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Patricia Miller's acclaimed text offers an ideal way to help students understand and distinguish the major theoretical schools of child development. This fully updated new edition includes a new focus on biological theories of development, and offers new instructor resource materials.

Written for topically-organized child development modules, How Children Develop provides a fresh perspective on the field of child development, emphasizing fundamental principles, enduring themes and important recent studies. The authors - all noted scholars and respected researchers are exceptionally skillful at making difficult topics accessible.

Introduction to the Practice of Statistics is the classic textbook for teaching statistics. This textbook shows students how to produce and interpret data from real-world contexts, guiding them through the type of data gathering and analysis that working statisticians do every day. With this phenomenally successful approach developed by David Moore and George McCabe, statistics is more than just a collection of techniques and formulas. Instead, students develop a way of thinking about data with a focus on problem-solving that helps them understand concepts and master statistical reasoning. Part of the best-selling Moore family of statistics books, Introduction to the Practice of Statistics is designed for a two-semester 'introduction to statistics' course and offers a rigorous introduction to the subject. This textbook is available on LaunchPad, which combines an interactive ebook with multimedia content and assessment tools, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. See 'Instructor Resources' and 'Student Resources' for further information.

Written and illustrated with unsurpassed clarity, Molecular Biology: Principles and Practice introduces fundamental concepts while exposing students to how science is done. The authors convey the sense of joy and excitement that comes from scientific discovery, highlighting the work of researchers who have shaped the field today.

For four decades, this extraordinary textbook played an pivotal role in the way biochemistry is taught, offering exceptionally clear writing, innovative graphics, coverage of the latest research techniques and advances, and a signature emphasis on physiological and medical relevance. Those defining features are at the heart of this edition.

Biology: How Life Works helps introductory majors students understand the story of biology.

Help your students navigate the realities of the global economy - the theories, the data, the policies and their impact. Emphasizing the use of data and empirics to link cutting-edge economic theory to current world events, this book was developed in the classroom by two of the most prominent researchers in the field who saw a need for a text with fresh theories and perspectives. Seamlessly blending theory and data with real-world policies, events, and evidence, Feenstra and Taylor's International Economics provides engaging, balanced coverage and applications of key concepts. The book covers the latest events and newest research. International Economics is supported by Achieve, our integrated, online learning system which allows you to engage every student with powerful multimedia resources, an integrated e-Book, robust homework, and a wealth of interactives, creating an extraordinary new learning resource for students. Key features include:Access to an eBook for easy reading and searchingLearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers practice questions to check understanding and provides feedback to ensure students have grasped the conceptsDiscovering Data and Work It Out problems provide the opportunity to locate, analyze, and interpret real-world data, related to topics in the bookCurated multi-step questions and graphing problems are paired with rich feedback to guide students through the process of problem solving and developing their analytical thinking

This core intermediate microeconomics textbook bridges the gap between today's theory and practice in microeconomics. Case studies and plenty of examples from a range of sources show how microeconomic theory informs consumer and producer decision making in real situations.

Science writer Carl Zimmer and evolutionary biologist Douglas Emlen have produced a thoroughly revised new edition of their widely praised evolution textbook.

The new Concise edition of A History of World Societies offers an accessible regional chapter structure, readability, and sustained attention to social history in a brief, affordable text.

The most comprehensive textbook and detailed presentation of the lab techniques organic chemistry students need to know.

Long acclaimed as the definitive introductory botany text, Raven Biology of Plants stands as the most significant revision in the book's history.