Category: Textbooks

Ways of Knowing in HCI (PDF) brings together both traditional and new research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include observations and interviews, ethnography, grounded theory, and evaluation of digital traces of behavior. Readers will attain an understanding of the type of knowledge every method provides, its disciplinary

A modern approach to macroeconomics – Williamson’s Macroeconomics 5th edition (PDF) uses a thoroughly modern approach by showing college students how to build macro economic models from micro economic principles. This approach helps to make the textbook consistent with the way macroeconomic research is conducted today. NOTE: This is the

Foundations of International Macroeconomics (PDF) is an innovative textbook that offers the first integrative modern treatment of the core issues in open economy macroeconomics and finance. With its clear and accessible style, it is suitable for first-year graduate macroeconomics courses as well as graduate courses in international macroeconomics and finance.

Why do human beings find some tone combinations consonant and others dissonant? Why do we make music using only a small number of scales out of the billions that are possible? In the ebook Music as Biology: The Tones We Like and Why (PDF), author Dale Purves shows that rethinking

Bell’s Diversity In Organizations, 2nd edition, (PDF), is the first research-based, comprehensive textbook designed to meet the needs of a diversity course. It provides a solid perspective on the various aspects of organizational diversity, including why diversity is important for recruiting, organizations, retaining, and effectively and fairly using a diverse