Category: Textbooks

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in

Prepare. Practice. Review. Michael Sullivan’s College Algebra, 11th Edition, (PDF) time-tested approach emphasizes students on the fundamental skills they need for the course. The 11e continues to change to meet the needs of today’s mathematics students. This series grooms and supports college students with access to help, where and when they

Written by the foremost specialists in human intelligence. It not only includes traditional topics, like the nature, measurement, and development of intelligence, but also modern research into intelligence and video games, emotional intelligence, collective intelligence, and leadership intelligence. In a field of study that has been fraught with ideological differences,

Transportation Engineering, A Practical Approach to Highway Design, Traffic Analysis, and Systems Operations (PDF) clearly describes the several aspects of transportation systems planning, design, operation, and maintenance. Transportation Engineering explores key topics, including geometric design for roadway alignment; flow, and control; traffic demand, and highway and intersection capacity. Emerging issues

Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity (PDF) offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars,