Joseph Losco,
Ball State University Ralph Baker,
Ball State University
ISBN: 0073379115 Copyright year: 2010
Feature Summary
Content: praised by reviewers around the country, AM GOV takes the business of government seriously and organizes this content the way instructors teach. The updated 2010 edition provides students with the most up-to-date information on the new administration.
Currency: updated annually, AM GOV is core content that’s always current and always relevant to students.
Design: stunning images, charts, and graphs throughout grab the reader’s attention and make serious scholarship enjoyable to read. Students prefer a magazine format over a 'conventional' text. AM GOV is a visually stimulating, innovative learning tool that emulates the media students most consume and most enjoy.
OPENING VIGNETTES: Each chapter opens with a compelling story that illustrates the importance of the subject, drawing the reader into the chapter concepts and detail through a flesh and blood portrait of the American government system in action. These stories often focus on fascinating student-age persons—such as the experience of young voters in Ohio or the young mayor of a town in California - to illustrate for students how government works and the many roles any citizen can play in American government. Ten new vignettes in the 2010 edition provide students with the most up-to-date snapshots of government in action.
AS YOU READ and FOR REVIEW features begin and end each chapter. Students asked for features that highlight the core issues that are important to study and learn. At the beginning of each chapter AS YOU READ raises important questions discussed in the chapter. At the end of each chapter, the FOR REVIEW feature presents the key points from the chapter in a bulleted list, encouraging students to consider whether they have understood the concepts they have just read.
GET INVOLVED boxes provide quick conceptual links from the content of the chapter to possibilities students could consider in applying that issue in American government to their life and the life of their community.
Hot or Not? ask students to consider their opinion on a 'hot" issue of current interest. Students can compare their answers with those of other people in their age group by logging onto the book's OLC.
DID YOU KNOW marginal questions probe students knowledge via tangible, fascinating facts about American government that enliven the issues in the chapter through concrete illustrations.
PROFILES OF AN ACTIVIST make political participation and forms of civic engagement real and relevant to students by illustrating how people their age have chosen to have an affect on their community.
PERSONAL IS POLITICAL boxes poll students about themselves - their political behavior and opinions. This feature tests students' understanding of themselves in relation to chapter content, drawing them personally into the chapter.
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