Leonard Talmy proposes that a single linguistic/cognitive system, targeting, underlies two domains of linguistic reference, those termed anaphora (for a referent that is an element of the current discourse) ... -
Authors, Users, and Pirates: Copyright Law and Subjectivity
(MIT Press, 2018)An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework. In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. ... -
Numbered Lives: Life and Death in Quantum Media
(MIT Press, 2019)Anglo-American culture has used media to measure and quantify lives for centuries. Historical journal entries map the details of everyday life, while death registers put numbers to life's endings. Today we count our daily ... -
Financial Accounting
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Have you experienced those moments in your course when students became fully engaged? When the “Aha!” revelations are bursting like fireworks? David Spiceland, Wayne Thomas, and Don Herrmann have developed a unique textbook ... -
Organizational Behaviour, Third CDN Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2010)Organizational behaviour (often abbreviated as OB) is a field of study that investigates how individuals, groups, and structure affect and are affected by behaviour within organizations. Behaviour refers to what people do ... -
Japan’s Dietary Transition and Its Impacts
(MIT Press, 2012)In a little more than a century, the Japanese diet has undergone a dramatic transformation. In 1900, a plant-based, near-subsistence diet was prevalent, with virtually no consumption of animal protein. By the beginning of ... -
Writing the AP English Essay 2014-2015
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Get ready for your AP exam with this straightforward and easy-to-follow study guide, updated for all the latest exam changes! 5 Steps to a 5: Writing the AP English Essay features an effective, 5-step plan to guide your ... -
Leadership Communication
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Leadership Communication guides current and potential leaders in developing the communication capabilities needed to be transformational leaders. It brings together managerial communication and concepts of emotional ... -
The Essentials of Business Etiquette: How to Greet, Eat, and Tweet Your Way to Success
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)The Definitive Guide to Professional Behavior Whether you’re eating lunch with a client, Skyping with your boss, or meeting a business partner for the first time--it’s all about how you present yourself. The Essentials of ... -
The Fall of the Euro: Reinventing the Eurozone and the Future of Global Investing
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)As an investor, you need a roadmap. This book is that roadmap. The Fall of the Euro describes the Eurozone’s unstable equilibrium and explains why a breakup of the Eurozone is still a possibility. Nomura's global head ... -
Fundamentals of Cost Accounting
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Fundamentals of Cost Accountingprovides a direct, realistic, and efficient way to learn cost accounting, integrated with new technology learning tools. Fundamentals is short (approximately 700 pages) making it easy to cover ... -
Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions By Decoding CEO Communications
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Investing Between the Lines introduces a revolutionary method for evaluating the financial integrity of a company. You don’t need special access to “insider” information or a degree in accounting to figure it out. In fact, ... -
Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)Research Design and Methods: A Process Approach takes students through the research process, from getting and developing a research idea, to designing and conducting a study, through analyzing and reporting data. Information ... -
Organic Chemistry
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)A Market Leading, Traditional Approach to Organic Chemistry For nine editions, Organic Chemistry has been designed to meet the needs of the "mainstream," two-semester, undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling ... -
Forex DeMYSTiFieD A Self-Teaching Guide
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)The quick and easy guide to profiting in the WORLDS LARGEST MARKET! When you read about forex, does it seem like a foreign language to you? Get going in one of todays hottest markets with this comprehensive, plain-language ... -
Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment, 10th Edition
(McGraw-Hill Education, 2013)The emphasis of Managerial Accounting, 10th edition is on teaching students to use accounting information to best manage an organization. In a practice Hilton pioneered in the first edition, each chapter is written around ...
