Wadsworth's Proteus Classics is a database publishing solution that offers philosophy instructors unprecedented flexibility, range, quality, and value. Proteus Classics - featuring Hackett Publishing Company's exceptional editions and translations-provides easy access to a vast collection of seminal works from the history of philosophy. While almost every text in the database is included in its entirety, each work has been broken down into smaller pieces, enabling you to select parts of texts for inclusion in your ideal, customizable anthology.

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iLrn Logic is a groundbreaking online testing and class management program providing instructors with book-specific homework assignments and an online test bank tailored to Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic, Eight Edition.

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Creating an engaging e-learning environment is easier than ever with WebTutor content from Thomson. Whether you want to Web-enhance your class, or offer an entire course online, WebTutor allows you to focus on what you do best-Teaching

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vMentor™ ... live, online one-on-one tutoring in introductory logic courses.
Here to help, vMentor provides tutorial instruction that can substantially improve performance, increase test scores, and advance comprehension of logic concepts. Your students will have access, via the Web, to highly qualified tutors with thorough knowledge of Hurley's text. When students get stuck on a particular problem or concept, they need only log on to vMentor, where they can talk (using their own computer microphones) to vMentor tutors who will skillfully guide them through the problem using the interactive whiteboard for illustration. For proprietary, college, and university adopters only. For additional information please consult your local Thomson representative. Available January 2005 and FREE with every new copy of Patrick J. Hurley's A Concise Introduction to Logic, Eighth Edition!

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This online Center allows you to expose your students to all sides of today's most compelling issues!

The Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on Greenhaven Press's acclaimed social issues series, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics-the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Special sections focus on critical thinking (walks students through how to critically evaluate point-counterpoint arguments) and researching and writing papers.

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When you adopt a Thomson Wadsworth Philosophy text, you can give your students anytime, anywhere access to reliable resources with InfoTrac College Edition, the online library! This fully searchable database offers 20 years' worth of full-text articles from almost 5000 scholarly and popular sources. This incredible depth and breadth of material-available 24 hours a day from any computer with Internet access-makes conducting research easy. New! Students now have instant access to critical thinking and paper writing tools through InfoWrite. In addition, special guides to InfoTrac College Edition are available on our Web sites and as handy booklets that can be packaged with our texts. InfoTrac® College Edition Student Guide: 0-534-24727-X.

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Thomson Wadsworth is now pleased to offer TurningPoint®! Transform your classroom and assess your students' progress with instant in-class quizzes and polls on ethical concepts and controversial ethical issues. Our exclusive agreement to offer TurningPoint® software lets you pose questions specific to Practical and Applied Ethics courses and display students' answers seamlessly within the Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides of your own lecture, in conjunction with the "clicker" hardware of your choice. Enhance how your students interact with you, your lecture, and each other.

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TextChoice, offered through Thomson Custom Publishing, brings textbook customization to your PC. With just a few simple clicks of the mouse you can customize your favorite Wadsworth Philosophy book just the way you and your students want it. Getting exactly what you want has never been so easy.

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The Wadsworth Philosophy Web Site

This full service site features links to material on classical and modern philosophers, news abstracts on current events related to ethical and other philosophical issues, online journals, book archives and reference sources, available grants and fellowships, challenging games, and a complete array of teaching resources. Developed for inquiring minds, the Wadsworth Philosophy Web Site also includes a wealth of special features, such as:

• Philosophy Timeline: an interactive and graphical depiction of an historical timeline featuring key philosophy biographies and theorems from the Greek philosophers to Modern philosophers.
• Student Survival Guide: the perfect aid to students as they delve into the world of philosophy. Some of the categories addressed include "Your Professor," Study Tips," "Intrinsic Value," "Major or Minor," and "Graduate Studies."
• Fields of Philosophy: an interactive flowchart that draws out and defines similarities and differences among major courses of study with related fields.

While you're visiting the Wadsworth Philosophy Web Site be sure to explore our free text-specific Student Book Companion Web Sites. Ideal for students who want to increase their mastery of course content or who want to explore further into course topics, Student Book Companion Web Sites accompany most texts. Chapter-by-chapter resources include tutorial quizzes, flashcards, Internet Exercises, Maps, Study Guide, and Glossary. Online text-specific Web sites are also available to Instructors. Instructor Book Companion Web Sites include password-protected teaching resources such as downloadable Instructor's Manuals and PowerPoint® slides, teaching tips, and more.