Category: Textbooks

With a combination of up-to-the-minute examples, cutting-edge research, and the latest available data, Essentials of Sociology 6th edition (PDF) by the star author team (Richard P. Appelbaum, Deborah Carr, Mitchell Duneier, and Anthony Giddens) gets sociology students thinking sociologically about what they are seeing in the news and on their

This etextbook, Blank’s Basics of Engineering Economy 2nd edition (PDF), covers the basic techniques and applications of engineering economy for all disciplines in the engineering profession. The writing style emphasizes crisp, brief coverage of the technique or principle discussed in order to reduce the time taken to present and grasp the

Along with the progressively important runtime engines prevalent in our daily-life computing, there is a strong demand from the software community for a concrete presentation on the design and implementation of modern virtual machines, including the JavaScript engine, Java virtual machine and Android execution engine. The community anticipates seeing not

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

The textbook “Nutritional Epidemiology 3rd edition PDF” is intended for those who wish to understand the complex relationships between diet and risks of important diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer. It is aimed both at researchers engaged in the unraveling of these complex relationships and at readers of the