Category: Textbooks

A Short Guide to Writing about Literature, 12th Edition, (PDF) stresses writing as a process and includes new critical approaches to writing about literature. The 12e continues to provide students sound advice on how to become critical thinkers and improve their reading response through accessible, step-by-step instruction.   This highly respected text

Calvin Schermerhorn’s stimulating study observes the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, (PDF) follows ships and money as well as enslaved human beings to show how slavery was a national business

An authoritative introduction to the science and engineering of bioinspired materials Bioinspired Materials Science and Engineering (PDF) offers a comprehensive view of the science and engineering of bioinspired materials and includes a discussion of biofabrication approaches and applications of bioinspired materials as they are fed back to nature in the

Effectiveness is the fundamental theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The ebook tells the student or manager, what they need to know in changing the thinking in an organization to an inventive mindset in the twenty-first century. Corporate Innovation (PDF) explains the four stages of the innovation process, and shows

Miller’s Cultural Anthropology in a Globalizing World, 4th edition, (PDF) presents a balanced, brief introduction to the world’s cultures, focusing on how they interact and change. Expert author Barbara Miller encourages college students to think critically about other cultures as well as their own and offers frequent opportunities to engage