Category: Textbooks

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reflect a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as personalities such as Hobbes, Hume, Locke, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and supporting mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to educate how political and moral theorists think about the world in

This PDF etextbook Continuum Mechanics using Mathematica: Fundamentals, Methods, and Applications (2nd Edition)‘s [Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology] methodological approach familiarizes readers with the mathematical tools required to correctly define and solve problems in continuum mechanics. Covering essential principles and fundamental applications, this 2nd edition of Continuum

This highly respected textbook, Arnold’s Corporate Financial Management, 6th edition (PDF) is comprehensive yet very accessible, with real-world case studies to ground the university students in the application of important concepts. Written with authority by authors steeped in the financial world, the ebook offers a comprehensive survey of the practice

Does being virtuous make you happy? In Sacrifice Regained: Morality and Self-Interest in British Moral Philosophy from Hobbes to Bentham, (PDF), Roger Crisp explores the answers to this ancient question offered by the so-called ‘British Moralists’, from Thomas Hobbes, around 1650, for the next two hundred years, until Jeremy Bentham. This

Unlike the majority of construction project management textbooks out there, Management of Construction Projects: A Constructor’s Perspective, 2nd edition (PDF) takes a distinctive approach by setting itself in the context of a single and real-world construction project throughout and also by looking at construction project management from a different, i.e.