Category: Textbooks

Engineering Economy 8th edition (PDF) by Leland Blank and Anthony Tarquin, presents a crisp, bold new design using color, highlighting and icons to focus on important concepts, equations, terms, and decision guidelines. There are new features, new topics (such as staged decision making and ethics), and new online tools; yet

An introduction to critical care that helps nurses deliver effective, saf care that optimizes patients’ outcomes. Understanding the Essentials of Critical Care Nursing 3rd edition provides novice critical care nurses with a firm foundation so that they are able to understand the complexities of care; deliver safe, effective care; and begin their transition

A New Environmental Ethics: the Next Millennium for Life on Earth (PDF) provides offers clear, influential, and oftentimes moving thoughts from one of the first and most recognized philosophers to write on the environment. Rolston, an early and leading pioneer in studying the moral relationship between the earth and humans,

What does ‘if’ mean? It is one of the most repeatedly used words in the English language, in itself a symbol of the significance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We ask conditional questions, make conditional statements, and issue conditional orders. We need to think and talk for the

This thought-provoking ebook, The Biology of Beauty: The Science behind Human Attractiveness, (PDF) explores the science behind human attractiveness—the proportions, ratios, and other factors that to a large extent determine what we find “beautiful.” It’s said that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” but the latest scientific research