Category: E-Books

Psychology of Health and Health Care, 5th Edition (PDF) emphasizes understanding how psychological (e.g., emotions, cognitions, beliefs, personality), biological (e.g., heredity, physiological systems), and social (e.g., family, community) factors interact to affect health and disease. The key objectives of the course are to develop a comprehensive understanding of the biopsychosocial

Earlier titled Quality Control, the field’s most accessible introduction to quality has been retitled and revamped to emphasize quantitative aspects of quality improvement. New chapters on Six Sigma, Lean Enterprise, Experimental Design, and Taguchi’s Quality Engineering have been included, and Besterfield’s Quality Improvement, 9th Edition, (PDF) features comprehensive coverage of

Students gain an integrated and complete treatment of the mechanics of materials — an essential subject in civil, mechanical, and structural engineering. — with the market-leading Mechanics Of Materials 9th edition (PDF) by Hibbeler. This etextbook examines the design and analysis of structural members subjected to tension, torsion, compression, and

Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? In the ebook Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why (PDF), author Dale Purves shows that rethinking

Not everyone who experiments with substance use or risky behavior becomes addicted, and many who are addicted have been able to recover. This authoritative ebook, Addiction and Change: How Addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover 2nd edition (PDF) now updated and revised, has given tens of thousands of professionals and