Category: Textbooks

Managing Universities (PDF) asks how modern universities are managed and organized, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have led to stronger managerial structures and leadership control. Moreover, it asks whether current organizational and decision-making structures can be described by public reform policies. The ebook offers an empirically grounded,

When it comes to explaining basic economic principles by drawing on current economic issues and events, there is no one more helpful than New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman and co-author, Robin Wells. In this best-selling introductory textbook, Microeconomics, 5th Edition, (PDF), Krugman and Wells’ signature storytelling

In The PDF eBook Chemistry: The Science in Context 5th Edition, the new coauthor Stacey Lowery Bretz, uses visualization tools ― based on Chemistry Education Research and focused on the particulate nature of matter ― to help science students self assess what they know before, during, and after each chapter.

Complex Systems is a new domain of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interrelates with its environment. Ecological Sustainability, (PDF) examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability and explores the technologies involved to help lessen

Extensively reorganized and rewritten, the new Evolution 4th edition (PDF) — featuring a new coauthor: Mark Kirkpatrick (The University of Texas at Austin) — offers additional expertise in evolutionary genomics and genetics, the fastest-developing area of evolutionary biology. Directed toward an undergraduate audience, the PDF etextbook emphasizes the interplay between