Category: Textbooks

Many investors believe that success in investing is either clairvoyance or luck. In Rational Investing: The Subtleties of Asset Management (PDF), asset manager Jacques Lussier and finance professor Hugues Langlois present the current state of asset management and explain the conundrum of luck versus skill. The heart of Rational Investing is

Philosophers, criminologists, legal scholars, psychiatrists, and psychologists have long asked vital questions about punishment: What is its reason? What theories help us better comprehend its nature? Are there effective alternatives to punishment? Is punishment just? How can empirical data from the sciences help us better understand punishment? What are the

The most comprehensive theoretical foundation available Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings, Concise 7th Edition, (PDF) integrates four different methods to argument: the classical concepts of logos, ethos, and pathos, the enthymeme as a logical structure, the Toulmin system, and stasis theory. Emphasizing argument as dialogue in search of solutions

The gold-standard textbook in dermatology – completely updated for today’s practice by an all-new editorial board. Encyclopedic in scope, yet skillfully edited to make it easy to read and understand, this trusted classic delivers everything clinicians need to know about skin, skin symptoms, and skin diseases. Presented in full color, Fitzpatrick’s

David Bock, Paul Velleman, and Richard De Veaux wrote Intro Stats, 4th Edition, (PDF) with the goal that instructors and students have as much fun reading it as they did writing it. Maintaining a humorous, conversational, and informal writing style, this new edition involves students from the first page. The