Books from Thomson/Wadsworth

  • Criminal Evidence: Principles and Cases
    Criminal Evidence: Principles and Cases
    By Thomas J. Gardner, Terry M. Anderson

    Gardner and Anderson cover the key rules of evidence and the applicability of these rules in criminal matters. The authors provide students with an understanding of the rationale behind these...

  • Principles of Instructional Design
    Principles of Instructional Design
    By Robert Mills Gagné, John M. Keller, Walter W. Wager

    This pioneering text describes a rationally consistent basis for instructional design, based in cognitive psychology and information-processing theory. The authors prepare teachers to design and develop a course, unit, and...

  • Step by Step to College and Career Success
    Step by Step to College and Career Success
    By John N. Gardner, A. Jerome Jewler

    Step by Step to College and Career Success

  • Visual Communication: Images with Messages
    Visual Communication: Images with Messages
    By Paul Martin Lester

    This is the only text to offer substantial coverage of issues specific to all forms of visual communication. It helps students analyze visual messages using a technique similar to the...

  • The Basics of Social Research
    The Basics of Social Research
    By Earl R. Babbie

    This thorough revision of Babbie's standard-setting book presents a succinct, straightforward introduction to the field of research methods as practiced by social scientists. Contemporary examples+such as terrorism, Alzheimer's disease, anti-gay...

  • Moral Issues in Business
    Moral Issues in Business
    By Vincent E. Barry, William H. Shaw

    Moral Issues in Business

  • Readings in Gender Communication
    Readings in Gender Communication
    By Phil Backlund, Mary Rose Williams

    READINGS IN GENDER COMMUNICATION is a compilation of studies, stories, analyses, and personal testimonies contributed by communication, gender, psychology, and sociology scholars and students. The reader is designed as a...

  • Guiding Children's Learning of Mathematics
    Guiding Children's Learning of Mathematics
    By Art Johnson, Leonard M. Kennedy, Steven Tipps

    This text is a thorough and practical guide to teaching pre-school through sixth grade level mathematics for the pre-service and in-service elementary school teacher. Kennedy, Tipps, and new co-author Art...

  • Plays for the Theatre: A Drama Anthology
    Plays for the Theatre: A Drama Anthology
    By Robert J. Ball, Oscar Gross Brockett

    PLAYS FOR THEATRE continues its rich tradition of providing engaging plays for the contemporary stage. The plays provide historical and contemporary drama. PLAYS FOR THEATRE is a great companion to...

  • Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota
    Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous Communities from East Africa to South Dakota
    By Jim Igoe

    This book makes current issues in political ecology and the question of globalization accessible to undergraduate students, as well as to non-academic readers. It is also empirically and theoretically rigorous...

  • A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
    A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
    By Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay

    Preface. Part I: BEGINNINGS AND FOUNDATIONS. 1. Early Japan. 2. The Impact of Continental Civilization. Part II: ARISTOCRATS, MONKS, AND SAMURAI. 3. The Heian Period. 4. The Kamakura Period. 5....

  • Cognitive Psychology in and Out of the Laboratory
    Cognitive Psychology in and Out of the Laboratory
    By Kathleen M. Galotti

    Kathleen Galotti's text led the way in emphasizing the applied side of cognitive psychology. The title of the book emphasizes its "in and out" of the laboratory focus, which includes...

  • Public Administration: An Action Orientation
    Public Administration: An Action Orientation
    By Robert B. Denhardt, Janet Vinzant Denhardt

    Take action and become a participant in public administration with PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: AN ACTION ORIENTATION. You'll learn how to influence the operations of public agencies--helping them learn to affect positive...

  • Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking
    Judicial Process and Judicial Policymaking
    By George Alan Tarr

    JUDICIAL PROCESS AND JUDICIAL POLICYMAKING focuses on policy in its discussion of the judicial process. The author's approach is based on four major premises: 1) that courts in the U.S....

  • A History of Roman Art
    A History of Roman Art
    By Fred S. Kleiner

    A HISTORY OF ROMAN ART is a new authoritative and lavishly-illustrated survey of the art of Rome and the Roman Empire from the time of Romulus to the death of...

  • Confident Public Speaking
    Confident Public Speaking
    By Deanna D. Sellnow

    Confident Public Speaking

  • Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments
    Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments
    By Amy Gutmann, Dennis Frank Thompson

    Learn to recognize and assess the strengths and weaknesses of moral arguments in the making of public policy with ETHICS AND POLITICS: CASES AND COMMENTS. You'll find coverage of the...

  • Correctional Leadership: A Cultural Perspective
    Correctional Leadership: A Cultural Perspective
    By Stan Stojkovic

    Correctional Leadership: A Cultural Perspective

  • Crime Types: A Text/reader
    Crime Types: A Text/reader
    By Dean A. Dabney

    This text/reader focuses on major types of crimes to illustrate the behavior, tendencies, and similarities and differences that are observable among criminals, victims, and situations. Overview materials are combined with...

  • The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies
    The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies
    By George F. Cole, Marc G. Gertz, Amy Bunger

    First published in 1972, this classic text helped define how research affects policy in the criminal justice system. The new Ninth Edition provides a unique balance of the enduring classics...