This document discusses the four main types of human tissues: epithelial, connective, muscular, and nervous. It focuses on epithelial tissues, describing their characteristics as having closely connected cells with little intracellular substance resting on a basement membrane. Epithelial tissues are classified as covering or glandular epithelia. Covering epithelia include simple squamous, simple cuboidal, simple columnar, and stratified epithelia. Glandular epithelia form exocrine and endocrine glands and can be unicellular or multicellular tubular, alveolar, simple, or compound structures specialized for secretion.