Category: Textbooks

The Urban Forest: Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment, (PDF) emphasizes on urban “green infrastructure” – the interrelated web of vegetated spaces like parks,  street trees, and peri-urban forests that offer essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach represents the idea that these services, such as

If you are looking for a fast, fun review that boils psychiatric and mental health nursing down to its most essential, must-know points your search ends here! Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Demystified (PDF) is a complete yet concise overview of this field, including pharmacology, neurobiology, psychiatric assessment, theoretical models

In this Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature, 6th edition, (PDF), Randy Larsen, and David Buss dynamically show how scientists approach the study of personality. Major findings, both classical and contemporary, are offered in the context of six key domains—Biological, Dispositional, Intrapsychic,  Social and Cultural, Cognitive/Experimental, and Adjustment—providing

Continuing the tradition of International Dyke Conference, this ebook, Dyke Swarms of the World: A Modern Perspective (PDF) is largely based on contributions from the IDC7 but also includes some chapters by invitation. It focuses on mafic dyke swarms and related associations: e.g. links with sills, syenites, kimberlites, carbonatites, and

Introductory Statistics, 4th Edition, (PDF) reviews statistical concepts and techniques in a way that will teach students not only how and when to use the statistical procedures developed, but also how to comprehend why these procedures should be used. The text’s main merits are the clarity of presentation, contemporary examples,