Social Sciences Textbooks
The Meaning of Love - Second Edition
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributor: Garlikov
Publisher: Alabama Open Publishing House at Troy University
License: CC BY
This book explores the philosophical views on the meaning of love. The text explores a variety of topics used to define love, including attraction, relationship satisfaction, emotional, and ethical considerations. The author takes a rational, logical, analytic, and scrutinizing look at experiences and other forms of literature on the subject of love.
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Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration (With Applications in R) - 3rd Edition
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Jenkins-Smith and Ripberger
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Libraries
License: CC BY
The focus of this book is on using quantitative research methods to test hypotheses and build theory in political science, public policy and public administration. It is designed for advanced undergraduate courses, or introductory and intermediate graduate-level courses. The first part of the book introduces the scientific method, then covers research design, measurement, descriptive statistics, probability, inference, and basic measures of association. The second part of the book covers bivariate and multiple linear regression using the ordinary least squares, the calculus and matrix algebra that are necessary for understanding bivariate and multiple linear regression, the assumptions that underlie these methods, and then provides a short introduction to generalized linear models.
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An Introduction to Cooperation and Mutualism
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributor: Boland
Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
License: CC BY-NC
This textbook introduces readers to the idea of cooperation and mutualism. Cooperatives and mutuals are participatory organizations in which members participate in control and governance, receive economic benefits through patronage refunds or net income, and become owners through equity. These mutual-benefit organizations exist alongside non-profit organizations and investor-benefit organizations through the global economy.
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Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective - Second Edition
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Lally and Valentine-French
Publisher: Martha Lally, Suzanne Valentine-French
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.
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Políticas públicas, Género y Derechos Humanos en América Latin
Copyright Year: 2014
Contributors: Levín, Blando, and Ingaramo
Publisher: LATIn Project
License: CC BY-SA
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
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Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Dolidon and Roulon
Publisher: Portland State University Library
License: CC BY-NC
Histoires d'Avenirs est un manuel basé sur neuf nouvelles de science fiction française qui s'adresse à un public d'apprenants étrangers (de niveaux intermédiaire et avancé) mais aussi à un public natif voulant approfondir ses connaissances de la science-fiction moderne - après un chapitre préliminaire qui rappelle les bases historiques du genre. Le manuel propose une approche holistique (stylistique, linguistique, et interculturelle) et sollicite une pensée critique au travers d'activités de lecture, interprétation, conversation, recherche et présentations, dans un double objectif : développer les compétences en français sur des sujets contemporains au travers de la fiction; et faire découvrir la science-fiction française et francophone aux apprenants étrangers.
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The History of Our Tribe: Hominini
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributor: Welker
Publisher: Open SUNY
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Where did we come from? What were our ancestors like? Why do we differ from other animals? How do scientists trace and construct our evolutionary history? The History of Our Tribe: Hominini provides answers to these questions and more. The book explores the field of paleoanthropology past and present. Beginning over 65 million years ago, Welker traces the evolution of our species, the environments and selective forces that shaped our ancestors, their physical and cultural adaptations, and the people and places involved with their discovery and study. It is designed as a textbook for a course on Human Evolution but can also serve as an introductory text for relevant sections of courses in Biological or General Anthropology or general interest. It is both a comprehensive technical reference for relevant terms, theories, methods, and species and an overview of the people, places, and discoveries that have imbued paleoanthropology with such fascination, romance, and mystery.
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The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets - 2nd Edition
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Barkley
Publisher: New Prairie Press
License: CC BY-NC
The Second Edition of Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets (2019) is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses. The book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, labor markets, and natural resource sectors. The field of agricultural economics is relevant, important and interesting. The study of market structures, also called industrial organization, provides powerful, timely, and useful tools for any individual or group making personal choices, business decisions, or public policies in food and agricultural industries.
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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Kang, Lessard, Heston, and Nordmarken
Publisher: UMass Amherst
License: CC BY
This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research.
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Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Brown, Gonzalez, and Mcllwraith
Publisher: American Anthropological Association
License: CC BY-NC
We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology.
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