Category: Textbooks

Since the publication of the highly acclaimed, best-selling first edition, the technology and clinical applications of medical imaging have changed considerably. Collecting these developments into one volume, Webb’s Physics of Medical Imaging, 2nd Edition, (PDF) presents a comprehensive update of the basic physics, contemporary technology, and many examples of clinical

Readers gain a solid foundation in database implementation and design with the practical and easy-to-understand approach in DATABASE SYSTEMS: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND MANAGEMENT, 12th edition (PDF). Filled with illustrations, diagrams, and tables, this market-leading textbook provides in-depth coverage of database design. Students learn the key to successful database implementation: proper

The Philosophy of Affordances (PDF) is the first monograph fully dedicated to analyzing the philosophical aspects of affordances. The idea of affordance, coined and developed in the field of ecological psychology, explains the possibilities for action available in the environment. This exceptional work provides a systematic approach to the key

Human Embryology and Developmental Biology, 6th Edition, (PDF) is a broad, full-color illustration program, with numerous superb embryological drawings  and clinical photos. It : Includes many new, high-quality photos of congenital malformations. Newly included series of animations for visualization of complex embryological processes. Includes clinical vignettes and Clinical Correlations boxes

Hegemonic Transformation (PDF) contends that the Chinese economic reform initiated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the part of the Chinese state has been changing from directing the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It