Category: Textbooks

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) rose as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to bloom and increase in our own day. His central themes–the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others–speak to

Making Sense of the World, (PDF) provides original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers. However, some of the essays are by scholars well known for their work on understanding, many of the essays bring entirely new figures to the discussion. The important purpose of the

Molecular Data Analysis Using R (PDF) addresses the problems experienced by wet-lab researchers with the statistical analysis of molecular biology related data. The authors describe how to use R and Bioconductor for the study of experimental data in the field of molecular biology. The content is grounded upon two university

Modern and rigorous ―the #1 textbook for Intermediate Microeconomics from the chief economist at Google. This best-selling textbook, Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, 9th Edition, (PDF) is still the most contemporary presentation of the subject. The Varian approach offers college students tools they can use on exams, in the rest

Authorship’s Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author (PDF) examines the aftermath of the 1960s critique of the author, epitomized by Roland Barthes’s essay, “The Death of the Author.” This critique has given rise to a body of writing that confounds generic distinctions separating the literary and the theoretical.