Category: Textbooks

The late Navjot Sodhi envisioned this ebook Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropic (PDF) as a way to bring the perspectives of people who were actually working and living in the tropics to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics. 55 authors present their perspectives on the conservation

Toxicology’s gold-standard textbook – completely updated to reflect the latest discoveries and breakthroughs Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 9th Edition, (PDF) equips you with an unsurpassed understanding of modern toxicology, including the key concepts, principles, chemical-specific toxicity, mechanisms, and modes of thought that are the foundation

Hermann Heller was one of the prominent public lawyers and political and legal theorists of the Weimar era, whose main interlocutors were two of the giants of twentieth-century legal and political thought, Carl Schmitt and Hans Kelsen. In this 1927 work, Hermann Heller addresses the enigma of sovereignty. That is,

Biographies in the History of Physics, (PDF) sheds new light on the biographical method in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, concepts, and institutions. What is a biography? Can biographies also be written for non-human subjects like scientific instruments, concepts, or institutions? The respective chapters

Discover Sociology: Core Concepts (PDF) explores sociology as a discipline of curious minds, with the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical tools needed to analyze, understand, and even change the world — all in a more streamlined format. It is adapted from Discover Sociology, 3rd Edition (also available), and offers in-depth coverage