Category: Textbooks

Rice and Wilson’s Gateways to Understanding Music(PDF) explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, jazz, popular music, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music-making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective.

With over 40 contributions from expert authors, Emerging Areas in Bioengineering (PDF) provides a broad overview of all important research topics in the topic of bioengineering, including biotransformations, metabolic engineering, and biomedical applications. Besides several chapters dealing with biotransformations and biocatalysis, a complete section is dedicated to biofuels and the

Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro Level 3rd edition (PDF) draws on a resilience model to explore the dynamics of human behavior across the life span. Psychological, Biological, and spiritual dimensions are covered. Illustrations and vignettes from social work, literature, philosophy, psychology, and current events highlight the turning points

A coherent, organized, and comprehensive overview of group work practice from a generalist practice perspective. Widely used by educators, professionals, and students in graduate and undergraduate courses in schools of social work throughout the United States and the world, An Introduction to Group Work Practice, 8th global edition (PDF) presents

From SAT scores to job search methods, statistics influence and shapes the world around us. Marty Triola’s textbook continues to be the bestseller because it helps college students understand the relationship between statistics and the world, bringing life to the theory and methods. Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 5th edition, (PDF)