Category: Non Fiction

In Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions, 3rd edition, (PDF) of this important and influential ebook, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between citizen and state, and the notion of

This brief introductory criminal justice textbook uses an interdisciplinary approach to introduce students to the field’s foundations and individual components, in addition to many contemporary controversies in the justice system. Through the use of existing issues, like the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, efforts to reform sentencing and reduce prison

The media sector is in the grip of a massive revolution. Revolutionary new technologies force companies in industries ranging from broadcasting to book publishing to drastically reimagine their business models or risk being left in the dust. At the same time, people with the next big idea are eager to

Completely reviewed and significantly expanded, Stochastic Calculus and Applications, 2nd Edition, (PDF) takes readers who have been exposed to only fundamental courses in analysis through the modern general theory of random processes and stochastic integrals as used by electronic engineers, systems theorists and, more recently, those working in mathematical and

Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, 11th Edition, (PDF) is an accessible, exciting, and thorough introduction to the vital questions of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors merge substantial selections from important works in the history of philosophy with excerpts