Category: E-Books

Health, Illness, and Society: An Introduction to Medical Sociology, Illustrated Edition, (PDF) provides a sociological perspective on health, illness, and health care. Working as an introduction to medical sociology for undergraduate and graduate students, it also offers a summary of the field for public health scholars and for medical sociologists

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

What does it mean to study philosophy as a species of not just literature but world literature? The authors in this group explore philosophy through the lens of the “worlding” of literature–that is, how philosophy is linked and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, merge stories, and speak

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Hwang/Blitzstein’s Introduction to Probability, 2nd edition, (PDF) provides essential language and tools for randomness, understanding statistics and uncertainty. The ebook explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application

The International System of Units, the SI, provides the basis for all measurements in science, economics, engineering, and society. The SI has been fundamentally revised in 2019. The new SI is a universal and highly stable unit system based on invariable constants of nature. Its implementation lies on quantum metrology