Category: Textbooks

The Urban Forest: Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment, (PDF) emphasizes on urban “green infrastructure” – the interrelated web of vegetated spaces like parks,  street trees, and peri-urban forests that offer essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach represents the idea that these services, such as

Ram’s System Reliability Management: Solutions and Technologies (PDF) provides the latest research advances in the field of system reliability engineering and assurance. It contains reference material for applications of reliability in system engineering, offering a theoretical sound background with adequate numerical images. Included are concepts pertaining to reliability analysis, assurance

A student-centered approach to financial accounting Accounting is the language of business, and grasping the role accounting plays in business is important to a student’s success in getting a business degree. Financial Accounting, 12th Edition, (PDF) puts the emphasis on the purpose of Accounting in business. With streamlined chapters and

Provocative and engaging writing, along with a knack for disclosing the “invisible hand” of economics at work have made Cowen and Tabarrok’s Modern Principles of Economics, 3rd Edition, (PDF) a singularly distinctive and useful textbook for the principles course. The comprehensively updated new edition of Modern Principles again draws on

Principles of Macroeconomics 6th edition (PDF) by authors Bob Frank, Ben Bernanke, and introducing Kate Antonovics from the University of California San Diego and Ori Heffetz from Cornell University, present a coherent short list of core principles in introductory economics and reinforce them by illustrating and applying each in numerous contexts.