Category: Textbooks

Employing the central integrative theme of power, Power and Society: An Introduction to the Social Sciences 14th Edition (PDF), introduces you to each of the social sciences and demonstrates how they differ in their methods and focus. It also presents an interdisciplinary viewpoint to illustrate the uses and nature of

Managerial Accounting: Tools for Business Decision Making 5th edition, Canadian (PDF) teaches university/college students the fundamental concepts of managerial accounting in an easy and concise way to comprehend fashion. Stimulating review materials at the end of each section helps accounting students develop and hone their decision-making skills. All the students

International Human Resource Management 4th edition is a critically engaging and college student friendly etextbook for International HRM modules at all levels, including the CIPD Level 7 Advanced International HRM module. Providing wide international coverage and incorporating a global strategy perspective, it offers a particular focus on cross-cultural, comparative and

Measuring exergy losses in the energy supply system of buildings shows the potential for energy improvement, which cannot be exposed using conventional energy analysis. Thermoeconomics integrates economic and thermodynamic analysis by implementing the concept of cost (an economic concept) to exergy, as exergy is a thermodynamic property suitable for this

Does being virtuous make you happy? In Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham, (PDF), Roger Crisp explores the answers to this ancient question offered by the so-called ‘British Moralists’, from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This