Category: Textbooks

In Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design, 4th Edition, (PDF), John W. Creswell and new co-author Cheryl N. Poth study the philosophical underpinnings, history, and key elements of five qualitative inquiry approaches: narrative research, grounded theory, phenomenology, ethnography, and case study. Maintaining Creswell′s signature writing style, the authors match the approaches and

Health, Illness, and Society: An Introduction to Medical Sociology, Illustrated Edition, (PDF) provides a sociological perspective on health, illness, and health care. Working as an introduction to medical sociology for undergraduate and graduate students, it also offers a summary of the field for public health scholars and for medical sociologists

When the first edition of this atlas was published in 2005, it was welcomed throughout the oculoplastic and ophthalmology community for its minimalism and clinical focus.  Now, ten years later, surgical techniques have been revised to reflect current practice models and developments in technology. The field of oculoplastic surgery has

Designed for undergraduate math majors, this rewarding and rigorous treatment, Calculus: A Rigorous First Course (PDF/ePub) covers the usual topics of first-year calculus: derivatives, limits, infinite series and integrals. Author Daniel J. Velleman focuses on calculus as a tool for real problem-solving rather than the subject’s theoretical foundations. Stressing a

Stokstad’s Medieval Art, 2nd Edition, (PDF) teaches the reader how to look at medieval art–which features of architecture, sculpture, or painting are important and for what reasons. It contains the art and building of what is now Western Europe from the second to the fifteenth centuries. This interestingly produced survey