Category: Textbooks

Eye-grabbing learning modules get college students straight to the important concepts Contemporary Human Geography, 3rd edition, (PDF) is a beautifully crafted, modular springboard into important human and cultural geography concepts, designed for the contemporary geography student. This brief, innovative textbook examines current human geography in the bold visual style that

Material Culture in Russia and the USSR (PDF) comprises some of the most cutting-edge scholarships across history, anthropology, and material and cultural studies relating to Russia and the Soviet Union, from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. Material culture in Russia and the USSR holds a particularly important role, as

Autocratization in post-Cold War Political Regimes, (PDF) deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, system change towards autocracy. While these processes are increasing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a comparatively understudied phenomenon, especially its latest manifestations. In this volume, the authors provide one of the first cross-regional

Algorithms play a key role both in the theory and in the practice of computing. The aim of the authors was to write a textbook that would not belittle the subject but would still be readable by most students on their own. Algorithms: Design and Analysis (PDF) includes over 120

The essential reference tool for the innovative science of evolutionary psychology Why is the mind made the way it is? How does input from the environment cooperate with the mind to produce behavior? These are the big, one-sided questions that the field of evolutionary psychology pursues to explore. The Handbook