Category: Textbooks

This new textbook, An Introduction to the American Legal System, Government, and Constitutional Law, (PDF) introduces college students to the relationship among the American governmental, constitutional, and legal systems. With a concise and clear presentation, this ebook explores historical and contemporary events, constitutional provisions, and judicial opinions that show how

A brief introduction to the chemistry and design principles behind significant metal-organic frameworks and related porous materials Reticular chemistry has been used to synthesize new classes of porous materials that are successfully used for myriad applications in areas like gas separation, energy, catalysis, and electronics. Introduction to Reticular Chemistry (PDF)

Written by an author team of skilled leaders in statistics education, The Basic Practice of Statistics, 8th Edition, (PDF) reflects the actual practice of statistics, where data analysis and design of data production merge with probability-based inference to form a coherent science of data. The authors’ definitive goal is to

Penned by well-known experts in the field, this first systematic overview of multiferroic heterostructures condenses the latest developments, first presenting the fundamental mechanisms, including multiferroic materials synthesis, structures and mechanisms, before moving on to look at device applications. The resulting text, Integrated Multiferroic Heterostructures and Applications (PDF) provides insight and

Modern science is at a tipping point. A new page in the history of knowledge opens with the “information paradigm”, a notion that is gradually supplanting the old mechanistic vision inherited from Galileo and Newton. The author of Information and the World Stage: From Philosophy to Science, the World of