Category: Textbooks

Prestressed Concrete Designer’s Handbook, 3rd edition (PDF) provides the structural designer with comprehensive guidance on prestressed concrete and its effective use, covering materials, behaviour, analysis, and design of prestressed elements. It includes numerous examples, design charts and details of post-tensioning systems.

The Politics of Education, 2nd Edition, (PDF) offers an introduction to both the political dimensions of schooling and the politics of modern educational reform debates. The ebook offers undergraduates and starting graduate students in education an understanding of various dimensions of the contested field of education, speaking of questions of

Political Decision-Making in Switzerland, 2015 edition, (PDF) provides a detailed study of the decision-making processes of the early 2000s reveals that the Swiss consensus democracy has transformed considerably. Power relations have changed, the clash has increased, coalitions have become more unsteady and outputs less expectable. Still, these challenges to consensus

The Philosophy and Science of Predictive Processing, (PDF)  explores how predictive processing, which debates that our brains are continuously generating and updating hypotheses about our external conditions, sheds new light on the nature of the mind. It demonstrates how it is similar to and expands other theoretical approaches that focus

Introduction to Aircraft Structural Analysis, 2nd Edition, is an essential resource for learning aircraft structural analysis. Based on the author’s best-selling textbook Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, this brief ebook covers the basics of structural analysis as applied to aircraft structures. Coverage of energy methods, elasticity, and virtual work sets