Category: Textbooks

The primary in a new four-volume series, Operative Techniques in Gynecologic Surgery: Gynecology, (PDF) offers superbly illustrated, authoritative guidance on operative techniques together with a thorough understanding of how to select the best procedure, how to prevent complications, and what results to expect. Up to date, easy to follow, and

At an age when memoirs and other forms of life writing are being produced and consumed in unparalleled numbers, The Work of Life Writing: Essays and Lectures (PDF) reminds readers that memoir is not only a “literary” genre or only entertainment. Likewise, letters are not merely epiphenomena of our “real

Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? In the ebook Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why (PDF), author Dale Purves shows that rethinking

Public Legal Education (PDF) makes the case for a more lawfully literate society and then talks about why and how a law school might contribute to attaining that. Furthermore examining what public legal education (PLE) is and the types it can take, the ebook looks specifically at the ways in

Psychoanalysis is often associated with Sigmund Freud, but this comparison ignores the wide range of clinical practices, observational methods, general theories, and cross-pollinations with other disciplines that characterize contemporary psychoanalytic work. Central psychoanalytic concepts to do with unconscious motivation, primitive forms of thought, defence mechanisms, and transference form a backbone