Category: Textbooks

Fatty alcohols are commonly used in the production of detergents and surfactants. They are also components of foods, cosmetics and as industrial solvents. The 2008 edition originated from a multi-year review of the existence, behaviour, and use of fatty alcohols to notify the registration of such chemicals through the REACH

Essentials Of Physical Anthropology, 10th Edition (PDF) is a concise, well-balanced, and detailed introduction to physical anthropology with the aim of helping you understand why it is important to know about human evolution. You’ll discover how humans are biologically linked to all other forms of life, including our distant ancestors

Siegel’s Material Inspirations, (PDF) is a study of the complex relationship between matter and ideas that molded the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn concluded the course of still-current accounts of art’s nature and value. Basic questions about the impacts of material conditions on the creation and reception

Milestones in European Housing Finance (PDF) presents evidence on how housing finance markets developed across Europe. The aim of the text is to bring together latest material from across Europe which will help to explain (i) how national housing finance markets have dealt with the trials of privatization and deregulation

Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization of Anisotropy, (PDF) emphasizes the modeling, processing and visualization of anisotropy, regardless of the context in which it emerges, using state-of-the-art mathematical tools. As such, it varies substantially from conventional reference works, which are centered on a particular application. It includes the following topics: (i) the