American Government and Politics Today consists of a textbook and CD-ROM by the same name that are designed to be used together. With the CD-ROM, students can find resources and activities that further illustrate information presented in the text. A student version is also available. MacLaboratory is a CD-ROM that simulates the experience of conducting research experiments, using movie clips, multimedia, animation, and simulations. Exploring Psychological Disorders 3.0 simulates the diagnoses of patient psychology.
Students can view authentic clips of interviews with clients.
Information presented includes how to work through diagnostic criteria and how to use DSM-IV decision trees to diagnose a variety of clinical cases. The application provides a complete motion lab, which simulates the fundamentals of Newtonian Mechanics. In the application, students can create experiments by drawing objects on the screen and using the objects provided such as springs, ropes, dampers, meters, and a variety of mass shapes along with friction, gravity, and elasticity that can be incorporated into a given experiment. Students can measure physical quantities, which can then be displayed with animated vector symbols, graphs, or numbers. HTML Authoring for Fun and Profit is a CD-ROM and guide to writing hypertext documents.