Category: Textbooks

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid (PDF) presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities.

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the

This PDF etextbook, titled Contemporary Occupational Health Nursing: A Guide for Practitioners (2nd Edition) – now thoroughly revised and updated – provides a practical guide for those in training, or practising within, occupational health nursing. Concerned with the health of people at work and the effects of health on work and

Lessons in Play, 2nd Edition, (PDF) reorganizes the presentation of the popular original textbook in combinatorial game theory to make it even more easily accessible. Starting with an emphasis on the essential concepts and applications, it then transitions to more technical material. Still written in a textbook style with supporting

Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing 11th edition (PDF) remains the most widely adopted ebook of its kind because it works: instructors tell us time and again that they have watched their class students grow as critical thinkers and writers as they grapple with Rereading America 11e‘s