Category: Textbooks

Featuring an engaging, conversational, and student-friendly writing style, The Process of Social Research, 2nd Edition, (PDF) introduces college students to the basics of research. It puts a unique emphasis on the process with flowcharts in each chapter that offer step-by-step guides for conducting social research and evaluating the research of

Principles of Stormwater Management (PDF) presents all aspects of stormwater management: the hydrologic cycle standards applicable to discharges, regulatory issues, sources of contaminants, atmospheric deposition, best management practices, and health/environmental impacts. It includes technical details of the modern treatment of stormwater, run-on, the emerging issues of atmospheric deposition, and snowmelt,

Taxonomic Guide to Infectious Diseases: Understanding the Biologic Classes of Pathogenic Organisms, 2nd Edition, (PDF) handles the intricacy of clinical microbiology by assigning every infectious organism to one of 40+ taxonomic classes and offering a description of the defining traits that apply to all the organisms within every class. This

By integrating knowledge from pharmacology, molecular medicine, microbiology, and engineering, researchers from Europe, Asia, and the U.S. cover a broad spectrum of existing and potential antimicrobial medications and treatments. Novel Antimicrobial Agents and Strategies, (PDF) is an inclusive survey ranging from small-molecule antibiotics to antimicrobial peptides and their engineered mimetics,

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, 3rd Edition (PDF), provides a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts together with practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. This highly awaited 3rd edition of the most acclaimed work on data mining and machine