Category: Textbooks

The gold standard for criminal justice textbooks – Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 12th Edition, (PDF) offers an authoritative, contemporary, look at crime in America with a focus on courts, police, and corrections. To make information resonate with college students, Dr. Frank Schmalleger asks readers to consider the balance between

Featuring an engaging, conversational, and student-friendly writing style, The Process of Social Research, 2nd Edition, (PDF) introduces college students to the basics of research. It puts a unique emphasis on the process with flowcharts in each chapter that offer step-by-step guides for conducting social research and evaluating the research of

Silberberg’s Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change is renowned for setting the standard amongst general chemistry textbooks. Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change, 2nd Canadian Edition, (PDF) continues to uphold that unparalleled reputation with the most correct macroscopic-to-molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked problems, and a broad collection of

This key source reader in the popular Discovering series includes a six-part pedagogical framework that leads students through the process of historical inquiry and explanation. The textbook stresses historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data. Every chapter is organized around the same pedagogical framework: The Problem, Background, The

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