Category: E-Books

Structural Wood Design: ASD/LRFD, 2nd Edition, (PDF) provides a brief and practical guide to timber design, employing both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods. It suits students in structural, civil, and construction engineering programs as well as architecture and engineering technology programs, and also

This “Nuclear Reactor Physics” 3rd Edition, completely revised of the textbook retains the proven concept of complete and balanced coverage of the topic. The 1st part looks at basic reactor physics, including, but not limited to nuclear reactions,reactor dynamics, diffusion theory, fuel burnup and reactor safety. The 2nd part then

Explains why and how human cultures vary so greatly across space and time Ember & Ember’s Cultural Anthropology, 14th edition, (PDF) helps college students understand how humans vary culturally and why they got to be that way. It provides both a comprehensive and scientific introduction to cultural anthropology. This latest

Sexty’s Canadian Business and Society 4th edition (PDF) is a Canadian ground-up textbook that provides a broad overview of the Canadian business system, its interrelationships with society and the expectation of ethics in business, and business’s adherence to moral standards. In addition to three keywords: ethics, responsibilities, and sustainability, Robert

How do many categories of people come to be seen as “different”? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? How does being “different” affect people’s lives? What difference does “difference” make? The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and