|
|
|
PowerWeb is an online database of articles and news
feeds that relates directly to the subject you are studying.
It livens up your studies by applying the theory you have
learnt to what's happening in the real world.
And best of all, a PowerWeb password card comes FREE with
many of the HSS titles! For more details, visit .
|
|
|
|
The American Democracy 6/e
Patterson
0071199462 £34.99 Jan 2003
Heavily revised in the sixth edition,
this descriptive, comprehensive text by Tom Patterson is known
for its engaging narrative, future oriented approach, and
its ability to tie together the latest scholarship with real-life
politics. By using a narrative, The American Democracy weaves
together theory, information, and examples in order to bring
out key facts and ideas in a way that captures student interest.
In the sixth edition, the struggle between liberty and equality
is explored in a more extensive and cogent way than in previous
editions.
More titles
|
|
|
|
Anthropology 10/e
Conrad Phillip Kottak
0071217053 £34.99 Aug 2003
View
website:
The new tenth edition of Kottak’s
best selling text for general anthropology continues to offer
a holistic introduction to anthropology that approaches the
course from a four-field perspective. The new, tenth edition
is a major revision offering many new and exciting features
that build on the strengths of this approach. The text has
two new themes “Bringing It All Together” and “Understanding
Ourselves.”
More titles
|
|
|
|
Responding To Art
Bersson
069725819X £56.99 May 2003
Responding to Art: Form, Content,
& Context is designed to excite and interest students
with minimal knowledge of art and limited confidence in responding
to it. To this end, the book starts at the students' introductory
level and sets out to stimulate their interest and active
participation. From the onset, Responding to Art integrates
art and design forms that the students are already familiar
with and have some interest in: including CD covers, magazine
advertisements, fashion styles, websites, crafts, product
design, and folk art.
More titles
|
| Communication
Studies |
|
|
The Art Of Public Speaking 8/e
Lucas
0071218793 £26.99 July 2003
Whether a novice or an experienced speaker, every student
will learn how to be a better public speaker through Lucas'
clear explanations and thorough coverage. The text's Annotated
Instructor's Edition, Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, CDs,
videos, and other supplements provide instructors the tools
needed to create a dynamic classroom; this edition also boasts
a new supplement that meets the needs of online classes.
More titles
|
| English |
|
|
Ten Skills You Really Need To Succeed In College
Langan
0072819553 £14.99 Jun 2002
This first joint-publishing venture between McGraw-Hill and
John Langan's Townsend Press is a guide book to the essential
skills necessary for students to make the transition from
high school to college.
More titles
|
| Film |
|
|
Film Art
7/e with Tutorial CD by Bordwell & Thompson
0077108329 £38.99 Aug 2003
Film is an art form with a language
and an aesthetic all it's own, and since 1979 David Bordwell
and Kristin Thompson's Film Art has been the most repected
introduction to the art and analysis of cinema.
In the new seventh edition, Film Art continues it's commitment
to providing the best introduction to the fundamentals of
serious film study - images throughout the book are collected
from actual film frames, not from production stills or advertising
photos - but the book has been extensively re-designed to
improve readability and teachability. Additionally, the text
can be packaged with the award-winning Film, Form, and Culture
CD-ROM, and is supported by an extensive Instructor's Manual
and text-specific website.
More titles
|
| History |
|
|
Twentieth Century Europe
diScala
007016052X £24.99 Sep 2003
This book focuses on the crucial political events of the
last century, addressing much more than the struggle between
communism and capitalism. The author gives major attention
to the high level of violence in Europe, and weaves together
the overarching themes of the struggle for hegemony, the establishment
of common economic and political institutions, the affirmation
of social democracy, and the stunning advance of science.
More titles
|
| Literature |
|
|
The American Tradition in Literature,
shorter version, 10/e
George Perkins and Barbara Perkins
Widely known as the anthology that
best meshes tradition with innovation, this shorter version
of includes every major author found
in the two-volume set, but fewer selections keep it manageably
half the length.
Featured Authors: Anne Bradstreet;
Benjamin Franklin; Phillis Wheatley; Olaudah Equiano; Edgar
Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Herman Melville; Henry David
Thoreau; Frederick Douglass; Walt Whitman; Mark Twain; Emily
Dickinson; Kate Chopin; Charlotte Perkins Gillman; Robert
Frost; Ezra Pound; Eugene O'Neill; T. S. Eliot; Edna St. Vincent
Millay; e. e. cummings; Jean Toomer; Langston Hughes; Zora
Neale Hurston; James Baldwin; Tennessee Williams; Anne Sexton;
Flannery O'Connor; John Cheever; Gwendolyn Brooks; Toni Morrison
Read more and view contents.
More titles
|
| Music |
|
|
Music: An Appreciation with CD 8/e
Kamien
0071217479 £38.99 Sep 2003
Through seven editions, Roger Kamien's Music: An Appreciation
has become the most widely used text for Music Appreciation
and Introduction to Music Literature courses. The author has
approached his new eight edition with the goal of re-examining
the scholarship and refreshing the repertoire while maintaining
the strengths that have made the book number one - the clear
presentation of musical elements, the vivid depiction of music
history, the carefully chosen musical examples, the detailed
and informative Listening Outlines, and the unsurpassed supplements
package.
Visit
More titles
|
| Politics |
|
|
Defeating Terrorism: Implementing The New Security Environment:
Readings And Interpretations, College Edition
Howard; Sawyer
0072873027 £25.99 Dec 2003
Defeating Terrorism: Shaping the New Security Environment:
Readings and Interpretations presents original contributions
by leading scholars and professionals in the terrorism field,
written especially for this book. No other book currently
on the market presents this cutting-edge thinking on ways
to fight and win the war against terrorism. Chapters include:
comprehensive strategies to combat terrorism; combating regional
terrorist movements; countering weapons of mass destructions
(WMD) threats; countering more recently developed terrorism
tactics and weapons; military, intelligence, special operations,
business and government responses to terrorism; and countering
or removing the causes of terrorism.
More titles
|
| Sociology |
|
|
Criminal Investigation 8/e
Swanson
0071217746 £34.99 Sep 2002
Widely recognized as the most accurate
and comprehensive text in the field, this practical, step-by-step
introduction to criminal investigation gives students a logical
framework for understanding the investigative process. Major
sections cover current issues such as environmental crime,
the looting of archaeological sites, videotaping of crime
scenes, street gangs, and drugs.
More titles
|
| Statistics |
|
|
Do you get start panicking when faced with stats?! If you
need help getting to grips with figures, take a look at the
Visual Statistics CD by Doane.
Visual Statistics is an interactive CD designed to teach
statistical concepts in a user-friendly environment by using
visualisation and direct manipulation of data to see the effect
on graphs. It consists of 21 topics that are typically covered
in an Introductory Statistics or Business Statistics course.
This CD fosters "interactive learning" through competency-building
exercises, individual and team experiments, relevant examples
and built-in databases. For more informaiton, or the
|
| Women's
Studies |
|
|
|
| World
Languages |
|
|
Prego! An Invitation to Italian
6/e
Lazzarino, Aski, Dini and Peccianti
007111307X £29.99 Dec 2003
This best-selling beginning Italian
text offers a four-skills and communicative introduction to
Italian language and culture. Three new co-authors join Graziana
Lazzarino in the most exciting and significant revision since
the book's inception in 1980. The text provides communicative
activities and a streamlined vocabulary and grammar presentation.
The fifth edition captures contemporary Italian culture within
a beautiful new design. The package for
is now state of the art.
More titles
|
