Category: Textbooks

Developed from celebrated Harvard statistics lectures, Hwang/Blitzstein’s Introduction to Probability, 2nd edition, (PDF) provides essential language and tools for randomness, understanding statistics and uncertainty. The ebook explores a wide variety of applications and examples, ranging from coincidences and paradoxes to Google PageRank and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Additional application

In Strategic Management of Market Niches (PDF) by Gorazd Ocvirk builds a comprehensive model for the strategic management of market niches and offers a framework for the construction of a strategic management theory of market niches. Centered on the current state of research on the niche topic within, strategic management

Internet Infrastructure: Networking, Web Services, and Cloud Computing (PDF) provides a comprehensive introduction to networks and the Internet from several perspectives: the underlying media, the hardware, the protocols, the servers, and their uses. The material in the textbook is divided into concept chapters that are followed up with case study

The ebook Health Promotion Programs: From Theory to Practice (PDF) introduces the theory of health promotion and presents an overview of current best practices from a wide variety of settings that include schools, workplaces, health care organizations, and communities. The 43 contributors to Health Promotion Programs focus on students and

Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers and Scientists 4th edition (PDF) is written for college students who want to learn and apply numerical methods in order to solve problems in science and engineering. As such, the methods are motivated by good problems rather than by mathematics. That said, sufficient