New Additions to E-Books Directory

Communication Systems
by Janko Calic - Connexions
A more advanced communications course covering elements of modern digital communications. Contents: Signals; Systems; Time Domain Analysis of Continuous Time Systems; Frequency Domain; Continuous Time Fourier Transform; Sampling theory; etc.
(submitted on 2012-02-03)

The Tomorrow Project
by D. Rushkoff, R. Hammond, S. Thomas, M. Heitz - Intel
All stories in this collection are based on technologies Intel is currently developing in their labs. Each story is unique in its own vision and portrayal of life in the future, but each of them is extraordinarily good at capturing the human drama.
(submitted on 2012-02-03)

Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
by Joe Karaganis - SSRC Books
An independent study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, etc. The report argues that the problem of piracy is better conceived as a failure of affordable access to media in legal markets.
(submitted on 2012-02-03)

Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming
by Jason L. McKesson
This book teaches beginner-level programmable rendering for graphics programmers, from the ground up. The author also covers some important material that is often neglected or otherwise relegated to more 'advanced' concepts.
(submitted on 2012-02-03)

Disequilibrium Dynamics: A Theoretical Analysis of Inflation and Unemployment
by Katsuhito Iwai - Yale University Press
The current crisis in economics compels certain of its basic assumptions to be reexamined. The focus of this book is the central assumption of the orthodox theory that prices and wages are determined by the law of demand and supply.
(submitted on 2012-02-03)

Amusement Only
by Richard Marsh - Hurst & Blackett
Famed dark novelist Richard Marsh collections a series of stories that are interlinked, dark, mysterious yet with an air of romance. Reviewed by some as folly and others as pure genius. Exciting and fast paced, this is an easy book to read through.
(submitted on 2012-02-02)

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Treatments in Psychiatry
by D. Stradford, G. Vickar, C. Berger, H. Cass - Flying Publisher
The book gives the practitioner a solid introduction into the philosophy behind CAM approaches as well as a broad array of evidence-based CAM therapies that are increasingly finding their way into patient treatment plans with positive results.
(submitted on 2012-02-02)

Computational Physics
by Matthias Troyer - ETH Zurich
Contents: Introduction; The Classical Few-Body Problem; Partial Differential Equations;The classical N-body problem; Integration methods; Percolation; Magnetic systems; The quantum one-body problem; The quantum N body problem; and more.
(submitted on 2012-02-02)

10 Laps around Silverlight 5
by Michael Crump - SilverlightShow
This free e-book collects ten articles authored by Silverlight MVP and Silverlight insider Michael Crump. It is a complete guide to all new features of Silverlight 5, with uptodate code samples, demos and valuable references.
(submitted on 2012-02-02)

Concise Signal Models
by Michael Wakin - Connexions
This book reviews fundamental concepts underlying the use of concise models for signal processing. Topics are presented from a geometric perspective and include low-dimensional linear, sparse, and manifold-based signal models, approximation, etc.
(submitted on 2012-02-02)

Russia in the Shadows
by H. G. Wells - eBooks@Adelaide
The book depicts the grim situation of Russia during the civil war. On his trip Wells met many people and came away from this experience pessimistic about the future of Russia, noting that it was slipping into anarchy and even greater backwardness.
(submitted on 2012-02-01)

General Mechanics
- Wikibooks
General mechanics introductory text for physics and engineering students with a background in calculus. Contents: Newton's Laws: First principles; Rotational Dynamics; Newton's Laws: A second look; Harmonic Oscillators; etc.
(submitted on 2012-02-01)

The Defective Detective: The Curious Case of the Kilchester Courier
by Adam Maxwell - Feedbooks
Chasing a parcel delivered to a neighbour, Clint is sucked into a remarkably civilised but mildly deranged crime scene. There he encounters almost-blackmail, probable-sex scandals, genuine-imposters and the very real theft of something important.
(submitted on 2012-02-01)

Lectures on Topics in Analysis
by Raghavan Narasimhan - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Topics covered: Differentiable functions in Rn; Manifolds; Vector bundles; Linear differential operators; Cauchy Kovalevski Theorem; Fourier transforms, Plancherel's theorem; Sobolev spaces Hm,p; Elliptic differential operators; etc.
(submitted on 2012-02-01)

Internet Safety: Keeping your Computer Safe on the Internet
by Leo Notenboom - Puget Sound Software
In this free 113 page ebook I summarize popular articles from covering the basics -- the things you must do, the software you must run and the concepts you need to be aware of -- to keep your computer and your data safe as you use the internet.
(submitted on 2012-02-01)

Orthonormal Basis in Minkowski Space
by Aleks Kleyn, Alexandre Laugier - arXiv
In this paper, we considered the definition of orthonormal basis in Minkowski space, the structure of metric tensor relative to orthonormal basis, procedure of orthogonalization. Contents: Preface; Minkowski Space; Examples of Minkowski Space.
(submitted on 2012-01-31)

C++ for C Programmers
by JT Kalnay - Smashwords
A book with exhaustive examples of C++ intended to help a C programmer learn and use C++. The book is not organized in a traditional chapter format, included are example programs that illustrate the important points of C++ in an evolutionary manner.
(submitted on 2012-01-31)

Depression in Adults with a Chronic Physical Health Problem
- British Psychological Society
Sets out clear recommendations for healthcare staff (based on the best available evidence) on how to diagnose and manage adults with a chronic physical health problem who have depression, in order to significantly improve their treatment and care.
(submitted on 2012-01-31)

Climate Variability: Some Aspects, Challenges and Prospects
by Abdel Hannachi - InTech
This is a general introduction to the popular topic of climate variability. It explores various aspects of climate variability and change from different perspectives, ranging from the low-frequency variability to the adaptation to climate change.
(submitted on 2012-01-31)

Moonlit Journey
by Owen Johnston
Please join me on this quest through dark passages -- yet there are rays of hope throughout as we seek paradise. This book contains a range of poetic and prosaic writing styles in one compilation that is thick with liminalism and imagery.
(submitted on 2012-01-31)