Category: Textbooks

Disorders of the gastrointestinal tract make up some of the most common illnesses experienced across the lifespan affecting individuals in childhood, adulthood and infancy. Gastrointestinal Nursing: A Lifespan Approach (PDF), an essential guide to the gastrointestinal system will enable allied health professionals and nurses to apply principles of anatomy and

Through his teaching, his textbook, and in his on-line weblog, award-winning professor Michael D. Johnson sparks the interest of today’s science-intimidated pupil by connecting basic biology to real-world issues relevant to college students’ own lives. Via a storytelling approach and extensive online support, Human Biology: Concepts and Current Issues, 7th

Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation, (PDF) defines the roles actuators play in robotics and their inadequacy in emerging new robotic applications, such as human co-working robots and wearable devices where compliance and compactness are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this wbook, provide advantages like displacement scale,

Alternative Dispute Resolution, (PDF) stresses the remarkable shift in the traditional arrangements for the delivery of civil justice in the Commonwealth Caribbean, from lawsuit to alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes. In the last quarter of a century, much learning has taken place on the topic of ADR and the literature

An Introduction to Biotechnology, (PDF) is a biotechnology textbook aimed at undergraduates. It includes the basics of cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry, and introduces laboratory techniques specific to the technologies addressed in the ebook; it addresses particular biotechnologies at both the theoretical and application levels. Biotechnology is a field