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Health Case Studies

Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational ...Read More
Health Education

Readers will learn about the nature of health/ health education/ health promotion and related concepts. This will help to understand the social/ psychological and physical components of health.
High Performance Computing

The purpose of this book is to teach new programmers and scientists about the basics of High Performance Computing. Too many parallel and high performance computing books focus on the architecture/ theory and computer science surrounding HPC. This book speaks to the practicing chemistry student/ physicist/ or biologist who need to write and run their programs as part of their research.
Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé

Histoires d'Avenirs est un manuel basé sur neuf nouvelles de science fiction française qui s'adresse à un public d'apprenants étrangers (de niveaux intermédiaire et avancé) mais aussi à un public natif voulant approfondir ses connaissances de la science-fiction moderne - après un chapitre préliminaire qui rappelle les bases historiques du ...Read More
Histology and Embryology for Dental Hygiene

This eBook makes use of animated images to focus on concepts in histology and embryology/ as well as hyperlinks to promote non-linear reading and learning. It is aimed at college students in a dental hygienist program.
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877

This textbook examines U.S. History from before European Contact through Reconstruction/ while focusing on the people and their history.Prior to its publication/ History in the Making underwent a rigorous double blind peer review/ a process that involved over thirty scholars who reviewed the materially carefully/ objectively/ and candidly in order ...Read More
History of International Relations

Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses/ and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases/ debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The ...Read More
How to Learn Like A Pro

How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences/ time and materials management/ critical thinking and reading/ note-taking/ memory principles/ and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues.
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: C Version

The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. I like the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best features of Mathematics/ Engineering/ and Natural Science. Like mathematicians/ computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computations). Like engineers/ ...Read More
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version

The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. I like the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best features of Mathematics/ Engineering/ and Natural Science. Like mathematicians/computer scientists use formal languages to denote ideas (specifically computations). Like engineers/ they ...Read More
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Pythonis an introduction to programming using Python.
How We Got from There to Here: A Story of Real Analysis

The typical introductory real analysis text starts with an analysis of the real number system and uses this to develop the definition of a limit/ which is then used as a foundation for the definitions encountered thereafter. While this is certainly a reasonable approach from a logical point of view/ ...Read More
Human Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course

The overall purpose of this preparatory course textbook is to help students familiarize with some terms and some basic concepts they will find later in the Human Anatomy and Physiology I course.The organization and functioning of the human organism generally is discussed in terms of different levels of increasing complexity/ from the smallest building blocks to the entire body. This Anatomy and Physiology preparatory course covers the foundations on the chemical level/ and a basic introduction to cellular level/ organ level/ and organ system levels. There is also an introduction to homeostasis at the beginning.
Human Anatomy Lab Manual

This is a lab manual for a college-level human anatomy course. Mastery of anatomy requires a fair amount of memorization and recall skills. The activities in this manual encourage students to engage with new vocabulary in many ways/ including grouping key terms/ matching terms to structures/ recalling definitions/ and written ...Read More
Human Behavior and the Social Environment I

That’s what we are here to find out – Human Behavior and the Social Environment (HBSE) – How do they connect? How does it shape us? Why do we think and feel the way we do? This will be explored throughout this course by examining human behavior throughout life stage ...Read More
Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

These materials will help students and instructors alike explore human behavior and how it is shaped and impacted by both traditional and non-traditional paradigms. This text will also support the reader in having a deeper understanding of how the environment/ in all of its complexity/ can affect individuals/ families/ groups/ and communities. It is my hope that the information contained in this book will help you/ as a future social worker/ approach client systems with empathy/ understanding/ and a compassionate curiosity that allows for comprehensive assessment/ individualized approaches to treatment/ and continuity of care.
Human Biology

This textbook has been created with several goals in mind: accessibility/ customization/ and student engagement—all while encouraging students toward high levels of academic scholarship. Students will find that this textbook offers a strong introduction to human biology in an accessible format.
Human Nutrition

This textbook serves as an introduction to nutrition for undergraduate students and is the OER textbook for the FSHN 185 The Science of Human Nutrition course at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. The book covers basic concepts in human nutrition/ key information about essential nutrients/ basic nutritional assessment/ and nutrition across the lifespan.
Human Relations

Human Relations by Laura Portolese-Dias addresses all of the critical topics to obtain career success as they relate to professional relationships. Knowing how to get along with others/ resolve workplace conflict/ manage relationships/ communicate well/ and make good decisions are all critical skills all students need to succeed in career ...Read More
Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting/ selecting/ training/ and compensating people. Most students will be managing people at some point in their careers and not necessarily in a human resource management capacity. As businesses cut back/ they ...Read More
Hybrid-Flexible Course Design

This volume provides readers with methods/ case stories/ and strategies related to Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) course design so that they may make decisions about using it themselves and even begin their own HyFlex course (re)design. More specifically/ based on the needs identified for their course(s)/ readers will be able to a) ...Read More
Immigrant and Refugee Families - 2nd Ed.

Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences offers an interdisciplinary perspective on immigrant and refugee families' challenges and resilience across multiple domains/ including economic/ political/ health/ and human rights. This new edition has been revised and updated from the original 2016 edition. Co-edited with equal contribution by Jaime Ballard/ Elizabeth Wieling/ Catherine Solheim/ and Lekie Dwanyen
Implementing a One Address CPU in Logisim

Most computer users have an incorrect/ but useful/ cognitive metaphor for computers in which the user says (or types or clicks) something and a mystical/ almost intelligent or magical/ behavior happens. It is not a stretch to describe computer users as believing computers follow the laws of magic/ where some ...Read More
Inferring and Explaining

Inferring and Explaining is a book in practical epistemology. It examines the notion of evidence and assumes that good evidence is the essence of rational thinking. Evidence is the cornerstone of the natural/ social/ and behavioral sciences. But it is equally central to almost all academic pursuits and/ perhaps most ...Read More
Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration across Disciplines

This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines/ offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. Taking as a starting point the concerns that prompted the Association of Research Libraries (ACRL) to review the Information Literacy Standards for ...Read More
Information Strategies for Communicators

Written by two nationally recognized experts in information strategy/ Information Strategies for Communicators leads students step-by-step through the information search and evaluation process for news and strategic communication message production. The book includes a conceptual model of the information strategy process/ case studies to illustrate the process in action/ and ...Read More
Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology

Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology is intended for use in undergraduate and/or graduate courses in Management Information Systems and Information Technology. The teaching approach in Information Systems: A Manager's Guide to Harnessing Technology can change this. The text offers a proven approach that has garnered student praise/ ...Read More
Information Systems for Business and Beyond

Welcome to Information Systems for Business and Beyond. In this book/ you will be introduced to the concept of information systems/ their use in business/ and the larger impact they are having on our world. This book is written as an introductory text/ meant for those with little or no ...Read More