Category: Textbooks

Practising Italian Grammar, (PDF) offers a concise set of varied exercises for developing a greater practical awareness of the language. It is designed as a companion volume to A Reference Grammar of Modern Italian by Maiden and Robustelli, but it can also be used on its own by anyone wishing to

This bestselling etextbook, titled “Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry 6th edition”  gives college students a less rigorous, less mathematical way of learning inorganic chemistry, using the periodic table as a context for exploring chemical properties and uncovering relationships between elements in different groups. The awesome authors help chem students understand the relevance

How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age 7th edition (PDF) is a concise and engaging textbook that teaches the basic principles of good reasoning through an examination of widely held beliefs about the supernatural, the paranormal and the mysterious. By explaining what distinguishes knowledge from

Gilbert Strang’s textbooks have changed the entire approach to learning linear algebra — away from abstract vector spaces to specific examples of the 4 fundamental subspaces: the column space and nullspace of A and A’. Strang’s new Introduction to Linear Algebra, 5th edition, (PDF) has become more than a textbook

Race, Immigration, and Social Control, (PDF) discusses the issues surrounding ethnicity, race and immigrant status in U.S. policing, with an exceptional focus on immigrant groups’ perceptions of the police and factors that form their attitudes toward the police. It focuses on the views of three rapidly growing yet understudied ethnic