Category: Textbooks

A student-friendly, clear and easy introduction to the fundamentals of Python In Tony Gaddis’ Starting Out with Python, 4th Global Edition (PDF), accessible coverage introduces college students to the basics of programming in a high-level language. Python, an easy-to-learn and increasingly popular object-oriented language, allows students to become comfortable with

Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond (PDF) is a collection that begins with economist Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book. Most chapters critique Piketty from the perspective of global political economy, critical theory, or public sociology, drawing on the work of Karl Marx or the Marxist tradition. The emphasis

The first ebook to comprehensively cover the burgeoning new class of soft material called functional organic liquids Functional organic liquids, a new concept in soft matter materials science, demonstrate favorable properties compared to amorphous polymers and ionic liquids. They are made of a functional core unit and a side chain,

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 12th Edition, (PDF) by Ross, Jaffe, Westerfield, and Jordan stresses the modern fundamentals of the theory of finance while presenting contemporary examples to make the theory come to life. The authors intend to offer corporate finance as the working of a small number of powerful and

Scott Freeman’s Biological Science, 6th Edition, (PDF) is favorite for its Socratic narrative style, its stress on experimental evidence, and its devotion to active learning. Science education research shows that true mastery of content needs a move away from memorization towards active engagement with the material in a personal, focused way. Biological