Category: Textbooks

Following in the tradition of the first 8 editions, the goal of this issues-based successful textbook, Chemistry in Context 9th edition (PDF), is to establish chemical principles on a need-to-know basis for non-science majors, enabling them to learn chemistry in the context of their own lives and significant issues facing

A Practical Guide to Personal Conditioning (PDF) presents a safe and scientific approach to exercise programming, prescription, and nutrition. Appropriate for an array of personal training and fitness courses, it provides readers with the information and resources necessary to develop an exercise and nutrition plan specifically designed and tailored to

A clear and student-friendly way to teach the fundamentals of C++ – For 2-semester courses in the C++ programming sequence, or an accelerated 1-semester course. Gaddis’ Starting Out with C++: From Control Structures through Objects 9th edition (PDF) covers control structures, arrays, functions, and pointers before objects and classes in Tony

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.

Renowned for its very student-friendly writing style and fresh perspective, this fully updated, John McMurry’s ORGANIC CHEMISTRY WITH BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 3rd edition (PDF) provides full coverage of the foundations of organic chemistry—enhanced by biological examples throughout the textbook. In addition, McMurry discusses the organic chemistry behind biological pathways. New illustrations,