Category: Textbooks

This best selling ebook, Read, Reason, Write, 12th edition (PDF) unites instruction in critical reading, analysis of the argument, and research strategies. A rich collection of classic and contemporary readings provide both practices for these skills and new ideas and insights for many students. Read, Reason, Write 12e shows students

Ultrastructure Atlas of Human Tissues (PDF) presents a variety of transmission and scanning electron microscope images of the major systems of the human body. Photography with the electron microscope records views of the intricate substructures and microdesigns of tissues and objects, and reveals details within them inaccessible to the naked

About one in four people in OECD countries are presently obese. This epidemic has far-reaching consequences for society, individuals and the economy. Using microsimulation modelling, OECD Health Policy Studies (PDF) analyses the burden of overweight and obesity in 52 countries (including OECD, European Union and G20 countries), presenting how overweight

Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers 8th edition (PDF) teaches college students to write and read critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its

Encyclopedic in breadth, yet concise and practical, Medical Biostatistics, 4th Edition, (PDF) stresses the statistical aspects of medicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to handle many medical uncertainties. This latest 4th edition includes more topics in order to fill gaps in the prior