Category: Textbooks

In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a ‘machine that would give you any experience you desired’. He speculated that, in spite of the many obvious attractions of such a prospect, most people would choose against passing the

Database skills are one of the most in-demand IT skills today. Now you can gain a solid foundation in database design and implementation with the easy-to-understand and practical approach in the market-leading Database Systems: Design, Implementation, And Management, 13th Edition (PDF). Tables, illustrations, and diagrams clarify in-depth coverage of database

Using Geodata and Geolocation in the Social Sciences: Mapping our Connected World (PDF) provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the Geoweb with easy, step-by-step, and clear guides for: Visualizing Geodata using programmes including QGIS, GRASS, and R Capturing Geodata from sources including GPS, sensor networks, and Twitter Featuring practical exercises

Human Anatomy & Physiology (global edition) speaks to the way today’s diverse students learn and study. In this eBook, the author Erin Amerman strengthens her distinctive learner-centered approach by focusing on three unique pillars. First, Erin Amerman uses art to present one-concept-at-a-time before bringing the distinct parts together in one

Gilbert Strang’s textbooks have changed the entire approach to learning linear algebra — away from abstract vector spaces to specific examples of the 4 fundamental subspaces: the column space and nullspace of A and A’. Strang’s new Introduction to Linear Algebra, 5th edition, (PDF) has become more than a textbook