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.

Transportation Engineering, A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations (PDF) clearly describes the several aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; flow, and control; traffic demand, and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues

In today’s global business environment, it is vital that individuals and organizations have sophisticated global leadership skills. Communication and understanding of different cultures are paramount to business success. This new edition of the bestselling textbook, Managing Cultural Differences: Global Leadership for the 21st Century (10th edition), guides college students and

Leading edge cases and comprehensive coverage of the legal environment of business. The Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Ethics, and Global Issues, 8th Edition, (PDF) explores how the present legal environment, government regulation, and e-commerce environment influence today’s business decisions. The cases in this text are exciting, cutting-edge, and

The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality (PDF/Mobi) for ethnic and race relations courses, is written by 3 leading scholars — Rodney D. Coates, Abby L. Ferber, and  David L. Brunsma — and reflects a very contemporary way of looking at minorities, race, and intergroup relations. Older textbooks use