Category: Non Fiction

We have always made tools to improve our productivity and help us lead better lives; though we find ourselves continuously battling against our new computerized tools, making us less productive and risking our health and our lives. Anthropology-Based Computing: Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction, (PDF) looks at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Larson’s Trigonometry, 10th Edition, (PDF) is known for providing sound, consistently structured explanations and exercises of mathematical concepts to skillfully prepare students for the study of calculus. With the updated 10e, the author Ron Larson continues to transform the way students learn the material by including more real-world applications, ongoing

Rice and Wilson’s Gateways to Understanding Music(PDF) explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, jazz, popular music, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music-making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective.

Climate Change and the Future of Democracy (PDF) will survey past and present struggles to democratize international institutions and will advance the argument that a new degree of accountability and transparency on a global scale is necessary to address the risk of climate change. The volume will evaluate how global

Daniel Hartl’s Essential Genetics and Genomics, 7th edition, (PDF) is the ideal textbook for the shorter, less comprehensive genetics course. It presents carefully chosen topics that provide a solid foundation for the basic understanding of gene expression, mutation, and regulation. Genetics: Simplified. Dr. Hartl once again takes college students on