Category: E-Books

Community Projects as Social Activism: From Direct Action to Direct Services (PDF) by Benjamin Shepard is an accessible and engaging ebook that will get today’s students excited about the very real prospect of achieving positive, lasting change within their communities. It outlines a distinct approach to community practice born out

The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, (PDF) provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and kinds of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its all-embracing framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its economic,

Salkind’s Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics, 7th Edition, (PDF/AZW3) with new co-author Bruce B. Frey teaches a repeatedly intimidating subject with a personable, humorous, and informative approach that decreases statistics anxiety. With training in SPSS®, the authors guide students through fundamental and advanced statistical procedures, from correlation

For courses in introductory Computer Science courses using Java, and other introductory programming courses in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, MIS, IT, CIS, and Business. An accessible, concise introduction to Java programming. Ideal for a wide range of introductory computer science courses, Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming, 8th

Applied Underwater Acoustics (PDF) meets the needs of engineers and scientists working in underwater acoustics and graduate students solving problems in, and composing theses on, topics in underwater acoustics. The ebook is structured to give the basis for rapidly assimilating the vital underwater acoustic knowledge base for practical application to