Political Science Textbooks
Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributors: Mayer, Warner, Siedel, and Lieberman
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students must understand in today's highly regulated business environment. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style.
(1 review)
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Theis and Tomkin
Publisher: OpenStax CNX
License: CC BY
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 applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.
(27 reviews)
World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization
Copyright Year: 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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 places in a concise, easy-to-read format.
(8 reviews)
Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributor: Bhattacherjee
Publisher: Global Text Project
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. This book is based on my lecture materials developed over a decade of teaching the doctoral-level class on Research Methods at the University of South Florida. The target audience for this book includes Ph.D. and graduate students, junior researchers, and professors teaching courses on research methods, although senior researchers can also use this book as a handy and compact reference.
(40 reviews)
American Government and Politics in the Information Age
Copyright Year: 2016
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC-SA
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 policies and pass laws that are binding on all a society's members; they decide about taxation and spending, benefits and costs, even life and death.
(13 reviews)