Social Studies is a core comprehensive program that takes students on a fascinating journey to explore the people, places, and events that have impacted history. This basal program combines rich content with colorful graphics and interactive, write-in text to highlight core concepts and provide a better understanding for students. Each unit is structured with powerful reading support tools - such as the lesson summary and unit review - to help reinforce the main ideas and accurately organize information.
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, he juxtaposed physics and mysticism to define a new vision of reality. In The Web of Life, Capra takes yet another giant step, setting forth a new scientific language to describe interrelationships and interdependence of psychological, biological, physical, social, and cultural phenomena--the "web of life."
Measure What Matters: Online Tools For Understanding Customers, Social Media, Engagement, and Key Relationships
In an online and social media world, measurement is the key to success If you can measure your key business relationships, you can improve them. Even though relationships are "fuzzy and intangible," they can be measured and managed-with powerful results.
This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture. Heightened recognition of the ways culture inflects politics and economics, social relations and personal identities has transformed scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.The Companion to the Sociology of Culture reflects on this "cultural turn " by providing an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life. The book includes such topics as art, science, religion, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship.
Language structure and use are largely shaped by cognitive processes such as categorizing, framing, inferencing, associative (metonymic), and analogical (metaphorical) thinking, and - mediated through cognition - by bodily experience, emotion, perception, action, social/communicative interaction, culture, and the internal ecology of the linguistic system itself.
