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A grammar of Palula

This grammar provides a grammatical description of Palula/ an Indo-Aryan language of the Shina group. The language is spoken by about 10/000 people in the Chitral district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is the first extensive description of the formerly little-documented Palula language/ and is one of only a ...Read More
A grammar of Papuan Malay

This book presents an in-depth linguistic description of Papuan Malay/ a non-standard variety of Malay. The language is spoken in coastal West Papua which covers the western part of the island of New Guinea. The study is based on sixteen hours of recordings of spontaneous narratives and conversations between Papuan ...Read More
A grammar of Pite Saami

Pite Saami is a highly endangered Western Saami language in the Uralic language family currently spoken by a few individuals in Swedish Lapland. This grammar is the first extensive book-length treatment of a Saami language written in English. While focusing on the morphophonology of the main word classes nouns/ adjectives ...Read More
A grammar of Rapa Nui

This book is a comprehensive description of the grammar of Rapa Nui/ the Polynesian language spoken on Easter Island. After an introductory chapter/ the grammar deals with phonology/ word classes/ the noun phrase/ possession/ the verb phrase/ verbal and nonverbal clauses/ mood and negation/ and clause combinations. The phonology of ...Read More
A grammar of Yakkha

This grammar provides the first comprehensive grammatical description of Yakkha/ a Sino-Tibetan language of the Kiranti branch. Yakkha is spoken by about 14/000 speakers in eastern Nepal/ in the Sankhuwa Sabha and Dhankuta districts. The grammar is based on original fieldwork in the Yakkha community. Its primary source of data ...Read More
A grammar of Yauyos Quechua

This book presents a synchronic grammar of the southern dialects of Yauyos/ an extremely endangered Quechuan language spoken in the Peruvian Andes. As the language is highly synthetic/ the grammar focuses principally on morphology; a longer section is dedicated to the language's unusual evidential system. The grammar's 1400 examples are drawn from a 24-hour corpus of transcribed recordings collected in the course of the documentation of the language.
A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues - Second edition/ revised and updated

A Guide to Good Reasoning has been described by reviewers as “far superior to any other critical reasoning text.” It shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues. From there it develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments/ according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world/ whether the conclusion fits the premises/ whether the argument fits the conversation/ and whether it is possible to tell.
A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications

Welcome to the textbook for Engineering Technical Communications courses at The Ohio State University. Our aim in writing this textbook was to create a resource specifically focused on and applicable to the kinds of communication skills most beneficial to the students who take our courses. Therefore/ this textbook focuses on developing both technical and professional communication skills and will help readers practice strategies for critically analyzing audiences and contexts/ real-world applications of rhetorical principles/ and skills for producing documents (reports/ proposals/ instructions)/ presentations/ videos/ and wide variety of other professional communications.
A Laboratory Guide to Clinical Hematology

This is eBook will be constantly updated/ edited/ and reviewed as new emerging information arises.
Algebra and Trigonometry

Algebra and Trigonometry provides a comprehensive and multi-layered exploration of algebraic principles. The text is suitable for a typical introductory Algebra & Trigonometry course/ and was developed to be used flexibly. The modular approach and the richness of content ensures that the book meets the needs of a variety of ...Read More
Algorithms and Data Structures With Applications to Graphics and Geometry

An introductory coverage of algorithms and data structures with application to graphics and geometry.
American Contract Law for a Global Age

American Contract Law for a Global Age by Franklin G. Snyder and Mark Edwin Burge of Texas A&M University School of Law is a casebook designed primarily for the first-year Contracts course as it is taught in American law schools/ but is configured so as to be usable either as ...Read More
American Environmental History

For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments/ from prehistory to the present.
American Government - 2e

American Government 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning/ including Insider Perspective features and a Get Connected module that shows students how they can get engaged in the political process. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them.
American Government and Politics in the Information Age

This text is a comprehensive introduction to the vital subject of American government and politics. Governments decide who gets what/ when/ how (See Harold D. Lasswell/ Politics: Who Gets What/ When/ How/ [New York: McGraw-Hill/ 1936]); they make policies and pass laws that are binding on all a society's members; ...Read More
Analytical Chemistry 2.1

As currently taught in the United States/ introductory courses in analytical chemistry emphasize quantitative (and sometimes qualitative) methods of analysis along with a heavy dose of equilibrium chemistry. Analytical chemistry/ however/ is much more than a collection of analytical methods and an understanding of equilibrium chemistry; it is an approach ...Read More
Analyzing meaning: An introduction to semantics and pragmatics

This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language/ from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics/ including lexical semantics/ compositional semantics/ and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech ...Read More
Anatomy and Physiology

Anatomy and Physiology is a dynamic textbook for the yearlong Human Anatomy and Physiology course taught at most two- and four-year colleges and universities to students majoring in nursing and allied health. A&P is 29 chapters of pedagogically effective learning content/ organized by body system/ and written at an audience-appropriate ...Read More
Anatomy and Physiology of Animals

Veterinary nurses need to have a firm grasp of the normal structure of an animal's body and how it functions before they can understand the effect diseases and injuries have and the best ways to treat them. This book describes the structure of the animal body and the way in which it works. Animals encountered in normal veterinary practice are used as examples where possible.
Ancient Greek 1: A 21st Century Approach

Phillip S. Peek

In this elementary textbook, Philip S. Peek draws on his twenty-five years of teaching experience to present the ancient Greek language in an imaginative and accessible way that promotes creativity, deep learning, and diversity.

The course is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 ...Read More
Ancient Greek for Everyone

Wilfred E. Major and Michael Laughy

The book contains a study of the essential morphology and syntax of ancient Greek; vocabulary and exercises; and reading passages drawn from ancient sources.
An EKG Interpretation Primer

This book teaches healthcare professionals the basics of EKG interpretation and is available as a Creative Commons resource.
Animals & Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights

This book provides an overview of the current debates about the nature and extent of our moral obligations to animals. Which/ if any/ uses of animals are morally wrong/ which are morally permissible (i.e./ not wrong) and why? What/ if any/ moral obligations do we/ individually and as a society (and a global community)/ have towards animals and why? How should animals be treated? Why? We will explore the most influential and most developed answers to these questions – given by philosophers/ scientists/ and animal advocates and their critics – to try to determine which positions are supported by the best moral reasons.
An Introduction to Computer Networks - Second Edition

An Introduction to Computer Networksis a free and open general-purpose computer-networking textbook/ complete with diagrams and exercises.It covers the LAN/ internetworking and transport layers/ focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing/ real-time traffic/ network management/ security and the ns simulator. The book is suitable as the primary text for an undergraduate or introductory graduate course in computer networking/ as a supplemental text for a wide variety of network-related courses/ and as a reference work.
An Introduction to Cooperation and Mutualism

This textbook introduces readers to the idea of cooperation and mutualism. Cooperatives and mutuals are participatory organizations in which members participate in control and governance/ receive economic benefits through patronage refunds or net income/ and become owners through equity. These mutual-benefit organizations exist alongside non-profit organizations and investor-benefit organizations through the global economy.
An Introduction to Formal Logic

forall x is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity/ logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. After working through the material in this book/ a student should be able to understand most quantified expressions that arise in their philosophical reading. This books treats symbolization/ ...Read More
An Introduction to Matlab and Mathcad

This textbook/ or really a “coursebook” for a college freshman-level class/ has been updated for Spring 2014 and provides an introduction to programming and problem solving using both Matlab and Mathcad. We provide a balanced selection of introductory exercises and real-world problems (i.e. no “contrived” problems). We include many examples and screenshots to guide the reader. We assume no prior knowledge of Matlab or Mathcad.
An Introduction to Nutrition

Welcome to Essentials of Nutrition: A Functional Approach! This book is written for students who are not majoring in nutrition/ but want to learn about the fundamental aspects of nutrition and how it applies to their own lives. We have written this book with the assumption that you have little or no prior knowledge of college level chemistry/ biology/ or physiology. But that does not mean it’s not scientific! Nutrition is a science-based discipline/ so all the material included is backed up by rigorous scientific research/ but it is presented in a clear/ easy-to-understand fashion without requiring a background in science.