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Sharing Our Knowledge: Best Practices for Supporting English Language Learners in Schools

To complete the course ECUR 415.3: Current Issues in EAL/ students are required to submit a final paper that reflects their growing knowledge about English as an Additional Language (EAL). EAL is the term used in Saskatchewan to describe students who speak languages other than English and require adequate levels ...Read More
Sight-Reading for Guitar

Sight-Reading for Guitar: The Keep Going Method Book and Video Series teaches guitar players from all musical backgrounds to understand/ read and play modern staff notation in real time. The Keep Going Method is designed to impart the knowledge/ skills and attitudes needed for sight-reading with efficiency/ fun and encouragement. ...Read More
Signal Computing: Digital Signals in the Software Domain

In this book/ you will learn how digital signals are captured/ represented/ processed/ communicated/ and stored in computers. The specific topics we will cover include: physical properties of the source information (such as sound or images)/ devices for information cap- ture (microphones/ cameras)/ digitization/ compression/ digital signal representation (JPEG/ MPEG)/ ...Read More
Six Steps To Job Search Success

This book is a practical discussion of six actionable steps that students can take to land a job regardless of the market. Whether the estimate is 25% unemployment or single-digit unemployment/ that number doesn't apply to any one student. For any individual/ the unemployment rate is 0% or 100%. One ...Read More
Six Ways of Being Religious

The book proposes the hypothesis that six generic ways of being religious may be found in any large-scale religious tradition such as Christianity or Buddhism or Islam or Hinduism: sacred rite/ right action/ devotion/ shamanic mediation/ mystical quest/ and reasoned inquiry. These are recurrent ways in which/ socially and individually/ devout members of these traditions take up and appropriate their stories and symbols in order to draw near to/ and come into right relationship with/ what the traditions attest to be the ultimate reality.
Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience

Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors/ students/ and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history/ economic development/ artistic expressiveness/ and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding ...Read More
Slurry Transport: Fundamentals/ A Historical Overview & The Delft Head Loss & Limit Deposit Velocity Framework - 2nd Edition

In dredging/ trenching/ (deep sea) mining/ drilling/ tunnel boring and many other applications/ sand/ clay or rock has to be excavated.The book covers horizontal transport of settling slurries (Newtonian slurries). Non-settling (non-Newtonian) slurries are not covered.
Small Business Management in the 21st Century

Small Business Management in the 21st Century offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach/ and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept. The text has ...Read More
Social Problems: Continuity and Change

Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book's subtitle/ Continuity and Change/ implies/ social problems are persistent/ but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future/ ...Read More
Social Science Research: Principles/ Methods/ and Practices

This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences/ business/ education/ public health/ and related disciplines. This book is based on my lecture materials developed over a decade of teaching the doctoral-level class on Research Methods at the University ...Read More
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World

The founders of sociology in the United States wanted to make a difference. A central aim of the sociologists of the Chicago school was to use sociological knowledge to achieve social reform. A related aim of sociologists like Jane Addams/ W.E.B. DuBois/ and Ida B. Wells-Barnett and others since was ...Read More
Soils Laboratory Manual - K-State Edition

The Soils Laboratory Manual/ K-State Edition is designed for students in undergraduate/ introductory soil science courses/ and highlights the many aspects of soil science/ including: soil genesis and classification/ soil physical properties/ soil-water interaction/ soil biology/ soil chemistry/ and soil fertility. The lab manual includes 15 different laboratories/ each one ...Read More
Sons & Lettres: A pronunciation method for intermediate-level French

Sons et lettres provides a set of classroom materials to train students to hear and produce the sounds of French and to recognize the regular spellings used to represent those sounds in print. The materials are inspired by a desire to help students feel more confident about their French pronunciation ...Read More
Sound Reasoning

“Sound Reasoning” is a web-based/ introductory music appreciation course. It offers a new approach to music appreciation for adults/ focusing on style-independent concepts. While the course concentrates primarily on Western classical and modern music/ the concepts that are introduced apply to music of any style or era. The goal of ...Read More
Sources of American Law: An Introduction to Legal Research - 4th Edition

At its most basic definition the practice of law comprises conducting research to find relevant rules of law and then applying those rules to the specific set of circumstances faced by a client. However/ in American law/ the legal rules to be applied derive from myriad sources/ complicating the process ...Read More
Spanish I: Beginning Spanish Language and Culture

This peer-reviewed textbook is designed for the true beginner with U.S. college students in mind. It contains themed chapters/ which are divided into 8 sections. Each section has its own set of learning objectives/ and is further separated into three types of assignments/ Para estudiar en casa (with detailed explanations)/ ...Read More
Spatial Thinking in Planning Practice: An Introduction to GIS

The goals of this textbook are to help students acquire the technical skills of using software and managing a database/ and develop research skills of collecting data/ analyzing information and presenting results. We emphasize that the need to investigate the potential and practicality of GIS technologies in a typical planning ...Read More
Speaking of Culture

“Speaking of Culture” is a collection of instructor-authored background readings intended to accompany other activities/ discussions/ experiences/ projects/ and readings for IELI 2470 – Cross-Cultural Perspectives/ a course offered by faculty in the Intensive English Language Institute at Utah State University. Its main purpose is to define culture and other concepts often associated with it.
Speak Out/ Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy

Speak Out/ Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy is a contemporary/ interdisciplinary public speaking textbook that fuses rhetoric/ critical/cultural studies/ and performance to offer an up-to-date resource for students. With a focus on advocacy/ this textbook invites students to consider public speaking as a political/ purposeful form of information-sharing.
Spiral Workbook for Discrete Mathematics

This is a text that covers the standard topics in a sophomore-level course in discrete mathematics: logic/ sets/ proof techniques/ basic number theory/ functions/ relations/ and elementary combinatorics/ with an emphasis on motivation. It explains and clarifies the unwritten conventions in mathematics/ and guides the students through a detailed discussion ...Read More
Spunti: Italiano elementare 1

Welcome to Spunti: Italiano elementare 1 – a new/ unique program/ authored by the Italian faculty of Muhlenberg College/ that takes the place of a traditional language textbook. Spunti is a fully designed course that a college instructor of Italian can use and adapt.
Spunti: Italiano elementare 2

Welcome to Spunti: Italiano elementare 2 – a new/ unique program/ authored by the Italian faculty of Muhlenberg College/ that takes the place of a traditional language textbook. Spunti is a fully designed course that a college instructor of Italian can use and adapt.
Spunti: Italiano intermedio

Welcome to Spunti: italiano intermedio – a unique program/ authored by the Italian faculty of Muhlenberg College/ that takes the place of a traditional language textbook. Spunti is a fully designed course that a college instructor of Italian can use and adapt.
Squeak by Example

Squeak is a modern open-source development environment for the classic Smalltalk-80 programming language. Despite being the first purely object-oriented language and environment/ Smalltalk is in many ways still far ahead of its successors in promoting a vision of an environment where everything is an object/ and anything can change at ...Read More
Stand up/ Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking

Stand up/ Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speakingfeatures two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers/ and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that setsStand up/ Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speakingapart from the other texts in this market.
State and Local Government and Politics: Prospects for Sustainability - 2st Edition

Our book represents a unique opportunity for three generations of scholars to reflect upon and collectively consider their decades’ long research/ and the meaning of that research to both the broader society and to students of contemporary politics. Nicholas Lovrich served as a graduate school mentor to Brent Steel/ and Brent in turn mentored Christopher A. Simon as an undergraduate and guided him to study with Lovrich. Steel and Lovrich have collaborated on research for over 30 years/ while Simon has frequently collaborated with Steel and Lovrich for nearly 20 years.
Statistical Inference For Everyone

This is a new approach to an introductory statistical inference textbook/ motivated by probability theory as logic. It is targeted to the typical Statistics 101 college student/ and covers the topics typically covered in the first semester of such a course. It is freely available under the Creative Commons License/ and includes a software library in Python for making some of the calculations and visualizations easier.
Statistical Thinking for the 21st Century

Statistical thinking is a way of understanding a complex world by describing it in relatively simple terms that nonetheless capture essential aspects of its structure/ and that also provide us some idea of how uncertain we are about our knowledge. The foundations of statistical thinking come primarily from mathematics and statistics/ but also from computer science/ psychology/ and other fields of study.