Category: E-Books

Structural Wood Design: ASD/LRFD, 2nd Edition, (PDF) provides a brief and practical guide to timber design, employing both the Allowable Stress Design and the Load and Resistance Factor Design methods. It suits students in structural, civil, and construction engineering programs as well as architecture and engineering technology programs, and also

In Malignant Growth: Creating the Modern Cancer Research Establishment, 1875–1915, (PDF) Alan I Marcus examines a comparatively understudied period in the history of cancer by giving a careful investigation of the first public crusade to find the cause of cancer. The search for cancer’s cause during the stimulating era of

Engineering Physiology, 5th Edition, (PDF) has the same purpose as the previous prints: to offer physiological information which engineers, supervisors, designers, managers, and other planners need to make equipment and work “fit the human.” Chapters have been reviewed, tables and figures updated. New material discusses, among other subjects, models of

This outstanding dermatopathology atlas emphasizes the correlation of pathological findings with clinical presentations and presents a reader-friendly approach to the diagnosis and interpretation of skin biopsy results. With an abundance of color clinical and histologic photographs, and descriptions of numerous dermatological diseases and conditions, this source is a must-have for

Public History: A Textbook of Practice (PDF) is a guide to the many challenges historians face while learning, teaching, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public understanding of the past, and those who work in historic preservation, in museums and archives,