Category: Textbooks

Because of the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational textbooks by the Common Core State Standards, literature teachers all over the country are re-evaluating their curriculum and looking for thoughtful ways to incorporate nonfiction into their courses. They are also rethinking their pedagogy as they consider ways to approach textbooks

Industrial Biotechnology: Microorganisms (PDF) is the latest volume in the Advanced Biotechnology series. It provides an overview of the main platform organisms and production hosts used today as well as promising future cell factories in a two-volume ebook. Alongside describing tools for genetic and metabolic engineering for strain improvement, the

Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, 11th Edition, (PDF) is an accessible, exciting, and thorough introduction to the vital questions of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors merge substantial selections from important works in the history of philosophy with excerpts

An introduction to geomagnetic storms and the threats they pose at the Earth’s surface Geomagnetic storms are a form of space weather event that can create Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) which, once they reach Earth’s surface, can intervene with power grids and transport infrastructure. Understanding the characteristics and effects of

Newly updated to reveal recent discoveries, Introduction to Clinical Neurology, 5th Edition, (PDF) includes all the take-home points beneficial to everyone who relies on this handy and quick guide. This ebook focuses on the “how” and “why” of clinical neurology. It includes huge factual material about individual disease processes, but