John Macionis, author of the best-selling Introductory Sociology franchise over the last three. Informative as well as engaging, Society: The Basics will change the way. In addition to. Media resources with assignments bring concepts to life, and. Please note: this version of. Instructors, contact your Pearson. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab.
John Macionis, author of the best-selling Introductory Sociology franchise over the last three decades, empowers students to see the world around them through a sociological lens, helping them to better understand their own lives.
Informative as well as engaging, Society: The Basics will change the way readers see the world, and open the door to a new perspective and new opportunities. In addition to extensively updated data, the Fourteenth Edition offers engaging discussions of hot-button contemporary topics such as the increased proliferation of social media as well as expanded coverage of race, class, and gender.
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Share from cover. Share from page:. Every chapter explores unique topics, such as same-sex marriage, Boko Haram, mob justice, Sharia law, as well as issues of inequality related to race, ethnicity, gender, social class, and urbanization. The text empowers students to use the lenses of sociological imagination to see sociology in everyday life. Using sociological imagination, theory, and sociological perspectives, the text helps students move beyond individual perspective to gain a sociological perspective.
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Author : James M. Henslin Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: Category: Reference Page: View: Read Now » A new edition of a popular college reference features thirty percent new articles addressing current issues of contemporary sociology, from politics and religion to crime and poverty, in a volume that links each article to related chapters in widely used introductory textbooks.
Author : Library Association. Both volumes represents a unique, wide-ranging, curated, international, annotated bibliography, and directory of major resources in toxicology and allied fields such as environmental and occupational health, chemical safety, and risk assessment.
This edition keeps pace with the digital world in directing and linking readers to relevant websites and other online tools. Due to the increasing size of the hardcopy publication, the current edition has been divided into two volumes to make it easier to handle and consult.
Volume 1: Background, Resources, and Tools, arranged in 5 parts, begins with chapters on the science of toxicology, its history, and informatics framework in Part 1. Part 2 continues with chapters organized by more specific subject such as cancer, clinical toxicology, genetic toxicology, etc.
The categorization of chapters by resource format, for example, journals and newsletters, technical reports, organizations constitutes Part 3. Among the miscellaneous topics in the concluding Part 5 are laws and regulations, professional education, grants and funding, and patents.
Volume 2: The Global Arena offers contributed chapters focusing on the toxicology contributions of over 40 countries, followed by a glossary of toxicological terms and an appendix of popular quotations related to the field. The book, offered in both print and electronic formats, is carefully structured, indexed, and cross-referenced to enable users to easily find answers to their questions or serendipitously locate useful knowledge they were not originally aware they needed.
Introductory chapters provide a backdrop to the science of toxicology, its history, the origin and status of toxicoinformatics, and starting points for identifying resources. Offers an extensive array of chapters organized by subject, each highlighting resources such as journals, databases,organizations, and review articles. Includes chapters with an emphasis on format such as government reports, general interest publications, blogs, and audiovisuals. Explores recent internet trends, web-based databases, and software tools in a section on the online environment.
Concludes with a miscellany of special topics such as laws and regulations, chemical hazard communication resources, careers and professional education, K resources, funding, poison control centers, and patents. Paired with Volume Two, which focuses on global resources, this set offers the most comprehensive compendium of print, digital, and organizational resources in the toxicological sciences with over chapters contributions by experts and leaders in the field.
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