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English Composition: Connect/ Collaborate/ Communicate

This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100 (first-year college composition). The content aligns to learning outcomes across all campuses in the University of Hawai'i system. It was designed/ written/ and edited during a three day book sprint in May/ 2019.
Enterprise Pharo a Web Perspective

Enterprise Pharo is the third volume of the series/ following Pharo by Example and Deep into Pharo. It covers enterprise libraries and frameworks/ and in particular those useful for doing web development. The book is structured in five parts. The first part talks about simple web applications/ starting with a ...Read More
Enterprise Pharo a Web Perspective

Enterprise Pharo is the third volume of the series/ following Pharo by Example and Deep into Pharo. It covers enterprise libraries and frameworks/ and in particular those useful for doing web development. The book is structured in five parts. The first part talks about simple web applications/ starting with a ...Read More
Entomology 311 Lab Manual - 1st Edition

Labs in this book supplement the information gained in lecture/ as well as providing some perspective and experience with hands-on applications of ideas in pest management. The labs are presented in week-by-week order/ so the pre-labs and reading for week 1 are labeled “Pre-Lab 1” and “Week 1 Reading”. Pre-Labs ...Read More
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit

This book is designed for upper year undergraduate students and graduate students studying fundamental entrepreneurship concepts.
Environmental Biology

This open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues/ from a biological perspective. The text is designed for an introductory-level college science course. Topics include the fundamentals of ecology/ biodiversity/ pollution/ climate change/ food production/ and human population growth.
Environmental Toxicology

This open online textbook on Environmental Toxicology aims at covering the field in its full width/ including aspects of environmental chemistry/ ecotoxicology/ toxicology and risk assessment. With that/ it will contribute to improving the quality/ continuity and transparency of the education in environmental toxicology. We also want to make sure ...Read More
ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing/ Presenting/ and Assessing Portfolios

ePortfolio Performance Support Systems: Constructing/ Presenting/ and Assessing Portfolios addresses theories and practices advanced by some of the most innovative and active proponents of ePortfolios. Editors Katherine V. Wills and Rich Rice interweave twelve essays that address the ways in which ePortfolios can facilitate sustainable and measureable writing-related student development/ assessment and accountability/ learning and knowledge transfer/ and principles related to universal design for learning/ just-in-time support/ interaction design/ and usability testing.
Essentials of Geographic Information Systems

Essentials of Geographic Information Systems integrates key concepts behind the technology with practical concerns and real-world applications. Recognizing that many potential GIS users are nonspecialists or may only need a few maps/ this book is designed to be accessible/ pragmatic/ and concise. Essentials of Geographic Information Systems also illustrates how ...Read More
Essentials of Linguistics

This Open Educational Resource (OER) brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics/ phonology/ morphology/ syntax/ and semantics)/ supplemented with discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings. Essentials of Linguistics is suitable for any beginning ...Read More
Ethics for A-Level

What does pleasure have to do with morality? What role/ if any/ should intuition have in the formation of moral theory? If something is ‘simulated'/ can it be immoral? This accessible and wide-ranging textbook explores these questions and many more. Key ideas in the fields of normative ethics/ metaethics and ...Read More
Ethics in Law Enforcement

In this book/ you will examine the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement. This book will also familiarize you with the basic history/ principles/ and theories of ethics. These concepts will then be applied to the major components of the criminal justice system: policing/ the courts/ and ...Read More
Euclidean plane and its relatives

This book is meant to be rigorous/ conservative/ elementary and minimalist. At the same time it includes about the maximum what students can absorb in one semester. Approximately one-third of the material used to be covered in high school/ but not any more.The present book is based on the courses ...Read More
Evaluación del Aprendizaje en Ingelés

This course material has been created for the course “Evaluation of comprehension and oral and written production in English” (LCL 462) from the English Language Teaching (ELT) program at the Institute of Literature and Language Sciences/ Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV). This course is located in the 8th semester ...Read More
Evidence-Based Massage Therapy

Massage Therapists want to help people/ and part of our approach requires having a clear message of who we are and the value we offer. Adopting an evidence-based conceptual framework offers a solution/ as it can provide a cohesive message of our nature and value. This clinical practice handbook will prove essential to massage therapists/ physical therapists/ chiropractors/ medical doctors/ psychologists and other health professionals who care for people with musculoskeletal pain. It will be continuously updated as new research becomes available.
Evidence: Best Evidence Rule

The Best Evidence Rule/ contained in Article X of the Federal Rules of Evidence (Rules 1001-1008) and state counterparts/ is a Rule that requires a party seeking to prove the contents of a writing/ recording/ or photograph to produce the original (or a duplicate) or account for its nonproduction. Through ...Read More
Evidence: Jury Impeachment

The anti-jury impeachment rule/ contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and state counterparts/ is a rule preventing the admission of jury testimony or statements in connection with an inquiry into the validity of the verdict/ subject to certain exceptions. Through a series of cases and hypotheticals drawn from actual ...Read More
Evidence: Rape Shield Rule

The Rape Shield Rule/ contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 412 and state counterparts is a Rule preventing the admission of evidence concerning the sexual predisposition and behavior of an alleged victim of sexual misconduct/ subject to certain exceptions. Through a series of cases and hypotheticals drawn from actual cases/ ...Read More
Explorations: An Open Invitation To Biological Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity/ in all its biological and cultural aspects/ past and present. It is a four-field discipline comprised of biological anthropology/ cultural anthropology/ archaeology/ and linguistic anthropology. The focus of this book is biological anthropology/ which explores who we are from biological/ evolutionary/ and adaptive perspectives. ...Read More
Exploring Business

The author's goals in writing Exploring Business Version 2.0 was simple: introduce students to business in an exciting way. Exploring Business is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University ...Read More
Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What’s so exciting about movies?

Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme/ genre/ narrative structure/ character portrayal/ story/ plot/ directing style/ cinematography/ and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how ...Read More
Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis

The reason why Randall Fallows wrote Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis is simple: to help give students a better understanding of how to discover/ develop/ and revise an analytical essay. Here is how his 5 chapter book goes about doing just that: The first two chapters focus on ...Read More
Exploring Public Speaking - 4th Edition

In Exploring Public Speaking/ especially in its second through fourth editions/ we have attempted to create a usable/ zero-cost textbook for basic public speaking courses or courses that include basic public speaking skills as one of their primary learning outcomes. The free/ open nature of the text means that instructors ...Read More
Extended Readings on Copyright

Extended Readings on Copyright is subject to a non-commercial Create Commons license that allows you to add/ subtract/ and amend as you see fit/ provided you extend those terms to any derivative work based on these materials and provided your provide appropriate attribution. I encourage you to share your edits ...Read More
Fast Fourier Transforms

This book focuses on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT)/ discrete convolution/ and/ particularly/ the fast algorithms to calculate them. These topics have been at the center of digital signal processing since its beginning/ and new results in hardware/ theory and applications continue to keep them important and exciting. This book ...Read More
Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure

The Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 28 of the United State Code. This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counsel Bulk US Code. This title is current through July 31/ 2014. All updates to this material will appear at the above URL.
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure

The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 11 of the United State Code. This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counsel Bulk US Code. This title is current through July 31/ 2014.
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

These are the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) as amended to December 01/ 2016. The FRCP govern civil proceedings in the United States district courts and are often the foundation for the standard 1L law school course/ Civil Procedure.