Category: Textbooks

Elayn Martin-Gay’s Prealgebra 7th edition (PDF) is part of the developmental math program, which is motivated by Dr. Elayn’s firm belief that every math student can succeed. Martin-Gay’s focus on the college student shapes her very clear and accessible writing, inspires and motivates her constant pedagogical innovations, and contributes to

This best-selling classical mechanics textbook, written for the advanced undergraduate one- or two-semester course, provides a complete account of the classical mechanics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Vector calculus is used extensively to explore topics.The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics is introduced early to show its powerful problem

Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) has been a cause of both achievement and controversy for years, and it stays to be a hot-button issue all around the globe. It has made the US an energy-exporting country once again and kept the cost of gasoline low, for consumers and companies. However, it

Reilly’s Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, Volume 1 to 1550, 7th Edition, (ePub/PDF) provides a flexible comparative and thematic organization that includes a variety of teaching approaches and assists students to make cross-cultural comparisons. Carefully compiled by a well-known world historian and community college instructor, every chapter offers a

This thought-provoking ebook, The Biology of Beauty: The Science behind Human Attractiveness, (PDF) explores the science behind human attractiveness—the proportions, ratios, and other factors that to a large extent determine what we find “beautiful.” It’s said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but the latest scientific research