Category: Textbooks

A Practical Guide to Personal Conditioning (PDF) presents a safe and scientific approach to exercise programming, prescription, and nutrition. Appropriate for an array of personal training and fitness courses, it provides readers with the information and resources necessary to develop an exercise and nutrition plan specifically designed and tailored to

Financial globalization coupled with the relaxation of constraints on capital flows between countries before the 2008 crisis, increased merger activities between the World’s largest stock exchanges. The financial crisis of 2008 had a grave impact on the development of equity markets, corporate financial stability, and corporate governance, and a multi-step

This ebook, Architectured Materials in Nature and Engineering: Archimats (PDF) deals with a group of architectured materials. These are hybrid materials in which the constituents (even strongly dissimilar ones) are combined in a given geometry and topology to provide otherwise conflicting properties. The hybridization presented in the ebook occurs at

Steven Stanley’s classic textbook, now coauthored with John Luczaj, Earth System History 4th Edition (PDF) remains the only ebook for the historical geology course written from a truly integrated earth systems perspective. The thoroughly updated new fourth edition includes important new coverage on climate change, mass extinctions, and Proterozoic history,

Renewable Energy Microgeneration Systems, (PDF) offers the latest technology advances in small-scale energy generation (electricity and heat) in the background of low/medium voltage level electric power distribution networks. With an emphasis on scientific innovations of the methodologies, approaches, and algorithms in allowing efficient and secure operation of microgeneration systems, this