Category: Textbooks

Raven’s Biology, 12th Edition, (PDF) puts a focus on evolution and scientific inquiry has made this a prominent textbook for college students majoring in biology. This focus on the organizing power of evolution is combined with an incorporation of the importance of cellular molecular biology and genomics to provide our

Patterns of World History: Volume 1: To 1600 (PDF) offers a distinct framework for understanding the global past through the study of origins, adaptations and interactions. Authors Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George Stow — each specialists in their own respective fields — examine the full range of

Sandra Hockenbury and new coauthor Susan Nolan’s outstanding textbook, Discovering Psychology 7th Edition (PDF) is grounded in the belief that all types of students can develop a real grasp of psychology and lasting scientific literacy. The expert authors act on that conviction by using relevant personal stories to communicate the

Exploring Writing, 4th Edition, (PDF) focuses on writing skills and processes. By stating a set of four skills for effective writing, Exploring Writing: Paragraphs and Essays motivates new writers to see writing as a skill that can be learned and a process that must be studied. The four skills, or

Ethics: Discovering Right And Wrong, 8th edition (PDF) is a conversational and non-dogmatic overview of ethical theory. Penned by one of contemporary philosophy’s top teachers and revised by the best-selling author, this textbook even-handedly looks into important ethical questions and challenges readers to build their own moral theories by applying