Category: Textbooks

The bestselling textbook, Earth: Portrait of a Planet, 5th edition (PDF) features stunning art, the most up-to-date science, and a plethora of online learning tools, all developed under the critical eyes of Stephen Marshak. Heavily revised with extraordinarily detailed photographs, animations, and maps, the text provides rich and engaging pedagogy,

Paula Bruice’s presentation in Organic Chemistry, 8th Edition (PDF) provides mixed-science majors with the chemical logic, conceptual foundations, and problem-solving skills they need to reason their way to solutions for diverse problems in synthetic organic chemistry, biochemistry, and medicine. The latest 8th Edition builds a strong framework for thinking about organic chemistry

Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, 3rd Edition, (PDF) explores the philosophical, social, medical, and legal aspects of key bioethical issues. Opening with a detailed introduction to ethics, bioethics, and moral reasoning, it then encompasses influential moral theories and the criteria for evaluating them. Incorporating eighty-nine readings–twelve of them new to

College Physics: A Strategic Approach, 4th Edition, (PDF) expands its focus from how mixed majors college students learn physics to emphasizing why these students learn physics. The authors implement the best results from educational research and Mastering™ Physics metadata to provide fundamental physics in real-world instances that engage students and

String Theory in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, (PDF) is the definitive introduction to modern string theory. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the topic, this brief and accessible ebook starts with fundamental definitions and guides readers from classic topics to the most exciting frontiers of research today.