Category: Textbooks

The Moon exerted a potent influence on ancient intellectual history, as a playground for the scientific imagination. The Moon in the Greek and Roman Imagination, (PDF) studies the history of the Moon in the Greco-Roman imaginary from Homer to Lucian, with an exclusive focus on those accounts of the Moon,

The prize-winning Transformational Leadership in Nursing: From Expert Clinician to Influential Leader, 3rd Edition, (PDF) guides nursing graduate students and professionals in the development of skills required to meet emerging leadership roles in our increasingly complex healthcare system. It offers a wealth of critical information, creative vision, practical tools, and

Although surveillance hit the headlines with revelations by Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been tracking phone calls worldwide, surveillance of citizens by their governments actually has been conducted for many centuries. Only now, with the advent of modern technologies, it has exponentially evolved so that today you

Daniel Hartl’s Essential Genetics and Genomics, 7th edition, (PDF) is the ideal textbook for the shorter, less comprehensive genetics course. It presents carefully chosen topics that provide a solid foundation for the basic understanding of gene expression, mutation, and regulation. Genetics: Simplified. Dr. Hartl once again takes college students on

Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis, (PDF) examines the representation of empathy in contemporary poetry after the crisis, particularly poetry after the Holocaust, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. The ebook argues that, identifying both the possibilities and dangers of empathy, the poems under consideration variously invite