Category: E-Books

This volume, Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (PDF) explores cultural innovation and transformation as revealed through the emergence of new media genres. New media have enabled what impresses most observers as a dizzying proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction and cultural production, provoking multimodal experimentation, and artistic and

An introduction to public policy that helps college students learn how to think critically about politics. Thomas Dye’s Understanding Public Policy 15th edition (PDF) provides an introduction to the study of public policy, as well as an overview of the models that political scientists use to describe and explain political

Hospice and Palliative Care for Companion Animals: Principles and Practice (PDF) offer the first comprehensive reference to veterinary hospice and palliative care, with practical guidance and best practices for caring for sick and dying animals. Gives concrete advice for easing pets more gently through their final stage of life Offers

Cancer, which has become the second-most dominant health issue globally, is fundamentally a malfunction of cell signalling. Understanding how the complex signalling networks of cells and tissues allow cancer to thrive – and how they can be turned into strong weapons against it – is the key to handling cancer

Algorithms play a key role both in the theory and in the practice of computing. The aim of the authors was to write a textbook that would not belittle the subject but would still be readable by most students on their own. Algorithms: Design and Analysis (PDF) includes over 120