Category: Textbooks

The author’s objective for Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th Edition, (PDF) is that it’s well written, could be easily read by a calculus student and would stimulate them to engage in the material and learn more. Besides, to create a textbook in which layout, exposition, and graphics would work together to

Principles of Space Anthropology: Establishing a Science of Human Space Settlement (PDF) shows how anthropology can offer an innovative perspective on the human movement into space. It explores adaptation to space on timescales of generations, instead of merely months or years, and utilizes evolutionary adaptation as a guiding theme. Adopting

Raven’s Biology, 12th Edition, (PDF) puts a focus on evolution and scientific inquiry has made this a prominent textbook for college students majoring in biology. This focus on the organizing power of evolution is combined with an incorporation of the importance of cellular molecular biology and genomics to provide our

An introduction to critical care that helps nurses deliver effective, saf care that optimizes patients’ outcomes. Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing 3rd edition provides novice critical care nurses with a firm foundation so that they are able to understand the complexities of care; deliver safe, effective care; and begin their transition

Relativistic Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics (PDF) offers classical relativistic mechanics and electrodynamics in the Feynman-Stueckelberg event-oriented framework formalized by Piron and Horwitz. The complete apparatus of classical analytical mechanics is generalized to relativistic form by swapping Galilean covariance with manifest Lorentz covariance and introducing a coordinate-independent parameter to play the