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Provides students with a deeper understanding of what impacts drug use.

The eighth edition of Drugs, Behavior, and Modern Society examines the impact of drug-taking behavior on our society and our daily lives. The use and abuse of a wide range of licit and illicit drugs are discussed from historical, biological, psychological, and sociological perspectives.

In today's world, drugs and their use present a social paradox, combining the potential for good and for bad. As a society and as individuals, we can be the beneficiaries of drugs or their victims. This text features a comprehensive review of psychoactive drugs, and is notable for the attention it gives to two aspects of drug-taking behavior that have been underreported in other texts: steroid abuse and inhalant abuse.

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Explains how and why human cultures vary so greatly across space and time

Human Culture: Highlights of Cultural Anthropology, 3/e helps students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. It provides both a comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology. This new edition has an expanded and updated focus on environmental issues.

REVEL from Pearson is an immersive learning experience designed for the way todays student read, think, and learn. REVEL modernizes familiar and respected course content with dynamic media interactives and assessments, and empowers educators to increase engagement in the course, better connecting with students. The result is increased student engagement and improved learning.

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This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience- for you and your students. It:
Immersive Learning Experiences with REVEL: REVEL delivers immersive learning experiences designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn. Engaging Pedagogically-Driven Design: Learning Objectives in each chapter correspond to chapter summary materials A Clear Understanding of humans: Readers will learn the major variations in human kinship, economic, political, and religious systems and why it is significant. Focus on Contemporary issues: Students will understand contemporary social problems and how anthropology might be used to address them.

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Understand core communication concepts
THINK Communication distills major communication concepts, theories, research, and trends into bite-size essentials, making learning human communication not only fun, but accessible and relatable. Students will find that THINK Communications unique features help them to identify and understand their own communication behaviors, as well the communication behavior of others.

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Helping students make connections between science and practice

The World of Children helps students connect the science and the practice of child development in a way that can positively change lives. The third edition features an active learning system that exposes students to real people facing real world child development challenges. It encourages readers to think critically about issues from multiple perspectives. The World of Children is a chronological child development text.

MyDevelopmentLab is available with World of Children, 3e. Through MyDevelopmentLab, students have access to MyVirtualChild, an interactive web-based simulation that allows students to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time.

A better teaching and learning experience
The teaching and learning experience with this program helps to:
Personalize Learning The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructions achieve their goals. Improve Critical ThinkingPrompts throughout each chapter jumpstart readers critical thinking process. Engage Students Real-life cases encourage students apply what they are learning. Also, students can raise a child throught MyVirtualChild. Explore Research With over 600 new research citations, this new edition reflects the latest research in the field of child psychology. Understand Different Perspectives Several perspectives are included in the reading to help students think about the content from different points of view. Support Instructors New MyDevelopmentLab Video Series. These cross-cultural videos feature original footage filmed in the United States, Mexico, and Botswana. Guided by series editor Ashley Maynard (University of Hawaii, Manoa), they show how culture impacts child development. Videos are available in multiple formats: on an instructors DVD, tied to quizzes in MyDevelomentLab, and called out in the chapter with Watch icons. Note: MyDevelopmentLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyDevelopmentLab, please visit: www.mydevelopmentlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyDevelopmentLab: ValuePack ISBN-10: TBD / ValuePack ISBN-13: TBD

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THINK Currency. THINK Relevancy. THINK World Religions

THINK World Religions is informed with the latest research and the most contemporary examples, allowing you to bring current events directly into your classroom with little additional work.

An engaging visual design developed through extensive student feedback will appeal to your students and deliver the core concepts of World Religions in a way that they can actually understand.

In addition, a groundbreaking instructor supplements package will help you bring the core concepts of World Religions to life without burdening your students with heavy, too dense or too expensive learning solutions.

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Personalize Learning MySearchLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed and provides engaging experiences that personalize learning. Improve Critical Thinking The text will help you consider how each religion grapples with a series of important ideas Engage Students Written in an anecdotal style, students will be pulled in with the authors narratives of his real-world experiences and work. Support Instructors All supplements were developed around the textbooks carefully constructed learning objectives. Note: MySearchLab with eText does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit:
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Examines contemporary art from its roots to the present day

Art Since 1980: Charting the Contemporary presents a chronological survey from the late 20th century into the early 21st century. This title is built around short discussions on individual artists. Author Peter Kalb maintains a balance between a social history of institutions and contexts, and attention to individual aesthetic choices. Works cited come from these fields: painting, photography, and sculpture, plus installation, performance, and video art.

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Stresses the importance of argumentation in everyday life

Critical Thinking and Communication, 7/e, encourages students to develop skills in constructing and refuting arguments in contexts ranging from informal conversations to structured debates. The authors stress the importance of argumentation in everyday life while building student competence and critical awareness. Through exercises and examples, students learn to create arguments and develop, understand, and interpret extended cases.

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Congenial Debates on Controversial Questions (Subscription)

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Facilitate honest, thoughtful and respectful consideration of controversial questions

An exciting first edition, Congenial Debates on Controversial Questions is designed to promote careful and vigorous yet congenial and respectful examination of a wide range of controversial ethical issues. It is unique in focusing attention on two steps that are essential prior to productive consideration of controversial questions: First, the elimination of Straw Man distortions that cause students to not only talk past one another but also to have a very negative view of those with whom they disagree; and second, the importance of understanding that those on the opposing side have legitimate and important concerns that can be understood and appreciated even by those who strongly disagree with their position.

With those problems cleared away, students can approach these difficult questions with openness to the best arguments on both sides: not with the goal of meeting in the middle, but of honestly appreciating the actual issues and the complexities of those issues.

Congenial Debates on Controversial Questions is organized around 15 major current issues, including the most vigorously debated contemporary social issues, such as abortion, capital punishment, drug legalization, immigration, same-sex marriage, church/state relations, the social responsibilities of corporations, and animal rights.

Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
Recognize the misinformation and Straw Man arguments in daily conversations. Explore new perspectives on examining difficult issues. Gain an honest appreciation of the best points of differing views.

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The Big Picture of Child Development.

The exciting first edition of Child Development: A Topical Approach is arranged in a way that helps students to see the big picture of development across the entire span of childhood and adolescence. Offering a modular approach, this text provides a broad overview of the field of child development. It covers major topics such as physical development, cognitive development, and social and personality development.

Child Development captures the discipline of Child Development in a way that excites readers about the field and draws them into its way of looking at the world. The text is rich in examples and illustrates the applications that can be derived from the research and theory of child developmentalists.

MyPscyhLab is an integral part of the Feldman program. Key learning applications include, MyVirtualChild, MyPsychLab video series, and Flashcards.

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Personalize Learning MyPsychLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance. Improve Critical Thinking -- Review, Check, and Apply Sections Interspersed throughout each chapter are short recaps of the chapters main points, followed by questions designed to provoke mastery of the material and critical thinking. Engage Students Many chapters include an interview with a person working in a field that uses the findings of child and adolescent development. Among those interviewed are a counselor for a treatment center serving teenagers confronting substance abuse, a childcare provider, a neonatal nurse, and a preschool teacher. Understand Diversity Developmental Diversity and Your Life sections that highlight issues relevant to todays multicultural society. Explore Research From Research to Practice boxes describe current developmental research or research issues, applied to everyday problems. Support Instructors All supplements were developed around the textbooks carefully constructed learning objectives.

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The Worlds Religions provides an orientation to the study of religion.

Surveying the stages of development, worldviews, and current situations of the major world religions, this text discusses the ways these religions respond to contemporary ethical issues. It also presents a sampling of new religious movements and looks to the possible ways the world's religions may interact in the 21st century. Its distinctive framework for understanding religious worldviews allows readers to compare and contrast the teachings of religions objectively.

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Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking, The

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Critical and creative thinking for life experience and career success

The first edition of The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking provides students with the tools, techniques, and strategies for thinking both critically and creatively. A toolbox for higher-order analytical and imaginative thinking, readers practice critical and creative thinking by applying learned theories to examples, demonstrations, and exercises. Exercises involve both individual and collaborative critical and creative thinking applications across academic disciplines, as well as in personal and professional career contexts. The clear and easy to follow writing style makes concepts and theories accessible to all students, especially in the foundational chapters. Later chapters enable students to exercise their reasoning skills and judgment by generating ideas and applying what theyve learned.

MyThinkingLab is an integral part of the DiYanni program. Engaging activities and assessment are part of a teaching and learning system that helps students foster their critical and creative thinking skills. With MyThinkingLab, students can access The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking ebook, with highlighting and note taking capabilities, as well as view videos, simulations, and writing assignments with the all new Writing Space.

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Global Perspectives on the New Testament

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A revolutionary title for and by the global community

This exciting first edition of Global Perspectives on the New Testament, edited by Mark Roncace and Joseph Weaver, collects writings from a variety of geographic, social, cultural, political, economic, and religious settings. The book features 22 chapters, each comprised of four short, accessible essays on a specific biblical text. This design creates a focused, dynamic conversation of perspectives, which will in turn prompt engaging conversations in the classroom. Students will learn about themselves and their own particular context as they explore the ideas and contexts of other biblical interpreters from around the globe.

In addition to presenting truly fresh interpretations of the New Testamentthis is no predictable compendium of scholarly essaysthe book features discussion questions at the end of each chapter, as well as many additional questions in the Instructors Resource Manual.

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Helps readers apply psychological insights to their own lives.

The eleventh edition of Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth, and Behavior Today is designed for students interested in applying psychological insights and principles to their own lives. The text helps readers achieve a better understanding of themselves and others.

The scope of Psychology for Living draws material from the major perspectives of psychology, including the psychodynamic, ecological, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic viewpoints. The goal of the text is based firmly on increasing readers understanding as well as their knowledge about adjustment, in order that they may continue learning and growing on their own.

This text is available in a variety of formats digital and print. Check your favorite digital provider for your etext, including Coursesmart, Kindle, Nook, and more.

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Apply psychological insights and principles to their own lives. Increase their knowledge on adjustment, in order to continue learning and growing on their own. Understand themselves and others better. 0205961622 / 9780205961627 Psychology for Living: Adjustment, Growth and Behavior today with NEW MySearchLab with Pearson eText
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Steven J. Kirsh, Karen Grover Duffy Emerita, Eastwood Atwater

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The best-selling guide to writing about art

Sylvan Barnets A Short Guide to Writing About Art guides students through every aspect of writing about art. Students are shown how to analyze pictures (drawings, paintings, photographs), sculptures and architecture, and are prepared with the tools they need to present their ideas through effective writing. Coverage of essential writing assignments includes formal analysis, comparison, research paper, review of an exhibition, and essay examination. New to the 11th edition is a chapter on Virtual Exhibitions: Writing Text Panels and Other Materials.

MySearchLab is a part of the Barnet program. Research and writing tools, including access to academic journals, helps students master basic writing skills. To provide students with flexibility, students can download the eText to a tablet using the free Pearson eText app.

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The most authoritative evidence-based approach to mental health policy and design.

Rooted in research findings that support an evidence-based orientation to treatment and recovery, the sixth edition of Mental Health and Social Policy takes a multidisciplinary approach to mental health and social policy. It examines the nature, origins, distribution, and consequences of disorders, while detailing information on the services, programs, and social policies that have been developed to assist people with mental health problems.

Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
Understand the nature, origins, distribution and consequences of mental disorders. Examine the services, programs, and social policies developed to assist people with mental health problems.

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David Mechanic, Donna D. McAlpine, David A. Rochefort

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Combines traditional history with a focus on the American people.

A comprehensive overview of U.S. History since World War II, Moving On weaves together political, economic, diplomatic, and military history, while incorporating the social, demographic, environmental, and cultural history of the period.

The text also features a focus on the late 1960s as a major turning point in post-war America.

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Upon completing this book readers will be able to:
Understand the key events, players, and issues that define post 1945-America Understand the social and cultural legacy of the important decades of post-1945 America Know the importance of each decade in shaping America through the new millennium Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost).

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Debuting in its first edition, The Polarized Public takes an in-depth look at the seemingly irreconcilable divide between Republicans and Democrats and argues that bi-partisanship remains elusive, not because of politicians in the capitol, but because of the American public and their fixation on party membership and loyalty. How did this intense polarization develop? How has it influenced the current political climate? How will it evolve and affect the upcoming presidential and congressional elections? Alan Abramowitz addresses all of these questions among others in this new, eye-opening addition to The Great Questions in Politics series.

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A brief yet thorough guide to correct, clear writing for the media

This text stresses the importance of clear, concise, and accurate writing in a media world that is increasingly web-based. Illustrative and specific real life examples provide guidance for students to improve their writing. By recognizing todays ever-changing media environment, this text is grounded in the basics of good writing, which is essential to communicators in print, online, broadcast, and strategic communication.

This text is available in a variety of formats print and digital. Check your favorite digital provider for your etext, including Coursesmart, Kindle, Nook, and more. To learn more about our programs, pricing options and customization, click the Choices tab.

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Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
Understand the basics of good writing Edit and evaluate their own writing Gather information through research and interviewing Note: MySearchLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MySearchLab, please visit: www.mysearchlab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MySearchLab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0133829944 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780133829945

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A reader-friendly approach to statistics in social work practice.

Statistics for Social Workers, 9/e familiarizes students with statistical tests and analyses that are most likely to be encountered by social work researchers and practitioners. This reader-friendly title emphasizes the conceptual underpinning of statistical analyses, keeping mathematics and complicated formulae to a minimum. Readers require no prior knowledge of statistics and only basic mathematical competence.

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Provides students with a decision-making process for ethical issues.

Now a part of the Core Competencies Series, From the Front Lines: Student Cases in Social Work Ethics, 4/e helps students develop a method of decision-making while providing examples with a number of case studies. Part One teaches readers the rationale for each part of the decision-making process and the tools needed to address it professionally. Part Two encompasses a thorough presentation and consideration of cases that address ethical dilemmas, issues, and problems which occur in social work practice. This text also encourages students to explore their own values and how they are used in everyday life as well as professionally.

Connecting Core Competencies series -- Each chapter highlights the core competencies and practice behavior examples found in the Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) set by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Critical thinking questions throughout reinforces these connections.

Learning Goals
Upon completing this book, readers will be able to:
Develop a method for decision making for ethical dilemmas, issues, and problems which occur in social work practice. Explore their own values. Relate their decision making to real world examples.