Category: Textbooks

Applying mechanical ventilation principles to patient care, Pilbeam’s Mechanical Ventilation: Physiological and Clinical Applications, 5th Edition, (PDF) helps you provide appropriate, safe, and compassionate care for patients requiring ventilatory support. A focus on evidence-based practice includes the latest techniques and equipment, with complex ventilator principles simplified for optimal learning. This

Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health 4th Edition (PDF) combines practice and theory in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design, with separate chapters devoted to

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the

The best-selling and universally trusted eBook, Service Management: Operations, Strategy, Information Technology 8th edition (PDF) continues to acknowledge and emphasize the essential uniqueness of service management. The etextbook is organized in 4 parts: Part 1: Understanding Services which provides a historical context as well as distinguishes the distinctive characteristics of

This 1st Australasian edition of the popular textbook, Management across Cultures (in PDF) explores the latest approaches to cross-cultural management, presenting strategies and tactics for managing international assignments and global teams. With a very clear emphasis on development and learning, the text encourages students to acquire skills in multicultural competence