Category: Textbooks

Help college students and readers connect social policy to the daily practice of social work The Policy-Based Profession 7th Edition (PDF) offers university students with a process for analyzing policies that will help them with their jobs in social work. It provides a detailed foundation for policy analysis, including chapters

Measuring exergy losses in the energy supply system of buildings shows the potential for energy improvement, which cannot be exposed using conventional energy analysis. Thermoeconomics integrates economic and thermodynamic analysis by implementing the concept of cost (an economic concept) to exergy, as exergy is a thermodynamic property suitable for this

As Principles of Animal Behavior, 4th Edition, (PDF) makes clear, the tapestry of animal behavior is created from weaving all of these mechanisms into a beautiful whole. With Dugatkin’s beautifully illustrated, thorough, and up-to-date fourth edition, we are able to respect that beauty anew. Since the last edition of this

Penned by well-known experts in the field, this first systematic overview of multiferroic heterostructures condenses the latest developments, first presenting the fundamental mechanisms, including multiferroic materials synthesis, structures and mechanisms, before moving on to look at device applications. The resulting text, Integrated Multiferroic Heterostructures and Applications (PDF) provides insight and

The Matrix of Race: Social Construction, Intersectionality, and Inequality (PDF/Mobi) for ethnic and race relations courses, is written by 3 leading scholars — Rodney D. Coates, Abby L. Ferber, and  David L. Brunsma — and reflects a very contemporary way of looking at minorities, race, and intergroup relations. Older textbooks use