Category: Textbooks

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

The literature explaining social conditions during the post–World War II Allied occupation of Germany has been divided between seemingly incompatible assertions of prolonged criminal chaos and narratives of strict martial rule that precluded crime. In The Art of Occupation (ePub/PDF), Thomas J. Kehoe takes a different view on this history,

John Paul Stevens: Defender of Rights in Criminal Justice, (PDF) explores the judicial opinions and criminal justice policy influence of Justice John Paul Stevens, the U.S. Supreme Court’s most productive opinion author in his 35-year career on the nation’s highest court. Though Justice Stevens, a Republican appointee of President Gerald

Black’s Medical Dictionary 43rd edition, (PDF) is from the series of the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years. It is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need a clear explanation of medical terms: health care professionals, nurses, doctors and students, actuaries, health service management, lawyers and