Category: Textbooks

Mechanical Ventilation in Emergency Medicine (PDF) discusses mechanical ventilation in emergency settings, covering the management of patients from the time of intubation until transfer to the ICU. It offers an introduction to key concepts of physiology pertinent to mechanical ventilation along with a review of the core evidence-based principles of

Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy 2nd edition (PDF) discusses some ways mathematical physicists and mathematicians do their work and the subject matters they uncover and fashion. The conventions they adopt, what they can prove and calculate about the physical world, the subject areas they delimit, and the analogies they

Exterior Algebras: Elementary Tribute to Grassmann’s Ideas, (PDF) provides the theoretical basis for exterior computations. It first talks about the important question of constructing (pseudo)-Euclidian Grassmmann’s algebras. Then, it shows how the latter can be used to treat a few basic, though important, questions of linear algebra, such as co-linearity,

Bugs Rule! provides a lively introduction to the biology and natural history of insects and their non-insect cousins, such as spiders, scorpions, and centipedes. This richly illustrated textbook features more than 830 color photos, a concise overview of the basics of entomology, and numerous sidebars that highlight and explain key

Hershel Raff (Medical College of Wisconsin), Eric Widmaier (Boston University), and Kevin Strang (University of Wisconsin) have taken on the challenge of preserving the strengths and reputation of Vander’s Human Physiology: The Mechanisms of Body Function. Moving outside the listing of only facts, it emphasizes the causal chains of events that