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Introductory Biology For Allied Health: A Laboratory Manual for Bio 156

Author(s): Joel Stein, Kim Cooper, John Nagy

Scientists have demonstrated their ability to offer at least some hope of survival to those facing serious medical diagnoses. Scientists are far from the heartless analytical machines portrayed in modern literature, and doctors are much more rational than the actors pretending to emote all over thei...

Life Skills for Young Adults

Author(s): Jamie Vaske

 Life Skills for Young Adults is a practical manual for young professionals who are entering into early adulthood. It is geared towards helping young adults understand essential topics such as applying for jobs, handling workplace issues, budgeting, understanding apartment rental agreements, buying ...

Global Studies: A Historical and Contemporary Reader

Author(s): Giles Gunn

Global Studies: A Historical and Contemporary Reader is a text focused on an emergent field concerned with understating both the historical and contemporary phenomenon of globalization in all its aspects. Although global phenomena have been studied for many decades if not centuries, global studies a...

Lessons Learned: A Focus on Post Millennial Experiences

Author(s): Celina Echols, Felicia Blacher-Wilson

Pre-service students need the opportunity to understand that not only have they possibly undergone unique experiences as they came-of-age but so do many of the students who they might teach. This book contains students’ reflections, problems, and solutions. These coming-of-age stories are intende...

Introduction to Nonlinear Behavior of Structures

Author(s): Barry T. Rosson

The primary purpose of Introduction to Nonlinear Behavior of Structures is to give an introduction to the subject using only the virtual work method and to provide an understanding of nonlinear structural behavior without the need to consider the added complexities of the matrix analysis method or f...

Cultural History of Film in the United States

Author(s): C. Austin Hill

Cultural History of Film in the United States examines film from the United States of America through a cultural studies perspective. This book seeks to explore the sociocultural conditions that cause film to be made, and those conditions that cause film to change. Moving chronologically through the...

Social Justice and the Sociological Imagination: A Reader for the 21st Century

Author(s): University of Tennessee - Dept of Sociology

Most sociology readers offer a mix of classic and contemporary articles covering the breadth of sociological topics from A to Z. Others focus on one area, such as globalization or urban sociology. Some are intended as companions to particular textbooks; a few include novelties such as blog posts. So...