The new edition of Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium is the perfect textbook and lab manual combination program for your classroom! Designed for introductory courses, this complete program teaches the concepts and hands-on lab procedures required for entry-level careers in the rapidly growing biotechnology industry. The textbook and lab manual can be used together or separately, depending on the desired course format. Thorough coverage of the concepts and processes of biotechnology research and manufacturing in the areas of pharmaceuticals, agriculture, industrial products, and instrumentation. Extensive discussion of genomics, microarrays, and proteomics. Exciting information on biotechnological advances in drug discovery, gene therapy, plant-based pharmaceuticals, forensics, and horticulture. Thought-provoking sidebars on bioethics, current events, regulations, emergent trends, recent advances, and research techniques. Substantial presentation of the business side of biotechnology, including opportunities and careers in academic, industrial, and regulatory biotechnology. Includes new and improved sections, projects, and lab activities that address current scientific methods and developments in the biotechnology industry! Updated statistics, figures, and photos.

Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium

Science & Math

Daugherty, Ellyn

Biological Sciences

Paradigm Pub

This book considers the human implications of the introduction of information technology (IT), with particular reference to work and home, employment, industrial relations, citizenship and leisure. It begins with a discussion of the nature of IT, the interface between society and technology, and the importance of technological choice. Two main perspectives - "optimistic" and "pessimistic" - are presented, and a distinction is made between those who see IT as a new industrial revolution and those who view it more as a social product. The book does not primarily discuss IT in terms of what it can "do" but rather considers the human implications stemming from its application. Unlike a "hard" technology book, it does not aim to be specific and precise because there are widely differing views as to what the human effects will be. But the book tries to balance and synthesise these various standpoints in a readable, non-technical way which should appeal to both the specialist and general reader alike.

People and chips: The human implications of information technology

Computers & Technology

Rowe, Christopher

Computer Science

My Brother's Keeper

Aja James has a sordid family history. It's full of painful memories. However, she's managed to leave her troubled past behind and begin again.  But her brother, Eric, a promising NBA prospect, is unable to get past it. His uncontrollable rage and inner turmoil sideline his basketball career and wreak havoc on his own personal relationships. When Aja sees her brother heading down the same violent path that destroyed their family, she makes it her business to stop the cycle - even if it means putting her own life, and love, on hold.  My Brother's Keeper is a captivating novel that takes a poignant look at how deep childhood issues can run. Both humorous and heart-wrenching, this debut novel will leave you wanting more.

Literature & Fiction

Billingsley, ReShonda Tate

United States

No Whining! is the first in a series of fully illustrated juvenile books which provide child training techniques for common child rearing dilemmas. Children enjoy the pictures and story while learning colors, numbers, and word association. Parents pick up ideas to apply with their own children in order to stop a child from whining. 
The story and illustrations present a strong sense of family values.

Mama Cat's Adventures in Child Training Presents: No Whining

Children's Books

Janice C. Villnerve

The tenth edition of Human Societies is more substantially revised and updated than any single new edition of this classic text in the last twenty years. Readers will find the basic theoretical framework of Human Societies unchanged, but the application of this framework has been expended to analyze many of today's current issues and developments. NEW TO THE 10th EDITION: o New or expanded material on globalization, outsourcing, prospects for a Chinese century, and the end of cheap oil. o New and expanded materials on Islamic fundamentalism. o New unit on the growing generation gap in industrial societies. o New unit on women in agrarian societies with special sidebar on the recent discovery of 'Women's Secret Language in [pre-modern] China.' o New and expanded materials on the role of money and moneyed interests in industrial democracies and on the dark side of the Industrial Revolution. o Statistical data on contemporary societies updated with latest available figures and several valuable new tables. o Several new sidebars: 'Paris in the Horticultural Era'; 'The Myth of Primitive Environmentalism' (the case of Easter Island per Jared Diamond); 'Changing Catholic Belief and Practice in France and the United States'; and 'Women's Secret Language in China'. For related exercises go to: http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/HSB2000/ For Instructor's Manual, email patriciag@paradigmpublishers.com

Human Societies, 10th Edition

Politics & Social Sciences

Nolan, Patrick

Lenski, Gerhard

Social Sciences

Praised for its clarity and accessibility, this fully updated edition of Critical Social Theories presents a comprehensive analysis of leading social and cultural theories today. Diverse perspectives are addressed, from feminism and cultural studies to postmodernism and critical theory. Written accessibly for students and faculty, the second edition includes new chapters on the need for a new public sociology in the post-9/11 era—one that moves beyond both positivism and postmodernism. Agger updates and develops for today's world a model for this engaged sociology rooted in 1960s activism, when C. Wright Mills and Tom Hayden framed the New Left as a vehicle for the sociological imagination.

Critical Social Theories: An Introduction

Agger, Ben

Sport in contemporary society: An anthology

This new printing of Sport in Contemporary Society includes a new supplement on the facts, opinions, and scandals surrounding steroids in professional and amateur sports. Included is an informative government report that accessibly lays out the facts for students on increased use of steroids and the medical and performance effects on athletes. Additional articles critique, from different positions, steroid use and the policies various sports organizations have undertaken.

Sport In Contemporary Society: An Anthology

Sociology

Even as more and more communications avenues open up, are Americans losing their political IQ? Some democratic theorists bemoan citizen apathy, ignorance, and incapacity to make sound political judgments. Renowned media scholar Doris Graber contends that such assessments are based on impractical and outmoded models of measuring citizen awareness and engagement. Using what she calls “reality-based” research methods and a sensitivity to contemporary trends, Graber finds that average people understand many political issues and can think about them in complex ways. She reports her new research on learning from entertainment offerings, emphasizing its novel aspects, including experiments, interviews, message board analyses, and stimulus dramas. The book includes companion studies carried out in the Netherlands and Greece designed to test whether the American findings are culture-specific or hold true across cultural settings. A capstone reflection by a communications authority, On Media offers new approaches to timeworn topics and projects an emerging image of public political knowledge that is at once encouraging, inspirational, and fascinating in its contour and detail.

On Media: Making Sense of Politics (On Politics)

Gräber, Doris

This is the first comprehensive introduction to American government through the lens of racial and ethnic equality. It covers the canon from the U.S. Constitution to key American political institutions and instruments of political behavior to the making of public policy. Engaging the original voices of racial and ethnic actors in our nation’s history, the authors show readers how to measure and evaluate the ephemeral value of equality in America from the founding to the current moment. Features of this Unique Text include:

American Government in Black and White

History

McClain, Paula D.

Tauber, Steven C.

Africa

The book that set the standard for sports textbooks has been extensively revised and updated for its new eighth edition. Among the many new topical additions are elite child athletics, gambling in college sports, performance enhancement drugs, sport and nationalism after 9/11, the Beijing Olympics, Nike and other corporations, the power of media in sport, and more on minorities and on disabilities in sport. The authors are experiences text authors as well as former athletes and coaches. They bring a unique perspective to topics that are current and much on the minds of students and professors competing in an ever more challenging sport environment--one beset by scandal, pressed for revenue production, and riddled with inequality.

Sociology Of North American Sport

Sage, George H.

Eitzen, Stanley D.

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