Category: Textbooks

Fresh healthcare reform and its provisions have pushed health information technology (HIT) into the forefront. Higher life expectancies, lower costs, fewer medical errors, and improved transparency are all possible through HIT. Taking an integrated approach, Impact of Healthcare Informatics on Quality of Patient Care and Health Services (PDF) explores the

One of the rare bestselling introductory criminal justice textbooks written by professors who energetically teach the course to large numbers of undergraduates every year, Introduction To Criminal Justice, 15th Edition, (PDF) is exclusively attuned to the needs of today’s instructors and students. Now in its Fifteenth edition and known for

How does a lawyer think? Do lawyers need a lot of imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? Does legal intuition exist? It is no longer possible to answer these questions by applying philosophical analysis alone. Recent advances in the cognitive sciences have reshaped our conceptions of the human mental

Aboriginal peoples in Canada have varied cultures but share common political and social challenges that have contributed to their experiences of health and illness. This collection discusses the origins of mental health and social problems and the development of culturally responsive approaches to services and health promotion. Healing Traditions (PDF)

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 82, (PDF) the latest release in a series that has been providing up-to-date and in-depth reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, ecology, fisheries science, zoology, and biological oceanography.