Category: Textbooks

Sociology: A Brief Introduction 13th edition (PDF/ePub) invites college students to take sociology with them in their daily lives. This very successful student-friendly program includes strong coverage of ethnicity, race, and globalization. The approachable material encourages sociology students to develop their sociological imaginations and start to think like a sociologist.

The supply of petroleum continues to decrease at an alarming rate, yet it is the source of a range of products — from diesel to gasoline to rubber, plastic, and synthetic fiber. Critical to the future of this commodity is that we learn to use it more efficiently and judiciously.

In Mechanisms Underlying Host-Microbiome Interactions in Pathophysiology of Human Diseases (PDF) we provide a summary and discussion on the progress in the understanding of pathophysiological mechanisms of microbial host interactions in human diseases. Only lately have we started to appreciate the role of the microbiome in health and disease. Change

Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis in the Health Sciences (PDF/AZW3) offers a balanced blend of quantitative research methods and the most commonly used techniques for collecting and evaluating data in the health sciences. Highly practical in nature, the ebook guides you, step-by-step, through the research process, and includes

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in