Category: Textbooks

Taylor’s Power Law: Order and Pattern in Nature (PDF) is a broad synthesis of this ubiquitous property of natural and man-made phenomena. This stimulating and approachable work surveys the non-biological and biological empirical data describes the statistical uses of Taylor’s power law (TPL) and its relationship to statistical distributions, exposes

Statistical Regression Modeling with R (PDF) offers a concise point of reference for the most commonly used regression methods. It starts with linear and nonlinear regression for logistic regression for binomially distributed data, normally distributed data, and Poisson regression and negative binomial regression for count data. It then moves to

Goff’s Criminal Justice in Canada, 8th Edition (PDF) provides students with a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system and identifies many significant issues, crime control policies, and Supreme Court decisions that will and have a significant impact on our criminal justice system. As with previous editions, the eighth edition

The Practice of Research in Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6th Edition continues to show the vital role research plays by integrating in-depth, real-world case studies with a comprehensive discussion of research methods. By coupling research techniques with practical examples from the field, Ronet D. Bachman and Russell K. Schutt equip

For 25 years, Lewis’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 5th Edition, (PDF) has been the foundation of every child and adolescent psychiatrist’s library. Now, three colleagues of Dr. Lewis at the world-renowned Yale Child Study Center, have extensively updated and revised this foundational textbook for its long-awaited fifth edition, the first in