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Contract Doctrine/ Theory & Practice Volume 2

This is Volume 2 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. Its orginal title was "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not “legalese”)/ to formulate and evaluate legal arguments/ to become ...Read More
Contract Doctrine/ Theory & Practice Volume 3

This is Volume 3 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not “legalese”)/ to formulate and evaluate legal arguments/ to become ...Read More
Conventions 101: A Functional Approach to Teaching (And Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation

This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors common in student writing. It's flexible/ functional/ and zeroes in problems typically seen in writing of all types/ from the eternal “there/they're/their” struggle to correct colon use. Units are organized from most simple to most challenging.
Conversa Brasileira

Conversa Brasileira is an online open access site that contains a series of 35 video scenarios in which Brazilians talk about their daily activities/ everything from hobbies to shopping/ and from traffic jams to soccer games. These materials are designed to help intermediate- and advanced-level learners of Portuguese to analyze the way that Brazilians really talk and improve in their own proficiency and fluency. This textbook provides a hardcopy of all of the online materials/ including the dialog transcriptions/ English translations/ and lesson notes that link to the original website.
Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom

The editors of Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom bring together stories/ theories/ and research that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our writing classrooms. The essays in the collection identify and describe a wide range of pedagogical strategies/ consider theories/ present research/ explore approaches/ and offer both cautionary tales and local and contextual successes that can further inform the ways in which we situate and address intellectual property issues in our teaching.
Cornelius Nepos/ 'Life of Hannibal': Latin Text/ Notes/ Maps/ Illustrations and Vocabulary

Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories/ Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant/ if ultimately unsuccessful/ campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches ...Read More
Corporate Governance

This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to ethics in business and provides modules in Ethical Leadership/ Ethical Decision-Making/ Social Responsibility/ and Corporate Governance. Students will actively study ethical theory by carrying out exercises to help them build theory-based tools for encountering ethical problems in business practice. They will also work ...Read More
Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance by de Kluyver is a primer on corporate governance. It is designed to help students understand corporate governance by looking at the subject from both a macro- and micro-perspective. Historical data and examples including the recent scandals that have torn the fabric of capitalism pave a pathway to ...Read More
Creating Online Learning Experiences

This book provides an updated look at issues that comprise the online learning experience creation process. As online learning evolves/ the lines and distinctions between various classifications of courses has blurred and often vanished. Classic elements of instructional design remain relevant at the same time that newer concepts of learning experience are growing in importance. However/ problematic issues new and old still have to be addressed. This handbook explores many of these topics for new and experienced designers alike/ whether creating traditional online courses/ open learning experiences/ or anything in between.
Creative Clinical Teaching In The Health Professions

This peer reviewed e-book is a must-read for nurses and other health professionals who strive to teach with creativity and excellence in clinical settings. Each chapter presents current evidence informed educational practice knowledge. Each topic is also presented with text boxes describing ‘Creative Strategies' that clinical teachers from across Canada ...Read More
Criminal Law

Criminal Law uses a two-step process to augment learning/ called the applied approach. First/ after building a strong foundation from scratch/ Criminal Law introduces you to crimes and defenses that have been broken down into separate components. It is so much easier to memorize and comprehend the subject matter when ...Read More
Critical Employment/ Ethical/ and Legal Scenarios in Human Resource Development

This book provides mini-cases for HRD and other disciplines to use for engaging students in incident discussions. Exploring ways to solve problems and make decisions about situations that occur at work.
Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom

Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed/ as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume/ "As far as I can tell/ the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation/ one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field."
Database Design - 2nd Edition

This second edition of Database Design book covers the concepts used in database systems and the database design process. Topics include: The history of databases Characteristics and benefits of databases Data models Data modelling Classification of database management systems Integrity rules and constraints Functional dependencies Normalization Database development process New ...Read More
DC Circuits

This book covers Direct Current (DC) circuit theory and is broken up into three modules. Module 1 covers the basics for circuits that include DC sources (voltage or current) and resistors. Even though Module 1 is not very difficult/ it forms the foundation for more complicated topics in modules 2 ...Read More
DC Electrical Circuit Analysis: A Practical Approach

Welcome to DC Electrical Circuit Analysis/ an open educational resource (OER). The goal of this text is to introduce the theory and practical application of analysis of DC electrical circuits. It is offered free of charge under a Creative Commons non-commercial/ share-alike with attribution license. For your convenience/ along with ...Read More
Deep into Pharo

Pharo is a clean/ innovative/ open-source/ live-programming environment. Deep into Pharois the second volume of a series of books covering Pharo. Whereas the first volume is intended for newcomers/ this second volume covers deeper topics.You will learn about Pharo frameworks and libraries such as Glamour/ PetitParser/ Roassal/ FileSystem/ Regex/ and Socket. You will explore the language with chapters on exceptions/ blocks/ small integers/ and floats. You will discover tools such as profilers/ Metacello and Gofer.
Delftse Foundations of Computation

Delftse Foundations of Computation is a textbook for a one quarter introductory course in theoretical computer science. It includes topics from propositional and predicate logic/ proof techniques/ set theory and the theory of computation/ along with practical applications to computer science. It has no prerequisites other than a general familiarity with computer programming.
Desafíos De La Formación Ciudadana En La Era Digital: Estadodelarte

Esta publicación es posible gracias al proyecto “Fortaleciendo la Democracia a través del Ciudadanía Digital en Chile y México”/ desarollado por La Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile y el Instituto Belisario Domínguez del Senado de México/ y financiado por el Fondo Conjunto de Cooperación México–Chile (convocatoria 2015). Dicho fondo es administrado por la Agencia de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo de Chile (AGCID) y la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID).
Des Bases Physiques Et Chimiques Du Contrôle De La Qualité Des Médicaments

Le manuel est un résumé des principales activités du cours de conférences sur la chimie physique et colloïdale (en 2 parties) et constitue la base théorique des méthodes de contrôle de la qualité des médicaments et vise à acquérir les connaissances et les compétences nécessaires pour travailler dans ce domaine. Destiné aux étudiants francophones étrangers.
Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing

Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing/ edited byDavid Franke/ Alex Reid/ andAnthony Di Renzo/addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures — what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing" — often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to "function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract/ the human and the technical."
Design Thinking Portfolio

Christine R. Ingersoll

The Design Thinking Portfolio engages students in the design thinking process through problem-based and collaborative learning. The portfolio project starts with compiling things that students wish were better, then having them work across the spectrum of design thinking to sell their ideas though team pitches. Students use a design thinking ...Read More
Deutsch im Blick - 2nd Edition

This textbook includes all 10 chapters of Deutsch im Blick. It accompanies http://coerll.utexas.edu/dib// the web-based first-year German program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2008/ and its companion site/ Grimm Grammar. Deutsch im Blick is an open access site with free and open multimedia resources/ which ...Read More
Developing New Products and Services

Developing New Products and Services by Sanders is an outstanding contribution to market research. The book focuses on the upfront activities and ideas for new product and service development. A central theme of Developing New Products and Services is that there is/ or should be/ a constant struggle going on ...Read More
Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities

This book is intended for use in a variety of introductory archaeology settings/ such as in lectures and lab courses. This text can complement an existing traditional text or completely replace a standard text. It can be used for its activities or as a study resource. When we wrote this ...Read More
Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice

Most business leaders would agree that reaching the broadest audience is good for a business’s bottom line. A good portion of that audience will be people with disabilities. How/ though/ would an organization go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or ...Read More
Digital Circuit Projects: An Overview of Digital Circuits Through Implementing Integrated Circuits

Digital circuits/ often called Integrated Circuits or ICs/ are the central building blocks of a Central Processing Unit (CPU). To understand how a computer works/ it is essential to understand the digital circuits which make up the CPU. This text introduces the most important of these digital circuits; adders/ decoders/ ...Read More
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud - Revised Edition

Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach software for the trade and academic markets. Consequently/ the design software training exercise is often a lost opportunity for visual learning. This revised edition updates the original text for use with Adobe Creative Cloud 2017 software.