Through a direct and accessible writing style and engaging samples and exercises, The Power of Logic 6e provides an introduction to information logic, traditional categorical logic, and modern symbolic logic while giving students the opportunity to apply their critical thinking skills to interesting…
Common Ground, the lower-level integrated reading and writing companion text to the best-selling Common Places, focuses on guiding students through the reading and writing process at the sentence and paragraph-level. Providing an easy-to-follow blueprint for students by modeling skills and behavior …
How to Think about Weird Things, is a concise and engaging text that offers students a step-by-step process by which to determine when a claim is likely to be true. Schick and Vaughn provide a course on critical thinking- emphasizing neither debunking nor advocating specific claims, but rather exp…
Physical Anthropology, has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest analyses, fossil finds, and discoveries in the field of physical anthropology. This full-color text examines human evolution and biology through photos, illustrations, and an exploration of insights gleaned from a…
Distilled from Donald Palmer’s more than thirty years of teaching experience, this text exemplifies his very successful approach to teaching introductory philosophy. Through the use of humor and nearly 400 drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the reader witho…
In a provocative and engaging style, Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings consists of two main parts: the chapters, which contain the primary contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers, and the anthology of chronologically organized classic readings from…
Thinking Critically About Ethical Issues encourages students to reason out for themselves the best answers to moral problems, rather than providing neat answers for students to swallow and regurgitate. Striking a balance between the theoretical and the practical, Ruggiero's text discusses the hist…
Doing philosophy inspires active learning and helps students become more accomplished critical thinkers by encouraging them to reflect on philosophical theories and the thought experiments used to test them. The book traces the historical development of philosophical thinking on a number of centra…
Finding Meaning in Work and LifeDenis Waitley is a world-renowned expert and motivational speaker on human performance and potential. The 7th edition of Psychology of Success is designed to help students identify and develop successful habits meaningful to each of them individually. The text is also…
Music Theory Made RelevantDesigned for undergraduate music majors, Harmony in Context provides the richest possible musical context for the study of harmony, constantly encouraging students to translate what they are learning into better performances and better listening. The musical examples and an…
