Category: Textbooks

The design of structures in general, and prestressed concrete structures in particular, requires considerably more information than is contained in building codes. A sound understanding of structural behaviour at all stages of loading is essential. This textbook presents a detailed description and explanation of the behaviour of prestressed concrete members

The best-selling ebook Accounting Principles, 13th edition, (PDF/ePub) by Kimmel, Weygandt, and Kieso provides college students with a clear introduction to fundamental accounting concepts with an emphasis on learning the accounting cycle from a sole proprietor perspective. This ebook helps accounting students get the most out of their accounts course by

Prepares University Students for Public Relations Work with an Emphasis on Ethics and Contemporary, Real-world Applications Featuring an intensely practical approach that favours justification, reasoning, and applications that work, The Practice of Public Relations 13th edition (global) prepares college/university students for contemporary public relations (PR) work in the changing landscape

Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty (PDF) examines the motives behind rejections of beauty regularly found within modern art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately alienating and ugly. It shows the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what

Politics in China, 2nd Edition, (PDF) is an authoritative introduction to how the world’s most populous nation and rapidly rising global control is governed today. Written by leading China scholars, the ebook’s chapters provide accessible overviews of major periods in China’s modern political history from the mid-nineteenth century till present-day,