Category: Textbooks

Nobel laureate Ernest O. Lawrence and renowned physicist Edward Teller founded the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1952. A new ideas incubator, the laboratory was at the heart of nuclear testing and the development of supercomputers, lasers, and other major technological innovations of the second half of the twentieth century.

The dream of control over human behavior is an old dream, shared by many cultures. In Derksen’s Histories of Human Engineering: Tact and Technology (PDF), this fascinating account of the histories of human engineering describes how technologies of managing groups and individuals were developed from the 19th century to the

From the ebook’s trademark “toolkit” approach to the new chapter on the Environment and Sustainability, all features of Ken Guest’s Essentials of Cultural Anthropology, 3rd Edition, (PDF) work together to motivate college students to use the tools of anthropology to see the world in a novel way and to come to class

Practical, easy to read textbook with a managerial approach to operations management Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains 12th edition (PDF) provides college students with a comprehensive framework for addressing operational process and supply chain issues and uses a very systemized approach while focusing on issues of current interest. The

Understanding the Religions of the World: An Introduction offers a new approach to the study of religions which moves away from the purely descriptive and instead helps college students understand how religions actually ‘work’. Covering all the main faith traditions, it combines contemporary beliefs and practices, historical context, and original