Category: Textbooks

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in sociology, geography, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has increased across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in

For surgery residents studying for their yearly in-service exam, fresh graduates preparing for Surgery written boards, or those recertifying, there’s no better assessment tool than Dr. Christian DeVirgilio’s Review of Surgery for ABSITE and Boards, 2nd Edition, (PDF). Content has been tested for numerous years on Harbor-UCLA surgical residents and

As the flaws of purely synthetic approaches to biochemical discovery and development are becoming more obvious, a resurgence of interest in the chemistry of natural products as sources for new compounds is occurring. An exclusive approach to natural products chemistry, Botanical Miracles: Chemistry of Plants That Changed the World (PDF)

The Complete Human Body: The Definitive Visual Guide 2nd Edition (PDF) is the definitive illustrated guide to the human body as we know it today, from its development and form to its functions and disorders. Mysteries remain, but we have come a long way since the diagrams and sketches of the

Project Management: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition (PDF) gives college students a broad and real flavor of project management. Bringing project management to life, it avoids being too sterilely academic and too narrowly focused on a particular industry view. It takes a model-based approach towards project management commonly used in