Ebooks Review

Scientific Assessment of High-Power Free-Electron Laser Technology /by Committee on a Scientific Assessment of Free-Electron Laser Technology for Naval Applications and National Research Council. The charge from the Office of Naval Research was to assess whether the desired performance capabilitie ... Read more »

An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better /by Joe Y. F. Lau. Critical thinking skills are essential in virtually any field of study or practice where individuals need to communicate ideas, make decisions, and analyze and solve problems. An Introduction to Critical Thinking ... Read more »

Living with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Individuals and Families, Updated Edition /by Michael W. Otto, Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington, Robert O. Knauz and Aude Henin. Living with Bipolar Disorder is designed to help patients and their families develop the skills they need to be good consumers of treatment and ... Read more »

Vitamin D For Dummies /by Alan L. Rubin M.D. Vitamin D is in the news every day, as new tests and studies reveal encouraging information about its power in maintaining good health and preventing major illnesses. No longer thought to just play a role in calcium intake and bone growth, ... Read more »

Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change /by Timothy D. Wilson. We all tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. These stories ultimately determine if we will lead healthy, productive lives or get into trouble. In REDIRECT, worl ... Read more »

The Trickster and the Paranormal /by George P Hansen. Paranormal and supernatural events have been reported for millennia. They have fostered history’s most important cultural transformations (e.g., via the miracles of Moses, Jesus, Mohammed). Paranormal phenomena are frequently portrayed in the world’s greatest art and lit ... Read more »

Fundamentals of Stochastic Networks /by Oliver C. Ibe. n today's era of interdisciplinary studies and research activities, network models are becoming increasingly important in various areas where they have not regularly been used. Combining techniques from stochastic processes and graph theory to analyze the ... Read more »

Topics in Noncommutative Algebra: The Theorem of Campbell, Baker, Hausdorff and Dynkin /by Andrea Bonfiglioli and Roberta Fulci. Motivated by the importance of the Campbell, Baker, Hausdorff, Dynkin Theorem in many different branches of Mathematics and Physics (Lie group-Lie algebra theory, l ... Read more »

Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction /by Malcolm Gaskill. Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all. Indeed, from childhood most of us develop some mental image of a witch--usually an old woman, mysterious and malignant. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween superstitio ... Read more »

Freud: A Very Short Introduction /by Anthony Storr. Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-century since his death, can we assess his true legacy to current thought. As an experienced psychiatrist himself, Anthony S ... Read more »

The Social Skills Picture Book Teaching play, emotion, and communication to children with autism /by Jed Baker. Seeing is learning. Dr. Jed Baker embraces this philosophy in this a dynamic teaching tool that engages the attention and motivation of students who need a little extra help learning ap ... Read more »

Statistics in Plain English, Third Edition /by Timothy C Urdan. This inexpensive paperback provides a brief, simple overview of statistics to help readers gain a better understanding of how statistics work and how to interpret them correctly. Each chapter describes a different statistical techniqu ... Read more »

The Quantum Story: A History in 40 Moments /by Jim Baggott. Utterly beautiful. Profoundly disconcerting. Quantum theory is quite simply the most successful account of the physical universe ever devised. Its concepts underpin much of the twenty-first century technology that we now take for grante ... Read more »

The Laws of Thermodynamics: A Very Short Introduction /by Peter Atkins. From the sudden expansion of a cloud of gas or the cooling of a hot metal, to the unfolding of a thought in our minds and even the course of life itself, everything is governed by the four Laws of Thermodynamics. These laws specify the n ... Read more »

Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! /by Jacob Held, Benjamin Rider, Jacob M. Held and Matthew F. Pierlott. Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems; they often wrestle with serious philosophical and moral dilemmas, whether it is Horton discovering the very essence of life or the Lorax te ... Read more »