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Textbook List and Purchasing Guidelines

The following textbooks will be used in FAES courses during the upcoming term.

Note: Tuition does not include textbooks.

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Note: Please note that there may be an ebook version available through other resources.

Fall 2026

Course # Requirement Level Author Title and Edition ISBN
BIOC 301 Textbook Required David L. Nelson; Michael M. Cox Loose-Leaf Version for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 8e + Achieve for Lehninger (2-term) 9781319408923; 9781319408886
BIOF 395 Textbook Optional Benjamin Bengfort, Rebecca Bilbro, and Tony Ojeda Applied Text Analysis with Python 9781491963043
BIOF 475 Textbook Required Nathan George Practical Data Science with Python: Learn Tools and Techniques from Hands-on Examples to Extract Insights from Data, 2021 9781801071970
BIOF 501 Textbook Required Rafael A. Irizarry Introduction to Data Science: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R 9781032116556
BIOF 509 & BIOF 510 Textbook Required Aurelien Geron Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 3rd Edition 9781098125974
IMMU 325 Textbook Required Khurshid, M., and Akash, M.S.H. Human Microbiome: Techniques, Strategies, and Therapeutic Potential 9789819737901
IMMU 403 & IMMU 420 Textbook Required Peter Parham The Immune System 5th Edition 9780393533354
MATH 410 Textbook Required Thoman Nield Essential Math for Data Science 9781098102920
MICR 311 Textbook Required Robert Bauman Microbiology with Diseases by Body System 9780134477206
SPAN 101 & SPAN 102 Textbook Ronni L. Gordon; David M. Stillman The Ultimate Spanish 101: Complete First Year Course 101260453634
SPAN 208 & SPAN 209 Textbook Required Joanne Rios. Complete Medical Spanish: Practical Medical Spanish for Quick and Confident Communication, Premium 4th Edition 9781260467895
STAT 504 Textbook Required Kevin P. Murphy Probabilistic Machine Learning 9780262046824

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