Category: Textbooks

The eBook AMERICAN PAGEANT 16th edition, Volume 2 (PDF) enjoys a reputation as one of the most effective, popular, and entertaining textbooks in American history. The first-person quotations, colorful anecdotes, and trademark wit bring American history to life. A new feature, “Contending Voices,” offers paired quotes from original historical sources,

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in

Polyoxometalates (abbreviated as POMs), also known as early-transition metal-oxygen anion clusters, is a large and rapidly growing series of inorganic compounds. POMs can be generally divided into two subclasses: isopolyoxometalates(IPOMs) and heteropolyoxometalates (HPOMs). The former refers to a class of isopoly compounds which contain the skeletal transition metal cations and

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

Basic Techniques in Pediatric Surgery: An Operative Manual, (PDF) is a “surgical cookbook” designed to offer concise and clear guidance for trainees in pediatric surgery. With the help of simple line drawings depicting every operative step, more than one hundred often performed procedures are explained and demonstrated. The student will