Category: Textbooks

The Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, 6th Global edition, (PDF) provides an authoritative, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the dynamic field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and user experience (UX) design. This classic book has defined and charted the astonishing evolution of user interfaces for three decades. Students

Ways of Knowing in HCI (PDF) brings together both traditional and new research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include observations and interviews, ethnography, grounded theory, and evaluation of digital traces of behavior. Readers will attain an understanding of the type of knowledge every method provides, its disciplinary

Inorganic Glasses for Photonics, (PDF) is the advanced textbook on inorganic glasses suitable for both researchers, graduates and undergraduates. Logically structured and comprehensive Engaging style to facilitate understanding Discusses new techniques in photonics and optics including updates on diagnostic techniques Suitable for senior undergraduates, researchers, and postgraduates entering material science,

Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy 2nd edition (PDF) discusses some ways mathematical physicists and mathematicians do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, the subject areas they delimit, and the analogies they

Delivering Health Care in America, 7th Edition (PDF) is the most comprehensive and current overview of the basic structures and operations of the U.S. health system–from its historical origins and resources to its individual cost, services, and quality. Using a unique “systems” approach, the textbook brings together an extraordinary breadth