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Astronomy

Astronomy is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of one- or two-semester introductory astronomy courses. The book begins with relevant scientific fundamentals and progresses through an exploration of the solar system/ stars/ galaxies and cosmology. The Astronomy textbook builds student understanding through the use of relevant analogies/ clear and non-technical explanations/ and rich illustrations. Mathematics is included in a flexible manner to meet the needs of individual instructors.
Astronomy for Educators

Astronomy for Educators provides new and accomplished K-12 instructors with concepts and projects for low-cost/ high-impact STEM classroom instruction that is built around the National Academies National Research Council's K-12 Framework for Science Education.
A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology

A Student’s Guide to Tropical Marine Biology is written entirely by students enrolled in the Keene State College Tropical Marine Biology course taught by Dr. Karen Cangialosi.Our goal was to investigate three main aspects of tropical marine biology: understanding the system/ identifying problems/ and evaluating solutions. Each of the sections ...Read More
A Tale of Two Systems

This is the story of a web-based information system rebuild. The system in question is www.teachengineering.org/ a digital library of K-12 engineering curriculum that was built from the ground up with established technology and which for 13 years enjoyed lasting support from its growing user community and its sponsors. These ...Read More
A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2

The second in a two-volume set/ A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology/ phenomenological sociology/ and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes/ agonistic/ oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry/ this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory.
Attenuated Democracy: A Critical Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics

The U.S. political system suffers from endemic design flaws and is notable for the way that a small subset of Americans—whose interests often don’t align with those of the vast majority of the population—wields disproportionate power. Absent organized and persistent action on the part of ordinary Americans/ the system tends ...Read More
Au Boulot! First-Year French

Au boulot! is a two-year college French program consisting of: a textbook/ workbook and 21 accompanying audio exercises; as well as a reference grammar/ to be used the entire two years. We also insist that our students obtain a full-sized dictionary/ and we recommend the HARPER-COLLINS-ROBERT bilingual New Standard Edition. (Instructors will note in reviewing the materials that we provide vocabulary lists at the ends of chapters/ with translations/ but no glossary. We have become convinced after years of experience that glossaries are counter-productive. It is vital that students learn to use dictionaries/ and the sooner the better.)
Australian Politics and Policy - Senior

This book is a broad introduction to Australian politics and public policy. This field of study is important for Australians to understand the exercise of political power/ their history and the scope for change. It is also important for analysts outside Australia looking for comparative cases. Within this volume are diverse topics and perspectives/ demonstrating that the study of Australian politics and policy is not ‘fixed’. Rather/ it is a contested field of academic scholarship. Indeed/ the volume’s editors do not all agree on the content of this introduction!
Bad Ideas About Writing

We intend this work to be less a bestiary of bad ideas about writing than an effort to name bad ideas and suggest better ones. Some of those bad ideas are quite old/ such as the archetype of the inspired genius author/ the five-paragraph essay/ or the abuse of adjunct ...Read More
Bankruptcy Law and Practice

This is the third edition of Bankruptcy Law and Practice/ a Casebook Designed to Train Lawyers for the Practice of Bankruptcy Law. It is designed for a one-semester course in debtor/creditor law and bankruptcy. The book deals with both creditor remedies and debtor protections/ starting with state law collection remedies/ ...Read More
Basic Analysis: Introduction to Real Analysis

This free online textbook (e-book in webspeak) is a one semester course in basic analysis. This book started its life as my lecture notes for Math 444 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the fall semester of 2009/ and was later enhanced to teach Math 521 at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). A prerequisite for the course is a basic proof course. It should be possible to use the book for both a basic course for students who do not necessarily wish to go to graduate school/ but also as a first semester of a more advanced course that also covers topics such as metric spaces.
Basic Cell and Molecular Biology: What We Know & How We Found Out - 3e

A grasp of the logic and practice of science is essential to understand the rest of the world around us. To that end/ the CMB3e iText (like earlier editions) remains focused on experimental support for what we know about cell and molecular biology/ and on showing students the relationship of ...Read More
Basic Income Tax - 8th Edition

This book is the 8th edition of a basic income tax text. This edition incorporates the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It is intended to be a readable text/ suitable for a three-hour course for a class comprised of law students with widely different backgrounds. The text integrates several of the CALI drills that Professor James Edward Maule (Villanova University) prepared.
Basics of Fluid Mechanics

The topic of fluid mechanics is common to several disciplines: mechanical engineering/ aerospace engineering/ chemical engineering/ and civil engineering. In fact/ it is also related to disciplines like industrial engineering/ and electrical engineering. While the emphasis is somewhat different in this book/ the common material is presented and hopefully can ...Read More
Bate-Papo

An Introduction to Portuguese
BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English Course Pack 5

This course pack is designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 5 (roughly equivalent to grades 6 to 7.5 in the K-12 system). Every chapter includes a level-appropriate/ high-interest reading of between 500 and 800 words. The readings are freely available in a separate reader with convenient links to the readings in each chapter of this course pack. Font size and line spacing can be adjusted in the online view/ and have been enhanced for the print and PDF versions for easier reading. This course pack has been reviewed by subject experts from colleges and universities.
BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English Course Pack 6

This course pack is designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 6 (roughly equivalent to grades 7.5 to 9 in the K-12 system). Every chapter includes a level-appropriate/ high-interest reading of between 500 and 1/000 words. The readings are freely available in a separate reader with convenient links to the readings in each chapter of this course pack. Font size and line spacing can be adjusted in the online view/ and have been enhanced for the print and PDF versions for easier reading. This course pack has been reviewed by subject experts from colleges and universities.
Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution

The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works/ the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will ...Read More
Be Credible

The primary audience for this book starts with students in Journalism 302: Infomania/ a course we teach at the University of Kansas. When they take this class/ these students usually are in their second or third semesters in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. They have varied career aspirations. A few of them want to be “traditional” journalists/ writing for online news sites/ magazines/ or newspapers. Some of them want to be broadcast journalists. Many of them want to work in strategic communications/ which encompasses public relations/ advertising/ marketing/ and related fields.
Beginning Excel 2019

This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2019/ the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before. This textbook includes instructions for Excel for Mac also.
Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1

This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students/ whose content largely centers on student life/ this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school. As a beginning level ...Read More
Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2

This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students/ whose content largely centers on student life/ this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school. As a beginning level ...Read More
Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 3

This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students/ whose content largely centers on student life/ this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school. As a beginning level ...Read More
Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions

Climate change is an urgent problem. Because it is causing new weather extremes and fatal catastrophes/ climate change is better termed climate disruption. Bending the curve to flatten the upward trajectory of pollution emissions responsible for climate disruption is essential in order to protect billions of people from this global ...Read More
Beyond Argument: Essaying as a Practice of (Ex)Change

Beyond Argument offers an in-depth examination of how current ways of thinking about the writer-page relation in personal essays can be reconceived according to practices in the care of the self — an ethic by which writers such as Seneca/ Montaigne/ and Nietzsche lived. This approach promises to reinvigorate the ...Read More
Beyond Dichotomy: Synergizing Writing Center and Classroom Pedagogies

How closely can or should writing centers and writing classrooms collaborate? Beyond Dichotomy explores how research on peer tutoring one-to-one and in small groups can inform our work with students in writing centers and other tutoring programs/ as well as in writing courses and classrooms. These multi-method (including rhetorical and ...Read More
Beyond Lean: Simulation in Practice - Second Edition

Lean thinking/ as well as associated processes and tools/ have involved into a ubiquitous perspective for improving systems particularly in the manufacturing arena. With application experience has come an understanding of the boundaries of lean capabilities and the benefits of getting beyond these boundaries to further improve performance. Discrete event ...Read More
Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life

The book is supported by discussion of relevant theory and research in cultural sociology.Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life has stressed learner-centered teaching with the instructor taking on the role of a facilitator of learning. As such/ it is expected the instructor will serve as the mediator between the content of this book and learners’ understanding of material on multiple and higher levels. This book does not offer a set of rules in teaching cultural sociology/ but rather suggests content and applications to consider and modify as needed by the ever-changing dynamics of instructors and learners.