Category: Textbooks

Brief Java: Early Objects 9th Edition (PDF) emphasizes on the essentials of effective learning and is appropriate for a two-semester introduction to programming sequence. This text demands no prior programming experience and only a little amount of high school algebra. Classes and objects and classes from the standard library are

The significantly expanded and updated new 2nd edition of a widely used textbook on reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize

The descriptions and examples of wrong behaviors in sport in Modern Sport Ethics: A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition, (PDF) will challenge readers to reconsider how they view sport and question whether participating in sport builds character—especially at the amateur and youth levels. Identifies how ethical problems in sport influence sport

The latest classic 12th edition in the highly respected Cole/Swokowski precalculus series maintains the elements that have made it so popular with students and instructors alike: its exposition is clear, the time-tested exercise sets present a variety of applications, its neat layout is appealing, and the difficulty level of problems

Amusing, instructive, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and respected since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting trees and mountains across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More current generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of fact and whimsy,