Category: Textbooks

The late Navjot Sodhi envisioned this ebook Conservation Biology: Voices from the Tropic (PDF) as a way to bring the perspectives of people who were actually working and living in the tropics to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics. 55 authors present their perspectives on the conservation

A comprehensive survey of boundary conditions as applied in antenna and microwave engineering, material physics, optics, and general electromagnetics research. Boundary conditions are essential for determining electromagnetic problems. Working with engineering problems, they provide analytic assistance in mathematical handling of electromagnetic structures and offer synthetic help for designing new electromagnetic

This thought-provoking ebook, The Biology of Beauty: The Science behind Human Attractiveness, (PDF) explores the science behind human attractiveness—the proportions, ratios, and other factors that to a large extent determine what we find “beautiful.” It’s said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but the latest scientific research

Abnormal Psychology: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach 4th edtion (PDF) portrays the human face of various psychological conditions, helping college students to understand that abnormal behavior is very complex and subject to many different forces. Best-selling authors Deborah Beidel, Melinda Stanley and  Cynthia Bulik — all active clinicians, researchers, and educators —

In Principles of Economics, 3rd edition, (PDF), esteemed authors Bob Frank, Ben Bernanke, Kate Antonovics, and Ori Heffetz present a streamlined offer of core concepts in introductory economics and reinforce them by applying and illustrating each in numerous contexts. With engaging questions, exercises and explanations, the authors help university students