Category: E-Books

The late Navjot Sodhi envisioned this ebook Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropic (PDF) as a way to bring the perspectives of people who were actually working and living in the tropics to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics. 55 authors present their perspectives on the conservation

Engineering Dynamics 2.0 (PDF) offers a new approach to learning the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies at an intermediate to advanced level. There are three prominent features of this approach. First, the primary focus is to obtain the equations of motion of dynamical systems and to solve them numerically.

A Concrete Introduction to Analysis, 2nd Edition, (PDF),  provides a major reorganization of the prior edition with the aim of making it a much more accessible and comprehensive for college students. The standard, somber approach to teaching modern mathematics with its focus on formal proofs can be discouraging and challenging

Educational Administration: Theory, Research, and Practice 9th edition (PDF) One of the most widely read ebooks in educational leadership. Educational Administration 9e uses a systems perspective to synthesize the relevant theory and research on organizational behavior and focuses on understanding and applying theory to solve problems of practice. With every

The significantly expanded and updated new 2nd edition of a widely used textbook on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize