Category: Textbooks

The first integrated program designed explicitly for the critical thinking course Moore & Parker’s Critical Thinking, 12th Edition, (PDF) teaches college students the skills they require in order to think for themselves — skills they will call upon in this program in other college courses and in the world that

A solid foundation in the basics of C++ programming will allow readers to create efficient, elegant code ready for any production environment Learning basic logic and fundamental programming techniques is essential for new programmers to succeed. A distinctive fundamentals-first approach and clear, concise writing style characterize Liang’s Introduction to Programming

A brief introduction to the chemistry and design principles behind significant metal-organic frameworks and related porous materials Reticular chemistry has been used to synthesize new classes of porous materials that are successfully used for myriad applications in areas like gas separation, energy, catalysis, and electronics. Introduction to Reticular Chemistry (PDF)

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the

According to Russellian monism, an alternative to the familiar theories in the philosophy of mind that combines attractive components of physicalism and dualism, the matter has intrinsic properties that both constitute consciousness and serve as categorical bases for the dispositional properties described in physics. Consciousness in the Physical World: Perspectives