Category: Textbooks

Variational Methods for Engineers with Matlab (PDF) is issued from 30 years’ experience on the presentation of variational methods to successive generations of researchers and students in Engineering. It gives a comprehensive, instructional, and engineer-oriented presentation of the foundations of variational methods and of their application in numerical problems of Engineering.

Change your mathematics course into an engaging and mind-opening experience for even your most math-phobic students. The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking, 4th edition, (PDF) succeeds at reaching non-science-oriented, non-math majors, motivating them to discover the mathematics inherent in the world around them. Integrated with the authors’

Examining the intersection of music, neuroscience, and psychology Music, Thought, and Feeling, 2e (PDF) surveys the quickly growing field of music cognition and explores its most interesting questions. Supposing minimal background in music or psychology, the ebook begins with an overview of the major theories on how and when music

Earth Science for Civil and Environmental Engineers (PDF) introduces engineering students to the fundamental principles of applied Earth science, emphasizing how modern soil and rock mechanics, hydrogeology, geomorphology, seismology, and environmental geochemistry affect geotechnical and environmental practice. Main geological topics of engineering relevance including soils and sediments, groundwater, rocks, and

A comprehensive exploration of the world’s financial markets and institutions.  Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions, 4th International edition (PDF) offers a comprehensive exploration of the revolutionary developments occurring in the world’s financial markets and institutions – i.e., globalization, innovation, and deregulation–with a focus on the actual practices of investors,