Category: E-Books

Essentials of Medical Geology (PDF) reviews the practical tools and essential concepts required to tackle environmental and public health problems. It is organized into 4 main sections. The first section deals with the fundamentals of environmental biology, the natural and anthropogenic sources of health elements that impact health, and illustrate

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

As the influence and reach of technology grow, the world becomes increasingly connected. What happens in one system finance, research, infrastructure, manufacturing, supply chain, and many more can have a significant impact on the outcomes and activities in other systems. Healthcare is no exception. Connecting all of these systems is

This Introduction to Nursing Informatics 4th edition (PDF) is designed for use by students in undergraduate or even graduate programs of study and practicing nurses. It presents the fundamental concepts of Nursing Informatics and includes a number of contributions from leading experts who have practiced in the field of informatics

Using Geodata and Geolocation in the Social Sciences: Mapping our Connected World (PDF) provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the Geoweb with easy, step-by-step, and clear guides for: Visualizing Geodata using programmes including QGIS, GRASS, and R Capturing Geodata from sources including GPS, sensor networks, and Twitter Featuring practical exercises