Category: Textbooks

Updated and revised with the latest epidemiologic research, the Life Cycle Nutrition: An Evidence-Based Approach, 2nd edition, (PDF) explores nutritional foundations and the growth, development, and normal functioning of folks through every stage of life. With subjects as diverse as media influences on eating, fruit juice consumption, skipping breakfast, and

Processes of Visuospatial Attention and Working Memory (PDF) covers a broad range of current research topics dealing with the function of visuospatial attention and working memory. It discusses a number of perspectives ranging from evolutionary and genetic underpinnings to neural substrates/computational processes and the connection between working memory and attention.

Renewable Energy Microgeneration Systems, (PDF) offers the latest technology advances in small-scale energy generation (electricity and heat) in the background of low/medium voltage level electric power distribution networks. With an emphasis on scientific innovations of the methodologies, approaches, and algorithms in allowing efficient and secure operation of microgeneration systems, this

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 3rd global edition (PDF) offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the practice and theory of artificial intelligence (AI). Number one in its field, this etextbook is ideal for 2 or 1-semester, undergraduate or graduate-level courses in AI. Dr. Peter Norvig, contributing Artificial Intelligence:

In Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions, 3rd edition, (PDF) of this important and influential ebook, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between citizen and state, and the notion of