Category: Textbooks

The Human Mitochondrial Genome: From Basic Biology to Disease, (PDF) provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of human mitochondrial genomics, linking basic research to translational medicine across a range of disease types. Here, international specialists discuss the essential biology of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including its maintenance, repair, heredity and segregation.

After the publication of the popular first edition, planetary and stellar scientists have produced numerous new theories, observations, and interpretations, including the “demotion” of our previous ninth planet Pluto as a dwarf planet. Including all of these new discoveries, Planetary Science: The Science of Planets around Stars, 2nd Edition, (PDF)

The aim of Methods in Cilia and Flagella, (PDF) is to collect methods and protocols for studying cilia in an extensive range of different cell types so that researchers from many fields of biology can start discovering the role of cilia in their own system. Cutting-edge material Chapters are written

In this fully updated Leadership: Theory and Practice 8th edition, (PDF), by Peter Northouse, a new chapter on Followership examines the central role followers play in the leadership process and unpacks the characteristics of both effective and ineffective followers. The new eighth edition also includes a new Ethical Leadership Style

The ebook American Government: Institutions And Policies 13th Edition, Brief Version (PDF) , offers coverage of the 2014 and 2016 campaigns and elections; budget battles and the sequestration of funds; ongoing debates about gay marriage, immigration, and other key issues in American politics; and foreign-policy decisions on the Middle East,