Books published by Cengage Learning, Inc

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 a clear strategy for connecting theories to a consistent problem-solving approach, carefully reinforcing this methodology throughout the text and connecting it to real-world examples.

Provides a clear strategy for connecting theories to a consistent problem-solving approach, carefully reinforcing this methodology throughout the text and connecting it to real-world examples.

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.

Encourages students to start their path to fitness and wellness by providing coverage of core concepts, real life student case studies, and action steps to help students develop their own personal lifetime fitness and wellness program.

Suitable for developmental writers, this title teaches students how to write correct sentences and effective paragraphs. It offers proofreading practice, a focus on critical thinking, and practice exercises.

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.

Provides contemporary coverage and an analysis of the theories of delinquency, environmental issues, juvenile justice issues, and the juvenile justice system.

Suitable for instructors who want a narrative, descriptive approach with fewer lengthy case excerpts, this book delivers coverage of all the components of substantive criminal law.

Using real-world illustrations and case summaries, this book explains the complexities of the US Constitution and the criminal justice system.

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?

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?

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?

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.