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

Coherent Structures in Granular Crystals: From Experiment and Modelling to Computation and Mathematical Analysis (PDF) summarizes many fundamental developments at the interface of granular crystals and the mathematical and computational analysis of some of their key localized nonlinear wave solutions. The subject presents a combination of the appeal of granular

Addiction as Consumer Choice: Exploring the Cognitive Dimension (ePub) explains addiction from a different perspective. A striking characteristic of addictive behavior is the pursuit of immediate reward at the risk of longer-term detrimental outcomes. It is typically accompanied by the expression of a strong desire to cease from or at

Drawing on, international law, treaties, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and particularly personal experiences, Marie Battiste records the nature of Eurocentric models of education and their upsetting impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Reporting the negative consequences of forced assimilation, the racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure

Introduction to General Medical Conditions (PDF) describes the most common non-orthopedic maladies seen in the active population. The ebook is designed to be a reference tool for professionals and students who work with athletes or a physically active population. Each chapter includes a specific body part or system. Also debated