Information about my e-books
Here, you can find supporting
information for the e-books that I have prepared. The books
themselves are published with Leanpub, where they can be
downloaded (see my author page).
You decide the price: there is a suggested price, but you
are also allowed to download them for free, no problem.
Preparing these books, the Matlab
software, and maintaining this website, is done in my
own time. So, the more money I can collect with book sales,
the more time I can invest in these activities. You need to
create an account at Leanpub, with your email address. The
good thing is that I can see how many people have downloaded
my books (I cannot see who they are, just that someone has
bought/downloaded a book), and you get a message whenever I
publish a new version (which you can then download for
free). Furthermore, you can comment on the book at the
Leanpub site.
At this moment, the following books are on offer:
- Making sense of chemical stress. Applications of
Dynamic Energy Budget theory in ecotoxicology and stress
ecology. By Tjalling Jager. Support
page.
- DEBkiss. A simple framework for animal energy budgets.
By Tjalling Jager. Support
page.
- Modelling survival under chemical stress. A
comprehenisve guide to the GUTS framework. By Tjalling
Jager & Roman Ashauer. Support
page.
- Mechanistic modelling essentials. Principles,
mathematics and statistics for building and applying TK
and TKTD models. Support page. This one is
not free, but friendly priced.
- My PhD thesis from 2003 (the unpublished Chapter 2 is
a thorough introduction into TK modelling). By Tjalling
Jager. Download
from Leanpub.
More books might be prepared in the future.
Please do not modify these e-books or post the PDFs on
another website. Feel free to link to these web pages
though, or to Leanpub, which ensures a connection to the
latest version. Feel free to use these books for
non-commercial purposes (e.g., university courses). Also
feel free to use parts of these books for non-commercial
purposes, but give credit where credit is due. For
commercial applications, please contact me. I noticed that some of my e-books
are also offered on other (rather shady) web sites.
Please get them through Leanpub only!
Why (free) e-books?
First and foremost because I want
to make this information available to as broad an audience
as possible. Furthermore, an e-book is more environment
friendly: you can read it from a pc, e-reader or tablet, or
you can print the specific parts you would like to read, and
I can easily keep the contents up-to-date. I now publish it
with Leanpub, which offers people the option to pay for the
book (though they can also set the price to 0$). I get a
fair share from the proceedings, I keep all copyrights, and
I can update the books whenever I like. It does not get any
better!
Why the PDF format?
Because that is easiest to do with
LaTeX, and it allows you to print (parts of) it yourself.
PDF also offers the possibility to work with hyperlinks in
the document, which helps the reader navigate through the
text. Let me know if you would like to see a different
format (such as a dedicated e-book format). If I receive
enough requests, I may be tempted to dive into this matter.
Of course, you can always use a print-on-demand service to
produce a real book for you. Roman used epubli
(website seems to be in German only) to produce a physical
version of the GUTS book, as you can see below. The layout
of the e-books is such that it works well in the printed
version, and is readable at B5 size.
How often do you update the books?
Difficult to say; it also depends
on how many people pay for the e-books (I mostly write them
in my own time). When I spot clear errors, I will correct
them ASAP. Further, I expect to add new literature with some
regularity. In any case, I will keep a version log to
clarify what changes I made in each new version. The PhD
thesis will certainly not be updated anymore.
Gimme feedback!
Did you like the book, or not? Was
reading the book helpful for you, or not? Are you missing
something that you would like to see me address in an update
of the book? Tell me about it! Please send me a message,
either through Leanpub on the book's landing page (that can
even be done anonymously) or email me directly.
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