Category: Textbooks

Design Optimization of Fluid Machinery: Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics and Numerical Optimization (PDF) Drawing on extensive experience and research, this timely ebook brings together numerical optimization methods for fluid machinery and its key industrial applications. It logically lays out the context required to understand computational fluid dynamics by introducing the

An Illustrated History of Health and Fitness, from Pre-History to our Post-Modern World, (PDF) explores the health/fitness interaction in a historical context. Beginning in primitive hunter-gatherer communities, where survival required adequate physical activity, it goes on to consider transformations in health and physical activity at subsequent stages in the evolution of

Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson introduce a new synthesis of economic principles for a new generation of college students. Their emphasis on useful economics employs compelling explanations and real-life examples to assist economics students to develop economic intuition and implement it in everyday decisions. Stevenson/Wolfers’s Principles of Microeconomics (PDF) offers

An informative and unintimidating look at the basics of research in the behavioral and social sciences. The ebook Exploring Research, 9th global edition (PDF), makes research methods accessible for university students – describing how to collect and analyze data, and providing thorough instruction on how to write and prepare a

Think critically, analyze objectively, and judge soundly when you know the right questions to ask. Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking 12th edition (PDF) bridges the gap between blindly accepting information or simply memorizing and the greater challenge of critical analysis and synthesis. Authors M. Neil Browne