Category: Textbooks

The practical, comprehensive guide to applying cybersecurity best practices and standards in real environments In Effective Cybersecurity, (PDF), William Stallings introduces the operational procedures, technology, and management practices needed for successful cybersecurity. Stallings makes extensive use of standards and best practices documents that are commonly used to guide or mandate

Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction (PDF) evaluates 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interferences of interplanetary travel, as-yet uninvented technology, or other science fiction elements that offer hope for rescue or long-term survival. Climate change fiction as a type of apocalyptic and

Engineering Dynamics 2.0 (PDF) offers a new approach to learning the dynamics of particles and rigid bodies at an intermediate to advanced level. There are three prominent features of this approach. First, the primary focus is to obtain the equations of motion of dynamical systems and to solve them numerically.

A newly updated and expanded Principles of Turbomachinery, 2nd edition (in PDF) that combines theory and applications of turbomachinery while covering several different types of turbomachinery. In mechanical engineering, turbomachinery describes machines that transfer energy between a fluid and a rotor, including compressors, turbines, and pumps. Aiming for a unified

Cold Fusion: Advances in Condensed Matter Nuclear Science, (PDF) provides a comprehensive description of the current technological approaches in cold fusion or low energy nuclear reaction engineering. It manages the materials, chemistry, physics, and various processes involved in cold fusion, and offers a critical analysis of obtained theoretical and experimental