Educational eBooks

The architectural crit, review or jury is a cornerstone of architectural education around the world. The defence of ideas, drawings, and models in an open format before staff and peers is intended to be a foreground for healthy creative debate, bu......

For courses in introductory combined Statics and Mechanics of Materials courses found in ME, CE, AE, and Engineering Mechanics departments. Statics and Mechanics of Materials represents a combined abridged version of two of the authors books, n......

Master User Experience and Interaction Design from the Developers Perspective For modern developers, UX expertise is indispensable: Without outstanding user experience, your software will fail. Now, David Platt has written the first and only co......

A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming. This introduction to programming places computer sci......

This book attempts for the first time to provide a complete overview of the major approaches to biological and medical imaging. The book examines the strategies for image analysis and the creation of models, which are based on the results of image......

This book arms engineers with the tools to apply key physics concepts in the field. A number of the key figures in the new edition are revised to provide a more inviting and informative treatment. The figures are broken into component parts with s......

Are you struggling to meet your coursework deadlines? Finding it hard to get to grips with your essay topics? Does your writing sometimes lack structure and style? Would you like to improve your grades? This text covers everything a student needs ......

Visualization technology is becoming increasingly important for medical and biomedical data processing and analysis. The interaction between visualization and medicine is one of the fastest expanding fields, both scientifically and commerciall......

The second edition of a highly acclaimed handbook and ready reference. They cover all modern techniques for the handling, analysis and modification of RNAs and their complexes with proteins. Throughout, they bear the practising bench sci......

Overcoming Uncertainty of Institutional Environment as a Tool of Global Crisis Management This book is the result of recent research by contemporary scientists on topics which were discussed at the conference of the same name in Volgograd, Russ......

This volume provides readers with the important information they need to understand the basic concepts of artificial intelligence as well as ways that both AI and robotics can be successfully incorporated into manufacturing, transportation, educat......

Recent Advances (Springer Series in Chemical Physics) This second volume of Progress in Photon Science Recent Advances presents the latest achievements made by world-leading researchers in Russia and Japan. Thanks to recent advances in lig......

Human Well-Being and Governance This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology. Garai applies the modern physics concept of wave-particle duality to economic psychology, fi......

Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics Mathematical Biology is a richly illustrated textbook in an exciting and fast growing field. Providing an in-depth look at the practical use of math modeling, it features exercises throughout that are drawn......

Biomass is the most widely used non-fossil fuel in the world. Biomass resources show a considerable potential in the long-term given the increasing proliferation of dedicated energy crops for biofuels. The second edition of Biomass Gasification an......

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity. The four topics covered are: - Surface charges as conserved quantities in theories of gravity; - Classical ......

PreTest is the closest you can get to seeing the USMLE Step 1 without actually taking it! Great for course review and the USMLE Step 1, PreTest asks the right questions so youll know the right answers. Youll find 500 clinical-vignette style que......

The ECS Series of Texts and Monographs (2nd Edition) Presents a comprehensive look at atmospheric corrosion, combining expertise in corrosion science and atmospheric chemistry Is an invaluable resource for corrosion scientists, corrosion engin......

How One Habit Can Radically Change Your Work and Your Life Make your job the right job Maybe you're a young professional just starting to think seriously about what you want out of your career. Maybe you've been job hopping for a few years a......

Integrating Innovation, Customer Experience, and Brand Value Design Thinking confirms that design, as a process and as an output, has greater opportunity to add value to the triple bottom line than any other business function. Ranked in the top......