Books published by Cengage Learning, Inc

This text aims to introduce readers to the art of good reasoning, using a wealth of current, relevant & stimulating examples from television, newspapers, magazines & advertisements.

Provides a thorough guide to perimeter defense fundamentals, including intrusion detection and firewalls. This text covers advanced topics such as security policies, network address translation (NAT), packet filtering and analysis, proxy servers, virtual private networks (VPN), and network traffic signatures.

Demonstrates how human service professionals help others work more effectively to fulfill their work-related or care taking responsibilities to individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. This book is structured to aid students in developing their own personal consultation model as they work through the book.

By illustrating how effective managers apply economic theory and techniques to solve real-world problems, this title helps future business leaders learn to think analytically and make better decisions.

Designed for the three-semester engineering calculus course, this book offers instructors and students teaching and learning resources.

Capturing student interest through early coverage of chemical reactions, accessible explanations and visualizations, and an emphasis on everyday applications, this book explains chemical concepts by starting with the basics, using symbols or diagrams, and conclude by encouraging students to test their own understanding of the solution.

Integrates traditional drill and practice with the elements of the reform movement. This book blends instructional approaches that include vocabulary, practice, and pedagogy with an emphasis on reasoning, modeling, communication, and technology skills.

Provides explanations that offer students "just in time support" reinforced by real-world samples, 170 exercises, and instant feedback in all areas of writing. This book includes exercises from multiple disciplines that broaden students' understanding and interest in science, art, history, film, literature, social studies, and the media.

Offers an overview that combines case excerpts with legal discussion and analysis to give students an understanding of criminal procedure, while emphasizing the need for a balance of government power and the liberty/privacy of individuals.

Are you an unsuspecting "victim" of the "CSI effect"? This book equips you with an understanding of the modern criminal justice system.

Includes biographical sketches of theorists and accounts of the stories behind influential research programs that help students understand how classic and contemporary findings relate to each other, and reinforce the idea that theory and research perpetuate one another.

Introduces cultural anthropology within a framework centered on globalization and culture change. This book focuses on the social and cultural consequences of globalization, emphasizing culture change and world problems.

Introduces students to the how and the why of cost management. This text provides a foundation with its step-by-step Cornerstones learning system and asks them to take understanding to the next level by getting at the conceptual understanding that they often struggle to grasp.

This volume combines text, cases, and articles. Two chapters on the nature of morality and ethical theory are included, as well as one piece devoted to economic justice, and thorough treatment of applied issues.

Using National Geographic content, images and video, this title teaches the English language that learners need to succeed in their daily lives.

Presents a four-skills general English series which uses "National Geographic" content, images and video to teach the language that learners need to succeed in their daily lives. This title uses real people, real places and real language to connect learners of English to the world.

In a small village in northern Greece, local residents participate in an annual religious festival called 'Anastenaria'. During the festival, believers walk across fire to test their faith and receive blessings from religious figures. Will all the participants make it across the fire? How will their firewalk affect them?

The first trip outside of a spacecraft, or 'spacewalk', was completed in 1965. Since then many astronauts have participated in spacewalks, but spacewalking does not come without its risks and challenges and astronauts are in constant danger when in space. What are the risks and challenges of spacewalking? How do astronauts overcome them?

In France, some people earn money by selling a special food called a 'truffel'. Truffles can be found in the woods, however they are very rare and expensive. That's why they are sometimes called 'black diamonds'. What is this unusual food, and why is it so expensive?

A four-level reading series which uses carefully adapted "National Geographic" text, images and video to develop reading and vocabulary skills for learners of English. It features real-world content supported by visuals that develops learners' understanding of the wider world in which they live.

Goliath tarantulas are the most enormous spiders in the world. Most people consider them to be extremely dangerous and avoid them, but not tarantula expert Rick West. He seeks out tarantulas because he has an important story to tell. What information does West want to share with the world? Are tarantulas as dangerous as people think?

Peter May has the unique job of reconstructing dinosaurs for museum displays. He works with a team using real dinosaur bones as well as artificial bones to create these giant creatures. How did Peter May become a dinosaur builder? How does he know what these long-extinct animals looked like?

People from all over the world love to visit a street in Barcelona, Spain called the Ramblas. This walking-only street is centrally located and full of interesting artists, performers, and other entertainers. What happens on the Ramblas? What makes this street so exciting?

Presenting a basic, arithmetic-based approach, this book uses step-by-step development of concepts, hands-on practice exercises, and real-world application of techniques to effectively prepare students for careers in business.

Offers a fresh approach to teaching electrical wiring practices in use in the housing industry. Based on the Skills Standards approved by NAHB's Home Builders Institute, this book covers such topics as alternative energy systems and 'green' coverage including sustainable building practices as they apply to house wiring.

Includes coverage of concepts, approaches, and techniques that concentrates on the key media formats of commercials; news and sports; documentaries; reality programs; talk shows; interviews; and more. This text presents information that writers need to know about production techniques, demographics, copyrights, and career opportunities.