Category: Textbooks

Brief and career-focused, with cutting-edge topic coverage, the exciting new Criminal Justice In Action: The Core, 9th Edition (PDF) provides an accessible, applied, and real-world introduction to the field. Mesmerizing photos and an engaging magazine-like layout make this concise textbook ideal for a fast-paced course and visual learners. The ebook

Max Scheler’s Cognition and Work, (PDF) first appeared in German in 1926, only two years before his death. The first part of the ebook provides one of the earliest critical analyses of American pragmatism, an evaluation that would come to have a crucial impact on the reception of pragmatism in

With a combination of up-to-the-minute examples, cutting-edge research, and the latest available data, Essentials of Sociology 6th edition (PDF) by the star author team (Richard P. Appelbaum, Deborah Carr, Mitchell Duneier, and Anthony Giddens) gets sociology students thinking sociologically about what they are seeing in the news and on their

Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) has been a cause of both achievement and controversy for years, and it stays to be a hot-button issue all around the globe. It has made the US an energy-exporting country once again and kept the cost of gasoline low, for consumers and companies. However, it

A simple introduction to the technique and applications of x-ray absorption spectroscopy X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy is being applied to a widening set of disciplines. Applications began with solid-state physics and grew to materials science, biochemistry, chemistry, and geology. Now, they cut across engineering materials, environmental science, and national heritage —