Category: Textbooks

Forensic botany is the application of plant science to the resolution of legal questions. A plant’s ecological requirements and its anatomy are in some cases species specific and require taxonomic verification; correct interpretation of botanical evidence can give vital information about a suspect, crime scene or a victim. The use

The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture, (PDF) discovers the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It explores how the use of and attitude toward the book form have transformed in light of the digital revolution of American media culture. Positioned at the crossroads of American

Stokstad’s Medieval Art, 2nd Edition, (PDF) teaches the reader how to look at medieval art–which features of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. It contains the art and building of what is now Western Europe from the second to the fifteenth centuries. This interestingly produced survey

Occupational Therapy with Aging Adults: Promoting Quality of Life through Collaborative Practice (PDF) is a new, comprehensive textbook edited by OT and gerontological experts Margaret Perkinson and Karen Frank Barney that takes a unique interdisciplinary and collaborative approach in covering almost each and every major aspect of geriatric gerontological occupational

This ebook, Architectured Materials in Nature and Engineering: Archimats (PDF) deals with a group of architectured materials. These are hybrid materials in which the constituents (even strongly dissimilar ones) are combined in a given geometry and topology to provide otherwise conflicting properties. The hybridization presented in the ebook occurs at