Category: E-Books

Essential Environment: The Science behind the Stories, 5th Edition, (PDF) engages college students using current, integrated case studies that provides context for understanding science and environmental concerns in a brief, 18-chapter textbook. Authors Jay Withgott and Matt Laposata present the latest understanding of environmental science along with expanded FAQ discussions

By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, The History and Theory of Rhetoric 6th edition (PDF)  illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily lifes. College students gain a conceptual framework for practising and evaluating persuasive writing and

Every year, several businesses file for bankruptcy protection because managers fail to efficiently organize the company’s operations, pay inadequate attention to product quality, misread market trends or misinterpret the activities and intentions of rival companies. Maybe they fail to formulate optimal advertising or financing strategies, obtain raw materials and components

Lagrangian Mechanics: An Advanced Analytical Approach (PDF) explains the subtleties of analytical mechanics and its applications in rigid body mechanics. The expert authors demonstrate the primordial role of parameterization, which conditions the equations and thus the information obtained; the essential notions of virtual kinematics, such as the virtual derivative and

Symbolic dynamics is a mature yet quickly developing area of dynamical systems. It has established strong connections with several areas, including graph theory, probability, linear algebra, group theory, and the theory of computation, in addition to data storage, statistical mechanics, and $C^*$-algebras. An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding, 2nd