Category: Textbooks

American Law in a Global Context: The Basics (PDF) is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used

Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy 2nd edition (PDF) discusses some ways mathematical physicists and mathematicians do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, the subject areas they delimit, and the analogies they

Written by four leading teachers and scholars, Introduction to Sociology, 11th Edition, (PDF) offers an authoritative introduction to fundamental concepts, major theories, and present research in a modernized, easy-to-navigate format. A uniform four-part chapter structure makes the reading manageable without letting go of coverage. At the end of each and

Amphibian Evolution (PDF) focuses on the first vertebrates to occupy land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It tracks the origin of tetrapod features and tries to describe how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Though the major frame of

From classical conditioning, habituation, and instrumental conditioning to stimulus control, aversive control, and their applications to the study of cognition, this learning and behavior textbook The Principles of Learning and Behavior, 7th edition, (PDF) provides a comprehensive introduction to the elementary forms of learning that have been the focus of