A pedagogically innovative new edition of the most-balanced and best-selling western civilizations text of all time.

New to the Western Civilizations team, master teachersand scholars Joshua Cole (University of Michigan) and Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) have integrated innovative pedagogical tools into the text to help students and instructors achieve their course objectives, while incorporating the latest scholarship into this highly readable, balanced, and beautifully written book.

Publisher: Norton
By Kristine Forney, Joseph Machlis
ISBN:978-0-393-14975-3

Easy to read, easy to teach, The Enjoyment of Music has been the most trusted introduction to music for over five decades.

The Eleventh Edition reflects how today's students learn, listen to, and live with music. With an accessible, student-friendly treatment of the subject, it emphasizes context to show how music fits in the everyday lives of people throughout history, and connects culture, performance, and technology to the lives of students today. The new edition features a streamlined and memorable narrative, more cultural and historical context, and in-text features that encourage and develop critical thinking skills.

The only fully modern macroeconomics text on the market, and the most accessible one for undergraduates

Macroeconomicsbrings together up-to-date coverage of the ongoing economic crisis and the concepts behind macroeconomics today int o a teachable, coherent whole. Today's macroeconomics stresses the importance of monetary policy ikn the short run, and the need to treat the Fed in a realistic way. Macroeconomics uses the IS/MP model, and features the most modern treatment of growth, with complete, accessible coverage of the Romer model. Macroeconomics also includes complete coverage of the ongoing economic crisis, with two full chapters of discussion and analysis, updated examples throughout the text, and two brand new chapters on the "marco foundations" of marco (Consumption and Investment) influenced by the crisis.