Category: Textbooks

From reading news on tablets to video calling on smartphones, digital media has transformed the ways in which we communicate. Placing merging at the center of the discussion, Pavlik/McIntosh’s Converging Media: A New Introduction to Mass Communication, 5th Edition, (PDF) uses the technologies we employ every day to explain our

Practice-oriented and comprehensive, the fully updated Diagnostic Gynecologic and Obstetric Pathology 3rd Edition (PDF) textbook covers the full range of obstetric and gynecologic pathology, including information on treatment and patient management. Written largely by the pathology and clinical faculty at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, it covers the most up-to-date

The industry-standard guide, revised with new ideas and SPSS analysis techniques Designing and Conducting Survey Research: A Comprehensive Guide, 4th Edition, (PDF) is the industry standard resource that includes all major elements of the survey process, updated to include new data analysis techniques and SPSS procedures with sample data sets

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World, (PDF) explores the health/fitness interaction in a historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider transformations in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of

Neuroepidemiology is the epidemiologic study of neurological conditions. This fine textbook Neuroepidemiology: From Principles to Practice (PDF) provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of research methods for conducting epidemiologic and clinical research on these conditions. It is aimed at epidemiologists, neurologists, and public health professionals, as well as students of