Category: Textbooks

Interested in a practical outline of the human service profession? If the response’s yes, then An Introduction To Human Services 9th Edition (PDF) is for you. Drawing on their broad experience, the authors define human services, study the historical development of advocacy, and examine service delivery models and processes. They

Extensively reorganized and rewritten, the new Evolution 4th edition (PDF) — featuring a new coauthor: Mark Kirkpatrick (The University of Texas at Austin) — offers additional expertise in evolutionary genomics and genetics, the fastest-developing area of evolutionary biology. Directed toward an undergraduate audience, the PDF etextbook emphasizes the interplay between

Making a successful video game is very difficult. The Gamer’s Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design (PDF) will help you overcome many related problems. Even games that are successful at launch may fail to engage and retain players in the long term due to issues with

Fundamentals of Gas Lift Engineering: Well Design and Troubleshooting discusses the important topic of oil and gas reservoirs as they continue to naturally decline, deplete, and mature, and how more oil and gas companies are trying to divert their investments in artificial lift methods to help prolong their assets. While

A. Townsend Peterson, one of the forerunners of ecological niche modeling, offers a synthesis that illuminates new and more helpful infectious disease mapping methods. His work, Mapping Disease Transmission Risk, (PDF) – the peak of twelve years of refinement – breaks new ground by incorporating biogeographic and ecological factors with