Category: Textbooks

As the world grows increasingly interrelated, data communications have become a key aspect of business operations. Mobile and wireless technology allow us to flawlessly transition from work to play and back again, and the Internet of things has brought our vehicles, appliances, and homes into the network; as life increasingly

Learn how to conduct financial statement analysis most effectively as you perform analyses on familiar, actually real companies. Wahlen/Baginski/Bradshaw’s latest Financial Reporting, Financi  al Statement Analysis, and Valuation, 9th edition (PDF) provides a balanced, complete approach as the authors teach you how to integrate concepts from finance, accounting, business strategy,

Multimodal Behavioral Analysis in the Wild, (PDF) delivers state-of-the-art behavioral signal processing using different data modalities, with a particular focus on recognizing the strengths and limitations of current technologies. The ebook focuses on audio and video modalities, while also stressing emerging modalities, such as an accelerometer or proximity data. It

Power, Politics, and Society: An Introduction to Political Sociology, 2nd Edition, (PDF) discusses how sociologists have structured the study of politics into conceptual frameworks, and how each of these frameworks strengthens a sociological perspective on politics and power in society. This includes discussing how these structures can be applied to

Microbial ecology is the study of relations among microbes in natural environments and their roles in food web dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and the evolution of life. Microbes are the most plentiful organisms in the biosphere and facilitate many critical reactions in elemental cycles and biogeochemical reactions. Because they are vital