Category: E-Books

The new Making Sense of the Social World 6th edition (PDF) continues to be an unusually student-friendly and accessible introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate college students to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its casual, concise,

The Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods (PDF) serves as a handy desktop reference for organic chemists to browse new reactions and transformations of interest, facilitating the search for functional group transformations in the original literature of organic chemistry. Volume 13 contains both functional group transformations and carbon-carbon bond forming reactions

A Math Primer for Engineers (PDF) will be of interest to bioengineers and engineers looking for the mathematical means to help further their work, and it will provide readers a glimpse of many ideas that may spark their interest. Engineering and Mathematics are inevitably interconnected, and this interaction will steadily

Richard T. Schaefer’s Sociology Matters 6th edition (PDF) is a concise introduction to the discipline of sociology. Schaefer’s characteristic straightforward style, a great and streamlined design, and highly focused coverage make it the perfect ultra-brief, affordable, introductory textbook for instructors who use a variety of materials in their course. College

Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes, (PDF) deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, system change towards autocracy. While these processes are increasing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a comparatively understudied phenomenon, especially its latest manifestations. In this volume, the authors provide one of the first cross-regional