Category: Textbooks

Numerical Methods in Engineering with Python 3, 3rd Edition, (PDF), is an overview of numerical methods for students in engineering. It covers the solution of equations, solutions of differential equations, interpolation and data fitting, eigenvalue problems, and optimisation. The algorithms are implemented in Python 3, a high-level programming language that

This volume, Emerging Genres in New Media Environments (PDF) explores cultural innovation and transformation as revealed through the emergence of new media genres. New media have enabled what impresses most observers as a dizzying proliferation of new forms of communicative interaction and cultural production, provoking multimodal experimentation, and artistic and

This user-friendly ebook by Patricia Leavy, Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches (PDF) provides a step-by-step guide to using the five major approaches to research design: qualitative, quantitative, arts-based, mixed methods, and community-based participatory research. Chapters on every approach follow a unique format–they present

Motivates readers with a top-down, layered approach to computer networking. Unique among computer networking textbooks, the popular Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 7th edition (PDF) by James Kurose and Keith Ross builds on the expert authors’ long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a “top-down

This is a priceless textbook for any introductory survey course on the policy and science of climate change, for both introductory science and non-science major students. Introduction to Modern Climate Change, 2nd Edition, (PDF) has been comprehensively updated to reflect the latest science from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate