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Native Peoples of North America

Native Peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such/ the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language/ kinship/ marriage and family life/ political and economic ...Read More
Natural Resources Biometrics

Natural Resources Biometrics begins with a review of descriptive statistics/ estimation/ and hypothesis testing. The following chapters cover one- and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA)/ including multiple comparison methods and interaction assessment/ with a strong emphasis on application and interpretation. Simple and multiple linear regressions in a natural resource setting ...Read More
Nature of Geographic Information Systems

The purpose of this text is to promote understanding of the Geographic Information Science and Technology enterprise (GIS&T/ also known as “geospatial”).
New Media Futures

This book is intended for use in a large introductory class in new media in a program that covers the “full-stack” including critical/cultural studies/ media management/ diffusion of innovation/ and synthetic media production. The first half of this basic sequence covered new media and democracy/ finance/ intellectual property law/ basic ...Read More
No Limits

Student Success and First Year Experience are learning community courses at UTA that teach new students academic success skills to aid their transition to college. The goal of the courses is to help students identify their individual needs/ determine what resources are appropriate/ recognize the faculty role in their development/ ...Read More
Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers

A one semester first course on differential equations/ aimed at engineering students. Prerequisite for the course is the basic calculus sequence. This free online book (e-book in webspeak) should be usable as a stand-alone textbook or as a companion to a course using another book such as Edwards and Penney/ ...Read More
Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know

Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student. Recent studies show that only one in four nurses feel confident in caring for dying patients and their families and less than 2% ...Read More
Nursing Pharmacology

This open access Nursing Pharmacology textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes. This book is not intended to be used as a drug reference book/ but direct links are provided to DailyMed/ which provides trustworthy information about marketed drugs in the United States.
Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application - beta v 0.1

This book is designed as an OER text and learning resource for undergraduate students enrolled in FN 225 Nutrition at Lane Community College in Eugene/ Oregon. The book covers basic nutrition and metabolism/ information literacy/ energy balance/ nutrition across life stages/ dietary supplements/ an in-depth look at each of the macronutrients/ and major functions of vitamins and minerals.
Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns

The documentation is missing or obsolete/ and the original developers have departed. Your team has limited understanding of the system/ and unit tests are missing for many/ if not all/ of the components. When you fix a bug in one place/ another bug pops up somewhere else in the system. ...Read More
OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians

We intend this book to act as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER/ that anyone—called to action by the example set by our chapter authors—might serve as guides themselves. The following chapters tap into the deep experience of practitioners who represent a meaningful cross section of higher education institutions in North America. It is our hope that the examples and discussions presented by our authors will facilitate connections among practitioners/ foster the development of best practices for OER adoption and creation/ and more importantly/ lay a foundation for novel/ educational excellence.
Open Data Structures: An Introduction

Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms/ Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists)/ queues/ priority queues/ unordered dictionaries/ ordered dictionaries/ and graphs. Focusing on a mathematically rigorous approach that is fast/ practical/ and efficient/ Morin clearly and ...Read More
OpenIntro Statistics - Fourth Edition

OpenIntro Statistics covers a first course in statistics/ providing a rigorous introduction to appliedstatistics that is clear/ concise/ and accessible. This book was written with the undergraduate levelin mind/ but it’s also popular in high schools and graduate courses.We hope readers will take away three ideas from this book in ...Read More
Open Logic Project

The Open Logic Text is an open-source/ collaborative textbook of formal meta-logic and formal methods/ starting at an intermediate level (i.e./ after an introductory formal logic course). Though aimed at a non-mathematical audience (in particular/ students of philosophy and computer science)/ it is rigorous. The Open Logic Text is a ...Read More
Open Research

If you have an interest in openness/ open education/ research skills or want to find out more about the impact of Open EducationalResources (OER)/ then this resource is for you. You could be: Using an OER with students and interested in assessing its impact Facilitating sessions on open practice with ...Read More
Open Resources for Community College Algebra

Open Resources for Community College Algebra (ORCCA) is an open-source/ openly-licensed textbook package (eBook/ print/ and online homework) for basic and intermediate algebra. At Portland Community College/ Part 1 is used in MTH 60/ Part 2 is used in MTH 65/ and Part 3 is used in MTH 95.
Open-Source Property: A Free Casebook

Open Source Property: A Free Casebook is a free resource for instructors and students of the first-year Property Law course at American law schools/ and anyone else with an interest in the subject.
Open Technical Writing: An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead/ the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.
Operating Systems and Middleware: Supporting Controlled Interaction

In this book/ you will learn about all three kinds of interaction. In all three cases/ interesting software techniques are needed in order to bring the computations into contact/ yet keep them suffciently at arm's length that they don't compromise each other's reliability. The exciting challenge/ then/ is supporting controlled ...Read More
Operational Amplifiers & Linear Integrated Circuits: Theory and Application - 3e

The goal of this text/ as its name implies/ is to allow the reader to become proficient in the analysis and design of circuits utilizing modern linear ICs. It progresses from the fundamental circuit building blocks through to analog/digital conversion systems. The text is intended for use in a second ...Read More
Ordinary Differential Equations

This book consists of ten weeks of material given as a course on ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for second year mathematics majors at the University of Bristol. It is the first course devoted solely to differential equations that these students will take. This book consists of 10 chapters/ and the ...Read More
Oregon’s History: People of the Northwest in the Land of Eden

This “open textbook” is a social and cultural history of the people of Oregon representing powerful figures from the dominant Euro-American culture/ the marginalized and oppressed/ and social and political reformers who shaped the historical legacy of the state. It is a story of the diverse array of immigrants who ...Read More
Oregon Writes Open Writing Text

This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis/ the writing process/ researching/ citing/ rhetorical modes/ and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field/ the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon.
Organic Chemistry Laboratory Techniques

This resource was created by Lisa Nichols (chemistry faculty at Butte Community College in Northern California) as a result of an academic sabbatical leave in the Fall-2015 to Spring 2016 term. The target audience are undergraduate students in organic chemistry. In this resource you will find theory and procedures on ...Read More
Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis Volume I

The traditional approach to teaching Organic Chemistry/ taken by most of the textbooks that are currently available/ is to focus primarily on the reactions of laboratory synthesis/ with much less discussion - in the central chapters/ at least - of biological molecules and reactions. This is despite the fact that/ ...Read More
Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis Volume II

The traditional approach to teaching Organic Chemistry/ taken by most of the textbooks that are currently available/ is to focus primarily on the reactions of laboratory synthesis/ with much less discussion - in the central chapters/ at least - of biological molecules and reactions. This is despite the fact that/ ...Read More
Organizational Behavior

Organizational Behavior bridges the gap between theory and practice with a distinct "experiential" approach. On average/ a worker in the USA will change jobs 10 times in 20 years. In order to succeed in this type of career situation/ individuals need to be armed with the tools necessary to be ...Read More
Organizational Behavior

This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory/ concepts/ and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking/ managing change/ using tools/technology/ and responsible management; furthermore/ the unique chapter on Social Media and Communication contextualizes the importance and implications of various platforms and communications methods.