Category: E-Books

Economic, cultural, and political trends are changing the way public administrations are organized and Organizational Development in Public Administration, (PDF) explores the new challenges managers encounter, with the requirement for a shift from a conventional bureaucratic model to a competency-based approach to organizational design and management in the fields of

“A film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own.” Since 1979 Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, and now Co-Author Jeff Smith’s Film Art: An Introduction 12th edition (PDF) has been the most widely respected and the best-selling introduction to the unbiased analysis of cinema. Taking

Essentials Of Criminal Justice, 11th Edition, (PDF) provides college students with comprehensive, objective coverage of all the newest research in the field, cutting-edge topical and case discussions, and the richest analysis of career options to be found in a criminal justice textbook — all in lesser than 500 pages. The

While there are several investigations of the impact English has put on Spanish, the reverse language contact scenario has received relatively little attention. The Influence of Spanish on the English Language since 1801, (PDF) sheds light on the Spanish influence on the English vocabulary since 1801, proposing the first systematic analysis

The professional programmer’s Deitel guidebook to Apple’s new Swift programming language for the iOS® and OS X® platforms Written for programmers with education in object-oriented programming in a C-based language like Objective-C, Java, C# or C++, Swift for Programmers, (PDF) applies the Deitel signature live-code approach with scores of complete,