Category: Textbooks

How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness (PDF) offers a new approach to studying the effectiveness of peace operations. It asks not whether peace operations work or why, but how: when a peace operation attains its goals, what causal processes are at work? By determining how peace operations work, this

The leading authors in their respective fields—physical geology and extreme weather—In Earth Science: The Earth, The Atmosphere, and Space (PDF) Stephen Marshak and Robert Rauber bring together years of classroom and research experience to this exceptional new ebook. The authors’ narrative approach to the content guides college students to a

The updated The Challenge of Politics: An Introduction to Political Science 6th Edition, (PDF) allows you to see how the subfields of political science converge around a set of fundamental questions, such as “Can we bring political wisdom to bear on judgments about public issues and politics?” “Can we as students

Medicine is becoming increasingly reliant on prognostic, diagnostic, and screening tests for the successful treatment of patients. With new tests being developed all the time, a more informed understanding of the benefits and drawbacks of these tests is crucial. Evidence-Based Diagnosis: An Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology 2nd edition (PDF) provides

Nivaldo Tro’s Chemistry: A Molecular Approach 4th edition (PDF) reinforces the development of 21st-century skills including data interpretation and analysis, problem-solving and quantitative reasoning, applying conceptual understanding to new situations, and peer-to-peer collaboration. Nivaldo Tro presents chemistry visually through multi-level images–macroscopic, molecular, and symbolic representations–helping readers see the connections between the