Category: Textbooks

Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture (PDF) is a concise but comprehensive introductory ebook that uses the twin themes of sustainability and food to illustrate the connected nature of anthropology’s 4 major subfields: archaeology, cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology. By viewing the world through

Web site development and design continues to become more refined. A significant part of this maturity originates with well-written and well-laid-out content. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned specialist on information design and how to create clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the helpful information that she

Berkowitz’s Pediatrics: A Primary Care Approach, 5th edition (PDF) is the reference of choice for pediatric residents, pediatricians, and medical students. The newly expanded and revised 5th edition provides clear, practice-oriented guidance of the core knowledge in pediatrics. Comprehensive coverage of hundreds of topics ranging from temper tantrums and thumb-sucking

In The Work of Art: Plein Air Painting and Artistic Identity in Nineteenth-century France (PDF) the expert author Anthea Callen explores the self-portraits, paintings, photographs, prints, portraits of fellow artists, and studio images of 19th-century French landscape painters, including the Impressionists. At the same time, Callen considers the emergence of

Biographies in the History of Physics, (PDF) sheds new light on the biographical method in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, concepts, and institutions. What is a biography? Can biographies also be written for non-human subjects like scientific instruments, concepts, or institutions? The respective chapters