Category: Textbooks

Opioid analgesics are among the most beneficial medications for pain management but are associated with serious and increasing public health problems, including addiction, abuse, and death from overdose. Presently, there is an opioid epidemic in the United States with the rate of prescription opioid-related overdose deaths quadrupling in the last

In this Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature, 6th edition, (PDF), Randy Larsen, and David Buss dynamically show how scientists approach the study of personality. Major findings, both classical and contemporary, are offered in the context of six key domains—Biological, Dispositional, Intrapsychic,  Social and Cultural, Cognitive/Experimental, and Adjustment—providing

A Companion to Medical Anthropology (ePub/PDF) observes the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today. Written by prominent international scholars in medical anthropology Offers an expert view of the major topics and themes to concern the discipline since its founding in the 1960s Includes environmental

Lind/Marchal/Wathen’s Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics 17th edition (PDF) is a perennial market best-seller due to its comprehensive coverage of statistical methods and concepts delivered in a student-friendly, step-by-step format. The e-textbook presents concepts clearly and succinctly with a conversational writing style and illustrates concepts through the liberal use of

The Writer’s Response: A Reading-Based Approach to Writing 6th edition (PDF) teaches college students not only the basics of paragraph and essay writing—coherence, unity, and support—but also the basics of academic writing, making it a complete source for undergraduate and graduate students preparing for higher-level work. Through a variety of