Category: Non Fiction

Health, Illness, and Society: An Introduction to Medical Sociology, Illustrated Edition, (PDF) provides a sociological perspective on health, illness, and health care. Working as an introduction to medical sociology for undergraduate and graduate students, it also offers a summary of the field for public health scholars and for medical sociologists

Developed from three decades’ worth of lecture notes which the author used to teach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Advanced Structural Dynamics (PDF) presents a comprehensive treatment of structural dynamics and mechanical vibration. The chapters in this ebook are self-contained so that instructors can choose to be particular about

The Fungal Cell Wall: An Armour and a Weapon for Human Fungal Pathogens (PDF) shows, that the fungal cell wall is important for the ecology and biology of all fungi and especially for human fungal pathogens. Students will learn, that the composition of the fungal cell wall is a different structure,

The aim of Operative Techniques in Single Incision Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery, (PDF) is to expand one’s practice of minimally invasive colorectal surgery by the implementation of numerous advanced reduced port and single techniques. The authors provide a comprehensive operative technique text to teach and apply single incision and reduced port

Motivates readers with a top-down, layered approach to computer networking. Unique among computer networking textbooks, the popular Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 7th edition (PDF) by James Kurose and Keith Ross builds on the expert authors’ long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a “top-down