Category: Textbooks

Drugs, Addiction, and the Brain (PDF) explores the cellular, molecular, and neurocircuitry systems in the brain that are responsible for drug addiction. Common neurobiological elements are emphasized that offer novel insights into how the brain facilitates the acute rewarding effects of drugs of abuse and how it alters during the

Today’s practitioners and researchers are looking, now more than ever, at the ethical issues that are raised through the practice of social work and social services. As such, it is crucial that they are up-to-date on the latest data on how to address, manage, and overcome ethical issues in their

The supply of petroleum continues to decrease at an alarming rate, yet it is the source of a range of products — from diesel to gasoline to rubber, plastic, and synthetic fiber. Critical to the future of this commodity is that we learn to use it more efficiently and judiciously.

The ebook Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging (PDF) introduces aspects of Bayesian computing in nuclear imaging. The textbook provides an introduction to Bayesian statistics and concepts and is highly focused on the computational aspects of Bayesian data analysis of photon-limited data acquired in tomographic measurements. Basic statistical concepts, elements of

Communicating ideas in a user-friendly style, this book has been designed for a course in Applied Algebra. Discrete Mathematics, (PDF/ePub) includes basic algebraic structures, graph algorithms, coding theory and cryptography. It will be most suitable for senior undergraduates and beginning graduate students in computer science and mathematics as also to