Category: Textbooks

Radiation Protection in Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology (PDF) focuses on the professional, operational, and regulatory aspects of radiation protection. Advances in radiation medicine have resulted in new modalities and procedures, some of which have significant potential to cause serious harm. Examples include radiologic procedures that require very long fluoroscopy

Authoritative, comprehensive, systematic coverage of the latest topics in crime scene investigation – Using a systematic approach, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, 4th Edition (PDF), outlines techniques that help investigators answer the critical when, who, and what questions of crime scene investigations. With a focus on crime scene processing, the ebook

Renewable Energy, Combined Edition, (PDF) starts with a review of our past dependence on fossil fuels as our key energy source and our future needs to change how our energy is produced and utilized due to reducing resources and environmental impact. Synthesis Lectures on Renewable Energy Technologies The first volume

Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory (PDF/ePub) is designed to introduce college students with no background in formal theory to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. This accessible textbook covers the essential aspects of game theory while keeping the students constantly in touch with why

This advanced undergraduate Analytical Mechanics (PDF) textbook begins with the Lagrangian formulation of Analytical Mechanics and then passes directly to the Hamiltonian formulation and the canonical equations, with constraints incorporated through Lagrange multipliers. Hamilton’s Principle and the canonical equations remain the basis of the remainder of the text. Topics considered