Category: Textbooks

Structural Reliability Analysis and Prediction, 3rd Edition, PDF is a textbook which addresses the important issue of predicting the safety of structures at the design stage and also the safety of existing, perhaps deteriorating structures. Attention is focused on the definition and development of limit states such as serviceability and

Compelling readings. Innovative writing assignments. Research-based explanations and exercises. Flemming’s Reading For Results, 13th Edition, (PDF) includes all the trademark features you’ve come to expect from this leader in developmental reading instruction. Known for her ability to turn abstract reading theory into concrete reading practice, Laraine Flemming is back with

Revised and expanded, Integrating the Expressive Arts Into Counseling Practice, 2nd Edition, (PDF) reflects a wider understanding of the corresponding approach to therapeutic treatment. This is the only ebook to integrate expressive arts counseling techniques with key theories of counseling and psychology. Significant changes to the second edition include new

Clinical Microbiology for Diagnostic Laboratory Scientists, (PDF) is designed to motivate readers to develop a way of thinking that can be implemented to any diagnostic scenario in microbiology. Through consideration of a certain range of infections caused by pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, viruses, and helminths, the ebook encourages readers to

The Laser Beam Shaping Applications, 2nd edition (PDF) explains the essential features of beam shaping and exposes the subtleties of the theory and techniques that are best shown through proven applications. New chapters include illumination light shaping in optical lithography; optical micro-manipulation of live mammalian cells through trapping, sorting, and