Category: Textbooks

Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation, (PDF) defines the roles actuators play in robotics and their inadequacy in emerging new robotic applications, such as human co-working robots and wearable devices where compliance and compactness are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this wbook, provide advantages like displacement scale,

Critical Care Nursing Certification: Preparation, Review, and Practice Exams, 7th Edition (PDF) is a succint, step-by-step study package that includes everything nurses need to know to pass the examination administered by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN). Following the CCRN blueprint, coverage of every subject is weighted to show

An important resource for practitioners in infectious diseases and microbiology, studying for the new FRCPath Part 1 infection examination accredited by the Royal College of Pathologists, and apprentices sitting the membership exams of the Royal College of Physicians. More than 300 multiple choice questions in an exam-style Q&A format, Infectious

Provides a broad view of the current state and history of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This ebook, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art (PDF) covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid

A Primer of Population Genetics and Genomics 4th edition (PDF) has been completely updated and revised to provide a comprehensive yet concise introduction to the basic concepts of population genetics and genomics. Recent textbooks have tended to specialize in areas such as coalescent, molecular evolution, human population genetics, or genomics.