A textbook for college diversity courses, this book offers an overview of the wide diversity in our society, with a focus on fair treatment and respect for all people. Interacting comfortably with diverse individuals, in the community and work place, is emphasized. Topics include race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, culture, health, communication, social status, behavior, personality, physical ability, and sensory ability. Each chapter includes sample test questions and both individual and group exercises.

Human Diversity: A Guide for Understanding

Education & Teaching

Schwartz, Stuart

Conley, Craig

Schools & Teaching

McGraw–Hill Education

Teachers must be prepared to meet the needs of the wide range of diverse students in today's classrooms. The text, Diverse Learners in the Classroom, now in its second edition, provides both current and future teachers with accurate information about the different students whom they will be teaching and offers specific teaching tips to enhance the learning of diverse learners. 
In addition to offering important information about youngsters who are diverse, the text challenges the readers to assess and improve their attitudes about these students. Every chapter has a challenging simulation which requires thought and responses; empowerment tips and classroom activities are also provided. 
Widely used across the United States, Diverse Learners in the Classroom is excellent for college students who are preparing to be teachers in elementary and secondary schools. By using this text they will know what to expect and be ready to meet the many challenges of teaching all children.

Diverse Learners in the Classsroom

Eaton, Lisa

Emphasizes the major interactions among different peoples and societies. World History in Brief highlights key events in world history, giving adequate treatment to the major issues, while leaving time for analysis and use of supplemental materials for critical thinking. Part of the Penguin Academics Series, the text takes a truly global approach by balancing coverage of individual societies and focusing on forces that cut across them. Students are encouraged to compare societies, assess changes in interactions, and understand global forces such as migration and technological exchange. The 8th edition is tied closely to MyHistoryLab to help save time and improve results. MyHistoryLab icons connect the main narrative to an array of MyHistoryLab resources, including primary source documents, analytical video segments, and interactive maps. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how: <ul>
<li> Personalize Learning — The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. </li>
<li> Improve Critical Thinking — Features at the beginning and end of each part help students make connections among the societies examined in the chapters. </li>
<li> Engage Students — “Solving Problems,” “History Debates,” and “World Profiles” features allow students to approach history from different angles. </li>
<li> Support Instructors — MyHistoryLab, an Instructor’s Resource Manual, a Test Bank, MyTest, PowerPoint presentations, a detailed timeline for each period covered in the text, and Class Preparation are available. </li> </ul>
For the combined volume of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205939201 For volume 2 of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205939422 Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit: www.myhistorylab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205896294 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205896295.

World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity To 1450, Volume 1

History

Stearns, Peter

Adas, Michael

Gilbert, Marc

World

Pearson

World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity Since 1450, Volume 2

Emphasizes the major interactions among different peoples and societies. World History in Brief highlights key events in world history, giving adequate treatment to the major issues, while leaving time for analysis and use of supplemental materials for critical thinking. Part of the Penguin Academics Series, the text takes a truly global approach by balancing coverage of individual societies and focusing on forces that cut across them. Students are encouraged to compare societies, assess changes in interactions, and understand global forces such as migration and technological exchange. The 8th edition is tied closely to MyHistoryLab to help save time and improve results. MyHistoryLab icons connect the main narrative to an array of MyHistoryLab resources, including primary source documents, analytical video segments, and interactive maps. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how: <ul>
<li> Personalize Learning — The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. </li>
<li> Improve Critical Thinking — Features at the beginning and end of each part help students make connections among the societies examined in the chapters. </li>
<li> Engage Students — “Solving Problems,” “History Debates,” and “World Profiles” features allow students to approach history from different angles. </li>
<li> Support Instructors — MyHistoryLab, an Instructor’s Resource Manual, a Test Bank, MyTest, PowerPoint presentations, a detailed timeline for each period covered in the text, and Class Preparation are available. </li> </ul>
For volume 1 of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205939368 For volume 2 of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205939422 Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit: www.myhistorylab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205896308 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205896301.

World History in Brief: Major Patterns of Change and Continuity, Combined Volume

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Combined Volume, Books a la Carte Edition (7th Edition) [loose_leaf] Stearns, Peter N.,Adas, Michael B.,Schwartz, Stuart B.,Gilbert, Marc Jason [Sep 17, 2016]

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Combined Volume, Books a la Carte Edition

For courses in World History Help students make sense of the present and prepare to meet the challenges of the future Revel® World Civilizations: The Global Experience presents a truly global approach to world history by discussing and comparing major societies and focusing on their interactions. Authors Peter Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart Schwartz, and Marc Gilbert facilitate analysis of global contacts, regional patterns, and the whole process of change and continuity on a world stage. This emphasis on critical analysis helps students become active, engaged learners rather than passive consumers of historical facts. In addition to the inclusion of updated content throughout, the Eighth Edition is available for the first time via Revel, with videos, interactive maps, and quizzes integrated throughout the text. Revel empowers students to actively participate in learning. More than a digital textbook, Revel delivers an engaging blend of author content, media, and assessment. With Revel, students read and practice in one continuous experience, anytime, anywhere, on any device. NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel.

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Combined Volume -- Revel Access Code

Americas

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume 2 -- Revel Access Code

Product Description 
For courses in World History 
Help students make sense of the present and prepare to meet the challenges of the futureRevel® World Civilizations: The Global Experience presents a truly global approach to world history by discussing and comparing major societies and focusing on their interactions. Authors Peter Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart Schwartz, and Marc Gilbert facilitate analysis of global contacts, regional patterns, and the whole process of change and continuity on a world stage. This emphasis on critical analysis helps students become active, engaged learners rather than passive consumers of historical facts. In addition to the inclusion of updated content throughout, the Eighth Edition is available for the first time via Revel, with videos, interactive maps, and quizzes integrated throughout the text. 
Revel empowers students to actively participate in learning. More than a digital textbook, Revel delivers an engaging blend of author content, media, and assessment. With Revel, students read and practice in one continuous experience, anytime, anywhere, on any device. 
NOTE: Revel is a fully digital delivery of Pearson content. This ISBN is for the standalone Revel access card. In addition to this access card, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel. 
 About the Author 
Peter N. Stearns is University Professor at George Mason University, where he regularly teaches a freshman world history course. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon, where he won the Robert Doherty Educational Leadership Award. He also founded and long edited the Journal of Social History. He has written widely in world history, including his most recent book, Time in World History. Other books address modern social and cultural history and include studies on gender, old age, work and emotion, including a recent title Shame: A Brief History. 
Michael Adas is the Abraham Voorhees Professor of History and a Board of Governors chair at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Over the past couple of decades his teaching has focused on courses dealing with European and American colonial expansion and African and Asian responses as well as global history in the twentieth century. In addition to texts on world history, Adas has written numerous books and articles on the impact of and resistance to Western colonialism and the importance of technology in those processes. His books include Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance, which won the Dexter Prize in 1992, and more recently Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. In 2012, he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for his lifetime contributions to global history and cross-cultural understanding. He is currently working on a comparative study of the ways in which British and American soldiers' responses to the wars of attrition in the trenches of World War I and in Vietnam contributed to the decline of each of these global powers. 
Stuart B. Schwartz was born and educated in Springfield, Massachusetts, and then attended Middlebury College and the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Latin American history. He taught for many years at the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty at Yale University in 1996. He has also taught in Brazil, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, and Portugal. He is a specialist on the history of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil, and is the author of numerous books, notably Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985), which won the Bolton Prize for the best book in Latin American History. He is also the author of Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), Early Latin America (1983), and Victors and Vanquished (1999). He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Fo

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume 1 -- Revel Access Code

Product Description 
For courses in World HistoryHelp students make sense of the present and prepare to meet the challenges of the futureRevel® World Civilizations: The Global Experience presents a truly global approach to world history by discussing and comparing major societies and focusing on their interactions. Authors Peter Stearns, Michael Adas, Stuart Schwartz, and Marc Gilbert facilitate analysis of global contacts, regional patterns, and the whole process of change and continuity on a world stage. This emphasis on critical analysis helps students become active, engaged learners rather than passive consumers of historical facts. In addition to the inclusion of updated content throughout, the Eighth Edition is available for the first time via Revel, with videos, interactive maps, and quizzes integrated throughout the text. 
Revel empowers students to actively participate in learning. More than a digital textbook, Revel delivers an engaging blend of author content, media, and assessment. With Revel, students read and practice in one continuous experience, anytime, anywhere, on any device. 
NOTE: This Revel Combo Access pack includes a Revel access code plus a loose-leaf print reference (delivered by mail) to complement your Revel experience. In addition to this access code, you will need a course invite link, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Revel. 
 About the Author 
Peter N. Stearns is University Professor at George Mason University, where he regularly teaches a freshman world history course. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Chicago, and Carnegie Mellon, where he won the Robert Doherty Educational Leadership Award. He also founded and long edited the Journal of Social History. He has written widely in world history, including his most recent book, Time in World History. Other books address modern social and cultural history and include studies on gender, old age, work and emotion, including a recent title Shame: A Brief History. 
Michael Adas is the Abraham Voorhees Professor of History and a Board of Governors chair at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Over the past couple of decades his teaching has focused on courses dealing with European and American colonial expansion and African and Asian responses as well as global history in the twentieth century. In addition to texts on world history, Adas has written numerous books and articles on the impact of and resistance to Western colonialism and the importance of technology in those processes. His books include Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance, which won the Dexter Prize in 1992, and more recently Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and America's Civilizing Mission. In 2012, he was awarded the Toynbee Prize for his lifetime contributions to global history and cross-cultural understanding. He is currently working on a comparative study of the ways in which British and American soldiers' responses to the wars of attrition in the trenches of World War I and in Vietnam contributed to the decline of each of these global powers. 
Stuart B. Schwartz was born and educated in Springfield, Massachusetts, and then attended Middlebury College and the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Latin American history. He taught for many years at the University of Minnesota and joined the faculty at Yale University in 1996. He has also taught in Brazil, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, and Portugal. He is a specialist on the history of colonial Latin America, especially Brazil, and is the author of numerous books, notably Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society (1985), which won the Bolton Prize for the best book in Latin American History. He is also the author of Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels (1992), Early Latin America (1983), and Victors and Vanquished (1999). He

World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Volume 2 -- Revel + Print Combo Access Code

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