Category: Textbooks

The Urban Forest: Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment, (PDF) emphasizes on urban “green infrastructure” – the interrelated web of vegetated spaces like parks,  street trees, and peri-urban forests that offer essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach represents the idea that these services, such as

Martin and Larkin’s Probiotics in Mental Health (PDF) explores the role of probiotics in a range of clinical presentations linked with significant psychopathology and enables a reassessment of how mental illness may be conceptualized within a coherent gut-brain model of health and wellbeing. Under the title of enhancing wellbeing rather

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,

Opening the Doors of Science – Conceptual Physical Science 6th Edition (PDF) by Hewitt et al, provides a conceptual overview of essential, basic topics in earth science, chemistry, physics, and astronomy with optional quantitative analyses. The best-selling expert team of authors focuses on concepts before computations. With its very friendly

Financial globalization coupled with the relaxation of constraints on capital flows between countries before the 2008 crisis, increased merger activities between the World’s largest stock exchanges. The financial crisis of 2008 had a grave impact on the development of equity markets, corporate financial stability, and corporate governance, and a multi-step