Category: Textbooks

Steven Stanley’s classic textbook, now coauthored with John Luczaj, Earth System History 4th Edition (PDF) remains the only ebook for the historical geology course written from a truly integrated earth systems perspective. The thoroughly updated new fourth edition includes important new coverage on climate change, mass extinctions, and Proterozoic history,

This ebook, Monitoring Mechanical Ventilation Using Ventilator Waveforms (PDF) discusses the interpretation of mechanical ventilator waveforms. Every page shows a screenshot from a real patient and explains one or two messages. It starts with basic information about the waveforms and goes on to address passive and spontaneous ventilation, non-invasive ventilation

How to live well and the search for meaning have long been of intense concern to humans, maybe because Homo sapiens is the only species aware of its own mortality. In the past few decades, empirical psychology made a major contribution to this quest. The Social Psychology of Living Well, (PDF)

Understanding that a global humanities course is taught in varying ways, Gloria Fiero reconsiders the discipline for greater flexibility with The Humanistic Tradition, 7th Edition, (PDF). Enhanced by McGraw-Hill’s LearnSmart® and SmartBook®, Fiero offers a learning experience tailored to the requirements of each institution, instructor, and student. With the ability

The Wiley Handbook of Global Educational Reform (PDF) examines educational reform from a global perspective. Comprised of approximately 25 original and specially commissioned essays, which together interrogate educational reform from a critical global and transnational perspective, this volume explores a range of topics and themes that fully investigate global convergences