Category: Textbooks

This ebook, Scientific Pollyannaism: From Inquisition to Positive Psychology (PDF) argues that the story of the orphan girl Pollyanna (namely, her strategy of playing the “glad games” to manage abuse, loss, and social prejudice) serves as a framework for scrutinizing historical forms of Western scientific Pollyannaism. The author explores Pollyannaism

For courses in banking and money, or general economics. A unified outline for understanding financial markets Mishkin’s The Economics of Money, Banking and Financial Markets, 12th Global Edition, (PDF) brings a fresh perspective to today’s major questions around financial policy. Influenced by his time as Governor of the Federal Reserve,

Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals: Structures and Physical Properties (PDF) offers insight into the recent developments in the research on liquid crystals formed by bent-shaped mesogens. After a historical introduction, the expert authors discuss various kinds of mesophase structures formed by bent-shaped molecules. This ebook Bent-Shaped Liquid Crystals dedicates most of its

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction (PDF) evaluates 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interferences of interplanetary travel, as-yet uninvented technology, or other science fiction elements that offer hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a type of apocalyptic and

With the most coverage of the writing technique of any linguistic writing guide, Steps To Writing Well (PDF) has assisted thousands of students learn to write effective academic essays. Jean Wyrick’s text is known for its student-friendly, easy tone and the way it gives rhetorical strategies for composing essays in