 | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Release Date: March 13, 2012| ISBN-10: 0307377903 | ISBN-13: 978-0307377906| Edition: 1 Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition—the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident tr...
 |  | Strength Training Anatomy-3rd Edition
Publication Date: March 9, 2010With new exercises, additional stretches, and more of Frédéric Delavier’s signature illustrations, you’ll gain a whole new understanding of how muscles perform during strength exercises. This one-of-a-kind best-seller combines the visual detail of top anatomy texts with the best of strength training advice.Many books explain what muscles are used during exercise, but no other resource brings the anatomy to life like Strength Training Anatomy. Over 600 full-color illustrations reveal the primary muscles worked along with all the relevant ...
|  | A World of Art (6th Edition)
Publication Date: October 1, 2009| ISBN-10: 0205677207 | ISBN-13: 978-0205677207| Edition: 6Why A World of Art? Henry Sayre wrote the first edition of World of Art because he wanted to use a text in his own art appreciation course that truly represented all artists, not just the Western canon found at that time in the other texts. He also wanted a text that fostered critical thinking through looking at, talking about, and questioning works of art for his students. We are proud to present the new sixth edition of World of Art, which further strengthens these two key aspe...
|  | The Bedford Reader
Publication Date: January 28, 2011| ISBN-10: 0312609698 | ISBN-13: 978-0312609696| Edition: Eleventh Edition Long one of the most popular composition readers on the market, The Bedford Reader provides compelling readings by excellent writers. It takes a practical and flexible approach to the rhetorical methods, focusing on their uses in varied writing situations. The popular “Writers on Writing” feature illustrates the many ways writers create meaning from what they read and experience, and, as always, the Kennedys' wise and witty instruction engages and challenges students...
|  | Organizational Behavior (15th Edition)
Publication Date: January 6, 2012| ISBN-10: 0132834871 | ISBN-13: 978-0132834872| Edition: 15 Robbins/Judge presents current, relevant research in a clear, reader-friendly writing style. Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills. ...
|  | Magic Tree House Boxed Set, Books 1-4: Dinosaurs Before Dark, The Knight at Dawn, Mummies in the Morning, and Pirates Past Noon
Release Date: May 29, 2001| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Fall of Giants: Book One of the Century Trilogy
Release Date: September 4, 2012| Series: Century Trilogy (Book 1) Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic begins, as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits.…An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House.… A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherb...
|  | The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Publication Date: June 11, 2012A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live.”Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed interests compound their wealth b...
|  | The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Release Date: August 28, 2007One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the YearWinner of the James Beard Award Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book...
|  | The Enjoyment of Music: An Introduction to Perceptive Listening (Shorter Eleventh Edition)
Publication Date: January 15, 2011| ISBN-10: 0393934152 | ISBN-13: 978-0393934151| Edition: Shorter Eleventh Edition Easy to read, easy to teach, The Enjoyment of Music has been the most trusted introduction to music for over five decades.The Eleventh Edition reflects how today's students learn, listen to, and live with music. With an accessible, student-friendly treatment of the subject, it emphasizes context to show how music fits in the everyday lives of people throughout history, and connects culture, performance, and technology to the lives of students today. The new edition feature...
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