Category: Textbooks

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

For more than 25 years, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine 5th edition (PDF) has been the leading textbook on imaging diagnosis of brain and spine disorders. The 5th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with thorough coverage of recent trends and changes in the clinical diagnosis and

Materials Science for Dentistry, 10th Edition, (PDF) is a standard resource for graduate, undergraduate and postgraduate courses in dentistry. It provides fundamental coverage of the materials on which dentistry depends, covering the structure and chemistry that govern the behavior and performance of materials. Particular classes of materials include polymers, cement,

Films achieve their effects with sound as well as images. An ideal textbook for introductory film music courses Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History (PDF) brings music into the context of sound, and sound into the context of the whole film. The textbook explores film sound in

The GOES-R Series: A New Generation of Geostationary Environmental Satellites, (PDF) introduces the reader to the most important advance in weather technology in a generation. The world’s new constellation of geostationary operational environmental satellites (GOES) are in the middle of a drastic revolution with their greatly enhanced capabilities that give