Category: Non Fiction

Hershel Raff (Medical College of Wisconsin), Eric Widmaier (Boston University), and Kevin Strang (University of Wisconsin) have taken on the challenge of preserving the strengths and reputation of Vander’s Human Physiology: The Mechanisms of Body Function. Moving outside the listing of only facts, it emphasizes the causal chains of events that

Throughout Psychology, 5th Edition, (PDF), expert authors Saundra Ciccarelli and J. Noland White employ a learner-centered, assessment-driven approach that maximizes college student engagement, and helps educators keep their students on track. The authors draw college students into the discipline by showing how psychology relates to their own lives. Clear learning

Innovation Strategies in Environmental Science (PDF) introduces and examines economically feasible innovations to maximize performance and sustainability. By studying short and long-term strategies for the development of networks and platform development, together with suggestions for open innovation, chapters discuss workable development ideas in key areas such as urban management/eco-design and

Child abuse and neglect (CAN) continues to be a serious public health problem in the United States, affecting approximately 19% of victims and costing approximately $124 billion to society. When a child is removed from their parent’s custody due to parental abuse or neglect, the child is sometimes placed in

Business Ethics: Methods and Application, (PDF) provides a new systematic approach to normative business ethics that includes the complex and numerous ethical challenges of modern business. It intends to train analytical thinking skills in the field of business ethics and to approach ethical issues in business in a systematic and