Category: Textbooks

Today, Lewis’ Human Genetics, 12th edition (PDF) is for everyone. It’s actually about variation more than about illnesses, and increasingly more about the common rather than about the rare. By coming to know genetic backgrounds, people can control their environments in much more healthy ways. Once an obscure science or

How do many categories of people come to be seen as “different”? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? How does being “different” affect people’s lives? What difference does “difference” make? The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and

Economic, cultural, and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and Organizational Development in Public Administration, (PDF) explores the new challenges managers encounter, with the requirement for a shift from a conventional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the fields of

A down-to-earth approach to sociology — Henslin’s Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach 13th edition (PDF) highlights the sociology of everyday life and its relevance to all the students’ lives. Throughout the etextbook, best-selling author James Henslin shares the excitement of sociology through his acclaimed down-to-earth approach and personal writing style. Six

Simultaneous Mass Transfer and Chemical Reactions in Engineering Science: Solution Methods and Chemical Engineering Applications, (PDF) shows how mathematical analyses, numerical analysis, statistics, and computer programming can condense simultaneous mass transfer and chemical reactions in engineering science for use in solving problems in quantitative Chemical and Biochemical Engineering design and