Category: Textbooks

For courses in introductory integrated Statics and Mechanics of Materials courses found in ME, AE, CE, and Engineering Mechanics departments. Statics and Mechanics of Materials, 5th Global Edition (PDF) represents a joint abridged version of two of the author’s ebooks, namely Engineering Mechanics: Statics, Fourteenth Edition and Mechanics of Materials, Tenth

How do many categories of people come to be seen as “different”? What does difference mean at the level of the individual, social institutions, or society? How does being “different” affect people’s lives? What difference does “difference” make? The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race and Ethnicity, Sex and

The science and practice of training and development is continually progressing. Managing Performance Through Training and Development 7th Canadian edition (PDF) reflects many of these signs of progress, like the increasing use of technology, training-on-demand, blended approaches to training delivery, and just-in-time learning, new paradigms of training evaluation, and techniques

Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology (PDF) describes and illustrates criminal justice research topics, including ethics in research, research design, operationalization of variables, causation, sampling, validity, methods of data collection (including surveys), reliance on existing data, and reliability. For each approach, the ebook addresses the procedures and issues involved,

Bell’s Diversity In Organizations, 2nd edition, (PDF), is the first research-based, comprehensive textbook designed to meet the needs of a diversity course. It provides a solid perspective on the various aspects of organizational diversity, including why diversity is important for recruiting, organizations, retaining, and effectively and fairly using a diverse