Category: Textbooks

The gold standard for criminal justice textbooks – Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction, 12th Edition, (PDF) offers an authoritative, contemporary, look at crime in America with a focus on courts, police, and corrections. To make information resonate with college students, Dr. Frank Schmalleger asks readers to consider the balance between

Lewis Vaughn’s Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (PDF) offers a clear, compact, and economical introduction to critical thinking and argumentative writing. Based on his best-selling text, The Power of Critical Thinking, Fifth Edition, this inexpensive volume is more manageable than larger textbooks yet more significant than many of the smaller

Complex Systems is a new domain of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interrelates with its environment. Ecological Sustainability, (PDF) examines the complex systems involved in environmental sustainability and explores the technologies involved to help lessen

The GOES-R Series: A New Generation of Geostationary Environmental Satellites, (PDF) introduces the reader to the most important advance in weather technology in a generation. The world’s new constellation of geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES) are in the middle of a drastic revolution with their greatly enhanced capabilities that give

Covering everything from international and historical perspectives to basic science and existing clinical practice, Miller’s Anesthesia, 9th Edition, (PDF) remains the preeminent reference in the field. Dr. Michael Gropper leads a team of international experts who bring you the latest information available on the scientific, technical, and clinical issues you