Category: Textbooks

An Introduction to Biotechnology, (PDF) is a biotechnology textbook aimed at undergraduates. It includes the basics of cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry, and introduces laboratory techniques specific to the technologies addressed in the ebook; it addresses particular biotechnologies at both the theoretical and application levels. Biotechnology is a field

Guides College Students in Understanding the Interactions between Computing/Networking Technologies and Security Issues Taking an interactive, “learn-by-doing” approach to teaching, Introduction to Computer and Network Security: Navigating Shades of Gray gives you a clear course to teach the technical issues related to security. Unlike most computer security books, which concentrate

Helping today’s college students think statistically With Fundamentals of Statistics 2nd edition (PDF), author and instructor Mike Sullivan III draws on his passion for teaching and statistics to provide the tools needed to see that statistics is connected, not only within individual concepts but also in the world at large.

Derived from Ben Pierce’s popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined textbook, titled “Genetic Essentials: Concepts and Conncections 3rd edition” covers basic molecular, transmission, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping college students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way

For several years, there have been discussions about whether intellectual property (IP) is really property. The property concept, mainly when used in transnational and international concepts, remains somewhat indefinable. Here, Ole-Andreas Rognstad expansively discusses the use of the property metaphor in relation to IP from a transnational perspective. Rognstad gives