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Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice

Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research/ early literacy development/ literacy assessment/ digital age influences on children's literature/ literacy development in underserved ...Read More
Strategic Management

This open source textbook is derived from many sources/ initially from the Principles of Management by Carpenter/ Bauer/ and Erdogan/ but there is abundant new content as well. It is published under a Creative Commons license and as such there is no charge ever for this textbook. The most important ...Read More
Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries - Third Edition

The forest industry is increasingly global and every marketer of forest products should have a global perspective. As a natural resource-based industry/ the forest industry has an especially high profile role in environmental protection and is increasingly involved in climate change mitigation and management. Global forests are not only important ...Read More
Studying the Bible: The Tanakh and Early Christian Writings

Studying the Bible: The Tanakh and Early Christian Writings is a university-level/ textbook introduction to the study of the Bible/ its literary forms/ and historical and cultural contexts. This textbook is a companion to the Bible courses taught in the English Department at Kansas State University/ in particular ENGL 470 ...Read More
Succeeding at Your Internship: A Handbook Written for and with Students

There are several textbooks for students whose majors include internships in human services/ broadly defined/ such case management/ counseling/ criminal justice/ and social work. Most of these books are written in an academic format. Typically/ it involves an introduction to a theoretical orientation that concerns working with others followed by ...Read More
Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness

This multidisciplinary resource develops topics of interest to all those who care about and for individuals with co-occurring intellectual disabilities and mental illness. Each chapter presents current evidence informed practice knowledge. Each topic is also presented with audio enabled text boxes emphasizing ‘Key Points for Caregivers.' For those who are interested in background knowledge/ we provided the comprehensive literature base. And/ for those interested mainly in ‘what to do/' we provided text box summaries for reading and listening.
Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”/ first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field/ comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts/ natural and social sciences/ and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study/ the ...Read More
Sustainability/ Innovation/ and Entrepreneurship

This book is suited for the Entrepreneurship or Innovation course with an emphasis on Sustainability or for a course devoted entirely to Sustainability. What are the trends and forces underlying the changing character of the business-environment relationship? How they are creating significant entrepreneurial opportunities for individuals and companies? Around the ...Read More
Sustaining the Commons

This textbook discusses the main framework/ concepts and applications of the work of Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues for an undergraduate audience. We began teaching a course on collective and the commons in 2007 at Arizona State University. Initially we made use of Ostrom's classic book “Governing the Commons”/ but ...Read More
Tacitus/ Annals/ 15.20-23/ 33-45. Latin Text/ Study Aids with Vocabulary/ and Commentary

The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains/ and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had ...Read More
Tajik Persian: Readings in History/ Culture and Society

Tajik Persian: Readings in History/ Culture and Society seeks to help students develop reading proficiency in Tajik at advanced level through authentic texts written for native speakers and provides them glimpses into the history/ culture and society of Tajikistan without losing its focus on cultural aspects of the country—an aspect that constitutes a core component in the second language acquisition. The book can be adopted by instructors as a supplementary or the main textbook for advanced-level courses.
Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom

Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation/ but also on theories and ...Read More
Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media

Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology/ learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts/ through learning management systems (LMS). However/ while ...Read More
Teaching in a Digital Age: Guidelines for designing teaching and learning - 2nd Edition

Teachers/ instructors and faculty are facing unprecedented change/ with often larger classes/ more diverse students/ demands from government and employers who want more accountability and the development of graduates who are workforce ready/ and above all/ we are all having to cope with ever changing technology. To handle change of ...Read More
Teaching Low Brass

The purpose of this textbook is to provide resources about teaching low brass instruments to music educators and future music educators. The book was developed by the author as part of the open/alternative textbook initiative at Kansas State University. It Is the textbook used for the Kansas State University course ...Read More
Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level

Teaching Mathematics is nothing less than a mathematical manifesto. Arising in response to a limited National Curriculum/ and engaged with secondary schooling for those aged 11 ̶ 14 (Key Stage 3) in particular/ this handbook for teachers will help them broaden and enrich their students’ mathematical education. It avoids specifying ...Read More
Tea Time Numerical Analysis

This textbook was born of a desire to contribute a viable/ free/ introductory Numerical Analysis textbook for instructors and students of mathematics. The ultimate goal of Tea Time Numerical Analysis is to be a complete/ one-semester/ single-pdf/ downloadable textbook designed for mathematics classes. Now includes differential equations. Over 350 pages Over 1000 lines of code Over 200 figures Open source
Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order

The Technical Project Management class is designed to help students build on their past experiences and develop effective strategies for managing complex technical projects/ with an emphasis on applying project management concepts to real-world problems. In the weekly web conferences/ the class comes together in community to discuss the lesson topics/ considering the practical applications of the concepts in each subject area.
Technical Theatre Practicum - Version 1

Welcome to the exciting world of technical theatre. Studying this topic can lead to many different careers in several different sectors of the economy. The general skills needed for any of the careers or sectors have many things in common. Workers need to be dead-line oriented/ as most productions have ...Read More
Technical Writing

This open textbook offers students of technical writing an introduction to the processes and products involved in professional/ workplace/ and technical writing. The text is broken up into sections reflecting key components of researching/ developing/ and producing a technical report. Readers will also learn about other professional communication/ designing documents/ and creating and integrating graphics. Written especially for an academic setting/ this book provides readers with guidance on information literacy and documenting sources. This book was collected/ adapted/ and edited from multiple openly licensed sources.
Technical Writing @ SLCC

What is technical writing? You can think of it as writing about specialized topics or you could also think of it as using technology to communicate your ideas. A science lab report/ a specification/ a change order for building construction/ or patient education materials–just to name a few–are all considered ...Read More
Temas de Diseño en Interacción Humano-Computadora

El nivel académico que pretende abordar el libro es en las diferentes licenciaturas e ingenierías que consideren tópicos en el área de interacción humano computadora/ así como los posgrados relacionados con la temática. El libro describe diferentes tipos de interacción que pueden ofrecer las aplicaciones interactivas donde a través de la interfaz gráfica es posible guiar y hacer fácil la tarea del usuario. Así pues/ el lector puede encontrar diferentes trabajos que especifican desde los requerimientos del usuario hasta el diseño/ programación y evaluación de distintas aplicaciones interactivas.
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall/ Flow/ and Heat

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people/ animals/ things/ images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life. Carefully observing everyday motion allows us to deduce six essential ...Read More
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light/ Charges/ and Brains

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people/ animals/ things/ images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the adventures one encounters when exploring everything electric. The story ranges from the weighing of electric current to the use ...Read More
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people/ animals/ things/ images and empty space move leads to many adven- tures. This volume presents the best of them in the domains of relativity and cosmology. In the study of motion – physics ...Read More
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people/ animals/ things/ images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature. This ...Read More
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification

This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people/ animals/ things/ images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures/ and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise/ unified ...Read More
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure/ Technology/ and Stars

This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies/ images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best adventures about the motion inside people/ inside animals/ and inside any other type of matter – from the largest ...Read More