Category: Textbooks

Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (PDF) connects the gap between ecological and economic theory and practice. Its main emphasis is on how the principles of the Austrian School of economics could enhance the validity of Ecosystem Services. The idea of ‘Ecosystem Services’ is a relatively latest innovation in environmental thought.

Undergraduate engineering students require good mathematics skills. Brian Vick‘s Applied Engineering Mathematics, (PDF) assists this need by placing a strong focus on visualization and the methods and tools needed across the whole of engineering. The visual approach is stressed, and excessive proofs and derivations are avoided. The visual images describe

Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics, 3rd Edition (PDF) is a clear and detailed introduction to quantum mechanics and its applications in physics and chemistry. All required mathematics is clearly explained, including intermediate steps in derivations, and concise review of the maths is included in the textbook at appropriate points. Most of

Significant use has been made of the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice because it is the principal judicial organ of the world’s most universal international organization, the United Nations (UN). Moreover, article 103 of the Charter of the UN makes the obligations in this treaty superior any other

Of major environmental, economic and social importance, Industrial Microbiology: An Introduction (PDF) involves the utilization of microorganisms in the production of a wide range of products, including enzymes, beverages, foods, fuels, chemical feedstocks, and pharmaceuticals, and clean technologies employed for waste treatment and pollution control. Aimed at undergraduates studying the applied