Category: Textbooks

An Introduction to the Psychology of Humor, PDF, provides a concise and accessible overview of psychologists’ research on humor. Drawing on research from a range of psychological perspectives, from cognitive and biological to social and developmental, the ebook assesses factors that affect our comprehension, detection, liking, and use of humor.

The ebook American Government: Institutions And Policies 13th Edition, Brief Version (PDF) , offers coverage of the 2014 and 2016 campaigns and elections; budget battles and the sequestration of funds; ongoing debates about gay marriage, immigration, and other key issues in American politics; and foreign-policy decisions on the Middle East,

Mountains have long held an appeal for people around the world. This ebook Mountain Tourism: Experiences, Communities, Environments and Sustainable Futures (PDF) focusses on the diversity of interaction, perspectives, and role of tourism within these areas. Providing a vital update to the current literature, it considers the interdisciplinary context of

Give Me Liberty! An American History (Seagull Fifth Edition) by Dr. Eric Foner is the #1 book in the American history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, concise, accessible, and integrated American history.

Readers gain an integrated and complete treatment of the mechanics of materials — an essential subject in civil, mechanical, and structural engineering. — with a market-leading Mechanics Of Materials 9th edition (PDF). This etextbook examines the design and analysis of structural members subjected to torsion, compression, tension, and bending, laying