Category: Textbooks

Understanding the Religions of the World: An Introduction offers a new approach to the study of religions which moves away from the purely descriptive and instead helps college students understand how religions actually ‘work’. Covering all the main faith traditions, it combines contemporary beliefs and practices, historical context, and original

Meets students where they are. Makes economics matter. Written by Dirk Mateer, Lee Coppock, and Brian O’Roark―3 of the leading economics instructors in the Unites States―Essentials of Economics (PDF) brings practices and insights refined over a combined 50 years in the classroom to a survey textbook that is very student-centered,

Expert and best-selling author Robert Donnelly’s Business Statistics 2nd edition (PDF)eliminates the intimidation factor from learning statistics for business. The 2nd Edition maintains Donnelly’s successful straightforward, conversational approach that explains each and every concept and why it is important directly to business students. Through an abundance of comments that clarify

Politics and Rhetoric, (PDF) draws together in a broad and highly accessible way relevant ideas from discourse analysis, classical rhetoric revised to a modern setting, related issues in contemporary political theory, and many carefully chosen examples and issues from current politics. It will be important reading for all students of politics

This ebook presents both integral formulations and differential equation of boundary value problems for computing the stress and displacement fields of solid bodies at 2 levels of approximation – isotropic linear theory of elasticity as well as theories of mechanics of materials. Moreover, the ebook applies these formulations to practical