Category: Textbooks

Cellular Actuators: Modularity and Variability in Muscle-Inspired Actuation, (PDF) defines the roles actuators play in robotics and their inadequacy in emerging new robotic applications, such as human co-working robots and wearable devices where compliance and compactness are important. Piezoelectric actuators, the topic of this wbook, provide advantages like displacement scale,

Research Methods for Business Students, 7th edition, (PDF) has been fully revised and continues to be the market-leading textbook in its field, guiding hundreds of thousands of college student researchers to success in their research methods, research proposals, projects, modules, and dissertations. So, if you are thinking . . .

From the dawn of civilization to the modern dilemmas of nation-building in Africa and the Middle East, World History, Volume II: Since 1500, 9th Edition, (PDF)  takes a fascinating look at the common challenges and experiences that unite the human past and inform the future. Expert authors William J. Duiker

Electrons, Atoms, and Molecules in Inorganic Chemistry: A Worked Examples Approach builds from fundamental units into molecules, to provide the reader with a full understanding of inorganic chemistry concepts through worked examples and full color illustrations. The ebook uniquely discusses failures as well as research success stories. Worked problems include

As critically important as welding is to a wide spectrum of construction, manufacturing, and repair, it is not without its problems. Those dependent on welding know only too well how easy it is to find information on the host of available processes and on the essential metallurgy that can enable