Category: Textbooks

The revised Sitaraman and Friedman’s Essentials of Gastroenterology 2nd edition (PDF) provides a concise and highly practical guide to gastroenterology. The textbook covers every major disorder likely to be encountered during both clinical practice and in GI training. It also offers a handbook for preparing for Board examinations (e.g., Internal Medicine

What is cultural anthropology, and how can it explain or even help resolve contemporary human problems? Luis A. Vivanco and Robert L. Welsch’s Cultural Anthropology: Asking Questions About Humanity, 2nd Edition, (PDF) uses a questions based approach for teaching college students how to think anthropologically, helping them view cultural issues

The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality (PDF/Mobi) for ethnic and race relations courses, is written by 3 leading scholars — Rodney D. Coates, Abby L. Ferber, and  David L. Brunsma — and reflects a very contemporary way of looking at minorities, race, and intergroup relations. Older textbooks use

Agricultural Internet of Things and Decision Support for Smart Farming, (PDF) shows how a set of key enabling technologies (KET) related to agronomic management, data mining, remote and proximal sensing, decision-making and automation can be efficiently combined in one system. Chapters include how KETs enable real-time monitoring of soil conditions, site-specific

The design of structures in general, and prestressed concrete structures in particular, requires considerably more information than is contained in building codes. A sound understanding of structural behaviour at all stages of loading is essential. This textbook presents a detailed description and explanation of the behaviour of prestressed concrete members