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An Introduction to Ontology Engineering

This first general textbook An introduction to ontology engineering has as main aim to provide the reader with a comprehensive introductory overview of ontology engineering. A secondary aim is to provide hands-on experience in ontology development that illustrate the theory. The book is divided into three blocks: Block I: logic ...Read More
An Introduction to Philosophy

The goal of this text is to present philosophy to newcomers as a living discipline with historical roots. While a few early chapters are historically organized/ the goal in the historical chapters is to trace a developmental progression of thought that introduces basic philosophical methods and frames issues that remain ...Read More
An Introduction to Psychological Statistics

We are constantly bombarded by information/ and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics/ and logic we use in it/ enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics/ we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness. The study of statistics involves math and relies upon calculations of numbers. But it also relies heavily on how the numbers are chosen and how the statistics are interpreted.
An Introduction to Technical Theatre

An Introduction to Technical Theatre draws on the author’s experience in both the theatre and the classroom over the last 30 years. Intended as a resource for both secondary and post-secondary theatre courses/ this text provides a comprehensive overview of technical theatre/ including terminology and general practices. Introduction to Technical ...Read More
An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers

This book/ which presupposes familiarity only with the most elementary concepts of arithmetic (divisibility properties/ greatest common divisor/ etc.)/ is an expanded version of a series of lectures for graduate students on elementary number theory. Topics include: Compositions and Partitions; Arithmetic Functions; Distribution of Primes; Irrational Numbers; Congruences; Diophantine Equations; Combinatorial Number Theory; and Geometry of Numbers. Three sections of problems (which include exercises as well as unsolved problems) complete the text.
Answering questions with data: Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students

This is a free textbook teaching introductory statistics for undergraduates in Psychology. This textbook is part of a larger OER course package for teaching undergraduate statistics in Psychology/ including this textbook/ a lab manual/ and a course website. All of the materials are free and copiable/ with source code maintained in Github repositories.
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future

In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies/ Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is "more than" its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning/ Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant ...Read More
Antología Abierta De Literatura Hispana

Una antología crítica de textos literarios del mundo hispanohablante. Se enfoca en autores canónicos y también se intenta incluir voces marginadas. Cada texto tiene una introducción y anotaciones creadas por estudiantes. A critical anthology of literary texts from the Spanish-speaking world. A focus on canonical authors and an attempt to include voices that have been marginalized. Each text includes an introduction and annotations created by students.
A Person-Centered Guide to Demystifying Technology: Working together to observe/ question/ design/ prototype/ and implement/reject technology in support of people's valued beings and doings

Digital technologies old and new are not objects that can be packed inside a box. They are a seamless/ indivisible combination of people/ organizations/ policies/ economies/ histories/ cultures/ knowledge/ and material things that are continuously shaped and reshaped. Every one of us innovates-in-use our everyday technologies/ we just do not ...Read More
APEX Calculus

This text comprises a three–text series on Calculus. The first part covers material taught in many “Calc 1” courses: limits/ derivatives/ and the basics of integration/ found in Chapters 1 through 6.1. The second text covers material often taught in “Calc 2:” integration and its applications/ along with an introduction ...Read More
APEX PreCalculus

This text was written as a prequel to the APEXCalculus series/ a three–volume series on Calculus. This text is not intended to fully prepare students with all of the mathematical knowledge they need to tackle Calculus/ rather it is designed to review mathematical concepts that are often stumbling blocks in ...Read More
Aplicaciones y Teoría de Ingeniería de Microondas

Teoria/ analisis y sintesis de tecnicas de diseño para sistemas de teleomunicaciones que operan en el rango de 1GHz a 100 GHZ
Applications of Maxwell's Equations

This book was developed at Simon Fraser University for an upper-level physics course. Along with a careful exposition of electricity and magnetism/ it devotes a chapter to ferromagnets. According to the course description/ the topics covered were “electromagnetics/ magnetostatics/ waves/ transmission lines/ wave guides/antennas/ and radiating systems.”
Applied Combinatorics

Applied Combinatorics is an open-source textbook for a course covering the fundamental enumeration techniques (permutations/ combinations/ subsets/ pigeon hole principle)/ recursion and mathematical induction/ more advanced enumeration techniques (inclusion-exclusion/ generating functions/ recurrence relations/ Polyá theory)/ discrete structures (graphs/ digraphs/ posets/ interval orders)/ and discrete optimization (minimum weight spanning trees/ shortest ...Read More
Applied Developmental Systems Science: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Theories/ Meta-Theories/ Methods/ and Interventions but Didn't Realize You Needed to Ask. An Advanced Textbook

This textbook provides a toolbox/ a guidebook/ and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective/ and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be ...Read More
Applied Discrete Structures

In writing this book/ care was taken to use language and examples that gradually wean students from a simpleminded mechanical approach andmove them toward mathematical maturity. We also recognize that many students who hesitate to ask for help from an instructor need a readable text/ and we have tried to ...Read More
Applied Finite Mathematics

Applied Finite Mathematics covers topics including linear equations/ matrices/ linear programming/ the mathematics of finance/ sets and counting/ probability/ Markov chains/ and game theory.
Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab Manual

This lab manual provides students with the theory/ practical applications/ objectives/ and laboratory procedure of ten experiments. The manual also includes educational videos showing how student should run each experiment and a workbook for organizing data collected in the lab and preparing result tables and charts.
Applied Probability

This is a "first course" in the sense that it presumes no previous course in probability. The mathematical prerequisites are ordinary calculus and the elements of matrix algebra. A few standard series and integrals are used/ and double integrals are evaluated as iterated integrals. The reader who can evaluate simple ...Read More
Aprendiendo a Programar en Python con mi Computador: Primeros pasos rumbo a cómputos de gran escala en las Ciencias e Ingenierías

Este libro está dirigido/ principalmente/ a Estudiantes y Docentes que quieren aprender a programarcomo forma de fortalecer sus capacidades cognoscitivas y así obtener un beneficio adicional de su computador para lograr un mejor provecho de sus estudios. Dada la orientación del libro respecto a programar para resolver problemas asociados a ...Read More
Aprendizaje Colaborativo Apoyado por Computador

Comunidad creada para compartir experiencias en torno al uso de Tecnologías de la Información como apoyo a procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje usando modelos de aprendizaje colaborativo
A Primer for Computational Biology

A Primer for Computational Biology aims to provide life scientists and students the skills necessary for research in a data-rich world. The text covers accessing and using remote servers via the command-line/ writing programs and pipelines for data analysis/ and provides useful vocabulary for interdisciplinary work. The book is broken ...Read More
A Primer of Real Analysis

This is a short introduction to the fundamentals of real analysis. Although the prerequisites are few/ I have written the text assuming the reader has the level of mathematical maturity of one who has completed the standard sequence of calculus courses/ has had some exposure to the ideas of mathematical proof (including induction)/ and has an acquaintance with such basic ideas as equivalence relations and the elementary algebraic properties of the integers.
A Primer on Sustainable Business

As you read A Primer on Sustainable Business/ we challenge you to not think of sustainability as a program/ an initiative/ or an activity. Rather/ sustainability is a mind-set/ a philosophy/ and worldview. Throughout each chapter/ you are challenged to alter the way you view your job/ the workplace/ the business/ and the world. Whether you are an executive/ an entrepreneur/ or an employee/ A Primer on Sustainable Business will help you understand the big picture of what it means to be a sustainable business and will give you the information you need to begin your journey toward sustainability.
A Quick Guide to Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences

This resource is intended as an easy-to-use guide for anyone who needs some quick and simple advice on quantitative aspects of research in social sciences/ covering subjects such as education/ sociology/ business/ nursing. If you area qualitative researcher who needs to venture into the world of numbers/ or a student instructed to undertake a quantitative research project despite a hatred for maths/ then this booklet should be a real help.
Arguing Using Critical Thinking

There is a quote that has been passed down many years and is most recently accounted to P.T. Barnum/ “There is a sucker born every minute.” Are you that sucker? If you were/ would you like to be “reborn?” The goal of this book is to help you through that ...Read More
A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1

The first in a two-volume set/ A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills/ [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish/ what form the texts might take/ ...Read More
A Short Handbook for writing essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences

A retired master teacher of English and Comparative Literature teams up with his son/ a History professor/ on a new version of the writing manual he wrote and used for decades at the University of California/ Davis.