Category: Textbooks

For courses in Vertebrate Biology Function, Vertebrate Zoology, and Paleontology Widely acclaimed for its comprehensive coverage and remarkably clear writing style, this best-selling text discovers how the anatomy, ecology, physiology and behavior of animals interact to produce organisms that function efficiently in their environments and how lines of organisms change

Incorporates globalization and culture change in each chapter. Bonvillain’s Cultural Anthropology, 3rd Edition, (ePub/PDF) introduces students to the conceptions and methods that anthropologists bring to the study of cross-cultural diversity. Nancy Bonvillain brings the learning of cultural anthropology to life by motivating students to see what is going on in

In University Physics for the Physical and Life Sciences Volume 1 (PDF), authors Philip R. Kesten and David L. Tauck take a fresh and innovative approach to the university physics (calculus-based) course. They combine their experience teaching biology (Tauck) and physics (Kesten) to create a textbook that engages college students

Given its scope, Vaccination Strategies Against Highly Variable Pathogens, (PDF) will appeal to scientists in the fields of infectious diseases, microbiology, and medicine. Vaccines against antigenically stable pathogens, or pathogens that are only present in a limited number of serotypes, have been very effective in the past and have drastically

A Companion to the Anthropology of Environmental Health (PDF) presents a collection of readings that utilize a medical anthropological approach to explore the interface of the environment and humans in the shaping of illness and health around the globe. Analyzes the conditions of social and cultural transformation that accompany environmental