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Essentials of Corporate Finance
Stephen A. Ross, Randolph W. Westerfield, Bradford D. Jordan Business & Investing Mcgraw Hill Higher Education

Essentials of Investments with S&P bind-in card
Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan Marcus McGraw-Hill/Irwin
The market leading Essentials of Investments, 7e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. Essentials maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).

Essentials of Sociology
Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, Richard Appelbaum Nonfiction W. W. Norton
The best-selling "Introduction to Sociology" is now available in an abridged edition. Featuring a striking design, helpful pedagogy, and a global perspective, "Essentials of Sociology" packages the best facets of the Fifth Edition of "Introduction to Sociology" in a shorter, more flexible edition. With fewer topics covered in only sixteen chapters, students can focus on the essentials while learning about the connections between American and world societies. An in-text study guide and extensive student Web site help students study and review, while online instructor's resources assist with teaching and grading.

Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 7th Edition
James M. Henslin Nonfiction Allyn & Bacon
Henslin's best-selling brief paperback text shares the excitement of sociology–its acclaimed “down-to-earth” approach and personal writing style highlight the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to students' lives. This text is a brief version of the highly regarded hardcover introductory text, "Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 7/e". The essential 15 chapters cover all of the topics in the 22-chapter text, and retain the dual emphases on micro and macro (individual and structural) sociology. James Henslin has a unique ability to engage students without talking down to them or sacrificing content. With wit, personal reflection, and illuminating examples, he shares with readers a passion for sociology unmatched by any other introductory text.

Ethics
Peter Singer Oxford University Press, USA
What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live? If we can, what would it be like, and how are we going to know when we have found it? To capture the essentials of what we know about the origins and nature of ethics, Peter Singer has drawn on anthropology, evolution, game theory, and works of fiction, in addition to the classic moral philosophy of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Kant, and Confucius. By choosing some of the finest pieces of writing, old and new, in and about ethics, he conveys the intellectual excitement of the search for answers to basic questions about how we ought to live. From the debates of Socrates and the profound writing of Rousseau to Jane Goodall's reflections on the ethics of chimpanzee kinship and Luther's commentary on the Sixth Commandment (thou shalt not kill), this engaging reader offers a complete and thorough introduction to the fascinating world of ethical debate.

Europe and the People Without History
Eric Wolf University of California Press
The intention of this work is to show that European expansion not only transformed the historical trajectory of non-European societies but also reconstituted the historical accounts of these societies before European intervention. It asserts that anthropology must pay more attention to history.

The Evolution of Education
David Swanger Harcourt Brace

The Evolution of Education
David Swanger Harcourt Brace

Evolution, Diversity and Ecology: Volume III
Robert Brooker Professional & Technical McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
This Volume of BIOLOGY covers Evolution, Diversity and Ecology.
The Brooker et. al text features an evolutionary focus with an emphasis on scientific inquiry.

Experiencing Architecture, 2nd Edition
Steen Eiler Rasmussen Professional & Technical The MIT Press
Profusely illustrated with fine instances of architectural experimentation through the centuries, "Experiencing Architecture" manages to convey the intellectual excitement of superb design. From teacups, riding boots, golf balls, and underwater sculpture to the villas of Palladio and the fish-feeding pavilion of the Peking Winter Palace, the author ranges over the less-familiar byways of designing excellence.

At one time, writes Rasmussen, "the entire community tool part in forming the dwellings and implements they used. The individual was in fruitful contact with these things; the anonymous houses were built with a natural feeling for place, materials and use and the result was a remarkably suitable comeliness. Today, in our highly civilized society, the houses which ordinary people are doomed to live in and gaze upon are on the whole without quality. We cannot, however, go back to the old method of personally supervised handicrafts. We must strive to advance by arousing interest in and understanding of the work the architect does. The basis of competent professionalism is a sympathetic and knowledgeable group of amateurs, of non-professional art lovers."

Explorations: Introduction to Astronomy
Thomas T. Arny, Stephen E. Schneider Professional & Technical McGraw-Hill

Explorations: Introduction to Astronomy
Thomas T. Arny, Stephen E. Schneider Science McGraw-Hill

The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Manuel Munoz Literature & Fiction Algonquin Books
In a series of ten interconnected stories, Manuel Muñoz illuminates the lives of several Mexican-American families in the same neighborhood in Central California. The title story comes last in the collection, and is perhaps the most poignant. Twenty-one-year-old Emilio works the graveyard shift in a paper mill. One night, after a few shots of whiskey and a few hits of marijuana, he goes back to the forklift to move a pallet of paper, loses control and drops the whole load on himself. He is crippled for life, living at home with his father, who is at the end of his rope with caring for him. He puts Emilio in the car and drives him to a faith healer in Fresno. After giving her his life savings, she gives Emilio a tiny baby food jar of cream and tells him to rub it on his legs. "He watched as his father smoothed the crema onto his thin legs... not being thrifty with it as they had been with everything else in life, rubbing hard with belief..."
In these stories, sometimes belief is all there is: belief that a better job will come, that the loved one will return love, that a surly teenager headed for trouble will straighten out, that a gay son will change--faith and hope are staples of these people's lives. For the most part, they are disappointed. Most of the stories are of single mothers or fathers trying to raise families under the shadow of immigration and language problems and too little money. The subtext of many of the stories is homosexuality, not a lifestyle embraced by the Mexican-American community.
Muñoz writes with a sure hand of the way these people cross paths in unpredictable ways, in situations where there is never enough love or forgiveness. These are hard stories, sad and beautiful in their truth and clarity. "--Valerie Ryan"

Federal Taxation
James W. Pratt, William N. Kulsrud Cengage Learning

Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression
Car Ramazanoglu Gay & Lesbian Routledge
A penetrating and comprehensive study of the development of feminism over the last thirty years.

Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings
Marshall Cohen Children's Books Oxford University Press, USA
Since publication of the first edition in 1974, Film Theory and Criticism has been the most widely used and cited anthology of critical writings about film. Extensively revised and updated, this sixth edition highlights both classic texts and cutting edge essays from more than a century of thought and writing about the movies. Editors Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen have reformulated the book's sections and their introductions in order to lead students into a rich understanding of what the movies have accomplished, both as individual works and as contributions to what has been called "the art form of the twentieth [and now twenty-first] century." Building upon the wide range of selections and the extensive historical coverage that marked previous editions, this new compilation stretches from the earliest attempts to define the cinema to the most recent efforts to place film in the contexts of psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and to explore issues of gender and race.
The sixth edition features several new essays that discuss the impact of digital technology on the traditional conceptions of what films do and how they manage to do it. Additional selections from the important works of Gilles Deleuze round out sections dealing with the theories of such writers as Sergei Eisenstein, Andre Bazin, and Christian Metz, among others. New essays also strengthen sections dealing with the idea of "excess" in film, film spectatorship, the horror genre, and feminist criticism. Film Theory and Criticism, 6/e, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in film theory and criticism.

The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin History Vintage
It's shocking how little has changed between the races in this country since 1963, when James Baldwin published this coolly impassioned plea to "end the racial nightmare." "The Fire Next Time"--even the title is beautiful, resonant, and incendiary. "Do I really "want" to be integrated into a burning house?" Baldwin demands, flicking aside the central race issue of his day and calling instead for full and shared acceptance of the fact that America is and always has been a multiracial society. Without this acceptance, he argues, the nation dooms itself to "sterility and decay" and to eventual destruction at the hands of the oppressed: "The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream."
Baldwin's seething insights and directives, so disturbing to the white liberals and black moderates of his day, have become the starting point for discussions of American race relations: that debasement and oppression of one people by another is "a recipe for murder"; that "color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality"; that whites can only truly liberate themselves when they liberate blacks, indeed when they "become black" symbolically and spiritually; that blacks and whites "deeply need each other here" in order for America to realize its identity as a nation.
Yet despite its edgy tone and the strong undercurrent of violence, "The Fire Next Time" is ultimately a hopeful and healing essay. Baldwin ranges far in these hundred pages--from a memoir of his abortive teenage religious awakening in Harlem (an interesting commentary on his first novel "Go Tell It on the Mountain") to a disturbing encounter with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad. But what binds it all together is the eloquence, intimacy, and controlled urgency of the voice. Baldwin clearly paid in sweat and shame for every word in this text. What's incredible is that he managed to keep his cool. "--David Laskin"

Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen Literature & Fiction Oxford University Press, USA
it was an older book, but it was in good shape. good plays too.

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties
Scott Saul Entertainment Harvard University Press

In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's "Freedom Now Suite", John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme", and Charles Mingus's "The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady" was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. "Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't" is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.
The story's central figures are jazz musicians like Coltrane and Mingus, who rewrote the conventions governing improvisation and composition as they sought to infuse jazz with that gritty exuberance known as "soul." Scott Saul describes how these and other jazz musicians of the period engaged in a complex cultural balancing act: utopian and skeptical, race-affirming and cosmopolitan, they tried to create an art that would make uplift into something forceful, undeniable in its conviction, and experimental in its search for new possibilities. "Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't" considers these musicians and their allies as a cultural front of the Civil Rights movement, a constellation of artists and intellectuals whose ideas of freedom pushed against a cold-war consensus that stressed rational administration and collective security. Capturing the social resonance of the music's marriage of discipline and play, the book conveys the artistic and historical significance of the jazz culture at the start, and the heart, of the sixties. (20031226)

Fundamentals of Financial Management
Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston Business & Investing South-Western College Pub
Count on the renowned author team that's First in Finance to deliver a unique balance of clear concepts, contemporary theory, and practical applications that ensures a thorough understanding of today's corporate finance and financial management. Brigham/Houston's FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E presents a solid, focused foundation in financial basics punctuated with timely actual examples, end-of-chapter applications, and Integrated Cases that make it easier to understand the how and why of corporate budgeting, financing, and working capital decision making. The book's presentation of Time Value of Money (TVM) is repositioned so readers can immediately begin using the concepts after learning them. THOMSON ONE-BUSINESS SCHOOL EDITION accompanies this edition, offering the same financial online database used by professionals on Wall Street every day. FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E also offers APLIA FOR FINANCE, the leading homework solution tool in educational publishing today. Trust the strengths in Brigham/Houston's market-leading FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E for the First in Finance time and time again.



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