Category: Textbooks

After the publication of the popular first edition, planetary and stellar scientists have produced numerous new theories, observations, and interpretations, including the “demotion” of our previous ninth planet Pluto as a dwarf planet. Including all of these new discoveries, Planetary Science: The Science of Planets around Stars, 2nd Edition, (PDF)

Gregory Pence’s Medical Ethics: Accounts of Groundbreaking Cases, 8th edition, (PDF) provides an in-depth study of Bioethics authored by a pioneer in the field. This excellent program covers some of the most well-known bioethics cases and the ethical issues those cases present. It also gives an overview of current issues

Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems under Attacks, (PDF), embraces a systematic view of the control systems in cyber-physical systems including the security control of the optimal control system, quantify the effect of the Denial-of-Service attacks on the optimal control system, security control of the non-cooperative game system and the

For over three decades, Understanding Human Communication, 13th Edition, (PDF) has been the successful text for the Human Communication course. Solidly grounded in scholarship, it offers students with the insights and skills to do well in today’s changing world. This new thirteenth edition features updated coverage of culture, social media,

Written by the renowned expert in the field, this textbook reviews the major new developments in envelope models and methods An Introduction to Envelopes: Dimension Reduction for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Statistics (PDF) provides an outline of the theory and methods of envelopes, a class of procedures for increasing efficiency