Category: Textbooks

This eTextBook, Discovering AutoCAD 2017 (PDF) presents a hands-on, activity-based strategy to the usage of AutoCAD as a drafting tool—complete with tips, techniques, insights, and shortcuts that enhance efficiency. Topics and tasks are carefully grouped to lead college students logically via the AutoCAD command set, with the level of difficulty

Rice and Wilson’s Gateways to Understanding Music(PDF) explores music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, jazz, popular music, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music-making to the newest, the chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective.

Analysis and Design of Machine Elements (PDF) is a design-centric textbook for advanced undergraduates majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Engineers and advanced students specializing in product design, power machinery, vehicle engineering, and engineering will also find it a helpful reference and practical guide. Incorporating European, Chinese and International standards and units

When you have questions about C# 9.0 or .NET 5, has the answers you need. C# is a language of uncommon flexibility and breadth, but with its continual growth there’s a lot more to learn. In the tradition of O’Reilly’s Nutshell guides, C# 9.0 in a Nutshell, (PDF) is simply

Animal Diversity, 7th Edition, (PDF) provides a concise introduction to the field of animal biology. Readers find general principles of evolution, ecology, systematics, classification, and animal body plans. After these opening chapters, readers explore the biology of all groups of animals. The basic features of each group are addressed, along