Category: Textbooks

An exclusive alternative to more traditional, encyclopedic introductory textbooks, Anthropology: What Does It Mean to Be Human 4th Edition (PDF) takes a question-oriented approach that includes cutting-edge theory and new ways of looking at important contemporary issues such as human rights, power, and inequality. With a total of sixteen chapters,

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,

Digital Signal Processing: Fundamentals and Applications, 3rd Edition, (PDF) not only introduces students to the basic principles of DSP, but it also offers a working knowledge that they take with them into their engineering careers. Many informative, worked examples are used to illustrate the material, and the use of mathematics

Explore cultural anthropology and its relevance in today’s world with Susan Andreatta and Gary Ferraro’s CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE, 10th Edition (PDF). This contemporary ebook provides very interesting real-world examples and applications of the practices and principles of anthropology, helping students and readers appreciate other cultures as well as

Using Parkin/Powell/Matthews’ Economics, 10th European Edition, (PDF), you can start to think like an economist! Economics touches almost every aspect of life, from taxes to house prices, climate change to terrorism, wages, to how much time to spend studying! Thinking like an economist will enable you to evaluate economic policies,