Category: Textbooks

Addresses the Question Frequently Proposed to the Designer by Architects: “Can We Do This? Offering guidance on how to use code-based procedures while at the same time providing an understanding of why provisions are necessary, Tall Building Design: Steel, Concrete, and Composite Systems (PDF) methodically explores the structural behavior of steel,

A key goal of environmental research is to inform policy and decision-making. Though, environmental experts working at the interface between policy, science, and society face complex challenges, including how to recognize sources of disagreement over environmental issues, communicate uncertainties and limitations of knowledge, and handle controversial topics like genetic modification

Nivaldo Tro’s Chemistry: A Molecular Approach 4th edition (PDF) reinforces the development of 21st-century skills including data interpretation and analysis, problem-solving and quantitative reasoning, applying conceptual understanding to new situations, and peer-to-peer collaboration. Nivaldo Tro presents chemistry visually through multi-level images–macroscopic, molecular, and symbolic representations–helping readers see the connections between the

Navidi’s Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, 5th edition (PDF) stands out for its crystal clear presentation of applied statistics. The ebook takes a practical approach to methods of data analysis and statistical modeling that are most often used in scientific work. This latest 5th edition features a unique approach highlighted

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a ‘machine that would give you any experience you desired’. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the