Category: Non Fiction

This ebook, Scientific Pollyannaism: From Inquisition to Positive Psychology (PDF) argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage abuse, loss, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for scrutinizing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism. The author explores Pollyannaism

Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls & Mirrors, 6th edition (PDF) provides a firm foundation in data abstraction that emphasizes the distinction between specifications and implementation as the basis for an object-oriented approach. Software engineering principles and concepts as well as UML diagrams are used to enhance programming

Drawing on, international law, treaties, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and particularly personal experiences, Marie Battiste records the nature of Eurocentric models of education and their upsetting impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Reporting the negative consequences of forced assimilation, the racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure

This ebook, Architectured Materials in Nature and Engineering: Archimats (PDF) deals with a group of architectured materials. These are hybrid materials in which the constituents (even strongly dissimilar ones) are combined in a given geometry and topology to provide otherwise conflicting properties. The hybridization presented in the ebook occurs at

The ebook Criminology in Canada: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies, 6th edition (PDF) highlights the diversity and dynamism in the field of Criminology, making the field come alive to college students. The experienced author team of  Chris McCormick and Larry J. Siegel have provided an unbiased and fair introduction to criminological