Category: Textbooks

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in

Geometry: The Line and the Circle (PDF) is an undergraduate textbook with a strong narrative that is written at the appropriate level of rigor for an upper-level survey or axiomatic course in geometry. Starting with Euclid’s Elements, the ebook connects topics in non-Euclidean and Euclidean geometry in an intentional and

Collaborative Consultation in the Schools, 5th Edition, (PDF) looks at the consultation process as a collaborative, problem-solving endeavour designed to help practitioners help others in their work with students who have, or are at risk for, learning or behavioral problems. With an emphasis on having consultants bridge the gap between

Market Assessment with OR Applications, (PDF) presents an understanding of the concept of marketing and its part in business and public organization including the requirement for scientific marketing analysis. It includes a number of mathematical models applied for better decision making, promotional decisions in the presence of competition, and sales

Illustrates how R may be used successfully to solve problems in quantitative finance Applied Probabilistic Calculus for Financial Engineering: An Introduction Using R (PDF) provides R recipes for asset allocation and portfolio optimization problems. It begins by introducing all the necessary probabilistic and statistical foundations, before moving on to topics