Category: Textbooks

Advanced Thermoelectrics (PDF) offers an overview on nanostructured thermoelectric materials and devices, including fundamental concepts, device contacts and stability, synthesis techniques and potential applications, particularly in solar energy conversion and waste heat recovery. The contents emphasize on thermoelectric devices made from nanomaterials with high thermoelectric efficiency for use in large

Politics in China 3rd Edition (PDF) offers an accessible yet authoritative introduction to how the world’s most populous nation and speedily rising global power is governed today. On the 1st of October, 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) commemorated the 70th anniversary of its founding. And what a tumultuous

Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data 4th Global Edition (PDF), takes a conceptual approach, helping college students understand what statistics is about and learning the right questions to ask when analyzing data, rather than just memorizing procedures. This ebook takes the ideas that have turned statistics into

The Philosophy and Science of Predictive Processing, (PDF)  explores how predictive processing, which debates that our brains are continuously generating and updating hypotheses about our external conditions, sheds new light on the nature of the mind. It demonstrates how it is similar to and expands other theoretical approaches that focus

The last two hundred years have seen the transformation of public international law from a rule-based extrusion of diplomacy into a completely-fledged legal system. Landmark Cases in Public International Law (PDF) examines decisions that have added to the development of international law into an integrated whole, while also creating specialized