Category: Textbooks

Show college students that our world is profoundly mathematical. Robert Blitzer continues to inspire math students with his engaging approach to mathematics, making this beloved series the number one in the market year after year. Dr. Blitzer draws on his unique background in behavioral science and mathematics to present a wide

Provide the perfect storm of active learning tools and rich media The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology, 14th Edition, (PDF) continues to be the definitive introductory meteorology textbook, strengthening basic concepts with easy-to-grasp, daily examples. Authors Lutgens and Tarbuck provide meteorology with a friendly, mostly non-technical narrative, timely coverage of

Modern analytical theories of fatigue combined with a knowledge of processing effects on metals make up the complete basis for designing machine parts that are free from unanticipated failure. Fatigue Design: Life Expectancy of Machine Parts (PDF) offers the tools and the information needed for optimal design. It stresses practical

Microbial ecology is the study of relations among microbes in natural environments and their roles in food web dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and the evolution of life. Microbes are the most plentiful organisms in the biosphere and facilitate many critical reactions in elemental cycles and biogeochemical reactions. Because they are vital

For more than twenty centuries, from ancient Greece the ideal of natural law has been appealed to in Western moral and legal philosophy as a grounding for ethics and jurisprudence, based on capacities of a common “human nature”. From the early medieval advent of “Christendom”, it was embedded within theistic