Category: Non Fiction

This English translation of the successful French edition offers the design and conception of steel and steel-concrete composite bridges, from simple beam bridges to cable-supported structures. Steel Bridges, (PDF) focuses primarily on road bridges, highlighting the basis of their conception and the fundamentals that must be considered to assure serviceability

From its very origin, Introductory Chemistry: An Atoms First Approach (PDF) by Julia Burdge and Michelle Driessen has been written and developed using an atoms‐first approach specific to introductory chemistry. It is not a pared-down version of a general chemistry textbook but carefully crafted with the introductory‐chemistry student in mind.

Our species is misnamed. Though sapiens define human beings as “wise” what humans do particularly well is to prospect the future. We are Homo Prospectus. In this ebook, Martin E. P. Seligman, Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, and Chandra Sripada argue it is anticipating and analysing future possibilities for the

Computer Science: An Object-Oriented Approach Using C++, (PDF) has two primary objectives: to impart the basic principles of programming as outlined in the ACM curriculum for a CS1 class and to teach the fundamental constructs of the C++ language. While C++ is a professional and complex language our experience has

Positive psychologists focus on ways that we can advance the lives of communities and individuals by studying the factors that increase positive outcomes such as happiness and life satisfaction. Evolutionary psychologists use the principles of evolution, based on Charles Darwin’s understanding of life, to help shed light on any and