Category: Textbooks

Employing the central integrative theme of power, Power and Society: An Introduction to the Social Sciences 14th Edition (PDF), introduces you to each of the social sciences and demonstrates how they differ in their methods and focus. It also presents an interdisciplinary viewpoint to illustrate the uses and nature of

Gilbert Strang’s textbooks have changed the entire approach to learning linear algebra — away from abstract vector spaces to specific examples of the 4 fundamental subspaces: the column space and nullspace of A and A’. Strang’s new Introduction to Linear Algebra, 5th edition, (PDF) has become more than a textbook

With contributions from experts on democracy promotion Civil Society and Democracy Promotion (PDF) examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-socialist Europe. It emphasizes on countries with a failed or deficient process of democratic consolidation looking at unintended outcomes of external democracy promotion on civil society development.

The Supreme Court and the Development of Law (PDF) illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of numerous prisoners’ rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court rejected to hear prisoners’ rights about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that headed to

Authoritative, comprehensive, systematic coverage of the latest topics in crime scene investigation – Using a systematic approach, Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction, 4th Edition (PDF), outlines techniques that help investigators answer the critical when, who, and what questions of crime scene investigations. With a focus on crime scene processing, the ebook