Category: Non Fiction

Although surveillance hit the headlines with revelations by Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been tracking phone calls worldwide, surveillance of citizens by their governments actually has been conducted for many centuries. Only now, with the advent of modern technologies, it has exponentially evolved so that today you

Internet Infrastructure: Networking, Web Services, and Cloud Computing (PDF) provides a comprehensive introduction to networks and the Internet from several perspectives: the underlying media, the hardware, the protocols, the servers, and their uses. The material in the textbook is divided into concept chapters that are followed up with case study

A balance of science and story, with a focus on the people doing biology now. Written by a science journalist and teachers with more than thirty years experience in the classroom, Biology Now (PDF) skillfully combines core biology concepts with popular science stories of real people doing science today. These

Laura King’s The Science of Psychology: An Appreciative View, 5th Edition, (PDF) communicates the breadth and nature of psychology – and its value as a science – with a focus on why things go right.  With the key goals of teaching students to think like psychological scientists and emphasizing the

Edited by a prominent expert in the field with contributions from experienced researchers in fibers and textiles, Handbook of Fibrous Materials, 2 Volumes, (PDF) reviews the present state of fibrous materials and offers a broad overview of their use in research and development. Volume One emphasizes the classes of fibers,