Category: E-Books

Structure for Architects: A Case Study in Steel, Wood, and Reinforced Concrete Design, (PDF) is a follow-up to the authors’ first textbook, Structure for Architects: A Primer, highlighting the conceptual understanding of structural design in simple terms and language. This ebook focuses on structural principles applied to the design of

Measuring exergy losses in the energy supply system of buildings shows the potential for energy improvement, which cannot be exposed using conventional energy analysis. Thermoeconomics integrates economic and thermodynamic analysis by implementing the concept of cost (an economic concept) to exergy, as exergy is a thermodynamic property suitable for this

Politics in China 3rd Edition (PDF) offers an accessible yet authoritative introduction to how the world’s most populous nation and speedily rising global power is governed today. On the 1st of October, 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) commemorated the 70th anniversary of its founding. And what a tumultuous

This example-rich, Miller and Freund’s Probability and Statistics for Engineers 9th edition (global) PDF, exploration of both elementary probability and basic statistics places a strong emphasis on engineering and science applications. Coverage explores the treatment of data; sampling distributions; probability distributions; probability; probability densities; inferences concerning means; inferences concerning proportions;

Making Sense of the World, (PDF) provides original work on the nature of understanding by a range of distinguished philosophers. However, some of the essays are by scholars well known for their work on understanding, many of the essays bring entirely new figures to the discussion. The important purpose of the