Category: Textbooks

World Criminal Justice Systems, 9th Edition, (PDF) offers an understanding of major world criminal justice systems by discussing and matching the systems of six of the world’s countries — each representative of a different type of legal system. An extra chapter on Islamic law uses three examples to show the

Janis Kuby’s groundbreaking introduction to immunology was the first textbook for the course actually written to be a textbook. Like no other textbook, it combined an experimental emphasis with extensive pedagogical features to help college students grasp basic concepts. Now in a thoroughly updated new version, Kuby Immunology 8th edition

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

The new, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in Gastroenterology: An Illustrated Guide 2nd edition (PDF) provides a comprehensive overview of procedures for the gastrointestinal tract. The volume describes the contraindications, indications, and precise method of a procedure, under normal anatomical conditions and when the gastrointestinal tract is surgically altered. In addition

Academic Writing: An Introduction 3rd Edition, (PDF) has been widely acclaimed in all its editions as an outstanding textbook―and a key contribution to the pedagogy of introducing students to the conventions of academic writing. The ebook seeks to introduce student readers to the dynamic community of research and writing beyond