Category: E-Books

How Things Work, 6th edition (PDF) offers an accessible introduction to physics for the non-science student. Like the earlier editions, it employs everyday objects, with which students are acquainted, in case studies to explain the most essential physics concepts of day-to-day life. Lou Bloomfield takes apparently highly complex devices and

Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services (PDF) by Benjamin Shepard is an accessible and engaging ebook that will get today’s students excited about the very real prospect of achieving positive, lasting change within their communities. It outlines a distinct approach to community practice born out

Offers an understanding of statistics in the social sciences. This best-selling introduction to statistical analysis in the social sciences gives the right balance of conceptual understanding and step-by-step computational techniques. Elementary Statistics in Social Research, 12th edition, (PDF) is written to be understandable to all readers, especially those without a

If you’re a security or network professional, you already know the “don’ts and do’s”: run an AV software and firewalls, use encryption, watch network traffic, lock down your systems, hire expensive consultants, follow best practices, . . . but it’s simply not working. You are at greater risk than ever,

Psychologists use a variety of research methods and tools to learn about mental processes and behaviors. The goal of this ebook, Research Methods In Psychology 10th edition (PDF) is to introduce college students to the “multimethod approach” to research in psychology, including survey, observational, and experimental methods. Psychology students learn