Category: Textbooks

This engaging and clear guide, Introducing Anthropology of Religion 2e introduces college students to main areas of the field and shows how to implement an anthropological approach to the study of religion in the contemporary world. Penned by an experienced teacher, it encompasses major traditional topics including definitions, beliefs, and

The significantly expanded and updated new 2nd edition of a widely used textbook on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize

Does being virtuous make you happy? In Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham, (PDF), Roger Crisp explores the answers to this ancient question offered by the so-called ‘British Moralists’, from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This

Social Marketing in Action, (PDF) presents students with real-world social marketing case studies from different countries and areas around the world, taking learners from classroom theory to practice. The main objective is to clearly portray to marketing students distinct, identifiable steps that are vital for successful social marketing campaigns. Essential

One of the best selling PDF eBooks, Organic Chemistry 10th edition by Dr. Francis Carey and Robert M. Giuliano has been designed to meet the needs of the “mainstream” 2-semester undergraduate organic chemistry course. This best-selling etextbook gives science students a solid understanding of organic chemistry by stressing how fundamental