Category: Textbooks

A. Townsend Peterson, one of the forerunners of ecological niche modeling, offers a synthesis that illuminates new and more helpful infectious disease mapping methods. His work, Mapping Disease Transmission Risk, (PDF) – the peak of twelve years of refinement – breaks new ground by incorporating biogeographic and ecological factors with

Introduction to Compressible Fluid Flow, 2nd Edition (PDF) offers extensive coverage of the physical phenomena experienced incompressible flow. Updated and revised, the second edition provides a thorough explanation of the assumptions used in the analysis of compressible flows. It develops in students an understanding of what causes compressible flows to

Politics in China 3rd Edition (PDF) offers an accessible yet authoritative introduction to how the world’s most populous nation and speedily rising global power is governed today. On the 1st of October, 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) commemorated the 70th anniversary of its founding. And what a tumultuous

Myers’ easy to get storytelling approach is highly praised and known to effectively involve college students. It continues to propose 4 applied modules that highlight the relevance of the content to different high-interest fields: peacekeeping, the law, healthcare, the environment. Theories and findings given are not too esoteric but capture

The ebook, The Psychology of Micro-Targeted Election Campaigns, PDF, examines the psychology behind micro-targeted tactics used in election campaigning and the arrival of increasingly refined dynamic Agent-Based Models (ABMs). It discusses individual profiling, how data and modeling are used to enhance the effectiveness of persuasion and mobilization efforts in campaigns,