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World Regional Geography
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Abstract: Rather than present students with a broad, novice-level introduction to geography, emphasizing places and vocabulary terms, this text approaches geography as experts understand the discipline, focusing on connections and an in-depth understanding of co...
Sustaining the Commons
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- Janssen, Marco A.; , author
Abstract: This textbook discusses the main framework, concepts and applications of the work of Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues for an undergraduate audience. We began teaching a course on collective and the commons in 2007 at Arizona State University. Initially...
Social Problems : Continuity and Change
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Abstract: Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book's subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the ...
World Regional Geography : People, Places and Globalization
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Abstract: World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization is designed for students to experience and study as much of the world as possible within a limited amount of time. It gives students the fundamental concepts and the latest data regarding world...
American Government and Politics in the Information Age
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Abstract: This text is a comprehensive introduction to the vital subject of American government and politics. Governments decide who gets what, when, how (See Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1936]); they make polic...
First Amendment : Cases, Controversies, and Contexts
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Abstract: This Casebook (Second Edition, December 2019) is intended to be used in an upper-division course covering the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its 14 chapters are substantially the same length, with the exception of Chapter One, the i...
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation : Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
Publication Type: eBook
- Pulos, Elizabeth; , author
Abstract: This textbook provides an innovative, internationally oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the ...
Sustainability : A Comprehensive Foundation
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- Theis, Tom, editor; Tomkin, Jonathan, editor
Abstract: With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applie...
Políticas públicas, Género y Derechos Humanos en América Latin
Publication Type: eBook
- Blando, Oscar, author; Ingaramo, María Alejandra, author
Abstract: El enfoque de género ha producido verdaderas transformaciones tanto a nivel del conocimiento en las ciencias sociales, incorporando nuevos temas y problemas a partir de la teoría feminista, como a nivel de las acciones de polí
Global Women's Issues : Women in the World Today, extended version
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- Miller, Mariel; , author
Abstract: We cannot solve global challenges unless women participate fully in efforts to find solutions. Female participation in the private sector is a crucial economic driver for societies worldwide. Economic security benefits every facet of a woman's life, wi...