Category: Textbooks

The new Anna Leon-Guerrero’s Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, 6th edition (ePub/PDF) goes beyond the typical presentation of contemporary social problems and their consequences by emphasizing the effectiveness and importance of community involvement to achieve real solutions. With a really upbeat and bright tone, this thought-provoking textbook challenges

Shows the power of linear algebra through practical applications Friedberg/Insel/Spense’s Linear Algebra 5th Edition, (PDF) presents a careful treatment of the main topics of linear algebra. It stresses the symbiotic relationship between linear transformations and matrices but declares theorems in the more general infinite-dimensional case where appropriate. Applications to areas

Unequivocal Justice (PDF) challenges the prevailing view within political philosophy that broadly free-market regimes are inconsistent with the basic principles of liberal egalitarian justice. Freiman argues that the liberal egalitarian rejection of free-market regimes rests on a crucial methodological mistake. Liberal egalitarians regularly assume an ideal “public interest” model of

An accessible and carefully structured introduction to Particle Physics – 4th edition, including important coverage of the Higgs Boson and recent progress in neutrino physics. Includes information on recent key discoveries including: An account of the discovery of byond the simple quark model; exotic hadrons, expanded treatments of neutrino physics and