Category: Textbooks

Sociology of unintended consequences is commonly depicted as a framework for understanding the outcomes that run counter to the initial intentions of social actors because of factors such as ignorance, error, and complexity. This conventional approach, however, is now undergoing change under the influence of more encompassing shifts in framing

Hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) has been a cause of both achievement and controversy for years, and it stays to be a hot-button issue all around the globe. It has made the US an energy-exporting country once again and kept the cost of gasoline low, for consumers and companies. However, it

The relevance of economics shown with real-world business examples The expert authors of Essentials of Economics, 6th Edition, (PDF) help strengthen interest in the discipline concepts and make the key principles of this subject relevant to readers’ lives by showing how real businesses use economics to make decisions every day.

The goal of every marketer is to create more value for customers. The authors of this new Principles of Marketing, 7th European Edition (PDF) by Philip Kotler, Gary Armstrong, Lloyd C. Harris and Nigel Piercy have aimed to create more value for the reader by building on a classic marketing textbook with

The ebook Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with Java: Walls and Mirrors, 3rd edition (PDF) employs the analogies of Walls (data abstraction) and Mirrors (recursion) to teach Java programming design solutions, in a way that beginning students find accessible. The ebook has a very student-friendly pedagogical approach that carefully accounts