Category: Textbooks

Population Genetics and Belonging (PDF) explores how human population genetics has arisen as a means of imagining and enacting belonging in contemporary society. Venla Oikkonen considers population genetics as a developing set of material, a technological, narrative, and affective practices, arguing that these practices are involved in multiple forms of

This is the first book-length examination of the influence of Leo Strauss’ immigration to the United States had on this thinking. Adi Armon knits together a close reading of unpublished seminars Strauss gave at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s with an interpretation of his later works,

Dr. James W. Kalat’s Biological Psychology, 13th edition (PDF) is the most widely used textbook in the course area, and for good reason: a high level of scholarship, clear writing with amusing anecdotes and precise, great examples. Dr. Kalat’s main goal is to make Biological Psychology 13e accessible to Psychology

Martin and Larkin’s Probiotics in Mental Health (PDF) explores the role of probiotics in a range of clinical presentations linked with significant psychopathology and enables a reassessment of how mental illness may be conceptualized within a coherent gut-brain model of health and wellbeing. Under the title of enhancing wellbeing rather

Insightful and practical, Ferraro’s Classic Readings In Cultural Anthropology 4th edition (PDF) is an inexpensive, concise, and accessible reader that presents core historical and contemporary works that have been instrumental in shaping anthropological thought and research over the past several decades. Carefully edited by author Dr. Gary Ferraro, the textbook