Category: Textbooks

International Human Resource Management Edwards & Rees, 3rd edition. This engaging PDF etextbook offers a readable introduction to International Human Resource Management. It explores the international dimensions of managing human resources, with a focus on comparative HRM and multinational organizations. It tackles the issues raised by cross-national differences in HRM

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

Why Translation Matters (ePub/Mobi) debates for the cultural importance of translation and for a more nuanced and encompassing appreciation of the translator’s role. As the praised translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, “My intention is to encourage a new consideration of a sphere of literature that is usually ignored,

A practical introduction to the engineering science and mathematics needed for engineering study and practice. John Bird’s Science and Mathematics for Engineering, 6th Edition, (PDF) is an introductory textbook that assumes no previous background in engineering. This latest new sixth edition includes the fundamental scientific knowledge that all trainee engineers

Hoffman and Bateson’s Services Marketing: Concepts, Strategies, and Cases, 4th edition (PDF) examines the use of services marketing as a competitive tool from a uniquely broad perspective. The textbook explores services marketing not only as an essential focus for service firms but also as a source of competitive advantage for