Category: Textbooks

Amusing, instructive, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and respected since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting trees and mountains across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More current generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of fact and whimsy,

Segui’s STEEL DESIGN, 5th edition (PDF) covers the fundamentals of structural steel design with an emphasis on the design of members and their connections, rather than the integrated design of buildings. The ebook is designed so that instructors can easily teach ASD, LRFD, or both, time-permitting. The application of fundamental

Practice and research of peace education has grown in the current years as shown by a gradually increasing number of publications, programs, events, and funding mechanisms. The often cited point of departure for the peace education community is the belief in education as an important tool for decreasing the use

Calculus for Biology and Medicine, 3rd Edition, addresses the needs of students in the biological sciences by showing them how to use calculus to analyze natural phenomena — without compromising the rigorous presentation of the mathematics. While the table of contents aligns well with a traditional calculus textbook, all the

Understanding and Applying Basic Statistical Methods Using R, (PDF) exceptionally bridges the gap between advances in the statistical literature and methods routinely used by non-statisticians. Providing a conceptual basis for understanding the relative merits and applications of these methods, the ebook features modern insights and advances relevant to fundamental techniques in