Category: Textbooks

Psychoanalysis is often associated with Sigmund Freud, but this comparison ignores the wide range of clinical practices, observational methods, general theories, and cross-pollinations with other disciplines that characterize contemporary psychoanalytic work. Central psychoanalytic concepts to do with unconscious motivation, primitive forms of thought, defence mechanisms, and transference form a backbone

Introduction to Global Politics, 4th Edition, (PDF) offers college students a truly global approach to International Relations. The ebook’s three-part organization and ten-chapter structure offer a solid introduction to the central areas of study in this course: History, Global Actors, Theories, Security Issues, and Economic Issues. Using the theme of

How to live well and the search for meaning have long been of intense concern to humans, maybe because Homo sapiens is the only species aware of its own mortality. In the past few decades, empirical psychology made a major contribution to this quest. The Social Psychology of Living Well, (PDF)

The Science of Sound, 3rd International Edition, (PDF) is widely recognized as the prominent textbook in the field. It offers an excellent introduction to acoustics for students without college physics or a strong background in mathematics. In the latest Third Edition, authors Paul Wheeler and Richard Moore and join Tom

Effectiveness is the fundamental theme for this introduction to disruptive innovation. The ebook tells the student or manager, what they need to know in changing the thinking in an organization to an inventive mindset in the twenty-first century. Corporate Innovation (PDF) explains the four stages of the innovation process, and shows