Category: Textbooks

Provides a broad view of the current state and history of scholarship on the art of the ancient Near East This ebook, A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Art (PDF) covers the aesthetic traditions of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Iran, and the Levant, from Neolithic times to the end of the Achaemenid

Forensic botany is the application of plant science to the resolution of legal questions. A plant’s ecological requirements and its anatomy are in some cases species specific and require taxonomic verification; correct interpretation of botanical evidence can give vital information about a suspect, crime scene or a victim. The use

Mechanobiology: From Molecular Sensing to Disease (PDF) will give an overview of the current state of understanding of mechanobiology and its part in health and disease. It covers Present understanding of the main molecular pathways by which cells sense and react to mechanical stimuli, A review of diseases that with

Understanding and Applying Basic Statistical Methods Using R, (PDF) exceptionally bridges the gap between advances in the statistical literature and methods routinely used by non-statisticians. Providing a conceptual basis for understanding the relative merits and applications of these methods, the ebook features modern insights and advances relevant to fundamental techniques in

Quantitative Modeling of Derivative Securities (PDF) shows how to take the ideas of basic arbitrage theory and apply them in real and in a very concrete way – to the analysis and design of financial products. Based primarily (but not exclusively) on the evaluation of derivatives, the ebook emphasizes hedging