Category: E-Books

Rock Slope Engineering: Civil Applications 5th edition (PDF) covers the design, investigation, excavation, and remediation of man-made rock cuts and natural slopes, primarily for civil engineering applications. It presents design information on structural geology, shear strength of rock, and groundwater, including weathered rock. Slope design methods are discussed for planar,

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in

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

Real Estate and Property Law for Paralegals, 4th Edition, (PDF) is a comprehensive introduction to Real Estate law that lays out the essential foundations of the law with real world examples, including the practicalities of regular legal work. An appealing writing style and several examples and illustrations cover all the

Symbolic dynamics is a mature yet quickly developing area of dynamical systems. It has established strong connections with several areas, including graph theory, probability, linear algebra, group theory, and the theory of computation, in addition to data storage, statistical mechanics, and $C^*$-algebras. An Introduction to Symbolic Dynamics and Coding, 2nd