Category: Textbooks

Drug users are usually portrayed as useless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless—morally, culturally, and economically. By contrast, , The Social Value of Drug Addicts, (PDF) argues that the social construction of some people as impractical is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists J.

This easy-to-follow PDF textbook, Java in Two Semesters: Featuring JavaFX 4th edition PDF teaches Java programming from first principles, as well as covering design and testing methodologies. The textbook is divided into 2 parts. Each part supports a one-semester module, the first part addressing fundamental programming concepts, and the second

Undergraduate engineering students require good mathematics skills. Brian Vick‘s Applied Engineering Mathematics, (PDF) assists this need by placing a strong focus on visualization and the methods and tools needed across the whole of engineering. The visual approach is stressed, and excessive proofs and derivations are avoided. The visual images describe

In today’s media-rich world, Introduction to Mass Communication, 10th Edition, (PDF) keeps media literacy and culture at its heart. Using cases of the past to show how mass communications got their origins and keeping current with the present’s upcoming technologies and trends Introduction to Mass Communication 10e gives college students

A concise, easy-to-understand introduction to the basics, Gould’s Pathophysiology for the Health Professions, 5th Edition, (PDF) helps you learn vital concepts of major diseases/disorders and disease processes. Continuing in its renowned tradition of readability and vivid, full-color illustrations, the text is revised with the up-to-date research and trends in human