Category: E-Books

The Oxford American Handbook of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care, 2nd edition (PDF) is an easily-navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. The table of contents follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus

Structural Dynamics with Applications in Earthquake and Wind Engineering, 2nd Edition, (PDF) offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of structural dynamics, highlighting practical issues and showing applications with a large number of worked-out examples. In the spirit of “learning by doing,” it motivates readers to apply immediately these methods

In American Government: Stories of a Nation, (PDF), author Scott Abernathy tunes in to the voices of America’s people, showing how different ideas throughout our nation’s history have shaped our political institutions, our characteristics, the laws we live by, the way we participate and behave, and the challenges we face. His storytelling

Biographies in the History of Physics, (PDF) sheds new light on the biographical method in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, concepts, and institutions. What is a biography? Can biographies also be written for non-human subjects like scientific instruments, concepts, or institutions? The respective chapters

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