Category: Non Fiction

Along with the progressively important runtime engines prevalent in our daily-life computing, there is a strong demand from the software community for a concrete presentation on the design and implementation of modern virtual machines, including the JavaScript engine, Java virtual machine and Android execution engine. The community anticipates seeing not

The most successful new calculus textbook in the last 20 years The much-anticipated Briggs’ Calculus: Early Transcendentals 3rd edition (PDF) retains its hallmark features while introducing important advances and refinements. Briggs, Cochran, Gillett, and Schulz build from a foundation of meticulously crafted exercise sets, then draw math students into the narrative

Japanese at Work, (PDF) empirically explores how different linguistic resources are employed to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to attain work-oriented communicative ends in a range of workplaces in Japan. Suitable role inhabitance is seen to include considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity, together with speaker orientation to normative

In Videbeck’s Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 7th edition (PDF), explore the full psychiatric nursing curriculum via this student-friendly ebook that focuses on the concepts and skills needed for successful practice. Short concise chapters, an engaging art program, and a direct and personal approach guide students in building therapeutic communication skills

Edition after edition, Kathleen Stassen Berger’s bestselling etextbooks connect all kinds of college students to current state of developmental psychology, in an accessible, engaging, culturally inclusive way. Berger’s Invitation to the Life Span 3rd edition (PDF) does this in just 15 concise chapters, in a presentation that meets the challenges