Category: Textbooks

How Peace Operations Work: Power, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness (PDF) offers a new approach to studying the effectiveness of peace operations. It asks not whether peace operations work or why, but how: when a peace operation attains its goals, what causal processes are at work? By determining how peace operations work, this

Introduction to Robust Estimation and Hypothesis Testing, 3rd Edition, (PDF) emphasizes the practical applications of modern, robust methods that can greatly improve our chances of detecting true differences among groups and true associations among variables. This revised ebook offers a thorough explanation of the foundation of robust methods, including the

Hands-on AutoCAD 2017 instruction for a real-world workflow AutoCAD 2017 and AutoCAD LT 2017 Essentials (PDF) is the unique task-based tutorial designed for both college students and the professional AutoCAD user. Straightforward, concise explanations and real-world, hands-on exercises provide an authoritative, easy-to-follow guide to the platform’s core features and functions.

Fully updated and revised,  Computer Science Illuminated, 6th Edition, (PDF) retains the accessibility and detailed coverage of prior editions, while including all-new material on cutting-edge matters in computer science. Authored by the award-winning John Lewis  and Nell Dale, Computer Science Illuminated’s innovative and unique layered approach moves through the stages

An overview of psychology that stresses critical thinking, gender, and culture Wade/Tavris’ Psychology, 12th Edition, (PDF) is designed to help college students learn to think like psychologists and to comprehend why scientific and critical thinking is so important to the decisions they make in their own lives. In keeping with