Category: Textbooks

Unmatched for its clarity and comprehensiveness, A Concise Introduction To Logic, 13th Edition, (PDF) is the #1 introductory logic textbook on the market. In this Edition, Patrick Hurley and new co-author Lori Watson continue to develop upon the tradition of a lucid, dedicated, and accessible presentation of the basic subject

Hegemonic Transformation (PDF) contends that the Chinese economic reform initiated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the part of the Chinese state has been changing from directing the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony. It

For upper-level to graduate courses in Probability and Statistics or Probability, for majors in mathematics, engineering, statistics, and the sciences. Studies both the mathematics and the many potential applications of probability theory Ross’ A First Course in Probability, 10th Edition, (PDF) is an elementary introduction to the theory of probability

Structural Dynamics with Applications in Earthquake and Wind Engineering, 2nd Edition, (PDF) offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of structural dynamics, highlighting practical issues and showing applications with a large number of worked-out examples. In the spirit of “learning by doing,” it motivates readers to apply immediately these methods

Environmental Principles, 2nd Edition, (PDF) traces the evolution of environmental principles from their origins as indefinite political slogans reflecting doubts about environmental hazards to their personification in enforceable laws. Environmental law has always reacted to risks posed by industrial society but the new generation of risks has needed a new