Category: E-Books

Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, 3rd Edition, (PDF), surveys the array of sustainable energy sources and the tools engineers, managers, scientists, and policymakers use to evaluate energy generation, usage, and future trends. The ebook provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of all renewable technologies, including wind and solar power, biofuels, nuclear,

Calvin Schermerhorn’s stimulating study observes the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860, (PDF) follows ships and money as well as enslaved human beings to show how slavery was a national business

Principles of Space Anthropology: Establishing a Science of Human Space Settlement (PDF) shows how anthropology can offer an innovative perspective on the human movement into space. It explores adaptation to space on timescales of generations, instead of merely months or years, and utilizes evolutionary adaptation as a guiding theme. Adopting

Renewable Energy, Combined Edition, (PDF) starts with a review of our past dependence on fossil fuels as our key energy source and our future needs to change how our energy is produced and utilized due to reducing resources and environmental impact. Synthesis Lectures on Renewable Energy Technologies The first volume

This ebook, Matrix Methods of Structural Analysis (PDF) deals with matrix methods of structural analysis for linearly elastic framed structures. It starts with a background of matrix analysis of structures followed by a procedure to develop force-displacement relation for a given structure using flexibility and stiffness coefficients. The remaining text