Category: Textbooks

Remote Sensing of Geomorphology, Volume 23, (PDF) discusses the new range of remote-sensing techniques (lidar, structure from motion photogrammetry, advanced satellite platforms) that has guided to a dramatic increase in terrain information, and as such offered new opportunities for a better understanding of surface morphology and related Earth surface processes.

“A film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own.” Since 1979 Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell, and now Co-Author Jeff Smith’s Film Art: An Introduction 12th edition (PDF) has been the most widely respected and the best-selling introduction to the unbiased analysis of cinema. Taking

This is the first book-length examination of the influence of Leo Strauss’ immigration to the United States had on this thinking. Adi Armon knits together a close reading of unpublished seminars Strauss gave at the University of Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s with an interpretation of his later works,

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a ‘machine that would give you any experience you desired’. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the

Mechanics of Materials, 8th Edition, (PDF) offers a precise presentation of subjects illustrated with several engineering examples that engineering students understand and relate to theory and application. The tried and true methodology for handing out material gives students the best opportunity to succeed in this course. From the comprehensive examples,