Category: Textbooks

Understanding the Religions of the World: An Introduction offers a new approach to the study of religions which moves away from the purely descriptive and instead helps college students understand how religions actually ‘work’. Covering all the main faith traditions, it combines contemporary beliefs and practices, historical context, and original

International Human Resource Management Edwards & Rees, 3rd edition. This engaging PDF etextbook offers a readable introduction to International Human Resource Management. It explores the international dimensions of managing human resources, with a focus on comparative HRM and multinational organizations. It tackles the issues raised by cross-national differences in HRM

Computational Immunology: Basics (PDF) highlights the fundamentals of the immune system and function in health and disease. The immune system is a highly complex system with a vast number of macromolecules, signaling pathways, protein-protein interactions, and gene expressions. Studies from transcriptomics, genomics, metabolomics are generating huge high throughput data that

Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion that is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton. The author of Information and the World Stage: From Philosophy to Science, the World of

Shapiro/Greenlaw’s Principles of Economics (PDF) covers the scope and sequence for a 2-semester principles of economics course. The textbook also includes many current examples, including; the controversy among economists over the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), discussions on the great recession, the recent government shutdown, and the appointment of the United