A Focus on the Future
Over the last decade, Pine Forge Press has become renowned for its commitment to innovative, student-oriented teaching materials and resources across the broad field of sociology. We are dedicated to publishing high quality books and support materials for undergraduate and graduate college courses in sociology and related curricula. Our mission remains to create innovative textbooks that offer students from all backgrounds a wealth of learning tools at an affordable price.
In a dynamic academic environment, Pine Forge books do more than keep up with the pace—they set the pace.
Our continued focus on the student is carried out by introducing new approaches to a variety of subject areas and by harnessing new teaching strategies, while presenting the most recent research and theoretical perspectives. We offer an array of books that will enrich your curriculum. Instructors and students can also take advantage of our ancillary materials, which will enhance both teaching and learning. Support products include instructors' manuals with testbanks and Powerpoint presentations; printed and electronic resources, such as data sets; CD-ROMs, and companion study sites on the Web for students.
Our parent company, SAGE Publications, gives us the advantage of quality publishing resources on an international level, yet we maintain a small-publisher philosophy. Keeping our finger on the pulse of the academic community, we stay one step ahead of our competitors by anticipating teaching trends and emerging topics.
At Pine Forge, our goals include:
- Publishing materials that bring meaning to students' personal and academic lives
- Fostering an interest in exploration, experimentation, and discovery and to help students develop a critical interpretation of social events through an interdisciplinary lens
- Creating innovations in design and editing that provide effective learning experiences to students with diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Integrating print and electronic media to complement course content
- Keeping our authors and other interested faculty involved in all aspects of our publishing activity
- Paying meticulous attention to detail in all aspects and in all phases of our work
- Responding to the needs of students by providing books and ancillaries that help make their learning experiences productive and efficient