Category: Non Fiction

Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion that is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton. The author of Information and the World Stage: From Philosophy to Science, the World of

Global Health Informatics: How Information Technology Can Change Our Lives in a Globalized World, (PDF) discusses the vital role of communication and information technologies in health practice, health systems management and research in increasingly interrelated societies. In a global connected world the old standalone institutional information systems have proved to

A Welcome Introduction to Science Chiras’ Human Biology, 9th edition, (PDF) provides a student-friendly and refreshing introduction to the structure, health, function and homeostasis of the human body. This much-admired text discovers life from a variety of levels and perspectives, including cellular/molecular, through disease, by body system, and within the

From its very origin, Introductory Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach (PDF) by Julia Burdge and Michelle Driessen has been written and developed using an atoms‐first approach specific to introductory chemistry. It is not a pared-down version of a general chemistry textbook but carefully crafted with the introductory‐chemistry student in mind.

Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, 11th Edition, (PDF) is the most comprehensive survey of classical mythology available — and the first full-color etextbook of its kind. Featuring the authors’ extensive and clear translations of original sources, it brings to life the myths and legends of