Category: Textbooks

Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation, (PDF) defines the roles actuators play in robotics and their inadequacy in emerging new robotic applications, such as human co-working robots and wearable devices where compliance and compactness are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this wbook, provide advantages like displacement scale,

Argument through problem-solving Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings, 11th Edition, (PDF) has maintained its reputation as a front-runner in argumentation through 10 editions, and that’s no accident. Authors Bean, Ramage,  and Johnson illustrate argument as a process of inquiry and a way of persuasion — not as a pro/con

Legal Environment of Business A Managerial Approach: Theory to Practice, 3rd Edition (PDF) emphasizes connecting the gap between understanding legal doctrines that influence the business environment and how business managers and owners use legal insight to restrict liability and manage risk. Its distinct approach emphasizes on using teaching features simulations

Politics and Rhetoric, (PDF) draws together in a broad and highly accessible way relevant ideas from discourse analysis, classical rhetoric revised to a modern setting, related issues in contemporary political theory, and many carefully chosen examples and issues from current politics. It will be important reading for all students of politics

Rosdahl’s Textbook of Basic Nursing, 11th Edition, (PDF) has been a very popular resource for LPN programs for more than 50 years with a comprehensive online resources package, an incredibly visual, clinically relevant, and readable presentation, and stimulating features that address critical thinking, NCLEX success, and transition to effective and