Textbook List and How to Purchase

Summer 2025

The following textbooks will be used in FAES courses during the upcoming term. Please note that tuition does not include textbooks.

  • Purchase Online | To purchase the textbook from the FAES Bookstore online, please use the following link https://www.shopfaes.com/textbooks.
    • Holders of a valid sales tax-exemption certificate can make a qualified sales tax-exempt textbook purchase by emailing faesbookstore@nih.gov, or by calling (301) 496-5272. FAES reserves the right to require proof of a valid certificate on all purchases requesting sales tax-exemption. 
  • Purchase In-person | We also encourage students to visit the FAES Bookstore, located near the Masur Auditorium in Building 10 at the National Institutes of Health, to purchase textbooks.

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

Course # Requirement Level Author Title and Edition ISBN
BIOC 301 Textbook Required David L. Nelson and Michael M. Cox Loose-Leaf version for Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 8e + Achieve for Lehninger (2-term) 9781319408923 and 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/ 510 Textbook Required Aurélien Géron Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow, 3rd Edition 9781098125974
ENGL 205/ 206 Textbook Required Joan Saslow and Allen Ascher
 		 Summit Level 1 Student's Book & eBook with Online Practice, Digital Resources & App 9780137332366
IMMU 403/ 420 Textbook Required Peter Parham The Immune System 5th Edition 9780393533354
LEAD 499 Textbook Required Amita Shukla United Mind: Rethinking How We Lead Our Lives, Work Together, and Change Our World 9780990906834
MATH 215/ 216 Textbook Required Gilbert Strang Introduction to Linear Algebra, 6 Edition 9781733146678
NEUR 325 Textbook Required Valerie Hedges Introduction to Neuroscience 9781626101227
SPAN 208/ 209 Textbook Required Joanne Rios Complete Medical Spanish: Practical Medical Spanish for Quick and Confident Communication, Premium 4th Edition 9781260467895
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