Category: Textbooks

This ebook, A Minimalist Ontology of the Natural World (PDF) seeks to work out which commitments are minimally sufficient to obtain an ontology of the natural world that matches all of today’s well-established physical theories. We propose an ontology of the natural world that is defined only by 2 axioms:

As our economy evolves, hedge funds, investment banks and private equity groups cooperate and compete in different ways. Their recent innovations are analyzed and reported by David Stowell’s landmark ebook, Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, and Private Equity 3rd edition (PDF), which adds 3 new cases, significantly revisions of many chapters,

Cross-disciplinary and engaging, Practical Research: Planning and Design, 11th edition, (PDF) is an understand-it-yourself, do-it-yourself manual for planning and conducting research. Suitable for a wide variety of courses in basic research methodology, the textbook guides the students, step-by-step, from the selection of a problem, through the process of conducting authentic

Innovation in Health Informatics: A Smart Healthcare Primer, (PDF) explains how the latest advances in information and communication technologies have paved the way for new discoveries in healthcare. The ebook showcases current and prospective applications in a context defined by an imperative to provide patient-centered, efficient, and sustainable healthcare systems.

Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, 3rd Edition, (PDF) examines the history, structure, dynamics, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in a number of chosen countries. Designed for courses in comparative criminology, comparative criminal justice systems, and international criminal law, it explores systems in