Category: Textbooks

Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, 3rd Edition, (PDF) explores the philosophical, social, medical, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a detailed introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then encompasses influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluating them. Incorporating eighty-nine readings–twelve of them new to

Understanding Ethics and Responsibilities in a Globalizing World, (PDF) considers the ethics of responsibility in a large range of meanings, consequences, and effects. It reflects the perspectives and thinking of 24 authors from all continents. All chapters are original papers shown at the Fifth World ISBEE Congress, that took place

Teaching the Process of Science through Astronomy Building on a long tradition of effective pedagogy and comprehensive coverage, The Cosmic Perspective, 8th Edition (PDF) provides a thoroughly engaging and up-to-date introduction to astronomy for non-science majors. This textbook offers a wealth of features that enhance college student understanding of the

Over the past decades, infectious disease epidemics have come to increasingly pose major global health challenges to humanity. The Anthropology of Epidemics (PDF) approaches epidemics as total social phenomena: processes and events which encompass and exercise a transformational impact on social life whilst at the same time functioning as catalysts

Government and Not-for-Profit Accounting, 7th Edition (PDF) by Saleha Khumawala, Michael Granof, Thad Calabrese, and Daniel Smith makes college students aware of the dynamism of government and not-for-profit accounting and of the intellectual challenges that it presents. Not only does the 7th edition keep accounting students informed of current accounting