Category: Textbooks

An important addition to the popular Step-Up series, Step-Up to Emergency Medicine uses the proven series format to provide a high-yield review of emergency medicine, ideal for preparing for clerkships/clinical rotations, end of rotation/shelf exams, and the USMLE Step 2. Clinical pearls, full-color illustrations, and “Quick Hits” provide essential information

With an exceptional approach to nursing care plans and NCLEX questions and tips, the popular Canadian adaptation of Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing shows main practice differences in Canada, ranging from the healthcare system to cultural considerations, to pharmacology, epidemiology, and more. Recognized for its strong nursing care

While there are several investigations of the impact English has put on Spanish, the reverse language contact scenario has received relatively little attention. The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801, (PDF) sheds light on the Spanish influence on the English vocabulary since 1801, proposing the first systematic analysis

Engineering Dynamics 2.0 (PDF) offers a new approach to learning the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies at an intermediate to advanced level. There are three prominent features of this approach. First, the primary focus is to obtain the equations of motion of dynamical systems and to solve them numerically.

The Experience of Meaning in Life: Classical Perspectives, Emerging Themes, and Controversies (PDF) provides an in-depth exploration of the burgeoning field of meaning in life in the psychological sciences, covering conceptual and methodological issues, core psychological mechanisms, cognitive, environmental and personality variables and more. Review “The editors of The Experience