Category: Textbooks

Tata’s Sentencing: A Social Process, (PDF) asks how we should make sense of sentencing when, despite huge efforts worldwide to analyze, critique, and reform it, it remains an enigma. Sentencing: A Social Process shows how both research and policy-thinking about sentencing are confined by a paradigm that presumes autonomous individualism,

American Government: Institutions and Policies, 16th Edition, (PDF) is a clear and approachable text for students trying to successfully understand the American government. It sets the benchmark for examining current issues in American politics, emphasizing the historical development of governmental procedures and policies, the importance of American governmental institutions, in

With the failure of economics to predict the recent economic crisis, the image of economics as a rigorous mathematical science has been subjected to increasing interrogation. One explanation for this failure is that the subject took a wrong turn in its historical trajectory, becoming too mathematical. Using the philosophy of

Progresses in Artificial Intelligence and Neural Systems, (PDF) offers an overview of the current improvements in artificial intelligence and neural nets. Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have shown great abilities in modeling, prediction, and recognition tasks supporting human–machine interaction. In the meantime, the issue of emotion has gotten increasing attention due

Essentials of Geology 13e uses dynamic media to bring geology to life From the renowned Lutgens/Tasa/Tarbuck team, the Essentials of Geology 13th Edition (PDF) continues to elevate the textbook’s readability, illustrations, and focus on basic principles. This revision incorporates a reliable, consistent framework for mastering the chapter concepts and structured