Category: Textbooks

Concise, portable, and user-friendly, The Washington Manual® of Pediatrics, 2nd Edition (PDF), focuses on the essential information you need to know when caring for children in the hospital, emergency department, ICU, and subspecialty outpatient clinics. This practical reference presents brief, logical approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of common inpatient

Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty (PDF) examines the motives behind rejections of beauty regularly found within modern art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately alienating and ugly. It shows the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what

Genetic and Metabolic Engineering for Improved Biofuel Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass (PDF) defines the different features of biofuel production from lignocellulosic biomass. Each chapter offers different technological approaches for cost-effective liquid biofuel production from agroresidues/biomass. Two chapters include future direction and the potentials of biomass-based biofuel production at the industrial

Java Software Solutions, 7th Edition, (PDF) teaches a basic of programming techniques to promote well-designed object-oriented software. Published for its integration of small and large realistic examples, this worldwide best-selling text stresses building solid problem-solving and design skills to write high-quality programs. My Programming Lab, Pearson’s new online homework and

Across many disciplines of engineering, dynamic problems of structures are a significant concern. Aircraft engineers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, ocean engineers, and engineering students face these problems every day, and it is up to them systematically to comprehend the basic concepts, calculation principles and calculation methods of structural dynamics. Bai/Xu’s