Category: Textbooks

Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland (PDF) takes the reader on a trip into the lives and thoughts of Soviet hippies. In the face of repression and disapproval, they created a version of Western counterculture, competently adapting to, influencing, and shaping their late socialist environment. Flowers through Concrete takes

In the past 50 years, the theory and the methods of reliability analysis have developed significantly. Therefore, it is very essential for the reliability specialist to be informed of each reliability measure. Ram’s Reliability Engineering: Methods and Applications (PDF) will provide historical developments, applications, numerous examples, current advancements, and several

Handbook of Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics, 2nd Edition, (PDF) offers a comprehensive reference volume for mathematicians, engineers, computer scientists, in addition to students and reference librarians. The material is provided so that key information can be located and used quickly and easily. Every chapter includes a glossary. Individual topics are

Structural Dynamics with Applications in Earthquake and Wind Engineering, 2nd Edition, (PDF) offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of structural dynamics, highlighting practical issues and showing applications with a large number of worked-out examples. In the spirit of “learning by doing,” it motivates readers to apply immediately these methods

In a revised, updated, and considerably expanded new Sport, Theory and Social Problems, 2nd edition, (PDF) authors Adam White and Eric Anderson examine how the structure and culture of sport promotes injury, inequality, and complicity to authority at the non-elite levels of play in Anglo-American countries. By introducing college students