Category: Textbooks

We know shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps us realize when we fail to be the kinds of people we aspire to be. We feel shame when we fail to live up to the norms, standards, and ideals we value as part of a virtuous life. But

The Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynaecology: a life course approach (PDF) is the latest edition of the Dutch Textbook Obstetrie en Gynaecologie, de voortplanting van de mens, which has been the leading handbook in Dutch medical and midwifery schools since 1993. In this current edition, for the first time, a life

Now expanded and updated, People and Nature: An Introduction to Human Ecological Relations, 2nd edition (PDF) is an accessible, lively introduction to environmental anthropology that focuses on the interactions between culture, people, and nature around the world. Explains key theoretical issues in the field, as well as the most important

Infectious Diseases 3rd edition – as only Harrison’s can cover them Harrison’s Infectious Diseases 3rd edition (PDF) featuring a superb compilation of chapters related to infectious diseases derived from Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine 19th Edition (including content from the acclaimed Harrison’s DVD), this full-color, concise clinical companion delivers the

Transfiguration: The Religion of Art in Nineteenth-Century Literature (PDF) explores the work of Robert Browning, John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Walter Pater, treating in precise the ways in which they engaged with the Christian content of their subject, and, in Pater’s case, how the art of Christianity was compared