Category: Textbooks

Rubenstein & Alcock’s Animal Behavior 11th edition (PDF) is an updated, integrative and comparative overview of how and why animals as diverse as humans and insects behave the way that they do, linking behaviors to the genes, brain, and hormones, as well as to the surrounding social and ecological environments.

Building off the success of Dennis Zill and Jacqueline Dewar’s popular Essentials version, the new Precalculus with Calculus Previews, 6th edition, (PDF) continues to include all of the outstanding learning tools and features found in the original textbook while incorporating additional topics of coverage that some courses may require. With

Cold Fusion: Advances in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, (PDF) provides a comprehensive description of the current technological approaches in cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction engineering. It manages the materials, chemistry, physics, and various processes involved in cold fusion, and offers a critical analysis of obtained theoretical and experimental

This volume of Pediatric Neurogastroenterology: Gastrointestinal Motility and Functional Disorders in Children, 2nd Edition, PDF provides a comprehensive and up-to-date practical guide and theoretical review on pediatric gastrointestinal motility and functional disorders. The latest edition includes extensively revised and new chapters to reflect the rapidly growing field of pediatric neurogastroenterology.

Measuring exergy losses in the energy supply system of buildings shows the potential for energy improvement, which cannot be exposed using conventional energy analysis. Thermoeconomics integrates economic and thermodynamic analysis by implementing the concept of cost (an economic concept) to exergy, as exergy is a thermodynamic property suitable for this