Category: Textbooks

This widely popular resource Generalist Social Work Practice (8th edition) provides a firm foundation for understanding empowerment-focused social work, engaging clients, conducting the solution-oriented assessment, and evaluating, implementing, and stabilizing change. It demonstrates a progressive practice approach that is grounded in social work research, sensitive to client diversity, reflective of

Master the fundamental applications and concepts of foundation analysis design with Principles Of Foundation Engineering 8th edition (PDF). This market-leading textbook maintains a careful balance of practical field applications and current research, offers a wealth of real worked out examples and figures that show you how to do the work

Open Innovation and Entrepreneurship, (PDF) combines theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence on open innovation and entrepreneurship as two important ways to help entrepreneurial businesses grow and gain a competitive advantage. Discussing essential issues at the link of entrepreneurship and open innovation, such as creating competitive advantage, enterprise growth, implementation of

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

Technical Communication: Principles and Practice 3rd edition (PDF), discusses the core concepts of technical communication, explaining techniques with the help of numerous real examples and practice exercises. With its in-depth coverage and practical orientation, this textbook is useful not only for college students, but also as reference material for corporate