Category: Textbooks

Balancing application with theory and featuring an engaging, student-friendly writing style, Updated to reflect today’s political climate, Introduction to Comparative Politics: Political Challenges and Changing Agendas 8th edition (PDF) offers a country-by-country approach that allows college students to examine similarities and differences among countries and within and between political systems.

From the front of the classroom to the top of the bestseller’s list, award-winning author of What is Life? A Guide to Biology 3rd Edition (PDF) and educator Jay Phelan knows how to tell the story of how real scientists investigate the big questions about life. Dr. Phelan is also

This textbook, Colmar’s Principles of Microeconomics: An Integrative Approach (PDF) provides a comprehensive and unique introduction to modern microeconomics. It pursues an integrative approach by putting the main findings of economics into a broader perspective; theories are critically reflected on from a philosophical standpoint and by comparing them to approaches

A Primer of Population Genetics and Genomics 4th edition (PDF) has been completely updated and revised to provide a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the basic concepts of population genetics and genomics. Recent textbooks have tended to specialize in areas such as coalescent, molecular evolution, human population genetics, or genomics.

Elementary Applications of Probability Theory, 2nd Edition, (PDF)  provides a simple and straightforward introduction to applications of probability theory with examples given in the biological sciences and engineering. The first chapter includes a summary of the basic probability theory. Chapters two to five covers random variables and their applications. Topics