Category: Textbooks

The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century, (PDF) provides a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the nature and kinds of structural change occurring in the Irish welfare state in the context of the 2008 economic crisis. Its all-embracing framework for conceptualising and analysing welfare state change and its economic,

Since its first publication in 1936, the Sabiston Textbook of Surgery has been regarded as the preeminent source for definitive guidance in all areas of general surgery. The Sabiston Textbook of Surgery: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice 20th edition (PDF) continues the rich tradition of quality that has

Principles of Microeconomics, 6th edition (PDF) caters to a single semester introductory unit in Microeconomics. The latest 6th edition of this textbook continues to emphasize important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. In keeping with the authors’ philosophy of showing university students the power of

American Law in a Global Context: The Basics (PDF) is an elegant and erudite introduction to the American legal system from a global perspective. It covers the law and lawyering tools taught in the first year of law school, explaining the underlying concepts and techniques of the common law used

Lagrangian Mechanics: An Advanced Analytical Approach (PDF) explains the subtleties of analytical mechanics and its applications in rigid body mechanics. The expert authors demonstrate the primordial role of parameterization, which conditions the equations and thus the information obtained; the essential notions of virtual kinematics, such as the virtual derivative and