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Helmet Design: From Biomechanics to Health & Social Disparities in Sports

Author(s): Stefan Duma, Steven Rowson

This textbook provides a multidisciplinary description of helmet design with applications to all sports. The biomechanical design parameters for helmets are presented in the broader context of health and social disparities. Students will investigate different materials and padding designs relative t...

Communication & Popular Culture Coursebook

Author(s): COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY COMM DEPT

What is popular culture? How does popular culture communicate with us through media? Out of what historical, commercial, and creative contexts does popular culture emerge? Communication & Popular Culture Coursebook presents an introduction to U.S. popular culture, with an emphasis on its forms and f...

Science and Society: The Influence of Genetics on Human Life and Society

Author(s): Joseph Francis

The genetic revolution in biology we are experiencing today began early in the last century as biologists noted that dead bacteria could be resurrected by a “transforming principle.”  The structure of the transforming principle was determined to be DNA, in the middle of the last century, and within ...