Category: E-Books

This textbook, Theoretical Physics 9: Fundamentals of Many-body Physics (2nd Edition), PDF, addresses the special physics of many-particle systems, especially those dominated by correlation effects. It develops modern methods to treat such systems and demonstrates their application through numerous appropriate exercises, mainly from the field of solid state physics. The

Readers learn to make the most of mobile devices, make the most of online tools for collaboration and communications, and fully exploit today’s Internet capabilities with the latest edition of Discovering Computers Enhanced. Learners see how technology skills help in gaining employment and advancing careers. This edition stresses Web Development,

Advances in Corpus-Based Research on Academic Writing, (ePub/PDF) showcases some of the latest research on academic writing by prominent and up-and-coming corpus linguists. The studies included in the volume are based on a broad range of corpora covering first and second language academic writing at different levels of writing expertise,

Does being virtuous make you happy? In Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham, (PDF), Roger Crisp explores the answers to this ancient question offered by the so-called ‘British Moralists’, from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This

Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) rose as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to bloom and increase in our own day. His central themes–the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others–speak to