Category: Textbooks

Rice and Wilson’s Gateways to Understanding Music(PDF) explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, jazz, popular music, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music-making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective.

From debt, climate change, and refugee crises to energy security, terrorism, and environmental disasters, the events that lead nightly newscasts and guide public policy demand an international perspective. In the 20th century, the world sought solutions through formal institutions of international governance such as the World Bank, the United Nations,

Bhattacharya’s Metal Oxide Glass Nanocomposites (PDF) covers recent developments in metal oxide glass nanocomposites, including a discussion of synthesis methods, properties, characterization methods, and the most promising applications. The ebook discusses electronic and ionic conduction mechanisms of this material system with an eye towards device applications. It also provides a

Still the only ebook offering comprehensive coverage of the analysis and design of both API equipment and ASME pressure vessels. This Structural Analysis and Design of Process Equipment 3rd edition (PDF) of the classic guide to the analysis and design of process equipment has been thoroughly updated to reflect current practices

Health: The Basics, Mastering Health Edition 12th edition focuses health coverage on real-world topics that have the greatest impact on readers’ lives, keeping individuals hooked on learning and living well. Along with dynamic new interactive content and media, this book retains its hallmarks of currency, attractive design, accessibility, focus on