Category: Textbooks

Motivates readers with a top-down, layered approach to computer networking. Unique among computer networking textbooks, the popular Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 7th edition (PDF) by James Kurose and Keith Ross builds on the expert authors’ long tradition of teaching this complex subject through a layered approach in a “top-down

The eBook by Harley and Miller, Zoology 10th edition (PDF) continues to offer students an introductory general zoology textbook that is manageable in size and adaptable to a variety of course formats. It is a principles-oriented textbook written for the non-majors or the combined course, presented at the sophomore or

Written by 2 of the leading scholars in film studies, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, the eBook Film History: An Introduction 4th edition (ePub/PDF) is a comprehensive global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film from comedy and drama to documentary and experimental. Events and concepts

Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation, (PDF) defines the roles actuators play in robotics and their inadequacy in emerging new robotic applications, such as human co-working robots and wearable devices where compliance and compactness are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this wbook, provide advantages like displacement scale,

Patients are starting to benefit from antibody-based, cellular, and vaccine approaches that are useful against genetically varied and therapy-resistance cancers. BCG immunotherapy is now being used as a first-line treatment for human bladder cancer and the introduction of prophylactic vaccination against HPV cancers and Hepatitis B is starting to show