Category: Textbooks

General, Organic and Biological Chemistry, 3rd Edition, (PDF) is different by design. By associating fundamental concepts of general, organic, and biological chemistry to the daily world, Janice Smith effectively involves students with extensive illustrations, bulleted lists, and step-by-step problem-solving. Smith writes with an approach that provides need-to-know information in a

Qualitative Research in Criminology, (PDF) explores the significant role qualitative research plays in expanding and refining our understandings of crime and justice. It includes seventeen original essays that discuss the relationship between theory and methodology. The result is a theoretically engaged volume that studies the approaches of qualitative scholars in

From the innovative partnership of W. H. Freeman and Scientific American comes this one-of-a-kind introduction to the science of biology and its effect on the way we live. In Biology for a Changing World, 2nd Edition, (PDF), two veteran educators and a science journalist explore the main ideas of biology through a number

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction (PDF) evaluates 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interferences of interplanetary travel, as-yet uninvented technology, or other science fiction elements that offer hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a type of apocalyptic and

This ebook, Scientific Pollyannaism: From Inquisition to Positive Psychology (PDF) argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage abuse, loss, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for scrutinizing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism. The author explores Pollyannaism