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The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction

The American LGBTQ Rights Movement: An Introduction is a peer-reviewed chronological survey of the LGBTQ fight for equal rights from the turn of the 20th century to the early 21st century. Illustrated with historical photographs/ the book beautifully reveals the heroic people and key events that shaped the American LGBTQ rights movement. The book includes personal narratives to capture the lived experience from each era/ as well as details of essential organizations/ texts/ and court cases that defined LGBTQ activism and advocacy.
The American Yawp Vol. II: Since 1877

In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises/ scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text/ as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material/ The American ...Read More
The American Yawp Vol. I: To 1877

In an increasingly digital world in which pedagogical trends are de-emphasizing rote learning and professors are increasingly turning toward active-learning exercises/ scholars are fleeing traditional textbooks. Yet for those that still yearn for the safe tether of a synthetic text/ as either narrative backbone or occasional reference material/ The American ...Read More
The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. “Anthropology requires strength/ valor/ and courage/” Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. “Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport/ an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. … It ...Read More
Theatrical Worlds

From the University of Florida College of Fine Arts/ Charlie Mitchell and distinguished colleagues from across America present an introductory text for theatre and theoretical production. This book seeks to give insight into the people and processes that create theater. It does not strip away the feeling of magic but to add wonder for the artistry that make a production work well.
The Balance of Personality

This open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for theories of personality. Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in Psychology 432 Personality course. The chapters are shorter than some personality textbooks and in this particular course Psy 432 the textbook is combined with other readings including scientific articles on personality. This open access textbook may be of interest to other courses interested in teaching about theory and research on personality.
The Basics of General/ Organic/ and Biological Chemistry

The Basics of General/ Organic/ and Biological Chemistry by David W. Ball/ John W. Hill/ and Rhonda J. Scott is for the one-semester General/ Organic and Biological Chemistry course. The authors designed this textbook from the ground up to meet the needs of a one-semester course. It is 20 chapters ...Read More
The Business Ethics Workshop

Ethics is about determining value; it's deciding what's worth doing and what doesn't matter so much.Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue/ what choices we make on the job/which companies we want to work with/ and what kind of economic world we want to live in and thenleave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions/ but there's adifference between thinking them through and winging it. The Business Ethics Workshop provides aframework for identifying/ analyzing/ and resolving ethical dilemmas encountered through working life.
The Centrality of Style

InThe Centrality of Style/ editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field. Calling attention to this paradox in his ...Read More
The Changing Story: digital stories that participate in transforming teaching & learning

The Changing Story gives you assignments/ resources/ and examples to use in your teaching and learning. It will also help you think of ways digital stories can be used in your teaching/ and help students harness the power of visual storytelling.
The Complete Subjective Health Assessment

This textbook is designed for the novice learner who is seeking to develop a foundationalunderstanding of the complete subjective health assessment in the context of health and illness. The textbook deconstructs the categories of the complete subjective health assessment/ providing learners with explanations and examples of what constitutes relevant subjective data. This textbook provides an opportunity to learn how to respond to normal/ abnormal/ and critical findings when completing a complete subjective health assessment
The Crystal Ball Instruction Manual Volume One: Introduction to Data Science

A perfect introduction to the exploding field of Data Science for the curious/ first-time student. The author brings his trademark conversational tone to the important pillars of the discipline: exploratory data analysis/ choices for structuring data/ causality/ machine learning principles/ and introductory Python programming using open-source Jupyter Notebooks. This engaging read will allow any dedicated learner to build the skills necessary to contribute to the Data Science revolution/ regardless of background.
The Data Journalism Handbook

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story/ a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook/ you’ll explore the potential/ limits/ and applied uses of this new ...Read More
The Delft Sand/ Clay & Rock Cutting Model

In dredging/ trenching/ (deep sea) mining/ drilling/ tunnel boring and many other applications/ sand/ clay or rock has to be excavated. This book gives an overview of cutting theories. It starts with a generic model/ which is valid for all types of soil (sand/ clay and rock) after which the ...Read More
The Discipline of Organizing: 4th Professional Edition

We organize things/ we organize information/ we organize information about things/ and we organize information about information. But even though “organizing” is a fundamental and ubiquitous challenge/ when we compare these activities their contrasts are more apparent than their commonalities. We propose to unify many perspectives about organizing with the ...Read More
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets - 2nd Edition

The Second Edition of Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets (2019) is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses. The book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food/ agricultural/ agribusiness/ international trade/ labor markets/ and natural resource sectors. The field of ...Read More
The ELC: An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work

The ELC professional development model was designed to improve the quality of teacher candidates’ Practicum field placements and align teaching in field placements with Learning Standards used in the teacher education program. Teams of four educators from varied settings worked in a Practicum placement setting for one semester to improve ...Read More
The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories/ Origins/ Theories?

Provides a new account of the emergence of Irish gothic fiction in mid-eighteenth century. This book provides a robustly theorised and thoroughly historicised account of the ‘beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction/ maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics/ and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the ...Read More
The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems

It is increasingly clear that the shapes of reality – whether of the natural world/ or of the built environment – are in some profound sense mathematical. Therefore it would benefit students and educated adults to understand what makes mathematics itself ‘tick’/ and to appreciate why its shapes/ patterns and ...Read More
The Ethics of Tax Lawyering - Third Edition

This chapter's objective is to raise interesting tax ethics issues in practical contexts. There are 43 notes and questions to prompt and guide discussions/ and primary source materials to inform the discussions (e.g./ cases/ IRC provisions/ and Circular 230 excerpts). These Teaching Notes flesh out the notes and questions/ summarize ...Read More
The History of Our Tribe: Hominini

Where did we come from? What were our ancestors like? Why do we differ from other animals? How do scientists trace and construct our evolutionary history? The History of Our Tribe: Hominini provides answers to these questions and more. The book explores the field of paleoanthropology past and present. Beginning ...Read More
The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts/ Ancient and Modern

In a brief essay called Des espaces autres (1984) Michel Foucault announced that after the nineteenth century/ which was dominated by a historical outlook/ the current century might rather be the century of space. His prophecy has been fulfilled: the end of the twentieth century witnessed a ‘spatial turn' in ...Read More
The Indigo Book: A Manual of Legal Citation

Welcome to The Indigo Book—a free/ Creative Commons-dedicated implementation of The Bluebook’s Uniform System of Citation. The Indigo Book was compiled by a team of students at the New York University School of Law/ working under the direction of Professor Christopher Jon Sprigman. The Indigo Book isn’t the same as ...Read More
The Information Literacy User's Guide: An Open/ Online Textbook

Good researchers have a host of tools at their disposal that make navigating today's complex information ecosystem much more manageable. Gaining the knowledge/ abilities/ and self-reflection necessary to be a good researcher helps not only in academic settings/ but is invaluable in any career/ and throughout one's life. The Information ...Read More
The Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic

The Republic of Plato is one of the classic gateway texts into the study and practice of philosophy/ and it is just the sort of book that has been able to arrest and redirect lives. How it has been able to do this/ and whether or not it will be ...Read More
The Joy of Cryptography

The pedagogical approach is anchored in formal definitions/proof of security/ but in a way that I believe is more accessible than what is "traditional" in crypto. All security definitions are written in a unified and simplified "game-based" style. For an example of what security definitions look like in this style/ see the index of security definitions (which will make more sense after reading chapters 2 & 4).
The Law of Trusts

The use of testamentary trusts is becoming an important part of estate planning. As a result/ students who want to make a living as probate attorneys will need to know how trusts fit into estate planning. In addition/ bar examiners realize that it is important for students to have a basic knowledge of trust law. That realization will result in bar examination questions that test that knowledge. This book is designed for use as a supplementary text for a course on wills and trusts and the primary text in a seminar or course exploring the law of trusts.
The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business

Terence Lau & Lisa Johnson's The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a book for today's student/ who expects learning to be comprised not only of substance/ but also of interactive exercises and multimedia. This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant/ engaging/ ...Read More