Category: Textbooks

We have always made tools to improve our productivity and help us lead better lives; though we find ourselves continuously battling against our new computerized tools, making us less productive and risking our health and our lives. Anthropology-Based Computing: Putting the Human in Human-Computer Interaction, (PDF) looks at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices 4th edition (PDF) is one of the few ebooks in the market that has a broad coverage of electronic materials that today’s engineers and scientists need. The general treatment of the etextbook and various proofs leverage at a semi-quantitative level without going into detailed

Heat Transfer Principles and Applications (PDF) is a welcome change from more encyclopedic volumes exploring heat transfer. This shorter textbook fully explains the fundamentals of heat transfer, including heat convection, radiation, heat conduction, and heat exchangers. The fundamentals are then applied to a variety of engineering examples, including topics of

Remote Sensing of Geomorphology, Volume 23, (PDF) discusses the new range of remote-sensing techniques (lidar, structure from motion photogrammetry, advanced satellite platforms) that has guided to a dramatic increase in terrain information, and as such offered new opportunities for a better understanding of surface morphology and related Earth surface processes.

Macionis’ Sociology, 16th Edition, (PDF) empowers students to see the world around them through a sociological lens, assisting them in better understanding their own lives and the world we all share. John Macionis, the author of the best-selling Introductory Sociology franchise over the past three decades, takes students gradually through