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• Biology
  • Biology
    Barbara Akre, Jean Brainard, Niamh Gray-Wilson, and Douglas Wilkin
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    This FlexBook underwent a thorough review conducted by practicing teachers, domain experts, copyeditors, and technical editors. It can be used in its current form, "flexed" (customized), and/or printed by the user. CK-12 supports feedback on all of its FlexBooks so that they can be continually improved and updated, while remaining aligned with state standards and curriculum guidelines.
    
    
  • CK-12 Biology
    Barbara Akre, Jean Brainard, Niamh Gray-Wilson, and Douglas Wilkin
          CK-12’s Biology delivers an overview in the life sciences for high school students, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the study of cell biology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and human physiology. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • CK-12 Life Science
    Jean Brainard, Niamh Gray-Wilson, Jessica Harwood, Corliss Karasov, Doris Kraus, and Jane Willan.
          CK-12’s Life Science delivers a full course of study in the life sciences for the high school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of living things, the building blocks of life, genetics and evolution, the kingdoms of life, the human body, and the ecology of living communities. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Computing Life
    
          Computers are embedded in much of what we do, whether it's a form of instant communication or the navigation of city streets via a GPS unit. Computers have also proved to be extremely useful to scientific researchers ... NIGMS has created this virtual online booklet ... to inform young people about the various scientific and medical careers that are open to them and to educate people more generally about the role of computers in scientific inquiry and discovery
    
    
  • Essentials of The Living World
    Johnson-Losos
          In this basic concepts version of our very successful "The Living World", George Johnson has provided the fundamentals to understanding biology in a more condensed format while still integrating analogies and current issues, which makes science relevant to the student. George Johnson's textbook has often been considered a student favorite. Dr. Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do". This authoritative textbook features a straightforward, clear writing style and a wide variety of media assets to enhance the content of the textbook. The strength of this textbook is the integration of many tools that are designed to inspire both students and instructors. The multi-media package for the text stretches students beyond the confines of the traditional textbook to include high interest video clips and animations of key biological concepts.
    
    
  • Foundations of Parasitology
    Roberts-Janovy, Jr.
          This is a parasitology text for biology and/or zoology students at the undergraduate level. It emphasizes principles with related information on the biology, physiology, morphology, and ecology of the major parasites of humans and domestic animals. This is not a diagnostic manual for medical students.
    
    
  • Genetics Home Reference
    
          Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells. They provide structure for the body, take in nutrients from food, convert those nutrients into energy, and carry out specialized functions. Cells also contain the body’s hereditary material and can make copies of themselves.
    
    
  • Genetics: Analysis and Principles
    Brooker
          Genetics: Analysis and Principles emphasizes the scientific method to give students the insight needed to develop scientific reasoning skills. Thirty-six text-integrated experiments in transmission and molecular genetics follow the five-step scientific method as they show students the "how" (experimental procedures) and "why" (the underlying scientific principles) behind important experiments that created the current body of genetics knowledge. Chapter by chapter, students see what it is that geneticists actually do how they conduct experiments, collect data, and use problem-solving skills to interpret that data. The text challenges students to think scientifically and rely on their own careful analysis of the data scientists have collected. As a result, students experience genetics as the exciting, dynamic science that it is.
    
    
  • Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications
    Lewis
          "Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications, Ninth Edition", is a non-science major's human genetics text that clearly explains what genes are, how they function, how they interact with the environment, and how our understanding of genetics has changed since completion of the human genome project. Meticulously updated, focused on concepts, and rich with personal stories from people whose lives are dramatically affected by the principles being discussed, "Human Genetics" is a textbook that will prepare the next generation of citizens for the decisions that lie ahead.
    
    
  • Human Physiology
    Kevin Young and Provo College Nursing Students
          Human Physiology explains, system by system, the workings of your body. It is intended as an understandable undergraduate-level guide to how the body systems function at a cellular level and how they work together to maintain a favorable environment for your cells
    
    
  • Human Physiology
    Wikibooks contributors
          This book began as a class project in July 2006 with a small class of pre-nursing students. We knew nothing about how to create or edit a Wikibook, but we decided to do it anyway. We received a lot of help from the active Wikibooks community, and through the chaos a book emerged! I didn't teach physiology again until spring 2007, when we used this book as our textbook and improved upon it chapter by chapter. We are happy with our accomplishments, but the book could still be much improved.
    
    
  • Inside the Cell
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences
          At this very moment, electricity is zapping through your brain, voracious killers are coursing through your veins, and corrosive chemicals sizzle in bubbles from your head to your toes. In fact, your entire body is like an electrical company, chemical factory, transportation grid, communications network, detoxification facility, hospital, and battlefield all rolled into one. The workers in each of these industries are your cells. Cells are the smallest form of life—the functional and structural units of all living things. Your body contains trillions of cells, organized into more than 200 major types. At any given time, each cell is doing thousands of jobs. Some of these tasks are so essential for life that they are carried out by virtually all cells. Others are done only by cells that are highly skilled for the work, whether it is covering up your insides (skin cells), preventing you from sloshing around like a pile of goo (bone cells), purging your body of toxic chemicals (liver cells), or enabling you to learn and remember (brain cells). Cells also must make the products your body needs, such as sweat, saliva, enzymes, hormones, and antibodies. In Chapter 1, "An Owner's Guide to the Cell," we'll explore some of the basic structures that allow cells to accomplish their tasks and some of the ways scientists study cells. In Chapter 2, "Cells 101: Business Basics," we'll focus on the functions shared by virtually all cells: making fuel and proteins, transporting materials, and disposing of wastes. In Chapter 3, "On the Job: Cellular Specialties," we'll learn how cells specialize to get their unique jobs done. In Chapters 4, "Cellular Reproduction: Multiplication by Division," and 5, "The Last Chapter: Cell Aging and Death," we'll find out how cells reproduce, age, and die. Much of the research described in this booklet is carried out by cell biologists at universities and other institutions across the nation who are supported by U.S. tax dollars, specifically those distributed by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIGMS is keenly interested in cell biology because knowledge of the inner workings of cells underpins our understanding of health and disease. Although scientists daily learn more about cells and their roles in our bodies, the field is still an exciting frontier of uncharted territory and unanswered questions. Maybe someday, you will help answer those questions.
    
    
  • Introduction to Genetic Principles
    Hyde
          Hyde's "Introduction to Genetics" teaches the principles of genetics with an innovative approach that emphasizes the basic concepts involved in solving problems as well as teaching students how to manipulate genetic data. While most genetics textbooks provide some examples and several problems for the student to work, the texts primarily stress facts and historical information. It is often left to the student to make the connection from what is in the text to elucidating the approaches to solve problems. Dr. David Hyde presents these skills to the students throughout the narrative in a stepped-out fashion, making an explicit tie between the facts and their application. This text maintains the rigor that faculty require in a genetics book, while incorporating a student-friendly presentation style that helps the reader comprehend the material.
    
    
  • Molecular Biology Laboratory Manual
    Denny R Randal
          
    
    
  • The Evolution of the Human Brain: How Does It Account for the Knowledge Explosion?
    Mark Erickson
          The evolution of the human brain is a point of much debate among evolutionary biologists. Paleoneurology, which studies the evolution of the human brain, seems to be caught on the horns of a dilemma.
    
    
  • The New Genetics
    
          Explains the role of genes in health and disease, the basics of DNA and its molecular cousin RNA, and new directions in genetic research.
    
    
  • The Structures of Life
    
          I certainly recommend this booklet for those wishing to excite undergraduate students, to educate their scientific co-workers, and to show non-specialist and laypersons why structural biology is such an important field of biomedical research with direct and tangible effects on all our lives.
    
    
  • Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution
    Kardong
          This text presents both the vertebraic structure and its evolutionary development and significance, allowing students to learn why a structure is the way it is, as well as what it is. There is an integration of structure and anatomy, emphasising the comparative nature of anatomy, and showing the evolution of different structures. There are 16 full-colour pages as well as numerous illustrations showing anatomical detail, especially at the cellular level. The coverage of cladistics is completely new to this edition.
    
    
• Business and Economics
  • Supply Chain Logistics Management
    Bowersox-Closs-Cooper
          "Supply Chain Logistics Management" is exciting, and promises to bolster traditional logistics courses and invigorate supply chain management courses. By examining traditional logistics issues within the context of the supply chain, this text captures the current trends in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Strategy. Most textbooks approach this subject from a limited perspective, studying only internal functions of an organization to the exclusion of issues that relate to the entire supply chain in an integrated enterprise. "Supply Chain Logistics Management" provides a solid foundation that clearly describes the role of logistics within the supply chain, portraying a complete view of the subject and extending to show how all the pieces fit together.
    
    
  • Business Fundamentals
    Donald J McCubbrey
          The Business Fundamentals text is designed to introduce students, particularly those in developing economies, to the essential concepts of business and other organizations. It does this by focusing on small, entrepreneurial start-ups, and expanding the discussion in each chapter to include issues that are faced in larger organizations when it is appropriate to do so. Traditional business models are discussed as well as eBusiness models, with appropriate links to the IS Global Text and other relevant websites. All major functional areas of modern organizations are covered.
    
    
  • Business: A Changing World
    Ferrell-Hirt-Ferrell
          "Business: A Changing World" is the fastest growing introductory business textbook on the market, and for a simple reason. Unlike most brief textbooks on the market, which are trimmed and spliced from much longer works into an approximation of an essentials edition, Ferrell/Hirt/Ferrell is written from the ground up to be brief, lean, and flexible enough to enable you to cover just the topics you want at the level of depth you want, plus it doesn't inherit out-dated examples from a hardback derivative. With market-leading teaching support and the most up to date content available, "Business: A Changing World" represents the best value available in the brief Introductory Business market. What sets Ferrell apart? This is an unrivaled mixture of topical depth, current content and the best teaching support around.
    
    
  • Capture. Deliver. Excel
    Ilja van Roon
          Good business writing allows you to share knowledge, catalyse change and align people with strategy. And to sell more of your products, services and ideas! That is why the ability to express yourself in clear, structured and compelling writing is crucial to your success. This online version of the book Capture. Deliver. Excel. shows you how to * apply the 7 principles of business writing; * develop and execute an effective writing strategy; * manage the writing process. The book is written by Ilja van Roon, who writes for executives at multinationals, government ministers and entrepreneurs. Speaking about the book, Jay Conrad Levinson, the father of Guerrilla Marketing, said that "what all businesses need the most right now has just been put into words by Ilja van Roon. It should be mandatory reading for anyone in business -- beginners and experts alike!"
    
    
  • Cases in Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations: A Decisional Approach
    Dilts
          Cases in Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations contains 81 cases that vary in length, complexity and numbers of issues. A major objective of the book is to provide a means by which students can apply principles, concepts, and legal considerations to actual decision situations and confrontations between labor and management. These cases have been tested in seminars and classes, and are challenging, fascinating learning instruments. As in previous editions, the cases are divided into two parts. Part One presents National Labor Relations Board cases as restructured from published reports of the NLRB and court decisions. Part Two consists of cases adapted from grievance-arbitration decisions.
    
    
  • Churchill/Ford/Walker's Sales Force Management
    Johnston-Marshall
          The primary goal of "Sales Force Management, 8e" is to offer students the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and integrated overview of the theory, research, and management practices relevant to sales management. In revising the book we continue to focus on creating a book that enables students to take the wealth of information available and apply it to "real world" sales management problems and opportunities. The Eighth Edition, like the others before it, showcases how real managers use current theory and research in their own organizations. By identifying recent practices, applications, and the use of state-of-the-art technologies this edition combines in one source real world sales management "best practices" with cutting edge research and theory. Instructors will find that they are proud to present the information and approach to sales management within the Eighth Edition to both undergraduate and graduate business students, as it captures the essence of what it means to be a successful sales manager in the customer relationship era.
    
    
  • Core Concepts of Marketing
    John Burnett
          Through good economic times and bad, marketing remains the pivotal function i n any business. Determining and satisfying the needs o f customers through products that have value and accessibility and whose features are clearly communicated is the general purpose of any business. It is also a fundamental definition o f marketing. This text introduces students to the marketing strategies and tools that practitioners use to market their products.
    
    
  • Developing Management Skills: What Great Managers Know and Do
    Baldwin-Bommer-Rubin
          "Developing Management Skills" by Baldwin/Bommer/Rubin distinguishes itself by exclusively focusing on teaching relevant skills, its learner-centered writing and its evidence-based foundation. This text's problem-based approach draws students in with several fundamental and specific questions or challenges in the Manage What? feature opening every chapter. The learner-centered writing style and the focus on the actual skills that matter to career success as well as the chapter ending Tool Kits make this text a keeper.
    
    
  • ECONOMETRICS
    Bruce E. Hansen
          Econometrics is the study of estimation and inference for economic models using economic data. Econometric theory concerns the study and development of tools and methods for applied econometric applications. Applied econometrics concerns the application of these tools to economic data.
    
    
  • Econometrics
    Bruce E. Hansen
          This book is intended to serve as the textbook for a …rst-year graduate course in econometrics. It can be used as a stand-alone text, or be used as a supplement to another text. Students are assumed to have an understanding of multivariate calculus, probability theory, linear algebra, and mathematical statistics. A prior course in undergraduate econometrics would be helpful, but not required. For reference, some of the basic tools of matrix algebra, probability, and statistics are reviewed in the Appendix.
    
    
  • Effective Behavior in Organizations
    Cohen
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective
    Richard T. Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, George M. Zinkhan
          The book's title reflects some key themes that we develop. First, we are primarily concerned with electronic commerce, which we define as using technology (e.g., the Internet) to communicate or transact with stake-holders (e.g., customers). Second, we discuss how organizations must change in order to take advantage of electronic commerce opportunities. In this sense, our book offers the strategic perspective (i.e., the best way to operate a successful business in the 21st century). Third, with the growing importance of the Internet and related technologies, organizations must take electronic commerce into account when they are creating strategic plans. Thus, electronic commerce is a strategic perspective that all firms must adopt, both in the present and in the future. In other words, an organization that does not explicitly consider electronic commerce as a strategic imperative is probably making a crucial error. Here, we focus primarily on the opportunities and tactics that can lead to success in the electronic marketplace.
    
    
  • eMarketing
    Rob Stokes
          1991 Web Father, Tim Berners-Lee releases World Wide Web (www) with scientists from CERN. 1992 America Online (AOL) is launched and raises $23m in floatation. The term ‘surfing the net’ is introduced by Jean Armour Polly. The World Bank goes online. 1993 Mainstream media attention increases awareness of the Internet. First Internet publication. Wired, goes on sale. Mosaic introduces the first web browser with graphical interface and is the forerunner of Netscape Navigator. First online shopping malls and virtual banks emerge as does evidence of spam. First clickable banner advert is sold by Global Network Navigator to a law firm. 1995 Amazon is launched by Jeff Bezos. Trial dial up systems such as AOL and CompuServe launch. Charging is introduced for domain names. Search technology companies such as Alta Vista, Infoseek, Excite and Metacrawler rapidly appear. 1996 Yahoo! is launched on the stock exchange and shares are up nearly 300% on first day. There is no doubt about it – the Internet has changed the world we live in. Never before has it been so easy to access information, communicate with people all over the globe and share articles, videos, photos and all manner of media. The Internet has led to an increasingly connected environment, and the growth of Internet usage has resulted in declining distribution of traditional media: television, radio, newspapers and magazines. Marketing in this connected environment and using that connectivity to market is eMarketing. eMarketing embraces a wide range of strategies, but what underpins successful eMarketing is a user-centric and cohesive approach to these strategies. While the Internet and the World Wide Web have enabled what we call New Media, the theories that lead to the development of the Internet were being developed from the 1950s.
    
    
  • Emotion and Reason in Consumer Behavior
    Arjun Chaudhuri
          Emotion and Reason in Consumer Behavior is a pioneering book, among the first if not the first to apply systematic emotion theory and measurement techniques to the analysis of consumer behavior. I am confident that it will not be the last. Emotion was long a difficult notion in the social and behavioral sciences because of the perceived difficulty of measuring one of its core components: subjective experience. Behaviorists almost entirely eschewed the concept of emotion because it appeared to be impossible to objectively measure and verify subjective experiences because they appear essentially to be “private events.”
    
    
  • Global Consumer Behavior
    Chantal Ammi
          
    
    
  • Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage
    Noe et al
          As competitors strive to win the war for talent, effective human resource management is necessary to gain true competitive advantage in the marketplace. Three challenges companies face are sustainability, technology, and globalization. "Human Resource Management, 6th Edition" brings these challenges to life by highlighting real-world examples pertaining to these issues and relating it to the concepts within the chapter. This best-selling McGraw-Hill/Irwin "Human Resource Management" title provides students with the technical background needed to be a knowledgeable consumer of human resource (HR) products and services, to manage HR effectively, or to be a successful HR professional. While clearly strategic in nature, the text also emphasizes how managers can more effectively acquire, develop, compensate, and manage the internal and external environment that relates to the management of human resources.
    
    
  • Internet Marketing: Building Advantage in a Networked Economy
    Mohammed-Fisher-Jaworski-Cahill
          Internet Marketing: Building Advantage in a Networked Economy, 2e presents a "road-tested" framework to help students and practitioners understand how to think about and implement effective Internet marketing programs. The focus is on using marketing levers to vary the level of intensity that the consumer has with a Website to build a relationship with the customer through four stages: from Awareness, to Exploration/Expansion, to Commitment, and possibly through Dissolution. This four stage customer-centric framework shows readers how to use the Internet to create intense and profitable relationships with their customers. In addition to comprehensively discussing the key levers that marketers can use to create relationships, the authors focus on two primary forces that the Internet brings to marketing - the Individual and Interactivity - detailing how these forces influence key marketing levers and how these forces can be leveraged to create intense relationships with customers.
    
    
  • Introduction to Business, 1st Edition
    Dias-Shah
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Introduction to Economic Analysis
    R. Preston McAfee
          This book presents introductory economics ("principles") material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but is not. The book can easily serve as an intermediate microeconomics text. The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. Most microeconomics texts are mostly fluff and the fluff market is exceedingly over-served by $100+ texts. In contrast, this book reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations and no pictures of economists.
    
    
  • Introduction to Management Science
    Hillier
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Issues in Economics Today
    Guell
          "Issues in Economics Today" is a modern issues book that presents the latest and most interesting topics. Most importantly, this title was developed to allow instructors the maximum flexibility to teach this material in a manner that fits their personal style. Some professors like to intertwine theory and issues while others like to lay the theoretical foundation first before heading into the issues. Some faculty will choose to set a theme for their course and pick issues consistent with that theme while others will let their students decide what issues interest them. Beginning with eight intensive core theory chapters and followed by 33 shorter issues chapters, there is no right way to use the book. The 33 issues chapters are divided into the following categories: Macroeconomic Issues, International Issues, Externalities and Market Failure, Health Issues, Government Solutions to Societal Problems, Discrimination Issues, Price Control Issues, and Miscellaneous Markets. These groupings help instructors navigate through the Table of Contents when looking for a particular topic. This book also has the benefit of having timely web-available chapters that allow students to study issues as they happen. Between the time the first edition went to press and this edition became available, the accounting scandals of 2002 occurred. During the book's first year the U.S. went to war in Iraq. Before this edition hit college bookstores, the Housing Bubble was of significant concern. Chapters discussing the economic impact of these events were available within a month of these events on the web.
    
    
  • Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience
    Hughes-Ginnett-Curphy
          "Leadership: Enhancing the Lessons of Experience, 4e", was written for the general student to serve as a stand-alone introduction to the subject of leadership. The text consists of 13 chapters and a final section on Basic and Advanced Leadership Skills. Authors Hughes, Ginnett, and Curphy have drawn upon three different types of literature: empirical studies; interesting anecdotes, stories and findings; and leadership skills to create a text that is personally relevant, interesting and scholarly. The authors' unique quest for a careful balancing act of leadership materials will help students apply theory and research to their real-life experiences.
    
    
  • M: Business, 1st Edition
    Ferrell-Hirt-Ferrell
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications
    Hynes
          "Managerial Communication, 3/e" by Hynes focuses on skills and strategies that managers need in today's workplace. This book continues to stand out in the field for its strategic approach, solid research base, comprehensive range of topics, its even-handed examination of oral and written channels, and its focus on managerial (as opposed to entry-level) competencies. The overriding principle for the revision was to preserve the book's key strengths while bringing it in line with the early twenty-first century workplace. The chapters have been streamlined and condensed to meet the needs of a busy contemporary manager and content was added to reflect current business practices.
    
    
  • Marketing Strategy: A Decision Focused Approach
    Walker-Mullins-Boyd
          "Marketing Strategy 6/e" is a flexible, short, paper-back text which can be used on its own or packaged with a case book. It covers the concepts and theories of creating and implementing a marketing strategy and offers a focus on the strategic planning process and marketing's cross/inter-functional relationships. The book's strategic decision making remains the key strength of this text while separating itself from all the competitors. The 6th edition helps students integrate what they have learned about analytical tools and the 4Ps of marketing within a broader framework of competitive strategy. Four key and relevant trends that are sweeping the world of marketing theory and practice are integrated throughout this new edition.
    
    
  • Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies
    McConnell-Brue-Flynn
          McConnell and Brue's "Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies" is the leading Principles of Economics textbook because it is innovative and teaches students in a clear, unbiased way. The 17th Edition builds upon the tradition of leadership by sticking to 3 main goals: help the beginning student master the principles essential for understanding the economizing problem, specific economic issues, and the policy alternatives; help the student understand and apply the economic perspective and reason accurately and objectively about economic matters; and promote a lasting student interest in economics and the economy.
    
    
  • Organizational Behavior: Emerging Realities for the Workplace Revolution
    McShane-Von Glinow
          In their new Fourth Edition, McShane and Von Glinow continue the trailblazing innovations that made previous editions of "Organizational Behavior" recognized and adopted by the new generation of Organizational Behavior (OB) instructors. Acclaimed for its readability and presentation of current knowledge, this textbook's philosophy is that OB knowledge is for everyone, not just traditional managers. The new reality is that everyone - sales representatives, production employees, physicians - needs OB knowledge to successfully work in and around organizations. "Organizational Behavior" is unparalleled in its ability to engage students by bringing cutting edge OB concepts closer to reality through the 'theory-practice link' approach. McShane and Von Glinow help readers connect OB theories to emerging workplace realities through hundreds of fascinating real-life stories from across the United States and around the world. McShane/Von Glinow's "Organizational Behavior, 4th Edition" also continues to be the source of the hottest topics, such as: employee engagement, resilience, four-drive theory, blogs and wikis, psychological harassment, learning orientation, Schwartz's values model, separating socioemotional from constructive conflict, and much, much, more.
    
    
  • Organizational Behavior: Essentials for Improving Performance and Commitment
    Colquitt-LePine-Wesson
          Colquitt, LePine, and Wesson's Organizational Behavior: Essentials for Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace represents the most up-to-date perspective on Organizational Behavior (OB) on the market today. Many students leave their OB courses asking questions like: "Does any of this stuff really matter?", "How does all this stuff fit together?", "If that theory doesn't work, why is it in the book?", and "Does this stuff have to be so dry?" Those questions will never be asked if Colquitt Essentials is used. The author team has written a text that highlights the importance of course topics while organizing them around an integrative model of OB. The text is also contemporary, omitting outdated and disproven models that remain in other texts. Most important to students, the text is written in an approachable, conversational tone, with features that students actually want to read. Colquitt Essentials is the complete package in a condensed, unique, and visually stimulating format, all without losing the integrity and level of quality we've come to expect from this author team. This text stands out from the competition for four key reasons: A Focus on Performance and Commitment. Being a good performer and working for an employer that inspires commitment are critical concerns for employees and managers alike. Colquitt Essentials takes a unique approach by devoting Chapter 2 to job performance and organizational commitment. Once these two key outcomes have been spotlighted, all of the remaining chapters are linked back to them, illustrating the importance of the chapter topics to performance and commitment. An Integrative Model of OB. The table of contents is organized around an integrative model, described in Chapter 1, that provides a roadmap for the course, showing students how all of the chapters fit together. Unlike many OB texts with many editions behind them, Colquitt Essentials avoids being "grab-baggish" in nature with what seem to be randomly placed topics. The positioning of every topic makes sense, and it's easy for students to understand how the topics they are studying fit into the bigger picture. Contemporary Content. When creating the book, the author team asked themselves what OB texts would look like if all of them were first written in 2008. Many OB texts include outdated and disproven models, just to maintain continuity with earlier editions. Such content frustrates students, who don't understand why they should learn theories that are not valid. Colquitt Essentials omits such theories, devoting more space to contemporary topics that are useful for employees and managers. Features that Students Want to Read. Each chapter includes special insert box features like OB on Screen, OB in Sports, OB for Students, and OB Internationally that help "bring OB to life" for the reader. Many of these features have been praised by students for their ability to demonstrate OB content in a fun and appealing manner. Colquitt Essentials also uses an informal style that students enjoy reading, while focusing on company examples that students find interesting (Google, Netflix, Best Buy, Four Seasons, eBay, and others).
    
    
  • Organizational Behavior: Essentials for Improving Performance and Commitment
    Colquitt-LePine-Wesson
           Colquitt, LePine, and Wesson's Organizational Behavior: Essentials for Improving Performance and Commitment in the Workplace represents the most up-to-date perspective on Organizational Behavior (OB) on the market today. Many students leave their OB courses asking questions like: "Does any of this stuff really matter?", "How does all this stuff fit together?", "If that theory doesn't work, why is it in the book?", and "Does this stuff have to be so dry?" Those questions will never be asked if Colquitt Essentials is used. The author team has written a text that highlights the importance of course topics while organizing them around an integrative model of OB. The text is also contemporary, omitting outdated and disproven models that remain in other texts. Most important to students, the text is written in an approachable, conversational tone, with features that students actually want to read. Colquitt Essentials is the complete package in a condensed, unique, and visually stimulating format, all without losing the integrity and level of quality we've come to expect from this author team. This text stands out from the competition for four key reasons: A Focus on Performance and Commitment. Being a good performer and working for an employer that inspires commitment are critical concerns for employees and managers alike. Colquitt Essentials takes a unique approach by devoting Chapter 2 to job performance and organizational commitment. Once these two key outcomes have been spotlighted, all of the remaining chapters are linked back to them, illustrating the importance of the chapter topics to performance and commitment. An Integrative Model of OB. The table of contents is organized around an integrative model, described in Chapter 1, that provides a roadmap for the course, showing students how all of the chapters fit together. Unlike many OB texts with many editions behind them, Colquitt Essentials avoids being "grab-baggish" in nature with what seem to be randomly placed topics. The positioning of every topic makes sense, and it's easy for students to understand how the topics they are studying fit into the bigger picture. Contemporary Content. When creating the book, the author team asked themselves what OB texts would look like if all of them were first written in 2008. Many OB texts include outdated and disproven models, just to maintain continuity with earlier editions. Such content frustrates students, who don't understand why they should learn theories that are not valid. Colquitt Essentials omits such theories, devoting more space to contemporary topics that are useful for employees and managers. Features that Students Want to Read. Each chapter includes special insert box features like OB on Screen, OB in Sports, OB for Students, and OB Internationally that help "bring OB to life" for the reader. Many of these features have been praised by students for their ability to demonstrate OB content in a fun and appealing manner. Colquitt Essentials also uses an informal style that students enjoy reading, while focusing on company examples that students find interesting (Google, Netflix, Best Buy, Four Seasons, eBay, and others).
    
    
  • Project Management: The Managerial Process
    Gray-Larson
          This text approaches Project Management from a holistic, balanced perspective. The text is developed around a philosophy of a project-driven organization committed to continuous improvement and organizational learning. The text is holistic - it directs attention to the needed linkage between projects and organizational strategy. Many project management textbooks emphasize the technical aspects of the subject, while providing scant attention to the human element in projects. This text succeeds in redressing the balance by treating both the technical and the behavioral aspects of the subject in nearly equal parts. Such a balance is possible because of the complementary backgrounds of the authors: Gray, a specialist in project management systems with an operations background, provides strong technical coverage of project management. Larson, whose professional background is in organizational behavior, brings a distinctive behavioral perspective to the subject.
    
    
  • Purchasing and Supply Management
    Leenders-Johnson-Flynn-Fearon
          The Leenders' text provides a comprehensive introduction to the purchasing and supply chain management field, supported by 50 case studies. Cases cover purchasing and supply chain issues in a variety of settings, from process industries to high tech manufacturing and services as well as public institutions. Supply Management concepts, both strategic and tactical, have been expanded throughout the text, particularly in new chapters on Supply Law and Ethics, Public Supply, and Supplier Relations. While all basic tenets of the purchasing function and cost issues remain, the coverage of the field is state of the art highlighting the supply chain approach.
    
    
  • Quantum Microeconomics
    
          quantum Physics. A minimum amount of a physical quantity which can exist and by multiples of which changes in the quantity occur. (Oxford English Dictionary) The “quantum” of economics is the optimizing individual. All of economics ultimately boils down to the behavior of such individuals. Microeconomics studies their basic actions and interactions: individual markets, supply and demand, the impact of taxes, monopoly, etc. Macroeconomics then lumps together these individual markets to study national and international issues. In structure this book—which covers only microeconomics—is not unlike a hiking trip. We start out by putting our boots on and getting our gear together: in Part I we study the optimizing individual. Then we set out on our path and immediately find ourselves hacking through some pretty thick jungle: even simple interactions between just two people (Part II) can be very complicated! As we add even more people (in studying auctions, for example), things get even more complicated, and the jungle gets even thicker. Then a miracle occurs: we add even more people, and a complex situation suddenly becomes simple. After hacking through thick jungle, we find ourselves in a beautiful clearing: competitive markets (Part III) are remarkably easy to analyze and understand.
    
    
  • Quantum Microeconomics
    Yoram Bauman
           Quantum Microeconomics follows a "building-blocks" approach that builds up from individual optimization to strategic interactions between individuals to competitive market interactions between many individuals, thereby integrating decision theory, game theory, and price theory into a coherent whole. As described in the preface: In structure this book is not unlike a hiking trip. We start out by putting our boots on and getting our gear together: in Part I we study the optimizing individual. Then we set out on our path and immediately find ourselves hacking through some pretty thick jungle: even simple interactions between just two people (Part II) can be very complicated! As we add even more people (in studying auctions, for example), things get even more complicated, and the jungle gets even thicker. Then a miracle occurs: we add even more people, and a complex situation suddenly becomes simple. After hacking through thick jungle, we find ourselves in a beautiful clearing: competitive markets (Part III) are remarkably easy to analyze and understand. The basic text, Quantum Microeconomics, is intended for use in introductory classes
    
    
  • Quantum Microeconomics with Calculus
    
          quantum Physics. A minimum amount of a physical quantity which can exist and by multiples of which changes in the quantity occur. (Oxford English Dictionary) The “quantum” of economics is the optimizing individual. All of economics ultimately boils down to the behavior of such individuals. Microeconomics studies their basic actions and interactions: individual markets, supply and demand, the impact of taxes, monopoly, etc. Macroeconomics then lumps together these individual markets to study national and international issues. In structure this book—which covers only microeconomics—is not unlike a hiking trip. We start out by putting our boots on and getting our gear together: in Part I we study the optimizing individual. Then we set out on our path and immediately find ourselves hacking through some pretty thick jungle: even simple interactions between just two people (Part II) can be very complicated! As we add even more people (in studying auctions, for example), things get even more complicated, and the jungle gets even thicker. Then a miracle occurs: we add even more people, and a complex situation suddenly becomes simple. After hacking through thick jungle, we find ourselves in a beautiful clearing: competitive markets (Part III) are remarkably easy to analyze and understand.
    
    
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  • QuickStart to Windows XP
    
          This unit will provide an introduction to the MS-Windows XP client operating system. The emphasis is on the minimum knowledge required to work productively on your Personal Computer
    
    
  • QuickStart to Word 97
    
          Welcome to Microsoft Word 97, which is one of most powerful and widely used word processing programs. Whether you want to type a simple letter or produce a complex book, Word can handle the job for you. These notes are only intended to get you going with the basic operation of Word. Books of several hundreds of pages have been devoted to the "ins" and "outs" of Word and even the most experienced Word users keep discovering new capabilities, features or possibilities. We just aim to give you sufficient confidence to type simple documents such as essays and projects. As you start using Word, you will discover new features as you go along. Do not be afraid to experiment or share your experiences with your fellow students.
    
    
  • QuickStart to Word XP
    
          This unit provides a quick overview of the functionality of Microsoft Word 2002. MS-Word is the word processor of the MS-Office XP productivity software suite. The emphasis in this unit is on giving an overview of the basic knowledge required to work productively with Word, rather than a detailed step-by-step introductory tutorial. On the other hand, there is so much functionality in Word that it is outside the scope of this overview to deal in depth with the more advanced topics. It is, in our view, better to learn about the advanced features as your experience grows and you develop a particular need for a specific functionality such as mail merge, collaborative document development, tables with calculations, VBA automation or web/XML integration
    
    
  • The Economy of Ideas
    John Perry Barlow
          
    
    
  • The influence of cause-related marketing on consumer choice: Does one good turn deserve another?
    Michael J. Barone , Anthony D. Miyazaki and Kimberly A. Taylor
          Are consumers more likely to select brands offered by companies that engage in cause-related marketing (CRM)? Somewhat surprisingly, little evidence exists that directly addresses this issue. Accordingly, the present examination investigates whether and when CRM efforts influence consumer choice. The results from several studies indicate that information regarding a company’s support of social causes can affect choice. However, CRM’s influence on choice is found to depend on the perceived motivation underlying the company’s CRM efforts as well as whether consumers must trade off company sponsorship of causes for lower performance or higher price. The results also indicate that CRM cues affect choice primarily through compensatory strategies involving trade-offs rather than through noncompensatory strategies. Implications of the current findings for existing theory are discussed along with directions for future research.
    
    
  • The Micro Economy Today
    Schiller
          Brad Schiller's text, "The Micro Economy Today, 11e", is noted for three great strengths: readability, policy orientation, and pedagogy. His accessible writing style engages students and brings some of the excitement of domestic and global economic news into the classroom. Schiller emphasizes how policymakers must choose between government intervention and market reliance to resolve the core issues of what, how, and for whom to produce. This strategic choice is highlighted throughout the full range of micro, macro, and international issues. Every chapter ends with a policy issue that emphasizes the markets vs. government dilemma.And, Schiller packs his chapters with the facts of economic life - real stories and applications. This is a book that teaches economics in a relevant context with careful pedagogy. It is also the only principles text that presents all macro theory in the single consistent context of the AS/AD framework. "Schiller, 11e" is for students motivated by real-world policy issues who want to become economically literate. This is a book students actually read. "Schiller" is also known for its cutting-edge and current coverage of today's issues.
    
    
  • The Wealth of Networks
    Yochai Benkler
          The Wealth of Networks How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
    
    
  • Tourism the International Business
    Robert Christie Mill
          
    
    
  • U.S. Monetary Policy
    US Gov.
          US monetary policy affects all kinds of economic and financial decisions people make in this country—whether to get a loan to buy a new house or car or to start up a company, whether to expand a business by investing in a new plant or equipment, and whether to put savings in a bank, in bonds, or in the stock market, for example. Furthermore, because the U.S. is the largest economy in the world, its monetary policy also has significant economic and financial effects on other countries.
    
    
  • Unleashing the Ideavirus
    Seth Godin
          The #1 question people ask me after reading Permission Marketing: “So, how do we get attention to ask for permission in the first place?” This manifesto is the answer to that question.
    
    
  • USA Economy in Brief
    US Gov.
          This mini-publication discusses the factors that make the U.S. economy the world's most productive, competitive, and influential. It focuses on workers and productivity, small and large business, the service economy, goods and services, the role of government, and the concept of "creative destruction," the process where jobs, companies, entire industries come and go because of their success or failure in the marketplace. USA Economy in Brief includes colorful charts to illustrate, for instance, U.S. annual exports and imports and the U.S. trade deficit.
    
    
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  • A First Look at Communication Theory
    Griffin
          The most widely-used textbook for the communication theory course, "A First Look at Communication Theory" analyzes the major communication theories at a level that is appropriate for both lower- and upper-level courses. The 32 theories represented in the text reflect a mix of foundational and recent scholarship and strike a balance of scientific and interpretive approaches.
    
    
  • A practical grammar of the Latin language
    George J. Adler
          A practical grammar of the Latin language; with perpetual exercises in speaking and writing: For the use of schools, colleges, and private learners
    
    
  • A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction
    Tubbs
          Conceived as a core text for more theoretically based courses, "A Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction" uses Tubbs' "systems model" as a framework for explaining and integrating the major small group theories. The book thus offers an opportunity to enable undergraduates to clearly view theories that are usually only found in more advanced books. The new edition has been thoroughly updated to include over 100 new citations, more practical applications of small group interactions, plus new case studies and reading selections. Features include Tubb's own "System Model", a useful framwork borrowed from the social sciences that ties together the major small groups theories, making this typically difficult material more understandable for students. The book opens each chapter with a real-life case study, drawing students into the concepts about to be presented. It provides experiential exercises, validating the theories in students' minds and giving students greater insight into how theories relate to behaviour.Also provided are end-of-chapter readings, amplifying core chapter concepts and covering leadership in greater depth than any other book now available, highlighting this important topic.
    
    
  • Between One and Many: The Art and Science of Public Speaking
    Brydon-Scott
          Between One and Many presents public speaking as a living and dynamic transaction in which the meaning of the message emerges from the relationship between the speaker and the audience. The goal of this approach is to get students to think critically about their communication as well as to emphasize the importance of considering the audience in speech preparation.
    
    
  • Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet, & Beyond: An Introduction to Electronic Media
    Dominick-Messere-Sherman
          This text surveys the field of modern electronic media and beyond. Beyond, more than a word in the title, refers to the new technologies, regulations, programming, and competition that affect our world and the broadcasting industry. The authors of "Broadcasting, Cable, the Internet and Beyond" have three main goals for every edition: to convey the excitement of the industry; to provide a survey of the industry; and presenting a readable text that makes even the most difficult information understandable. With new information and innovations added to an already strong foundation, this edition achieves each of these goals, again.
    
    
  • Business and Administrative Communication
    Locker-Kienzler
          Donna Kienzler shares the same vision for the book and research philosophy as "Kitty". She uses a student-friendly writing style and strong design element to hold student's attention. The ninth edition of "Business and Communication" by Donna Kienzler is a true leader in the business communication field. Beyond covering the broad scope of topics in both oral and written business communication, Locker's text uses a student-friendly writing style and strong design element to hold student's attention. Real-world examples and real business applications underscore the relevance and importance of the material presented to the classroom experience and to the students' careers. Also conveys the best possible advice to students through its research base; the author's reputation as a contributor to this field of study lends an even greater element of 'teachability' and relevance to this market-leading title. If schools stress critical thinking and professional development, show them this book.
    
    
  • Business Communication: Making Connections in a Digital World
    Lesikar-Flatley-Rentz
          "Business Communication: Making Connections in a Digital World" by Lesikar, Flatley, and Rentz provides both student and instructor with all the tools needed to navigate through the complexity of the modern business communication environment. At their disposal, teachers have access to an online Tools & Techniques Blog that continually keeps them abreast of the latest research and developments in the field while providing a host of teaching materials. "Business Communication" attends to the dynamic, fast-paced, and ever-changing means by which business communication occurs by being the most technologically current and pedagogically effective books in the field. It has realistic examples that are both consumer-and business-oriented.
    
    
  • Communicating at Work: Principles and Practices for Business and the Professions
    Adler-Elmhorst
          The leading text in business communication, "Communicating at Work" takes a pragmatic approach that features a strong multicultural focus, a heavy emphasis on effective presentations, and a pedagogical program designed to encourage group activities and skill building. Its combination of clear writing and effective use of tables makes this text an excellent teaching tool. The ninth edition provides coverage of new pedagogy, key new topics and an expansion of other important concepts including sources of on-the-job conflict, how to use informational interviews for career advancement, and stages in group problem-solving.
    
    
  • Communicating Effectively
    Hybels-Weaver
          Designed for the Introduction to Communication course, this trusted text presents the foundation of communication studies through numerous examples that range from the campus to the workplace to communities both in the United States and throughout the world. Every chapter contains numerous activities that engage students and promote group work. The eighth edition features a new appendix on computer-mediated communication; a new section, in each chapter, on the impact of the Internet; and coverage of the Integrative Listening Model Framework.
    
    
  • Communicating in Groups: Applications and Skills
    Adams-Galanes
          Presents the principles and practical applications needed to work effectively in small groups both in and out of the classroom. The text emphasizes critical thinking and uses a general systems theory framework to help analyze the complex human system of the small group.
    
    
  • Communication in a Changing World
    Dobkin-Pace
          "Communication in A Changing World" distinguishes itself from other introductory textbooks by its emphasis on ethics and civility in communication; its original, comprehensive and integrated treatment of computer-mediated communication; and, its authentic, engaging examples drawn frequently from popular culture. "Communication in A Changing World" regards communication as integral to the development of students as responsible citizens in a diverse world. The new edition now features a 'quick guide' for preparing a first speech that is audience-centered and includes themes of responsible communication.
    
    
  • Communication Research: Asking Questions, Finding Answers
    Keyton
          This text covers basic research issues and both quantitative and qualitative approaches to communication research. The guiding principle of the text is that methodological choices arise from one's research questions and hypotheses; thus, the text focuses first on the research process, and then discusses the methodological tools for understanding and conducting basic communication research projects. In the second edition, every chapter includes examples based on research from 2002 and thereafter, and revisions improve the balance of quantitative and qualitative research perspectives as well as of data collection and analytical procedures.
    
    
  • COMMUNICATION SKILLS
    Tara Dixon, Martin O’Hara
          Aims This resource has been compiled to give a general introduction to effective communication for practice educators. In the first section, the key components of the communication process will be discussed. The basic skills required for effective communication will be explored in the next few sections, and some specific contexts for communication, including giving presentations and feedback meetings, will be examined. On completion of this resource, you should be able to: • Identify the key components of the communication process. • Identify some typical problems that can arise in the communication process and demonstrate knowledge of skills to overcome these. • Demonstrate increased awareness of forms of communication and social behaviour. • Identify and use strategies for managing specific contexts for communication, including giving presentations.
    
    
  • Communication Theory
    Wikibooks Contributors
          This book is an introduction to communication theory — the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other.
    
    
  • Communication Works
    Gamble-Gamble
          This edition features a new streamlined presentation plus a new chapter on mass communication. Other changes include an expanded section on new technologies, Internet and critical thinking exercises, and the coverage now includes new research and examples in culture.
    
    
  • Corporate Communication
    Argenti
          "Corporate Communication" by Paul Argenti was the very first and remains the most comprehensive text available on the subject. The 3rd Edition of Argenti's text and case work describes changes in the environment for business that have taken place over the last half-century and their implications for corporate communication. While attitudes about business have never been totally positive, they have reached an all-time low in recent years - mistrust and skepticism of corporate entities is high, as are expectations that companies will "give back" to society through philanthropy, community involvement, or environmental protection activities. This book not only describes what's happening in an era of advanced communication but also what companies can do to stay one step ahead of the competition.By creating a coordinated corporate communication system, organizations will be able to face the new century with the strategies and tools that few companies in the world have at their fingertips yet. "Corporate Communication, 3rd Edition", is written by one of the worlds leading experts who helped define the field, provides an overview of Corporate Communication and its various sub-functions, including Media Relations, Crisis Communication, Internal Communication and Investor Relations. Argenti offers adopters communication frameworks developed over 23 years of teaching at the premier business schools in the country and brings them to life using examples gleaned from his extensive consulting work with Fortune 500 companies.
    
    
  • Culture-Based Negotiation Styles
    Michelle LeBaron
          
    
    
  • Customer Service: Skills for Success
    Lucas
          Customer Service, by Lucas features how-to topics for the customer service professional. It covers the concepts and skills needed for success in business careers, including listening techniques, verbal and nonverbal communication, and use of technology. Emphasis is given to dealing with customer service problems and how to handle conflicts and stress. Insights and tips are also provided for customer service supervisory personnel.
    
    
  • Customer Service: Skills for Success
    Lucas
          Customer Service, by Lucas features how-to topics for the customer service professional. It covers the concepts and skills needed for success in business careers, including listening techniques, verbal and nonverbal communication, and use of technology. Emphasis is given to dealing with customer service problems and how to handle conflicts and stress. Insights and tips are also provided for customer service supervisory personnel.
    
    
  • Developing Intercultural Competence
    Nicolas Sola and James Wilkinson, Thames Valley University
          In a world in which national boundaries are being eroded and where cultural diversity is experienced within nations as much as between them, the ability to manage and to work in multicultural teams is becoming ever more important. The Erasmus / Socrates funded IICEE project (Interpersonal and Intercultural Competence for the Enlarged Europe) has developed a module to prepare people for work and leadership in such a world. In seeking to develop intercultural competence, an approach is needed which, on the one hand, develops awareness of relevant concepts and on the other, equips learners with practical skills which enable them to manage and work in multicultural teams. Accordingly, the IICEE module is structured around three learning units: interpersonal and intercultural communication, teamwork and presentation skills; creative problem solving strategies; and crosscultural project management and team facilitation. A collaboration of partners from 12 different European countries, the IICEE project is itself a case study in cross-cultural management, and besides outlining the content of the IICEE module, this paper also describes the IICEE project experience and how it has contributed to the design of the module. The paper also reports on the experience of delivering ICBE (Intercultural Communication for the Business Environment), a Masters level module offered at Thames Valley University which is essentially the same as IICEE but without the European focus, thus allowing a more global application. Finally, the paper concludes with reference to new work that may provide a suitable framework for the many disparate elements and apparent contradictions inherent in many conceptions of intercultural competence. These include basic questions concerning intercultural competence: its goal, scope, application and theoretical underpinning.
    
    
  • Effective Group Discussion: Theory and Practice
    Galanes-Adams
          Combining the most recent research findings with practical tools students need to become productive group members, this leading text covers secondary groups of all kinds: work groups, committees, task forces, self-directed work teams, and other small groups whose objectives include finding solutions to problems, producing goods, and creating policies. In this edition, the authors have expanded coverage of computer-mediated communication and updated relevant information about diversity and culture in chapter 5 and throughout the text.
    
    
  • Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction
    Martin-Nakayama
          This introductory text covers the core concepts of intercultural communication and offers students a basic skill-building framework designed to be used every day for communicating across cultures. By using the "building blocks" of the framework in different ways, students will understand the complexities of intercultural interaction and learn about other cultures as well as their relationships with their own culture.
    
    
  • Foundations of Business Communication: An Integrative Approach
    Young
          This book presents essential communication techniques to streamline efficiency in every business. "Foundations of Business Communication" uses a selection of margin boxes including Coaching Tips and Communication Challenges to reinforce the hands-on techniques of communication in an increasingly arms-length and borderless environment. "BusinessWeek" cases and related assignments provide real-world exposure and support.
    
    
  • Get a Job! Interview Survival Skills for College Students
    Cunningham
          This book is designed every college students prepare for the job search process. The first section covers how students can take full advantage of their college experience in order to prepare them for life after college. The second section teaches them about the types of interviews they are likely to face, how to conduct a job search (including finding out about available jobs), writing resumes and cover letters, researching companies and positions, questions to answer (behavioral and traditional) and ask, and appropriate interview attire. Section three covers taking part in the face to face interview, including how to make a good first impression, the keys to answering questions, important nonverbal behaviors, and how to finish strong. The final section of the book covers the follow-up process: writing thank you letters, weighing various job offers, accepting, declining and negotiating job offers.
    
    
  • Human Communication
    Pearson-Nelson-Titsworth-Harter
           "Human Communication" is an engaging reflection of the contemporary field of communication studies. The authors' writing mantra ("Make It Smart; Keep It Real") leads to a text that strikes a practical balance of definitive content and everyday application. To "make it smart," the authors read hundreds of articles from such mainstream communication journals as "Communication Education", "Communication Monographs", and "Communication Studies". To "keep it real," the authors synthesized their findings so that they resonate with the challenges and goals of today's typical basic course. Every chapter features skill-building, critical thinking, innovative pedagogy, 21st century examples, and lively writing that is respectful of the student reader.
    
    
  • Human Communication: Principles and Contexts
    Tubbs
          Intended for the introductory communication concepts course (versus the performance-oriented hybrid course), "Human Communication: Principles and Contexts" focuses on the principles of speech communication and its contexts. The award-winning authors, an academic and a professional writer, write engagingly, strive to link theory and research with fundamental concepts, and to enliven the exposition with intriguing case studies, useful interpersonal skills and stimulating examples. Tubbs show's a true understanding and sensitivity to diversity, a reflection of their professional interests in gender and cultural issues.
    
    
  • In Search of Intercultural Competence
    Darla K. Deardorff
          
    
    
  • Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation
    Roger W. Harris
          This e-primer provides case studies and lessons learned on the use of information and communication technologies in poverty alleviation programmes and projects. A poverty alleviation framework is presented as a guide to analyze the impact of the case studies.
    
    
  • Intercultural Communication in Contexts
    Martin-Nakayama
          This popular text addresses the core issues and concerns of intercultural communication by integrating three different perspectives: the social psychological, the interpretive, and the critical. The dialectical framework, integrated throughout the book, is used as a lens to examine the relationship of these research traditions. This text is unique in its emphasis on the importance of histories, popular culture, and identities. The new edition features expanded discussion on globalization, computer-mediated technologies, and the role of religion in global and domestic contexts and how they relate to intercultural communication.
    
    
  • Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace
    Beamer-Varner
          "Intercultural Communication in the Global Workplace" by Varner and Beamer offers student readers the solid theoretical foundation they need and a highly engaging writing style peppered with personal examples culled from the authors' experience living and working abroad. The authors zero in on the specific needs of a firm, from broad cultural and business values to the influence of culture on negotiations, to the structure of the firm. Chapter 12 in the 3rd edition focuses on applying cultural concepts to real-life situations. It also emphasizes team work in intercultural groups. Legal issues in intercultural business communication are covered extensively. Opening chapters contain detailed discussion of cultural values that influence intercultural business communication.
    
    
  • Interpersonal Communication: The Whole Story
    Floyd
          Drawing upon his own highly contemporary research on affection in relationships, and on the interplay of communication, physiology, and health, Kory Floyd has crafted a down-to-earth, 21st Century perspective on the complex and nuanced enterprise that is interpersonal communication. To reflect the experiences and expectations of today's multidimensional student population, " Interpersonal Communication: The Whole Story" addresses a broader range of interpersonal communication contexts than any other book of its kind--by incorporating "dark side" IPC throughout the text and by including deeply diverse populations in its research-based and everyday examples. Floyd describes this as telling "The Whole Story," (if not a more accurate one) rather than telling just the part that relates to mainstream populations. Throughout the text, Floyd encourages students to go beyond their "intuitive" notions about interpersonal communication, and helps them see the value in investigating relational processes systematically.
    
    
  • Interpersonal Conflict
    Wilmot-Hocker
          Written for courses such as Communication and Conflict, Interpersonal Conflict, Conflict Management, Conflict and Negotiation, and Conflict in Personal Relationships, this textbook examines the central principles of effective conflict management in a wide variety of contexts - from romantic relationships to the workplace. Its combination of up-to-date research and examples gives students a theoretical as well as a practical foundation in conflict management.
    
    
  • Interviewing: Principles and Practices
    Stewart-Cash
          The most widely-used text for the interviewing course, "Stewart and Cash" offers comprehensive coverage of a wide range of interviews, and careful integration of relevant communication theory as a foundation for the practical aspects of interviewing - for both the interviewer and the interviewee. Instructors note its clear writing, abundance of real-world examples and sample interviews as particularly appealing to their students. This edition continues to reflect the growing sophistication with which interviewing is being approached, the ever-expanding body of research in all types of interview settings, recent interpersonal communication theory, and the importance of equal opportunity laws on interviewing practices. The increasing diversification of the workplace and the influences of the global village receive special treatment in several chapters.
    
    
  • Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Applications
    West-Turner
          his text introduces the field of communication to students who may have little or no background in communication theory. Its three overriding goals are to help students understand the pervasiveness of theory in their lives, to demystify the theoretical process, and to help students become more systematic and critical in their thinking about theory.
    
    
  • Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture
    Baran
          This text encourages students to be active media consumers and gives them a deeper understanding of the role that the media play in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media producers, technologies, and industries. This was the first, and remains the only, university-level text to make media literacy central to its approach, and given recent national and global turmoil, its emphasis on media use and democracy could not be more timely. Building on this tested emphasis, the sixth edition features a complete updating of industry statistics throughout, numerous new examples from the ongoing Iraq war, the Presidential election, and the emergence of wildly popular Internet applications such as massive multiplayer online worlds like Second Life and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
    
    
  • Managerial Communication: Strategies and Applications
    Hynes
          "Managerial Communication" by Hynes focuses on skills and strategies that managers need in today's workplace. This book continues to stand out in the field for its strategic approach, solid research base, comprehensive range of topics, its even-handed examination of oral and written channels, and its focus on managerial (as opposed to entry-level) competencies. The overriding principle for the revision was to preserve the book's key strengths while bringing it in line with the early twenty-first century workplace. The chapters have been streamlined and condensed to meet the needs of a busy contemporary manager and content was added to reflect current business practices.
    
    
  • Media Ethics: Issues and Cases
    Patterson-Wilkins
          By combining real-life and hypothetical cases with a succinct introduction to ethical theory, this text helps students prepare for the ethical situations they will encounter in the media professions. It is an ideal choice as the main text in a media ethics course or as a supplemental text in any course in journalism. The new edition reflects changes in the world post 9/11, including the war in Iraq, the Enron and WorldCom scandals, and a new look at media and democracy in light of FCC-approved media consolidation.
    
    
  • Perspectives on Family Communication
    Turner-West
          Emphasizing the role that communication plays in both creating and solving family issues, this new edition of "Perspectives on Family Communication" thoroughly reflects the explosion of research literature in the area of family communication - on such topics as the broadened definition of family; current demographic aspects of family types; and up-to-date references on family theory, storytelling, divorce, and conflict.
    
    
  • Principles of Electronic Communication Systems
    Frenzel
          "Principles of Electronic Communication Systems " provides the most up-to-date survey available for students taking a first course in electronic communications. Requiring only basic algebra and trigonometry, the new edition is notable for its readability, learning features and numerous full-color photos and illustrations. A systems approach is used to cover state-of-the-art communications technologies, to best reflect current industry practice. This edition contains greatly expanded and updated material on the Internet, cell phones, and wireless technologies. Practical skills like testing and troubleshooting are integrated throughout.
    
    
  • Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice
    Lattimore-Baskin-Heiman-Toth
          Coverage of global markets, new technologies, and multiculturalism throughout make this dynamic text the cutting-edge choice for public relations courses. Accompanied by a unique, free DVD with video interviews of leaders in the public relations field, the text presents and explains in a personal, jargon-free style the fundamental tools of public relations practice, providing a multi-disciplinary understanding of the emerging trends within the field.
    
    
  • Public Speaking for College and Career
    Gregory
          This public speaking text focuses on the career and community applications of speech-making. It aims to give students a thorough grounding in the speech preparation process, offering three separate chapters on the critical steps of organizing and outlining. Updated sample speeches and outlines include annotations to illustrate key concepts. This edition brings a greater emphasis on ethics, audience adaptation, and credibility, plus a fuller treatment of persuasive techniques.
    
    
  • Public Speaking: A Guide for the Engaged Communicator
    Nelson-Titsworth-Pearson
          This is a new, brief, economical text that stresses the importance of public communication in contemporary life. Through its numerous examples and excellent companion collection of sample speeches, the book and its media program integrate vital themes of our time and invite students to make the connection between their basic public speaking class and such important issues as ethics, religious identity, diversity, health, medicine, education, and the environment.
    
    
  • Seeing is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication
    Berger
          "Seeing is Believing" uses semiotic and psychoanalytic concepts to help readers gain an understanding of the way we find meaning in visual phenomena and the way our minds process images. These concepts are presented in a readable, entertaining style, and abundant images, many of them new, including numerous drawings by the author, are offered to show how the principles discussed in the book have been applied.
    
    
  • Telecommunications: An Introduction to Electronic Media
    Gross-Fink
          Provides a straightforward account of the radio and television industries and their history, structure, programming practices, equipment, distribution networks, business practices and the laws and regulations surrounding the industry. Included in this ninth edition is coverage of multimedia and virtual reality and new information on successful and unsuccessful innovative programming for the nineties. There are discussions of the many economic, political and cultural factors that are influencing the growth of international telecommunications in various countries, and up-to-date information on the radio and television systems in various countries, including Russia, Swaziland, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan and Brazil is provided.
    
    
  • The Art of Public Speaking
    Lucas
          This text provides step-by-step instruction in the preparation and presentation of speeches, including current issues such as multiculturalism, changing demographics and their influence on audience analysis, non-sexist language, and the role of argumentation in persuasive speaking.
    
    
  • The Audience, The Message, The Speaker
    Hasling
          One of the most crucial and difficult aspects of learning to speak in public is developing the capacity for clear thinking. Usually the fear of making presentations comes about as a result of speakers not really being sure of what they want to say. This book places a great deal of emphasis on helping readers to think through an issue and to organize their ideas so that the conclusions they reach are sound, well supported and logical. Also, a new feature of this edition is the chapter on visual aids, including a description of the latest high tech tools as well as instruction on how to use the more common equipment such as overhead and slide projectors. In the process, the author describes how visual aids can benefit the speaker as well as the audience.
    
    
  • Three Modules on Clear Writing Style: An Introduction to The Craft of Argument
    Joseph M. Williams and Gregory Colomb
          
    
    
  • Understanding Business
    Nickels-McHugh-McHugh
          "Understanding Business" by Nickels, McHugh, and McHugh has been the number one textbook in the introduction to business market for several editions for three reasons: the commitment and dedication of an author team that teaches this course and believes in the importance and power of this learning experience, we listen to our customers, and the quality of our supplements package. We consistently look to the experts - full-time faculty members, adjunct instructors, and of course students - to drive the decisions we make about the text itself and the ancillary package. Through a series of focus groups, symposia, as well as full-book, single-chapter, revised manuscript reviews of both text and key ancillaries, we have heard the stories of more than 500 professors and their insights and experiences are evident on every page of the revision and in every supplement. As teachers of the course and users of their own materials, the author team is dedicated to the principles of excellence in business education.From providing the richest most current topical coverage to using dynamic pedagogy that puts students in touch with today's real business issues, to creating groundbreaking and market-defining ancillary items for professors and students alike, "Understanding Business" leads the way.
    
    
• Computer Science
  • Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
    Shriram Krishnamurthi
          The book is the textbook for the programming languages course at Brown University, which is taken primarily by third and fourth year undergraduates and beginning graduate (both MS and PhD) students. It seems very accessible to smart second year students too, and indeed those are some of my most successful students. The book has been used at over a dozen other universities as a primary or secondary text. The book’s material is worth one undergraduate course worth of credit. This book is the fruit of a vision for teaching programming languages by integrating the “two cultures” that have evolved in its pedagogy. One culture is based on interpreters, while the other emphasizes a survey of languages. Each approach has significant advantages but also huge drawbacks. The interpreter method writes programs to learn concepts, and has its heart the fundamental belief that by teaching the computer to execute a concept we more thoroughly learn it ourselves.
    
    
• Electronics
  • A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Louis Scharf
          
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 1 - DC
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 2 - AC
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 3 - Semiconductors
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 4 - Digital
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 5 - Reference
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 6 - Experiments
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
• Engineering
  • Basics of Fluid Mechanics
    Genick Bar–Meir, Ph. D.
          This book, Basics of Fluid Mechanics, describes the fundamentals of fluid mechanics phenomena for engineers and others. This book is designed to replace all introductory textbook(s) or instructor’s notes for the fluid mechanics in undergraduate classes for engineering/science students but also for technical peoples. It is hoped that the book could be used as a reference book for people who have at least some basics knowledge of science areas such as calculus, physics, etc.
    
    
  • Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods
    Peurifoy-Schexnayder-Schapira
          "The Seventh Edition of Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods", follows in the footsteps of the previous editions by providing the reader with the fundamentals of machine utilization and production estimating in a logical, simple, and concise format. Our text features expanded coverage of building in today's global environment. Hundreds of photos and illustrations have been added to the seventh edition to make this dynamic text even more accessible to both students and professionals. In addition, since technology is constantly evolving, this text provides an understanding of machine capabilities and how to properly apply those capabilities to construction challenges. The media package includes: Web-based exercises have been added to many chapters to draw attention to the expanding volume of information available over the Internet. The computer monitor icon in the text margin will direct you to the text website. In addition, extensive web resources are provided at the end of every text chapter.
    
    
  • Design of Concrete Structures
    Nilson-Darwin-Dolan
          The 14th edition of the classic text, "Design of Concrete Structures", is completely revised using the newly released 2008 ACI (American Concrete Institute) Code. This new edition has the same dual objectives as the previous editions; first to establish a firm understanding of the behavior of structural concrete, then to develop proficiency in the methods used in current design practice. "Design of Concrete Structures" covers the behavior and design aspects of concrete and provides updated examples and homework problems. New material on slender columns, seismic design, anchorage using headed deformed bars, and reinforcing slabs for shear using headed studs has been added. The notation has been thouroughly updated to match changes in the ACI Code. The text also presents the basic mechanics of structural concrete and methods for the design of individual members for bending, shear, torsion, and axial force, and provides detail in the various types of structural systems applications, including an extensive presentation of slabs, footings, foundations, and retaining walls.
    
    
  • Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering
    Smith-Hashemi
          Smith/Hashemi's "Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering, 5/e" provides an eminently readable and understandable overview of engineering materials for undergraduate students. This edition offers a fully revised chemistry chapter and a new chapter on biomaterials. Through concise explanations, numerous worked-out examples, a wealth of illustrations & photos, and a brand new set of online resources, the new edition provides the most student-friendly introduction to the science & engineering of materials. The extensive media package available with the text provides Virtual Labs, tutorials, and animations, among other resources along with numerous student and instructor resources on the text website.
    
    
  • Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
    Smith-Van Ness-Abbott
          "Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, 7/e", presents comprehensive coverage of the subject of thermodynamics from a chemical engineering viewpoint. This text provides a thorough exposition of the principles of thermodynamics and details their application to chemical processes. The chapters are written in a clear, logically organized manner, and contain an abundance of realistic problems, examples, and illustrations to help students understand complex concepts. New ideas, terms, and symbols constantly challenge the readers to think and encourage them to apply this fundamental body of knowledge to the solution of practical problems. The comprehensive nature of this book makes it a useful reference both in graduate courses and for professional practice. The seventh edition continues to be an excellent tool for teaching the subject of chemical engineering thermodynamics to undergraduate students.
    
    
  • Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer
    Çenge
           "Introduction to Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer" provides balanced coverage of the basic concepts of thermodynamics and heat transfer. Together with the clear an numerous illustrations, student-friendly writing style, and manageable math, this is an ideal text for an introductory thermal science course for non-mechanical engineering majors.Continuing in the tradition of "Cengel/Boles: Thermodynamics", this lavishly illustrated text presents the key topics in thermodynamics and heat transfer, in a highly accessible student-friendly fashion. The flexibly organized text can accommodate courses that spend anywhere from 1/3rd to 2/3rds or more of class time on thermodynamics and the rest on key heat transfer topics. The intuitive approach is supported by a wealth of physical explanations and analogies that draw parallels between the subject and the students' everyday experiences. Many of the 150 thoroughly worked out examples and almost 2,000 real-world problems, highlight applications from civil and electrical engineering.Over 1,000 illustrations help students visualize concepts, this approach and contents make this text an ideal resource for introduction to thermodynamics and/or thermal science courses intended for non-mechanical engineering majors
    
    
  • Principles of Statistics for Engineers and Scientists
    Navidi
          "Principles of Statistics for Engineers and Scientists" offers the same crystal clear presentation of applied statistics as Bill Navidi's "Statistics for Engineers and Scientists" text, in a manner especially designed for the needs of a one-semester course that focuses on applications. The text features a unique approach accentuated by an engaging writing style that explains difficult concepts clearly. By presenting ideas in the context of real-world data featured in plentiful examples, the book motivates students to understand fundamental concepts through practical examples found in industry and research.
    
    
• General Science
  • An Introduction to the World's Oceans
    Sverdrup-Armbrust
          An "Introduction to the World's Oceans, Eighth Edition" is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. A major objective of "An Introduction to the World's Oceans" is to stimulate student interest and curiosity by blending contemporary information and research with basic principles to form an integrated introduction to the sciences of the oceans. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct their own research and examine other findings such as analyzing satellite data and large-scale oceanographic programs. From this vast amount of data, they select interesting, relevant, and understandable examples that illustrate contemporary principles of oceanography. "An Introduction to the World's Oceans" places greater emphasis on the physical and geological aspects of the oceans than on the chemical and geochemical properties, because the latter disciplines require more specific background knowledge. An ecological approach helps integrate the biological chapters with other subjects. Students are encouraged to look at oceanography as a cohesive and united discipline rather than a collection of subjects gathered under a marine umbrella. As with all previous editions, the authors continue to make each chapter stand as independently as possible, so that professors can assign chapters in the order that best suits their classrooms.
    
    
  • Astronomy: Journey to the Cosmic Frontier
    Fix
          An introductory text that offers a balanced presentation of astronomy, intended for students taking their first course in the subject. The author presents astronomy as a scientific discipline, by addressing its quantitative nature and scientific method of inquiry. He includes historical developments to demonstrate the relevance of astronomy and to humanize the science for students. The book features stereoscopic artwork, enabling students to visualize concepts and phenomena in three dimensions; three-D glasses are included for this purpose. Model building/scientific method explain how we came to know what we now know. By examining how theories are refined as new facts and observations become available, the author effectively demonstrates the scientific method to students. Analogies are made to everyday events to help students understand astronomical concepts and events.
    
    
  • CK-12 Chemistry
    Sharon Bewick, Jonathan Edge, Therese Forsythe, and Richard Parsons.
          CK-12’s Chemistry delivers a full course of study in the physical sciences for the advanced high school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of atomic structure, chemical elements, chemical compounds, stoichiometry, chemical kinetics, the physical states of matter, the properties and behavior of solutions, thermodynamics, nuclear chemistry, and organic chemistry. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • CK-12 Earth Science
    Craig Freudenrich, John Benner, David Bethel, Dana Desonie, Corliss Karasov, Mary Lusk, Erik Ong, Kurt Rosenkrantz, and Julie Sandeen.
          CK-12’s Earth Science delivers a course of study in the earth and space sciences for the high school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of Earth’s minerals and energy resources, its internal and external processes, its past, its waters, its weather and climate, the total environment and human actions, and our place in the solar system and beyond. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional Approach
    Wardlaw-Smith
          "Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional Approach" is an alternate version of Wardlaw-Smith's "Contemporary Nutrition, Seventh Edition". While "Contemporary Nutrition: A Functional Approach" shares the recognized strengths of the seventh edition, it offers a unique approach to the coverage of vitamins and minerals. It departs from a traditional presentation by instead organizing vitamins and minerals within the context of physiological functions and the health conditions they influence. The text will provide students who lack a strong science background the ideal balance of reliable nutrition information and practical consumer-oriented knowledge. With their friendly writing style, the authors act as the student's personal guide to dispelling common misconceptions and to gaining a solid foundation for making informed nutrition choices.
    
    
  • Earth Science
    Craig Freudenrich, John Benner, David Bethel, Dana Desonie, Corliss Karasov, Mary Lusk, Erik Ong, Kurt Rosenkrantz, and Julie Sandeen
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    This FlexBook underwent a thorough review conducted by practicing teachers, domain experts, copyeditors, and technical editors. It can be used in its current form, "flexed" (customized), and/or printed by the user. CK-12 supports feedback on all of its FlexBooks so that they can be continually improved and updated, while remaining aligned with state standards and curriculum guidelines.
    
    
  • Earth Systems, an Earth Science Course
    Curriki
          The following collection contains assignments and analysis for an Open Source Earth Science course for grades 9 - 10. The collection has been prepared from resources contributed by teachers and partner educational organizations on Curriki, an online community for creating and sharing open source curricula. The Open Source Earth Science course has been organized to meet the CA Science Standards for Earth Sciences in grades 9 - 10, as adopted by the California State Board of Education. This course is part of a set of collections that contain additional Earth Science resources on Curriki that can be accessed at www.curriki.org
    
    
  • Environmental Science: A Study of Interrelationships
    Enger-Smith
          This full-color, introductory environmental science text is known for being concise, conceptual, and value-priced. The approach and reading level cover the basic concepts without overloading students with too much detail. The authors reinforce the text's central theme of "interrelationships" by providing a historical perspective, information on economic and political realities, discuss the role of different social experiences, and integrate this with the crucial science to describe the natural world and how we affect it.
    
    
  • Foundations in Microbiology: Basic Principles
    Talaro
          Written with the non-major/allied health student in mind, the authors use common, everyday analogies to explain the many difficult microbiology concepts. Unlike any other allied health microbiology textbook on the market, the art program showcases beautiful illustrations with the use of bold, primary colors. This version of "Foundations in Microbiology" includes chapters 1 through 17 of the full text, teaching only the basic principles of microbiology and not covering the clinical aspects.
    
    
  • Microbiology Experiments: A Health Science Perspective
    Kleyn-Bicknell
          This brand new microbiology laboratory manual has been written for allied health students who wish to learn not only the basic principles of laboratory microbiology, but also how to apply these principles to their profession in a practical manner. FEATURES: Can be used either as a stand alone text or as an accompaniment to any introductory medical microbiology text; Contains thirty-four exercises written specifically for allied health students; Principles-oriented with a firm background in key microbiological principles and theories presented for each exercise; All exercises have been class tested for relevancy and accuracy; Logical organisation allows the instructor to use it with any microbiology textbook.
    
    
  • Open Source Chemistry Course
    Curriki
          The following comprehensive collection contains an Open Source Chemistry course for grades 9-12. The collection has been prepared from resources contributed by teachers and partner educational organizations on Curriki, an online community for creating and sharing open source curricula. The ELR for Open Source Chemistry can be accessed at http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse/OpenSourceChemsitryCourseGrades9-12?bc=;Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse.ELRSubmissionForOpenSourceChemstry This course is part of a set of collections that contain additional resources on Curriki that can be accessed at www.curriki.org This open source textbook and additional resources have been collected into a Chemistry group on Curriki - CLRN - Open Source Chemistry Course. You can access these resources by joining Curriki at: https://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/JoinCurriki Once a member you can access and join the group, CLRN- Open Source Chemistry Course at: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse/ This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
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• Geology
  • The Good Earth: Introduction to Earth Science
    McConnell-Steer-Knight-Owens-Park
          "The Good Earth (TGE)" is the product of collaboration between the content rigor provided by Earth Science specialists (McConnell, Park, Steer) and the results of research on learning as contributed by pedagogical experts (Knight, Owens). TGE has been explicitly designed to be compatible with inquiry-based, active learning in the college classroom. The structural elements of this text will allow the instructor to incorporate these student-centered teaching methods into their Earth Science course. The authors have tested the book's content and pedagogy in large Earth Science classes for non-majors that are populated with mostly freshmen. Their experiences show that the materials and methods in TGE can improve students' learning, increase daily attendance, reduce attrition, and increase students' enthusiasm in comparison with classes taught following a traditional lecture format. The authors have chosen to emphasize three scientific themes throughout the text: scientific literacy; Earth Science and the human experience; and, the science of global change. The discussion of scientific methods is woven into the text throughout. They have included numerous examples of human interaction with the Earth that can serve as entry points for students to appreciate the nature of science. Global change is a theme that is evident in much current Earth Science research so our authors have used global change as a content theme throughout the book.
    
    
  • An Introduction to the World's Oceans
    Sverdrup-Armbrust
          An "Introduction to the World's Oceans, Eighth Edition" is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. A major objective of "An Introduction to the World's Oceans" is to stimulate student interest and curiosity by blending contemporary information and research with basic principles to form an integrated introduction to the sciences of the oceans. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct their own research and examine other findings such as analyzing satellite data and large-scale oceanographic programs. From this vast amount of data, they select interesting, relevant, and understandable examples that illustrate contemporary principles of oceanography. "An Introduction to the World's Oceans" places greater emphasis on the physical and geological aspects of the oceans than on the chemical and geochemical properties, because the latter disciplines require more specific background knowledge. An ecological approach helps integrate the biological chapters with other subjects. Students are encouraged to look at oceanography as a cohesive and united discipline rather than a collection of subjects gathered under a marine umbrella. As with all previous editions, the authors continue to make each chapter stand as independently as possible, so that professors can assign chapters in the order that best suits their classrooms.
    
    
  • Exploring Geology
    Reynolds-Johnson-Kelly-Morin-Carter
          xploring Geology by Reynolds/Johnson/Kelly/Morin/Carter is an innovative textbook intended for an introductory college geology course, such as Physical Geology. This ground-breaking, visually spectacular book was designed from cognitive and educational research on how students think, learn, and study.
    
    
  • Introduction to Physical Oceanography
    Robert Stewart
          This is a new textbook describing physical-oceanographic processes, theories, data, and measurements. In addition to the classical topics, I have included discussions of heat fluxes, the role of the ocean in climate, the deep circulation, equatorial processes including El Nino, data bases used by oceanographers, the role of satellites and data from space, ship-based measurements, and the importance of vorticity in understanding oceanic flows.
    
    
  • Natural Disasters
    Abbott
          This book focuses on how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: energy sources underlying disasters; plate tectonics and climate change; Earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere; the significance of geologic time; complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously; The text aims to explain important principles about the Earth and then develop further understanding through numerous case histories. It includes recent happenings such as the Western United States wildfires and the Los Alamos prescribed burn, both occurring in the year 2000.
    
    
  • Physical Geology: Earth Revealed
    Carlson-Plummer
          "Physical Geology: Earth Revealed" is appropriate for introductory physical geology classes. This text, which includes the same information as the market-leading "Physical Geology - 11th edition", by Plummer/Carlson, is for the instructor who prefers to cover plate tectonics early in the course. The seventh edition has been updated to include the most current information from the various sub-disciplines that comprise physical geology. The book's purpose is to clearly present geologic processes so that students can understand the logic of scientific methods. This text features an outstanding art program and a proven, accessible writing style. This text continues to be used as the official textbook to accompany the Annenberg CPB distributed telecourse for physical geology.
    
    
  • Physical Geology: Earth Revealed
    Carlson-Plummer-McGeary
          "Physical Geology: Earth Revealed" is appropriate for introductory physical geology classes. This text, which includes the same information as the market-leading "Physical Geology - 11th edition", by Plummer/Carlson, is for the instructor who prefers to cover plate tectonics early in the course. The seventh edition has been updated to include the most current information from the various sub-disciplines that comprise physical geology. The book's purpose is to clearly present geologic processes so that students can understand the logic of scientific methods. This text features an outstanding art program and a proven, accessible writing style. This text continues to be used as the official textbook to accompany the Annenberg CPB distributed telecourse for physical geology.
    
    
• History
  • A Comprehensive Outline of World History
    Jack E. Maxfield
          This course presents Jack E. Maxfield's "A Comprehensive Outline of World History" as originally organized, chronologically by era and across regions within an era.
    
    
  • About America: How the U.S. is Governed
    State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs and Braddock Communications
          This joint publication of the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs and Braddock Communications presents a comprehensive yet easy-to-read overview of the various levels of and institutions related to government in the U.S. "How the United States Is Governed" describes how federal, state, and local governments are elected, how they operate, and how the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government relate under the U.S. constitutional system. It also highlights how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other institutions allow Americans to influence and shape government policy. This publication contains a glossary and a list of useful Web sites.
    
    
  • American History: A Survey
    Brinkley
          This historical survey aims to balance social and cultural issues with political and diplomatic. It sets out to help the instructor to organize his or her course in many different ways, confident that the text will support the topics discussed in class and provide students with the ideal book for self-study. This edition includes historiographical debates, new attention to native American history and revised sections on women's history. Over the past four editions, Brinkley has completely rewritten the narrative for clarity and currency. In this revision, he has cut the book back by 5-10 per cent to accomodate new material without increasing the length of the book. "Where historians disagree" boxes aim to provide a sense of historiography, exploring how historians do their work and how their work influences our perspectives on the past. The new final chapter covers the end of the Reagon-Bush administration and the new Democratic administration.
    
    
  • Oceans in World History
    Buschmann
          This book explores cross-cultural encounters in the context of exploration, migration, and trade across the world's oceans. From the early migrations of Austronesian people to the increasing globalization of recent centuries, it examines trans-oceanic communication and exchange as a major motor of transformation in World History, providing readers with better appreciation of how oceans connect human societies, rather than separate them.
    
    
  • Outline of U.S. History
    Alonzo L. Hamby
          A chronological look at how the United States took shape -- from its origins as an obscure set of colonies on the Atlantic coast a little more than 200 years ago into what one political analyst today calls "the first universal nation." This fully illustrated edition has been completely revised and updated by Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University.
    
    
  • The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
    Brinkley
          Known for its clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and affordability, Alan Brinkley's "The Unfinished Nation" offers a concise but comprehensive examination of American History. Balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes, it tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and the forces that have enabled it to survive and flourish despite division. This fifth edition features eight new essays and enhanced coverage of recent events and developments in the continuing American story.
    
    
  • Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History
    Bentley-Ziegler-Streets
          Based on Bentley and Ziegler's best-selling, comprehensive survey text, "Traditions & Encounters: A Brief Global History" provides a streamlined account of the cultures and interactions that have shaped world history. The text's strong hallmark themes of traditions (the formations and development of the world's major societies) and encounters (cross-cultural interactions and exchanges) bring focus to the human experience and help turn the giant story of world history into something more manageable to teach and learn. At the same time, an effective part structure organizes developments into seven eras of global history, putting events into perspective and creating a framework for cross-cultural comparisons. With an engaging narrative, visual appeal, extended pedagogy, and a strong emphasis on critical thinking, this concise version offers enhanced flexibility and affordability without sacrificing the features that have made the complete text a favorite among instructors and students alike.
    
    
  • Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past
    Bentley-Ziegler
          Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, "Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past". Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, "Traditions and Encounters" places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context.The book helps students understand the world's major societies and shows how the interactions of these societies affect history throughout the world. The authors tell a coherent and digestible story of the past that is not weighed down by excessive detail, so instructors are able to incorporate additional readings. This edition provides an updated map program as well as the latest scholarship. It also moves Primary Source Investigator online, improving access for students to work with primary sources.
    
    
  • U.S History
    Wikibooks
          The United States History Wikibook covers US history from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
    
    
  • Western Civilization: Sources, Images and Interpretations
    Sherman
          This volume provides an introduction to the sources historians use, the kinds of interpretations historians make, and covers the history of Western civilization from the ancient world to the end of the 17th century. A broad selection of documents, photographs, maps and charts is presented, along with introductions, commentaries, guides and questions designed to place each section in a meaningful context and facilitate understanding of its historical significance.
    
    
• Humanities
  • A New Psychology of Women: Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity
    Lips
          This is the first psychology of women textbook to present an in-depth introduction to the diversity of women in cross-cultural perspective. Using a narrative approach, the text describes the ways in which cultures, including American culture, shape women's experiences. The text focuses on the diversity and the commonality of women's experiences through research carried out by scholars outside the United States, or outside the mainstream within the United States.
    
    
  • American Cinema/American Culture
    Belton
          An insight into the interplay between the film industry and mass culture in America, which examines the industry, its narrative conventions and cinematographic style. The work also presents a sweep of film history, using five genres - silent film melodrama, American comedy, the war film, film noir and the making of the West - as the basis for discussion. The treatment of each genre focuses on that period in time when each had its greatest effect on the industry, film aesthetics and American culture. The work concludes with a look at Hollywood post World War II, giving separate chapter coverage to the effects of the Cold War, television, the counterculture of the 60s, directors from the film school generation, such as Scorcese, Ford Coppola and Spielberg, and the recent trends of the 80s and 90s. This text can be used for film appreciation and film and culture courses.
    
    
  • An Introduction to Women's Studies: Gender in a Transnational World
    Grewal-Kaplan
          This anthology introduces students to the modern period's history of key ideas related to sexual difference, gender, race, class, and sexuality. While most introductory Women's Studies textbooks focus on the United States, even if they add multiculturalism to the discussion, this book looks at women in diverse locations around the world and encourages students to think about gender in a transnational rather than a purely U.S. context. The selections provide students in the U.S. with a way to understand points of view from other locations and cultures, especially crucial in the post-9-11 geopolitical situation. The transnational approach to understanding gender brings Women's Studies into an era of globalization by connecting women's issues in the United States to women's issues elsewhere. The book shows how colonialism and imperialism, as they spread across the world, shaped ideas about gender as much as other modern phenomena. It addresses issues of power and inequality by focusing on historical connections rather than solely on commonalties. The readings are truly interdisciplinary, drawing upon scholarly work in many disciplines and interdisciplinary fields as well as non-scholarly sources. Short essays introduce each of the book's four sections, explaining the concepts and ideas behind the selection of readings.
    
    
  • Buildings across Time: An Introduction to World Architecture
    Fazio-Moffett-Wodehouse
          This heavily illustrated survey has been expanded in its second edition to provide students of both art history and of architecture with a worldwide introduction to the history of architecture.
    
    
  • College Writing Skills with Readings
    Langan
          John Langan's "College Writing Skills with Readings, Seventh Edition", focuses on the essay using Langan's renowned clear writing style, as well as his wide range of writing assignments and activities that reinforce the four bases of effective writing: unity, support, coherence, and sentence skills. For the new seventh edition, John Langan has added a variety of fresh elements to his proven approach.
    
    
  • Designing with Light: An Introduction to Stage Lighting,
    Gillette
          his comprehensive survey of the practical and aesthetic aspects of basic lighting design treats lighting design for the stage as both an art closely integrated with the director's, actor's, and playwright's vision, and a craft that provides practical solutions for the manipulation of stage space.
    
    
  • Film History: An Introduction
    Thompson-Bordwell
          Written by two leading film scholars, this text acknowledges the contributions of Hollywood and films from other US sources, as well as examining film-making internationally. Concepts and events are illustrated with over 1400 frame enlargements. The text takes a holistic approach by providing an in-depth look at the historical influences of film-makers from around the globe. The subject of each chapter is placed in its social context. The four types of cinema - commercial, experimental, documentary and animated film - are covered consistently throughout the book. The importance of the individual film-maker is highlighted. For example, Chapter 29, "Art Cinema and the Idea of Authorship", examines the contributions of eight international directors - Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and Federico Fellini, amongst others - whose works demonstrate the idea of authorship and have been the catalysts for change in cinematic history.
    
    
  • Living Theatre: History of the Theatre
    Wilson-Goldfarb
          "Living Theatre: A History" conveys the excitement and variety of theatre throughout time, as well as the dynamic way in which our interpretation of theatre history is informed by contemporary scholarship. Rather than presenting readers with a mere catalog of historical facts and figures, it sets each period in context through an exploration of the social, political and economic conditions of the day, creating a vivid study of the developments in theatre during that time.
    
    
  • Outline of American Literature
    
          The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation.
    
    
  • Sociology: The Core
    Hughes-Kroehler
          Highly respected for its quality scholarship and its focused, straightforward approach to Sociology, the sixth edition of "Sociology: The Core" returns to the core concept with tighter, briefer, more accessible presentation and a very accessible price. Michael Hughes, of Virginia Polytechnic State University, and Carolyn Kroehler, a professional writer, have revised the work of James Vander Zanden, who is now Emeritus Professor of the Ohio State University. As in the previous editions, the functionalist, conflict, and interactionist perspectives are applied throughout the book, allowing students to develop a solid understanding of the major sociological perspectives and their applications to the topics covered. "Sociology: The Core", seeks to make sociology come alive as a vital and exciting field, to relate principles to real-world circumstances, and to attune students to the dynamic processes of our rapidly changing contemporary society. The authors have kept this book completely up to date, including data from the 2000 Census whenever possible and new student examples capitalizing on students' desire to read about issues of interest to them.
    
    
  • Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies
    Coakley
          This edition uses an issues-oriented approach to study the role of sport in today's society. It discusses current sports-related controversies and includes new material comparing the sociology and psychology of distinguishing the two related disciplines. The book features expanded coverage of critical and feminist theory with the aim of giving a more complete background of viewpoints used in the sociology of sports research. Chapters on sports and socialization look at the experience and consequence of sport involvement and cover concepts of power and performance sports versus pleasure and participation with examples of research dealing with socialization issues.
    
    
  • The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre
    Arnold
          This introductory text places the students at the center of theatrical creation and provides coverage of the broad range of contemporary theatre. "The Creative Spirit" includes complete scripts of five plays: August Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", Wakako Yamauchi's "And the Soul Shall Dance", Tony Kushner's "Angels in America", Milcha Sanchez Scott's "Dog Lady", and Sam Shepard's "Buried Child". The text emphasizes the collaborative and creative processes that go into productions, and includes interviews with theatre artists.
    
    
  • The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying
    DeSpelder-Strickland
          The best-selling textbook in the field, "The Last Dance" offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, the eighth edition of this acclaimed text has been revised to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies. This new edition of "The Last Dance" provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives.
    
    
  • Tonal Harmony: With an Introduction to Twentieth-Century Music
    Kostka-Payne
          This text emphasizes practicality and ease-of-use for both students and instructors of music. It includes sections on pitch and rhythm, the principles of voice leading, diatonic chords in major and minor keys and an introduction to 20th century practices.
    
    
  • World Music: Traditions and Transformations
    Bakan
          From cha cha cha to jeliya and Hindustani raga to hip-hop gamelan, this exciting new text takes students on a journey through diverse musical cultures and traditions of the world. With a clear and accessible presentation style and lively and engaging writing, it is an ideal introduction to world music for non-music and music majors alike.
    
    
• Law - Criminal Justice
  • Criminological Theory: Readings and Retrospectives
    Copes-Topalli
          "Criminological Theory: Readings and Retrospectives" offers a comprehensive collection of classical theoretical pieces in criminology combined with original Contemporary Retrospective essays on each theory. The Contemporary Retrospective essays were written exclusively for this book by some of the best established and up-and-coming criminologists today. This combination of classic articles and contemporary essays provides the reader with a solid foundation for understanding classic criminological theories while providing insight on how they have evolved over time.
    
    
  • Criminology and the Criminal Justice System
    Adler-Mueller-Laufer
          This leading text for courses in Criminology is known for its lucid style, student-oriented approach, and interdisciplinary global perspective. The text comes in two versions - with or without coverage of the criminal justice system.
    
    
  • Delinquency in Society: Youth Crime in the 21st Century
    Regoli-Hewitt-DeLisi
          his conversational text makes delinquency interesting to read about. "Delinquency in Society" provides a critical look at a very serious problem through a clear and thorough presentation of the theories of delinquency. In accessible, student-friendly language the authors prepare their readers to understand all facets of delinquency, including the history, institutional context, and societal reactions to delinquent behavior, the major biological, psychological, and sociological theories of behavior, and the variety of policy implications derived from those theories.
    
    
  • Outline of U.S. Legal System
    
          This Outline covers the history and organization of the federal and state judicial systems; the criminal and civil court processes; the background, qualifications, and selection of federal judges; the role of other participants (lawyers, defendants, interest groups) in the judicial process; and the implementation and impact of judicial policies.
    
    
  • Race, Crime, and the Media
    Bing
          "Race, Crime and the Media" encourages students to think critically about the realities of the criminal justice system, the media and race. Through a collection of original readings that address the subject in a way that is balanced and provocative, students will become aware about the power and influence of the media and the role it plays in the characterization of crimes committed about racial minorities. This book represents an effort to draw attention to the intersection of race, crime and the media, by raising questions about the influence of the media on how we think.
    
    
  • The Police in America: An Introduction
    Walker-Katz
           This is a comprehensive, introductory survey of police, police work, and police systems intended for criminal justice courses on police administration, and courses on criminology or the sociology of law enforcement. It describes how police departments are organized, what police officers do, the different problems in policing (police-community relations, use of discretion, police corruption, etc) how individuals enter policing as a career and what happens to them during the course of their careers. There are three new chapters on community policing, police and crime, and peacekeeping and order maintenance.
    
    
• Mass Media
  • Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book
    E.P.J. Tozer
          
    
    
  • Handbook of Independent Journalism
    
          This handbook covers the ins and outs of what every professional journalist should know — from how to research, write, and edit a story to how to write headlines, choose graphics, and select quotes and sound bites. Print, radio, TV, and Web-based or online journalism forms are discussed in detail, as well as the skills required in beat reporting.
    
    
  • Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture
    Baran
          This text encourages students to be active media consumers and gives them a deeper understanding of the role that the media play in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media producers, technologies, and industries. This was the first, and remains the only, university-level text to make media literacy central to its approach, and given recent national and global turmoil, its emphasis on media use and democracy could not be more timely. Building on this tested emphasis, the sixth edition features a complete updating of industry statistics throughout, numerous new examples from the ongoing Iraq war, the Presidential election, and the emergence of wildly popular Internet applications such as massive multiplayer online worlds like Second Life and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
    
    
  • Mass Media in a Changing World
    Rodman
          This engaging text introduces students to the world of media through a unique structure that makes the material easily intelligible and meaningful to their lives. Each chapter is divided into three-part narrative sections: history, industry, and controversy. Mass Media in a Changing World is the story of where the media came from, why they do what they do, and why those actions cause controversies. The Updated Second Edition features updated statistics and current examples, including the Web 2.0, the firing of Don Imus, coverage of the shootings at Virginia Tech, citizen journalism and blogs, and much more!
    
    
  • Mass Media Law, 2007/2008 Edition
    Pember-Calvert
          This market-leading text discusses the most relevant mass media legal decisions, from the Constitution to the most recent Supreme Court sessions, in relation to their relevance to modern American law. From the Internet to political advertising laws, "Mass Media Law" examines the current issues that are shaping the United States' legal system. Known for its clear explanations and its consistent pedagogy, the text includes mid-chapter summaries, a table of cases, a separate additional table of contents for Internet-related cases and issues, and more. The new edition has been heavily revised to include many new cases and updated coverage of important current media law concerns, including the right of reporters to protect their sources, censorship problems related to terrorism, file sharing, and the law of privacy and ethics.
    
    
  • Mass Media Law, 2009-2010 Edition
    Pember-Calvert
          This market-leading text discusses the most relevant mass media legal decisions, from the Constitution to the most recent Supreme Court sessions, in relation to their relevance to modern American law. Known for its clear explanations and its consistent pedagogy, the text includes mid-chapter summaries, a table of cases, a separate additional table of contents for Internet related cases and issues, and more. The new edition has been heavily revised to include many new cases, and updated coverage of important current media law concerns including the right of reporters to protect their sources, censorship problems related to terrorism, file sharing and the law of privacy and ethics.
    
    
  • Mass Media/Mass Culture: An Introduction
    Wilson-Wilson
          
    
    
• Math
  • A First Course in Complex Analysis
    Matthias Beck, Gerald Marchesi, and Dennis Pixton
          These are the lecture notes of a one-semester undergraduate course which we have taught several times at Binghamton University (SUNY) and San Francisco State University. For many of our students, complex analysis is their first rigorous analysis (if not mathematics) class they take, and these notes reflect this very much. We tried to rely on as few concepts from real analysis as possible. In particular, series and sequences are treated “from scratch.” This also has the (maybe disadvantageous) consequence that power series are introduced very late in the course. We thank our students who made many suggestions for and found errors in the text. Special thanks go to Collin Bleak, Jon Clauss, Sharma Pallekonda, and Joshua Palmatier for comments after teaching from this book.
    
    
  • A First Course in Linear Algebra
    Robert A. Beezer
          A First Course in Linear Algebra is an introductory textbook designed for university sophomores and juniors. Typically such a student will have taken calculus, but this is not a prerequisite. The book begins with systems of linear equations, then covers matrix algebra, before taking up finite-dimensional vector spaces in full generality. The final chapter covers matrix representations of linear transformations, through diagonalization, change of basis and Jordan canonical form. Along the way, determinants and eigenvalues get fair time.
    
    
  • Advanced Algebra II: Activities and Homework
    Kenny M. Felder
          This is the main text of Kenny Felder's course in Advanced Algebra II. It consists of a series of worksheets, some intended to be used in class as group activities, and some intended to be used as homework assignments. This text is designed for use with the "Advanced Algebra II: Conceptual Explanations"
    
    
  • Advanced Algebra II: Conceptual Explanations
    Kenny M. Felder
          This is the Conceptual Explanations part of Kenny Felder's course in Advanced Algebra II. It is intended for students to read on their own to refresh or clarify what they learned in class. This text is designed for use with the "Advanced Algebra II: Homework and Activities"
    
    
  • Algebra and Trigonometry, 2nd Edition
    Coburn
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Algebra for College Students
    Dugopolski
          Algebra for College Students, 4th Edition", is designed to provide students with the algebra background needed for further college-level mathematics courses. The unifying theme of this text is the development of the skills necessary for solving equations and inequalities, followed by the application of those skills to solving applied problems. This text contains 2 chapters, Polynomial and Rational Functions, and Counting and Probability, in addition to those found in Dugopolski's "Intermediate Algebra".
    
    
  • Algebra I
    CK-12 Foundation
          CK-12 Foundation's "Algebra" Flexbook is an introduction to algebraic concepts for the high school student. Topics include: Equations & Functions, Real Numbers, Equations of Lines, Solving Systems of Equations & Quadratic Equations.
    
    
  • Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences
    Hoffmann-Bradley
          Applied Calculus for Business, Economics, and the Social and Life Sciences, Expanded Edition introduces calculus in real-world contexts and provides a sound, intuitive understanding of the basic concepts students need as they pursue careers in business, the life sciences, and the social sciences. This EXPANDED EDITION includes four additional chapters on Differential Equations, Infinite Series and Taylor Approximations, Probability, and Trigonometric Functions. The new Ninth Edition builds on the straightforward writing style, practical applications from a variety of disciplines, clear step-by-step problem solving techniques, and comprehensive exercise sets that have been hallmarks of Hoffmann/Bradley's success through the years.
    
    
  • Basic College Mathematics: A Real-World Approach
    Bello
          Basic College Mathematics" will be a review of fundamental math concepts for some students and may break new ground for others. Nevertheless, students of all backgrounds will be delighted to find a refreshing book that appeals to all learning styles and reaches out to diverse demographics. Through down-to-earth explanations, patient skill-building, and exceptionally interesting and realistic applications, this worktext will empower students to learn and master mathematics in the real world.
    
    
  • Basic Mathematics for MathZone IQ
    Miller
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Beginning Algebra for MathZone IQ
    Miller
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Beginning Algebra, 6th Edition
    Hutchison et al.
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Beginning Algebra, 7th Edition
    Baratto-Bergman
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: The Language and Symbolism of Mathematics
    Hall-Mercer
          his text is intended for schools that want a single text covering the standard topics from Beginning and Intermediate Algebra. Topics are organized by using the principles of the AMATYC standards as a guide, giving strong support to teachers using the text. The book's organization and pedagogy are designed to work for students with a variety of learning styles and for teachers with varied experiences and backgrounds. The inclusion of multiple perspectives - verbal, numerical, algebraic, and graphical - has proven popular with a broad cross section of students. Use of a graphing calculator is assumed. "Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: The Language and Symbolism of Mathematics" is a reform-oriented book.
    
    
  • Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: The Language and Symbolism of Mathematics
    Messersmith
          "Beginning and Intermediate Algebra, 2e", by Messersmith is the first text in a series of future offerings in developmental mathematics. The author presents the content in bite-size pieces, focusing not only on learning mathematical concepts, but also explaining the why behind those concepts. For students, learning mathematics is not just about the memorization of concepts and formulas, but it is also about the journey of learning how to problem solve. By breaking the sections down into manageable chunks, the author has identified the core places where students traditionally struggle, and then assists them in understanding that material to be successful moving forward. Proven pedagogical features, such as You Try problems after each example, reinforce a student's mastery of a concept.While teaching in the classroom, Messersmith has created worksheets for each section that fall into three categories: review worksheets/basic skills, worksheets to teach new content, and worksheets to reinforce/pull together different concepts. These worksheets are a great way to both enhance instruction and to give the students more tools to be successful in studying a given topic. The author is also an extremely popular lecturer, and finds it important to be in the video series that accompany her texts. Finally, the author finds it important to not only provide quality, but also an abundant quantity of exercises and applications.
    
    
  • Beginning and Intermediate Algebra: The Language and Symbolism of Mathematics
    Miller-O'Neill
          Built by teachers, just like you, Miller/O'Neill continues to offer an enlightened approach grounded in the fundamentals of classroom experience in Beginning and Intermediate 2e. The practice of many instructors in the classroom is to present examples and have their students solve similar problems. This is realized through the Skill Practice Exercises that directly follow the examples in the textbook. Throughout the text, the authors have integrated many Study Tips and Avoiding Mistakes hints, which are reflective of the comments and instruction presented to students in the classroom. In this way, the text communicates to students, the very points their instructors are likely to make during lecture, helping to reinforce the concepts and provide instruction that leads students to mastery and success. The authors included in this edition, Problem-Recognition exercises, that many instructors will likely identify to be similar to worksheets they have personally developed for distribution to students. The intent of the Problem-Recognition exercises, is to help students overcome what is sometimes a natural inclination toward applying problem-sovling algorithms that may not always be appropriate. In addition, the exercise sets have been revised to include even more core exercises than were present in the first edition. This permits instructors to choose from a wealth of problems, allowing ample opportunity for students to practice what they learn in lecture to hone their skills and develop the knowledge they need to make a successful transition into College Algebra. In this way, the book perfectly complements any learning platform, whether traditional lecture or distance-learning; its instruction is so reflective of what comes from lecture, that students will feel as comfortable outside of class, as they do inside class with their instructor. For even more support, students have access to a wealth of supplements, including McGraw-Hill's online homework management system, MathZone.
    
    
  • Business Math Handbook and Study Guide & SG t/a Practical Business Math Procedures
    Slater
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Calculus
    Raja Almukkahal, Victor Cifarelli, Chun-Tak Fan, and Louise Jarvis
          Calculus book from the CK12 Organization.
    
    
  • Calculus
    Gilbert Strang
          Published in 1991 and still in print from Wellesley-Cambridge Press, the book is a useful resource for educators and self-learners alike. It is well organized, covers single variable and multivariable calculus in depth, and is rich with applications. There is also an online Instructor's Manual and a student Study Guide.
    
    
  • Calculus
    David Guichard
          An introductory level single variable calculus book, covering standard topics in differential and integral calculus, and infinite series written by David Guichard, Professor of Mathematics at Whitman College. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Calculus
    Benjamin Crowell
          This short introductory text focuses mainly on integration and differentiation of functions of a single variable, although iterated integrals are discussed. Infinitesimals are used when appropriate, and are treated more rigorously than in old books like Thompson's Calculus Made Easy, but in less detail than in Keisler's Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals. Numerical examples are given using the open-source computer algebra system Yacas, and Yacas is also used sometimes to cut down on the drudgery of symbolic techniques such as partial fractions. Proofs are given for all important results, but are often relegated to the back of the book, and the emphasis is on teaching the techniques of calculus rather than on abstract results. The book is designed more for self-study than for classroom use; full solutions are given for nearly all the end-of-chapter problems.
    
    
  • Calculus: Concepts and Connections
    Smith-Minton
          This modern calculus textbook places a strong emphasis on developing students' conceptual understanding and on building connections between key calculus topics and their relevance for the real world. It is written for the average student -- one who is mostly unfamiliar with the subject and who requires significant motivation. It follows a relatively standard order of presentation, with early coverage of transcendentals, and integrates thought-provoking applications, examples and exercises throughout. The text also provides balanced guidance on the appropriate role of technology in problem-solving, including its benefits and its potential pitfalls. Wherever practical, concepts are developed from graphical, numerical, algebraic and verbal perspectives (the "Rule of Four") to give students a complete understanding of calculus.
    
    
  • Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
    Smith-Minton
          Smith/Minton's Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, 3/e focuses on student comprehension of calculus. The authors' writing style is clear and understandable, reminiscent of a classroom lecture, which enables students to better grasp techniques and acquire content mastery. Modern applications in examples and exercises connect the calculus with relevant and interesting topics and situations. Detailed examples provide students with helpful guidance that emphasizes what is important and where common pitfalls occur. The exercise sets are balanced with routine, medium, and challenging problems. Technology is integrated throughout the text, but only where it makes sense. These elements all combine to provide a superior text from which students can read, understand, and very effectively learn calculus.
    
    
  • Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, Multivariable
    Smith-Minton
          Students who have used Smith/Minton's Calculus say it was easier to read than any other math book they've used. That testimony underscores the success of the authors approach, which combines the best elements of reform with the most reliable aspects of mainstream calculus teaching, resulting in a motivating, challenging book. Smith/Minton also provide exceptional, reality-based applications that appeal to students interests and demonstrate the elegance of math in the world around us. New features include: A new organization placing all transcendental functions early in the book and consolidating the introduction to L'Hpital's Rule in a single section. More concisely written explanations in every chapter. Many new exercises (for a total of 7,000 throughout the book) that require additional rigor not found in the 2nd Edition. New exploratory exercises in every section that challenge students to synthesize key concepts to solve intriguing projects. New commentaries (Beyond Formulas) that encourage students to think mathematically beyond the procedures they learn. New counterpoints to the historical notes, Today in Mathematics, that stress the contemporary dynamism of mathematical research and applications, connecting past contributions to the present. An enhanced discussion of differential equations and additional applications of vector calculus..
    
    
  • Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions, Single Variable
    Smith-Minton
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Calculus: Late Transcendental Functions, Multivariable
    Smith-Minton
          Smith/Minton: Mathematically Precise. Student-Friendly. Superior Technology.. Students who have used Smith/Minton's Calculus say it was easier to read than any other math book they've used. That testimony underscores the success of the authors approach which combines the most reliable aspects of mainstream Calculus teaching with the best elements of reform, resulting in a motivating, challenging book. Smith/Minton wrote the book for the students who will use it, in a language that they understand, and with the expectation that their backgrounds may have some gaps. Smith/Minton provide exceptional, reality-based applications that appeal to students interests and demonstrate the elegance of math in the world around us. New features include: Many new exercises and examples (for a total of 7,000 exercises and 1000 examples throughout the book) provide a careful balance of routine, intermediate and challenging exercises New exploratory exercises in every section that challenge students to make connections to previous introduced material. New commentaries (Beyond Formulas) that encourage students to think mathematically beyond the procedures they learn. New counterpoints to the historical notes, Today in Mathematics, stress the contemporary dynamism of mathematical research and applications, connecting past contributions to the present. An enhanced discussion of differential equations and additional applications of vector calculus. Exceptional Media Resources: Within MathZone, instructors and students have access to a series of unique Conceptual Videos that help students understand key Calculus concepts proven to be most difficult to comprehend, 248 Interactive Applets that help studentsmaster concepts and procedures and functions, 1600 algorithms, and 113 e-Professors. .
    
    
  • Calculus: Late Transcendental Functions, Single Variable
    smith-Minton
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • CK_12 Calculus
    Raja Almukkahal, Victor Cifarelli, Chun-Tak Fan, and Louise Jarvis.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • CK_12_Geometry
    Victor Cifarelli, Andrew Gloag, Dan Greenberg, Jim Sconyers, and Bill Zahner.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • CK_12_Trigonometry
    Mara Landers, and Brenda Meery
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • College Algebra
    Carl Stitz, Ph.D. Jeff Zeager, Ph.D.
          
    
    
  • College Algebra with Trigonometry
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen
          "The Barnett, Ziegler, Byleen College Algebra" series is designed to be user friendly and to maximize student comprehension. The goal of this series is to emphasize computational skills, ideas, and problem solving rather than mathematical theory. "College Algebra with Trigonometry, 7/E", introduces a right angle approach to trigonometry and can be used in one or two semester college algebra with trig or precalculus courses. The large number of pedagogical devices employed in this text will guide a student through the course. Integrated throughout the text, the students and instructors will find Explore-Discuss boxes which encourage students to think critically about mathematical concepts. In each section, the worked examples are followed by matched problems that reinforce the concept that is being taught. In addition, the text contains an abundance of exercises and applications that will convince students that math is useful. A Smart CD is packaged with the seventh edition of the book. This CD reinforces important concepts, and provides students with extra practice problems.
    
    
  • College Algebra with Trigonometry: Graphs and Models, 1st Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • College Algebra, 8th Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • College Algebra: Essentials
    Coburn
          Three components contribute to a theme sustained throughout the Coburn Series: that of laying a firm foundation, building a solid framework, and providing strong connections. Not only does Coburn present a sound problem-solving process to teach students to recognize a problem, organize a procedure, and formulate a solution, the text encourages students to see beyond procedures in an effort to gain a greater understanding of the big ideas behind mathematical concepts.
    
    
  • College Algebra: Graphs and Models, 2nd Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen
          The Barnett Graphs & Models Series in college algebra and precalculus maximizes student comprehension by emphasizing computational skills, real-world data analysis and modeling, and problem solving rather than mathematical theory. A major objective of this book is to develop a library of elementary functions, including their important properties and uses. Employing this library as a basic working tool, students will be able to proceed through this course with greater confidence and understanding as they first learn to recognize the graph of a function and then learn to analyze the graph and use it to solve the problem.
    
    
  • College Algebra: Graphs and Models, 3rd Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen-Sobecki
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Complex Variables and Applications
    Brown-Churchill
          "Complex Variables and Applications" will serve as a textbook for an introductory course in the theory and application of functions of a complex variable. This new edition preserves the basic content and style of the earlier editions. The text is designed to develop the theory that is prominent in applications of the subject. You will find a special emphasis given to the application of residues and conformal mappings. To accommodate the different calculus backgrounds of students, footnotes are given with references to other texts that contain proofs and discussions of the more delicate results in advanced calculus. Improvements in the text include extended explanations of theorems, greater detail in arguments, and the separation of topics into their own sections.
    
    
  • Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice
    Simmons-Krantz
          This traditional text is intended for mainstream one- or two-semester differential equations courses taken by undergraduates majoring in engineering, mathematics, and the sciences. Written by two of the world's leading authorities on differential equations, Simmons/Krantz provides a cogent and accessible introduction to ordinary differential equations written in classical style. Its rich variety of modern applications in engineering, physics, and the applied sciences illuminate the concepts and techniques that students will use through practice to solve real-life problems in their careers. This text is part of the "Walter Rudin Student Series in Advanced Mathematics".
    
    
  • Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
    Rosen
          "Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, Sixth Edition", is intended for one- or two-term introductory discrete mathematics courses taken by students from a wide variety of majors, including computer science, mathematics, and engineering. This renowned best-selling text, which has been used at over 600 institutions around the world, gives a focused introduction to the primary themes in a discrete mathematics course and demonstrates the relevance and practicality of discrete mathematics to a wide variety of real-world applications...from computer science to data networking, to psychology, to chemistry, to engineering, to linguistics, to biology, to business, and to many other important fields.
    
    
  • Electricity: Principles and Applications
    Fowler
          Intended as introductory material for the student training to be an electronics technician, this text assumes no previous training and uses only arithmetic and basic algebra in problems. Key words and important elements of the illustrations are highlighted in colour. This edition also features performance objectives and critical thinking questions in every chapter. The work is suitable for courses entitled Basic Electricity, DC/AC or Introduction to Electronics.
    
    
  • Elementary Algebra
    Dugopolski
          The "Dugopolski" series is known for providing students and faculty with the most quantity and quality of exercises as compared to any other developmental math series on the market.
    
    
  • Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Unified Approach
    Baratto-Bergman
          "Elementary & Intermediate Algebra, 3/E" by Baratto/Bergman is part of the latest offerings in the successful Streeter-Hutchison Series in Mathematics. The third edition continues the hallmark approach of encouraging the learning of mathematics by focusing its coverage on mastering math through practice. This worktext seeks to provide carefully detailed explanations and accessible pedagogy to introduce beginning and intermediate algebra concepts and put the content in context. The authors use a three-pronged approach (I. Communication, II. Pattern Recognition, and III. Problem Solving) to present the material and stimulate critical thinking skills.Items such as Math Anxiety boxes, Check Yourself exercises, and Activities represent this approach and the underlying philosophy of mastering math through practice. The exercise sets have been expanded, organized, and clearly labeled. Vocational and professional-technical exercises have been added throughout. Repeated exposure to this consistent structure should help advance the student's skills in relating to mathematics. The book is designed for a combined beginning and intermediate algebra course, or it can be used across two courses, and is appropriate for lecture, learning center, laboratory, or self-paced courses. It is accompanied by numerous useful supplements, including McGraw-Hill's online homework management system, MathZone.
    
    
  • Elementary and Intermediate Algebra: A Unified Approach
    Dugopolski
           "Elementary & Intermediate Algebra, 3e" is part of the latest offerings in the successful "Dugopolski" series in mathematics. The author's goal is to explain mathematical concepts to students in a language they can understand. In this book, students and faculty will find short, precise explanations of terms and concepts written in understandable language. The author uses concrete analogies to relate math to everyday experiences. For example, when the author introduces the Commutative Property of Addition, he uses a concrete analogy that 'the price of a hamburger plus a Coke is the same as a Coke plus a hamburger'.Given the importance of examples within a math book, the author has paid close attention to the most important details for solving the given topic. Dugopolski includes a double cross-referencing system between the examples and exercise sets, so no matter which one the students start with, they will see the connection to the other. Finally, the author finds it important to not only provide quality, but also a good quantity of exercises and applications. The "Dugopolski" series is known for providing students and faculty with the most quantity and quality of exercises as compared to any other developmental math series on the market. In completing this revision, Dugopolski feels he has developed the clearest and most concise developmental math series on the market, and he has done so without comprising the essential information every student needs to become successful in future mathematics courses.
    
    
  • Elementary Calculus. An Infinitesimal Approach
    H. Jerome Keisler
          
    
    
  • Elementary Number Theory
    Burton
          Elementary Number Theory, Sixth Edition", is written for the one-semester undergraduate number theory course taken by math majors, secondary education majors, and computer science students. This contemporary text provides a simple account of classical number theory, set against a historical background that shows the subject's evolution from antiquity to recent research. Written in David Burton's engaging style, "Elementary Number Theory" reveals the attraction that has drawn leading mathematicians and amateurs alike to number theory over the course of history.
    
    
  • Elementary Statistics, A Brief Version
    Bluman
          "Elementary Statistics: A Brief Version, 4th Edition" is a shorter version of Allan Bluman's popular text, "Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach, 6th edition". This softcover edition includes all the features of the longer book, but is designed for a course in which the time available limits the number of topics covered. The book is written for general beginning statistics courses with a basic algebra prerequisite. The book use a non-theoretical approach, explaining concepts intuitively and teaching problem solving through worked examples step-by-step.
    
    
  • Elementary Statistics: A Step by Step Approach
    Bluman
          ELEMENTARY STATISTICS: A STEP BY STEP APPROACH is for general beginning statistics courses with a basic algebra prerequisite. The book is non-theoretical, explaining concepts intuitively and teaching problem solving through worked examples and step-by-step instructions
    
    
  • Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra
    E. H. Connell
          In 1965 I first taught an undergraduate course in abstract algebra. It was fun to teach because the material was interesting and the class was outstanding. Five of those students later earned a Ph.D. in mathematics. Since then I have taught the course about a dozen times from various texts. Over the years I developed a set of lecture notes and in 1985 I had them typed so they could be used as a text. They now appear (in modified form) as the first five chapters of this book. Here were some of my motives at the time. 1) To have something as short and inexpensive as possible. In my experience, students like short books. 2) To avoid all innovation. To organize the material in the most simple-minded straightforward manner. 3) To order the material linearly. To the extent possible, each section should use the previous sections and be used in the following sections. 4) To omit as many topics as possible. This is a foundational course, not a topics course. If a topic is not used later, it should not be included. There are three good reasons for this. First, linear algebra has top priority. It is better to go forward and do more linear algebra than to stop and do more group and ring theory. Second, it is more important that students learn to organize and write proofs themselves than to cover more sub ject matter. Algebra is a perfect place to get started because there are many “easy” theorems to prove. There are many routine theorems stated here without proofs, and they may be considered as exercises for the students. Third, the material should be so fundamental that it be appropriate for students in the physical sciences and in computer science. Zillions of students take calculus and cookbook linear algebra, but few take abstract algebra courses. Something is wrong here, and one thing wrong is that the courses try to do too much group and ring theory and not enough matrix theory and linear algebra. 5) To offer an alternative for computer science ma jors to the standard discrete mathematics courses. Most of the material in the first four chapters of this text is covered in various discrete mathematics courses. Computer science ma jors might benefit by seeing this material organized from a purely mathematical viewpoint.
    
    
  • Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems
    Brown-Churchill
          Published by McGraw-Hill since its first edition in 1941, this classic text is an introduction to Fourier series and their applications to boundary value problems in partial differential equations of engineering and physics. It will primarily be used by students with a background in ordinary differential equations and advanced calculus. There are two main objectives of this text. The first is to introduce the concept of orthogonal sets of functions and representations of arbitrary functions in series of functions from such sets. The second is a clear presentation of the classical method of separation of variables used in solving boundary value problems with the aid of those representations.
    
    
  • Fundamentals of Geometry
    Oleg A. Belyaev
          
    
    
  • Geometry
    Victor Cifarelli, Andrew Gloag, Dan Greenberg, Jim Sconyers, and Bill Zahner.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • Geometry with Geometry Explorer
    Hvidsten
          "Geometry with Geometry Explorer" combines a discovery-based geometry text with powerful integrated geometry software. This combination allows for the deep exploration of topics that would be impossible without well-integrated technology, such as hyperbolic geometry, and encourages the kind of experimentation and self-discovery needed for students to develop a natural intuition for various topics in geometry.
    
    
  • High School Mathematics Extensions
    Zhuo Jia Dai, User:R3m0t, Martin Warmer, Tom Lam
          High School Mathematics Extensions: this electronic textbook is aimed at, but not limited to, 14 to 18 year olds who are interested in mathematics in general. Several interesting topics not covered in the standard high school curriculum are introduced in this text.
    
    
  • Hutchison's Basic Mathematical Skills with Geometry
    Baratto-Bergman
          Basic Mathematical Skills with Geometry, 7/e by Baratto/Bergman is part of the latest offerings in the successful Streeter-Hutchison Series in Mathematics. The seventh edition continues the hallmark approach of encouraging the learning of mathematics by focusing its coverage on mastering math through practice. This worktext seeks to provide carefully detailed explanations and accessible pedagogy to introduce basic mathematical skills and put the content in context. The authors use a three-pronged approach (I. Communication, II. Pattern Recognition, and III. Problem Solving) to present the material and stimulate critical thinking skills. Items such as Math Anxiety boxes, Check Yourself exercises, and Activities represent this approach and the underlying philosophy of mastering math through practice. The exercise sets have been expanded, organized, and clearly labeled. Vocational and professional-technical exercises have been added throughout. Repeated exposure to this consistent structure should help advance the student’s skills in relating to mathematics. The book is designed for a one-semester basic math course and is appropriate for lecture, learning center, laboratory, or self-paced courses. It is accompanied by numerous useful supplements, including McGraw-Hill’s online homework management system, MathZone.
    
    
  • Intermediate Algebra
    Dugopolski
          The "Dugopolski" series is known for providing students and faculty with the most quantity and quality of exercises as compared to any other developmental math series on the market.
    
    
  • Intermediate Algebra
    Miller-O'Neill
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Intermediate Algebra, 1st Edition
    Baratto-Kohlmetz-Bergman
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Intermediate Algebra: A Real-World Approach
    Bello-Hopf
          "Intermediate Algebra" prepares students for further courses in the college math curriculum. Students of all backgrounds will be delighted to find a refreshing book that appeals to every learning style and reaches out to diverse demographics. Through down-to-earth explanations, patient skill-building, and exceptionally interesting and realistic applications, this worktext will empower students to learn and master algebra in the real world.
    
    
  • Introduction to Enumerative Combinatorics
    Bona
          Written by one of the leading authors and researchers in the field, this comprehensive modern text offers a strong focus on enumeration, a vitally important area in introductory combinatorics crucial for further study in the field. Miklos Bona's text fills the gap between introductory textbooks in discrete mathematics and advanced graduate textbooks in enumerative combinatorics, and is one of the very first intermediate-level books to focus on enumerative combinatorics. The text can be used for an advanced undergraduate course by thoroughly covering the chapters in Part I on basic enumeration and by selecting a few special topics, or for an introductory graduate course by concentrating on the main areas of enumeration discussed in Part II. The special topics of Part III make the book suitable for a reading course. This text is part of the "Walter Rudin Student" series in Advanced Mathematics.
    
    
  • Introduction to Linear Algebra with Applications
    DeFranza-Gagliardi
          This book features in-depth topical coverage and concepts. It provides building blocks and develops sufficient knowledge before moving on; no need to repeat a concept in a subsequent chapter when it is utilized. It develops abstract thinking which is critical to linear algebra especially as first exposure to this level of thinking and construction. It provides the necessary links from topic to topic to develop comprehensive understanding. It develops balance between presenting rigor and building intuition. It develops sufficient expertise with respect to the techniques of Linear Algebra as a tool that can be applied more generally. It features balanced and well-developed exercise sets. It develops understanding, and helps to draw connection between concepts and techniques/facts. It includes fact summaries (important facts and techniques). It provides students easy access to the facts they need to proceed to the exercise sets.
    
    
  • Introductory Algebra: A Real-World Approach
    Bello
          Introductory Algebra prepares students for Intermediate Algebra by covering fundamental algebra concepts and key concepts needed for further study. Students of all backgrounds will be delighted to find a refreshing book that appeals to every learning style and reaches out to diverse demographics. Through down-to-earth explanations, patient skill-building, and exceptionally interesting and realistic applications, this worktext will empower students to learn and master algebra in the real world.
    
    
  • Introductory Probability
    Grinstead and Snell
          Introductory Probability emphasizes the use of computing to simulate experiments and make computations.
    
    
  • Linear Algebra
    Jim Hefferon
          This book helps students to master the material of a standard US undergraduate linear algebra course. The material is standard in that the topics covered are Gaussian reduction, vector spaces, linear maps, determinants, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. An- other standard about the book is its audience: sophomores or juniors, usually with a background of at least one semester of Calculus. The help that it gives to students comes from taking a developmental ap- proach — this book’s presentation emphasizes motivation and naturalness, driven home by a wide variety of examples and by extensive and careful exercises. The developmental approach is what sets this book apart, so I will expand on it below. Courses in the beginning of most Mathematics programs focus less on under- standing the theory and more on correctly applying formulas and algorithms. Later courses ask for mathematical maturity: the ability to follow different types of arguments, a familiarity with the themes that underlie many mathematical investigations such as elementary set and function facts, and a capacity for some independent reading and thinking. Linear algebra is an ideal spot to work on the transition. It comes early in a program so that progress made here pays off later, but also comes late enough that students are serious, often ma jors and minors. The material is coherent, accessible, and elegant. There are a variety of argument styles — proofs by contradiction, if and only if statements, and proofs by induction, for instance — and examples are plentiful. So, this book aims to help students develop from being successful at their present level, in classes where a ma jority of students are interested mainly in science or engineering, to being successful at the next level, that of serious students of the sub ject of mathematics itself. Helping students make this transition means taking the mathematics seri- ously, so all of the results in this book are proved. On the other hand, we cannot assume that students have already arrived, and so in contrast with more abstract texts, we give many examples and they are often quite detailed. In the past, linear algebra texts commonly made this transition abruptly. They began with extensive computations of linear systems, matrix multiplica- tions, and determinants. When the concepts — vector spaces and linear maps — finally appeared, and definitions and proofs started, often the change brought students to a stop. In this book, while we start with a computational topic, linear reduction, from the first we do more than compute. We do linear systems quickly but completely, including the proofs needed to justify what we are com- puting. Then, with the linear systems work as motivation and at a point where the study of linear combinations seems natural, the second chapter starts with the definition of a real vector space. This occurs by the end of the third week. Another example of our emphasis on motivation and naturalness is that the third chapter on linear maps does not begin with the definition of homomor- phism, but with that of isomorphism. That’s because this definition is easily motivated by the observation that some spaces are “just like” others. After that, the next section takes the reasonable step of defining homomorphism by isolating the operation-preservation idea. This approach loses mathematical slickness, but it is a good trade because it comes in return for a large gain in sensibility to students. One aim of our developmental approach is that students should feel through- out the presentation that they can see how the ideas arise, and perhaps picture themselves doing the same type of work. The clearest example of the developmental approach taken here — and the feature that most recommends this book — is the exercises. A student progresses most while doing the exercises, so they have been selected with great care. Each problem set ranges from simple checks to reasonably involved proofs. Since an instructor usually assigns about a dozen exercises after each lecture, each section ends with about twice that many, thereby providing a selection. There are even a few problems that are challenging puzzles taken from various journals, competitions, or problems collections. (These are marked with a ‘?’ and as part of the fun, the original wording has been retained as much as possible.) In total, the exercises are aimed to both build an ability at, and help students experience the pleasure of, doing mathematics.
    
    
  • Mathematics under the Microscope
    Alexandre V. Borovik
          AL EXANDRE V. BOROVI K MAT HEMAT I CS UNDER T HE MI CROS COP E This is an abbreviated draft version of the book, to be published by the American Mathematical Society. c
    
    
  • Mathematics in Our World
    Bluman
          "Mathematics in Our World" is designed for mathematics survey courses for non-science majors. The text covers a variety of topics designed to foster interest in and show the applicability of mathematics. The book is written by our successful statistics author, Allan Bluman. His easy-going writing style and step-by-step approach make this text very readable and accessible to lower-level students. The text contains many pedagogical features designed to both aid the student and instill a sense that mathematics is not just adding and subtracting.
    
    
  • One-Semester Access Code and User Guide
    ALEKS
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Prealgebra, 1st Edition
    Miller-O'Neill-Hyde
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Prealgebra, Media Enhanced
    Baratto-Bergman-Hutchison
          Prealgebra: An Integrated Equations Approach, 3e, by Hutchison/Bergman/Baratto extends the successful Streeter series in developmental mathematics. This worktext utilizes an integrated equations approach that pairs arithmetic concepts alongside corresponding algebraic concepts.
    
    
  • Prealgebra: An Integrated Equations Approach
    Hutchison-Bergman-Baratto
          "Prealgebra, An Integrated Equations Approach, Second Edition", utilizes an integrated equations approach that pairs arithmetic concepts alongside corresponding algebraic concepts. In this way, students gradually build their confidence dealing with basic algebra concepts and are better prepared for an introductory algebra course. In "Prealgebra", integers ,fractions, and decimals are used frequently after their initial introduction, developing students' comfort with them. "Prealgebra" is a part of "The Streeter Series in Developmental Mathematics" that is built on the idea that students learn mathematics by doing mathematics. With this, the authors encourage students to take a step, check their progress, and then build on the concepts learned. The key feature of this text, "Check Yourself" exercises keep students active and involved throughout the book. Other emphases of the series include clear, user-friendly writing; an accessible, uncluttered look that encourages learning; overcoming students' math anxiety; and the consistent use of dimensional analysis.
    
    
  • Prealgebra: Mathematics for a Variable World
    Bach-Leitner
          Bach/Leitner's progressive text lays a solid foundation for elementary algebra that carefully addresses student needs. The authors' clear, non-intimidating, and humorous style reassures math-anxious readers. Unlike workbook-format Prealgebra texts that stress competence at procedures, this text emphasizes understanding and mastery through careful step-by-step explanations that strengthen students' long-term abilities to conceptualize and solve problems. The text's innovative sequencing builds students' confidence with arithmetic operations early on before extending the basic concepts to algebraic expressions and equations. The authors' unusually thorough introduction to variables eases students through the crucial transition from working with numbers. Throughout the text, interesting applied examples and exercises and math-appreciation features highlight key concepts at work in a wide variety of real-world contexts.
    
    
  • Precalculus, 6th Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen
          Improve the level of student engagement! Text emphasizes connections and problem solving.
    
    
  • Precalculus: Graphs and Models, 2nd Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Precalculus: Graphs and Models, 3rd Edition
    Barnett-Ziegler-Byleen-Sobecki
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Precalculus: Graphs and Models, 3rd Edition
    Coburn
          Improve the level of student engagement! Text emphasizes connections and problem solving.
    
    
  • Single-Variable Student's Solutions Manual to accompany Calculus: Concepts and Connections
    Smith-Minton
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Student Solutions Manual to accompany Intermediate Algebra
    Miller-O'Neill-Hyde
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • The History of Mathematics: An Introduction
    Burton
          The History of Mathematics: An Introduction, Seventh Edition", is written for the one- or two-semester math history course taken by juniors or seniors, and covers the history behind the topics typically covered in an undergraduate math curriculum or in elementary schools or high schools. Elegantly written in David Burton's imitable prose, this classic text provides rich historical context to the mathematics that undergrad math and math education majors encounter everyday. Burton illuminates the people, stories, and social context behind mathematics' greatest historical advances while maintaining appropriate focus on the mathematical concepts themselves. Its wealth of information, mathematical and historical accuracy, and renowned presentation make "The History of Mathematics: An Introduction, Seventh Edition" a valuable resource that teachers and students will want as part of a permanent library.
    
    
  • The Statistical Imagination: Elementary Statistics for the Social Sciences
    Ritchey
          1 - The Statistical Imagination 2 - Statistical Analysis: Error Management and Control 3 - Charts and Graphs: A Picture Says A Thousand Words 4 - Measuring Averages 5 - Measuring Dispersion or Spread in a Distribution of Scores 6 - Probability Theory and the Normal Probability Distribution 7 - Using Probability Theory to Produce Sampling Distributions 8 - Parameter Estimation Using Confidence Intervals 9 - Hypothesis Testing 10 - Single Sample Hypothesis Tests: Establishing the Representativeness of Samples 11 - Bivariate Relationships: T-Test for Comparing the Means of Two Groups 12 - Analysis of Variance: Differences Among Means of Three or More Groups 13 - Nominal Variables: The Chi-Square and Binomial Distributions 14 - Correlation and Regression Part 1: Concepts and Calculations 15 - Correlation and Regression Part 2: Hypothesis Testing and Aspects of a Relationship 16 - Rank Order Correlation Between Two Ordinal Variables.
    
    
  • Transition to Higher Mathematics: Structure and Proof
    Dumas-McCarthy
          This text is intended for the Foundations of Higher Math bridge course taken by prospective math majors following completion of the mainstream Calculus sequence, and is designed to help students develop the abstract mathematical thinking skills necessary for success in later upper-level majors math courses. As lower-level courses such as Calculus rely more exclusively on computational problems to service students in the sciences and engineering, math majors increasingly need clearer guidance and more rigorous practice in proof technique to adequately prepare themselves for the advanced math curriculum. With their friendly writing style Bob Dumas and John McCarthy teach students how to organize and structure their mathematical thoughts, how to read and manipulate abstract definitions, and how to prove or refute proofs by effectively evaluating them. Its wealth of exercises give students the practice they need, and its rich array of topics give instructors the flexibility they desire to cater coverage to the needs of their school's majors curriculum. This text is part of the "Walter Rudin Student Series in Advanced Mathematics".
    
    
  • Trigonometry
    Mara Landers, and Brenda Meery.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • Trigonometry
    Coburn
          Synopsis not available.
    
    
  • Trigonometry
    Lmov, Evil Saltine, JEdwards, llg, Programmermatt, Alsocal (Wikibooks Users)
          It is easy to explain in word-terms what trigonometry means, but it is more important to understand what mechanisms of thinking, which will help you understand not only trigonometry, but everything in life in a much more vivid way. In mathematics, trigonometry is an important set of disciplines which relate to two and three dimensional objects; practically anything that you can see around you can be related to the principles of trigonometry and algebra -- in the real-world, it is very useful in engineering and construction, where its principles are important in accurately determining the lengths, sizes and areas of objects without having to actually create them first. Imagine the need to build a structure with only the basic land-area given to you: using the principles of trigonometry, you can easily calculate the geometric properties of objects to an unerring degree of accuracy. Trigonometry, however, isn't just about using formulae to find the correct angle or size in school. It describes the relationships that occur naturally between objects and their similarity in structure. When we compare them using a similar set of ideas, it gives us a lot of power to understand the basis of other things in life beyond that of just their appearance. Even though we can look at a circle, an oval, square or rectangle, we can know that there are principles we can apply to their shape which can be expressed through one entity: the triangle.
    
    
  • TRIGONOMETRY
    MICHAEL CORRAL
          About the author: Michael Corral is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics at Schoolcraft College. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and received an M.A. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. This text was typeset in LATEX 2ε with the KOMA-Script bundle, using the GNU Emacs text editor on a Fedora Linux system. The graphics were created using TikZ and Gnuplot.
    
    
  • UNDERSTANDING ALGEBRA
    JAMES W. BRENNAN
          FORWARD This is the PDF version of my Understanding Algebra website, currently located at www.jamesbrennan.org/algebra, as of December 2002. I offer it in the hope that it will help you to understand the concepts of algebra. I grant you the right to make one printed copy for your personal use. Please ask me first if you need to make multiple copies. I make no guarantee that this work is free from errors. In fact, it is quite likely that I have goofed up an example or two. Please feel free to point out any errors you find. You may contact the author by emailing jbrennan@boisestate.edu. This PDF file was designed for double-sided printing. Consult the documentation for your printer to find out how to do this (typically it involves first printing just the even or odd pages and then re-inserting the stack into your printer’s paper tray). For best results, I recommend copying it onto a disk and taking it to a copy shop such as Kinko’s. They will do a very nice job, and they can bind it and provide a heavy paper cover. Although I use color in this document, it is not entirely necessary, and you can save a little on the printing cost by printing in black-and- white if you need to.
    
    
  • Vector Calculus
    Michael Corral
          This is a text on elementary multivariable calculus, designed for students who have completed courses in single-variable calculus. The traditional topics are covered: basic vector algebra; lines, planes and surfaces; vector-valued functions; functions of 2 or 3 variables; partial derivatives; optimization; multiple integrals; line and surface integrals. The book also includes discussion of numerical methods: Newton's method for optimization, and the Monte Carlo method for evaluating multiple integrals. There is a section dealing with applications to probability. Appendices include a proof of the right-hand rule for the cross product, and a short tutorial on using Gnuplot for graphing functions of 2 variables. There are 420 exercises in the book. Answers to selected exercises are included.
    
    
• Physics
  • A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics
    David J. Raymond
          This text has developed out of an alternate beginning physics course at New Mexico Tech designed for those students with a strong interest in physics. The course includes students intending to ma jor in physics, but is not limited to them. The idea for a “radically modern” course arose out of frustration with the standard two-semester treatment. It is basically impossible to in- corporate a significant amount of “modern physics” (meaning post-19th cen- tury!) in that format. Furthermore, the standard course would seem to be specifically designed to discourage any but the most intrepid students from continuing their studies in this area — students don’t go into physics to learn about balls rolling down inclined planes — they are (rightly) interested in quarks and black holes and quantum computing, and at this stage they are largely unable to make the connection between such mundane topics and the exciting things that they have read about in popular books and magazines.
    
    
  • A Textbook for High School Students Studying Physics
    FHSST Authors
          Physics is the study of the world around us. In a sense we are more qualified to do physics than any other science. From the day we are born we study the things around us in an effort to understand how they work and relate to each other. Learning how to catch or throw a ball is a physics undertaking for example. In the field of study we refer to as physics we just try to make the things everyone has been studying more clear. We attempt to describe them through simple rules and mathematics. Mathematics is merely the language we use. The best approach to physics is to relate everything you learn to things you have already noticed in your everyday life. Sometimes when you look at things closely you discover things you had overlooked initially. It is the continued scrutiny of everything we know about the world around us that leads people to the lifelong study of physics. You can start with asking a simple question like ”Why is the sky blue?” which could lead you to electromagnetic waves which in turn could lead you wave particle duality and to energy levels of atoms and before long you are studying quantum mechanics or the structure of the universe. In the sections that follow notice that we will try to describe how we will communicate the things we are dealing with. This is our langauge. Once this is done we can begin the adventure of looking more closely at the world we live in.
    
    
  • Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
    Sean Mauch
          For the past few years I have been working on an open source textbook. It contains material on calculus, functions of a complex variable, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. The text is still under development, but I believe that the current version will be useful for students and instructors. I am trying to distribute the text to as wide an audience as possible, so please tell all your friends and link to my main page. By ``open source'' I mean that all of the source used in the creation of the text is available for download. The LATEX source which comprises the text, the Mathematica notebooks and xfig files used to make the graphics, etc. are all available. I hope this will save instructors time, as they will be able to cut and paste portions of the text to make problem sets, solution sets and handouts.
    
    
  • CK12 People's Physics Book
    James H. Dann, and James J. Dann
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    CK-12 users should treat this FlexBook as anonline textbook. This FlexBook underwent a thorough review conducted by practicing teachers, domain experts, copyeditors, and technical editors. It can be used in its current form, "flexed" (customized), and/or printed by the user. CK-12 supports feedback on all of its FlexBooks so that they can be continually improved and updated, while remaining aligned with state standards and curriculum guidelines.
    
    
  • Classical and Quantum Chaos
    Predrag Cvitanovc – Roberto Artuso – Ronnie Mainieri – Gregor Tanner – Gabor Vattay – Niall Whelan – Andreas Wirzba
          Rereading classic theoretical physics textbooks leaves a sense that there are holes large enough to steam a Eurostar train through them. Here we learn about harmonic oscillators and Keplerian ellipses - but where is the chapter on chaotic oscillators, the tumbling Hyperion? We have just quantized hydrogen, where is the chapter on the classical 3-body problem and its implications for quantization of helium? We have learned that an instanton is a solution of field-theoretic equations of motion, but shouldn’t a strongly nonlinear field theory have turbulent solutions? How are we to think about systems where things fall apart; the center cannot hold; every tra jectory is unstable?
    
    
  • College Physics
    Giambattista-Richardson-Richardson
          "College Physics, Second Edition" is the best solution for today's college physics market. With a unique, new, approach to physics that builds a conceptual framework as motivation for the physical principles, consistent problem solving coverage strategies, stunning art, extensive end-of-chapter material, and superior media support, Giambattista, Richardson, and Richardson delivers a product that addresses today's market needs with the best tools available.
    
    
  • Conceptual Physics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Brief Contents 1 Conser vation of Mass and Energy 7 2 Conser vation of Momentum 39 3 Conser vation of Angular Momentum 63 4 Relativity 73 5 Electricity 95 6 Fields 113 7 The Ray Model of Light 133 8 Waves 163 For a semester-length course, all seven chapters can be covered. For a shor ter course, the book is designed so that chapters 1, 2, and 5 are the only ones that are required for conti- nuity; any of the others can be included or omitted at the instructor’s discretion, with the only constraint being that chapter 6 requires chapter 4.
    
    
  • Essential Physics 1
    Frank Firk
          This book is an intensive introduction for potential Physics Majors.
    
    
  • Essential Physics 1
    Frank Frik
          Essential Physics 1, is an intensive introduction to classical and special relativity, Newtonian dynamics and gravitation, Einsteinian dynamics and gravitation, and wave motion. Mathematical methods are discussed, as needed; they include: elements of differential geometry, linear operators and matrices, ordinary differential equations, calculus of variations, orthogonal functions and Fourier series, and non-linear equations for chaotic systems. The contents of this book can be taught in one semester. It is a book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in Physics or a closely related field.
    
    
  • Integrated Science
    Tillery-Enger-Ross
          "Integrated Science, Third Edition" is a straightforward, easy-to-read, yet substantial introduction to the fundamental behavior of matter and energy in living and nonliving systems. The authors provide even, well-integrated coverage of chemistry, physics, earth science, biology, and astronomy. The book is intended to serve the needs of non-science majors who are required to complete one or more science courses as part of a general or basic studies requirement. This edition continues to introduce basic concepts and key ideas while providing opportunities for students to learn reasoning skills and a new way of thinking about their environment. No prior work in science is assumed. The language, as well as the mathematics, is as simple as can be practical for a college-level science course.
    
    
  • Introduction to Methods of Applied Mathematics
    Sean Mauch
          For the past few years I have been working on an open source textbook. It contains material on calculus, functions of a complex variable, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. The text is still under development, but I believe that the current version will be useful for students and instructors. I am trying to distribute the text to as wide an audience as possible, so please tell all your friends and link to my main page. By ``open source'' I mean that all of the source used in the creation of the text is available for download. The LATEX source which comprises the text, the Mathematica notebooks and xfig files used to make the graphics, etc. are all available. I hope this will save instructors time, as they will be able to cut and paste portions of the text to make problem sets, solution sets and handouts.
    
    
  • Light and Matter : B1 Newtonian Physics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Why a New Physics Textbook? We Americans assume that our economic system will always scam- per to provide us with the products we want. Special orders don’t upset us! I want my MTV! The truth is more complicated, espe- cially in our education system, which is paid for by the students but controlled by the professoriate. Witness the perverse success of the bloated science textbook. The newspapers continue to com- pare our system unfavorably to Japanese and European education, where depth is emphasized over breadth, but we can’t seem to cre- ate a physics textbook that covers a manageable number of topics for a one-year course and gives honest explanations of everything it touches on. The publishers try to please everybody by including every imag- inable topic in the book, but end up pleasing nobody. There is wide agreement among physics teachers that the traditional one-year in- troductory textbooks cannot in fact be taught in one year. One cannot surgically remove enough material and still gracefully nav- igate the rest of one of these kitchen-sink textbooks. What is far worse is that the books are so crammed with topics that nearly all the explanation is cut out in order to keep the page count below 1100. Vital concepts like energy are introduced abruptly with an equation, like a first-date kiss that comes before “hello.” The movement to reform physics texts is steaming ahead, but despite excellent books such as Hewitt’s Conceptual Physics for non- science ma jors and Knight’s Physics: A Contemporary Perspective for students who know calculus, there has been a gap in physics books for life-science ma jors who haven’t learned calculus or are learning it concurrently with physics. This book is meant to fill that gap.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B2 Conservation Laws
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B3 Vibrations and Waves
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B4 Electricity and Magnetism
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B5 Optics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B6 The Modern Revolution in Physics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Mathematical Tools for Physics
    James Nearing
          his text is in PDF format, and is my attempt to provide a less expensive alternative to some of the printed books currently available for this course. If you find any mistakes or any parts that are unclear or any topics that you think I should not have omitted, please tell me. I intend this for the undergraduate level, providing a one-semester bridge between some of the introductory math courses and the physics courses in which we expect to use the mathematics. This is the course typically called Mathematical Methods in Physics. The text itself has been expanded so that it now contains far more than a one semester course. The text is available as a single file to download and save, or as the separate chapters. The advantage of the single file is that the internal hyperlinks will take you anywhere in the book, while the internal links in the separate chapters are confined to that chapter. The single file contains a full index (also linked). In the body of the text, the equation references are linked, so that clicking on the reference will take you to that equation. To return to your original position, either click on the left arrow (Previous View) at the top (or sometimes bottom), or use a keyboard shortcut [ Command<-- on Mac, Alt<-- on Windows, Control<-- on Linux ]. The table of contents and the index are also linked. There are also a few links to web sites within the text. If you want to read this on the screen there are two formats. The first is for a smaller screen and is formatted so that the page is wider than it is tall. The format for a large monitor is designed with small margins, so that you can more easily use a two-page display. If you choose to print the book and have a printer that does two-sided copy, or if you upload it to a commercial printer, there is a version with identical content, but with margins shifted for such printing and binding. It is 487 pages. This is a corrected and slightly revised version of the original: Dec, 2008.
    
    
  • Physics
    Giambattista-Richardson-Richardson
          This text has a unique, new, approach to physics that builds a conceptual framework as motivation for the physical principles, consistent problem solving coverage strategies, stunning art, extensive end-of-chapter material, and superior media support. Giambattista, Richardson, and Richardson delivers a product that addresses today's market needs with the best tools available. "Physics 1st Edition" is a spin-off of the market leading "College Physics 2nd Edition" text by Giambattista/Richardson/Richardson. The key difference in "College Physics" is that, there is an integrated approach of forces and kinematics, leading with forces, while in this new 1st edition, "Physics" covers forces in the traditional manner by leading with Kinematics and not integrating forces.
    
    
  • Relativity: The Special and General Theory
    Albert Einstein
          The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader. The author has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated. In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I make no pretence of having withheld from the reader difficulties which are inherent to the subject. On the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees. May the book bring some one a few happy hours of suggestive thought! --Albert Einstein
    
    
  • Simple Nature
    Benjamin Crowell
          Simple Nature An Introduction to Physics for Engineering and Physical Science Students
    
    
  • Special Relativity
    Wikibook Project
          Special Relativity is an introductory text for physics undergraduates and advanced high school students. It is also approachable by the educated layman. It is carefully designed to tackle the physics of simultaneity
    
    
  • The Age of Einstein
    Frank W. K. Firk
          The Age of Einstein, is a brief introduction to Einstein's Theories of Special and General Relativity. It is a book for the inquisitive general reader who wishes to gain an understanding of the key ideas put forward by the greatest scientist of the 20th-century. No more than a modest grasp of High School Mathematics is required to follow the arguments.
    
    
  • The Physical Universe
    Krauskopf-Beiser
          This is an outstanding text with a long history that has been updated and given a fresh look. The 2010 copyright year represents the 50th anniversary of the publishing of this classic text. The text is also accompanied by strong media component with the ARIS online homework system, 'CPS' eInstruction student response system questions, more extensive online quizzing, and PowerPoint lectures. Aimed at presenting the essentials of physics, chemistry, earth science, and astronomy in a clear, easy-to-understand way, "The Physical Universe" shows students how science works, how scientists approach problems, and why science constantly evolves in its search for understanding. The text can also be packaged with its long time companion student study guide, which includes a review of chapter terms and concepts; self quizzing for extra practice; and solved problems from the text.
    
    
  • The Physics of Everyday Phenomena: A Conceptual Introduction to Physics
    Griffith
          This text introduces the basic concepts of physics using examples of common occurrences. Beginning students will benefit from the large number of student aids and the reduced math content. Professors will appreciate the organization of the material and the wealth of pedagogical tools.
    
    
• Political Science
  • About American: The Constitution
    
          This illustrated publication includes the complete text of the U.S. Constitution (preamble, seven articles, and 27 amendments), as well an updated introduction and explanatory notes by J.W. Peltason, author of Understanding the Constitution and Government by the People. The introduction includes sections explaining how the Constitution set up the U.S. federal system, the background to the Constitutional Convention and how the participants arrived at a final version of the document, its ratification, and sections on the call for a Bill of Rights and the need for additional amendments over the years.
    
    
  • Free At Last
    Michael Jay Friedman,
          This book recounts how African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win — both in law and in practice — the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens
    
    
• Psychology
  • A Conceptual History of Psychology
    Greenwood
          "A Conceptual History of Psychology" is a broad historical survey that traces conceptual continuities and discontinuities in the history of psychological thought. The author connects the history of psychological theory with the development of the history of science, from the proto-scientific psychology of the 17th and 18th centuries to the institutionalized scientific psychology of the late 19th century to the present day. The lucid writing style and clear organization reflect the author's fifteen years' experience teaching the course.
    
    
  • Abnormal Psychology, 9th Edition
    Alloy-Riskind-Manos
          About the Author Lauren B. Alloy is an internationally recognized researcher in the area of mood disorders. Her work on depression has had a major impact on the fields of clinical, personality, social, and cognitive psychology. She is currently Professor of Psychology at Temple University. Previously at Northwestern University, Dr. Alloy became the youngest full Professor in the University’s history and the first woman Professor in Northwestern’s Psychology Department. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society. Dr. Alloy received both her B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Awarded the American Psychological Association's Young Psychologist Award in 1984, Dr. Alloy was named the American Psychological Association’s Master Lecturer in Psychopathology in 2002 (jointly with Dr. Lyn Abramson), and in 2001 she received Temple University’s Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award. She was also recognized by Northwestern University’s College of Arts & Sciences with the Great Teacher Award in 1988 for her classroom teaching and mentoring of students. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and American Psychological Society. Dr. Alloy is the author of more than 130 scholarly publications, including a recent book (co-edited with Dr. John Riskind) entitled Cognitive Vulnerability to Emotional Disorders. She has also served on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Dr. Alloy's research focuses on cognitive, interpersonal, and biopsychosocial processes in the onset and maintenance of depression and bipolar disorder. Along with her colleagues, Lyn Abramson and Gerald Metalsky, she is the author of the hopelessness theory of depression and she discovered, with Lyn Abramson, the "sadder but wiser," or "depressive realism," effect. She regularly teaches courses on psychopathology.
    
    
  • Counseling and Psychotherapy Today: Theory, Practice, and Research
    Austad
          Today's counseling and psychotherapy-related careers require practitioners to grasp and respond to a continually changing context. This comprehensive and contemporary introduction to the field prepares students to engage productively with a variety of theoretical models, practice settings, and patient problems. The author draws on her experience as a practicing therapist and professor in presenting theory, practice, and research in a clear and compelling style. Starting with the big picture of psychotherapy within its sociocultural context and fundamental issues, Austad then reviews the major theoretical models. Students are encouraged to develop a mental model that helps them to compare and contrast key features of each theory and to understand the settings in which each best applies.
    
    
  • Methods in Behavioral Research
    Cozby
          This concise introduction to research methods and design for psychology and behavioral science courses offers the core strengths of direct, clear writing and interesting, illustrative examples. Reviewers have consistently praised the text for helping students conceptualize and critique research and research design effectively.
    
    
  • Psychological Testing and Assessment: An Introduction to Tests and Measurement
    Cohen-Swerdlik
          This is a careful and thoroughly updated revision of the most highly acclaimed and successful undergraduate text in testing over the last fifteen years. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ASSESSMENT examines the philosophical, historical, and methodological foundations of psychological testing, assessment, and measurement, while helping students appreciate their benefits and pitfalls in practice.
    
    
  • Transformations: Women, Gender and Psychology
    Crawford
          Part 1. INTRODUCTION 1. Paving the Way Part 2. GENDER IN SOCIAL CONTEXT 2. Gender, Status, and Power 3. Images of Women 4. The Meanings of Difference Part 3. GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT 5. Sex, Gender and Bodies 6. Gendered Identities: Childhood And Adolescence 7. In a Woman's Body Part 4.
    
    
  • Understanding Human Sexuality
    Hyde-DeLamater
          This text approaches the subject of human sexuality from a psychological perspective. It features information from a variety of disciplines, such as biology, women's studies, sociology, anthropology and health education. The text offers extensive coverage of research and theoretical findings, but its informal tone makes it suitable for students at all academic levels
    
    
• Religion
  • Apologetic Conversations
    Vincent Cheung
          Our subject is apologetics. Specifically, I have in mind the intellectual vindication of the biblical worldview and the destruction of all non-biblical worldviews in the context of informal debates, such as in personal conversations.
    
    
  • Captive to Reason
    Vincent Cheung
          This book is a collection of short articles that mainly deal with Christian philosophy and apologetics. These articles explain and apply the author's thinking to particular contexts and questions, and as such, they properly supplement what he has previously written.
    
    
  • Experiencing the World's Religions: Tradition, Challenge and Change
    Molloy
          "Experiencing the World's Religions" provides a clear and compelling account of religion as a diverse, lived experience by peoples around the world. Global in its coverage, the text conveys the vitality and richness of the world's religions as a living cultural wellspring that not only concerns systems of belief but how those beliefs are expressed in ceremonies, food, clothing, art, architecture, pilgrimage, scripture, and music. The text demonstrates why an understanding of the world's religions enriches our lives. In an engaging narrative emphasizing the experience of religion, the text takes students on a personal voyage through doctrines, history, the religiously inspired arts, ceremonies, and everyday expressions of belief and combines these with powerful photographs from around the globe.The text goes beyond traditional approaches to personally connect students with the vitality of the great religions and how they reach into the lives of individuals and the culture at large. This fourth edition has been thoroughly updated in both content and illustration, to address recent world events and political changes, and provide additional insight into current theory and practice.
    
    
  • Faith With Reason
    Joseph R. Farinaccio
          This is a book about worldviews. Everybody has one, but most individuals never really pay much attention to their own personal philosophy of life. This is a tragedy because there is no state of awareness so fundamental to living life. Since there are many worldviews out there this book was written to help individuals understand why biblical Christianity is so important, not only in our understanding of God, but ourselves and the world around us as well.
    
    
  • How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
    Schick-Vaughn
          This brief, inexpensive text helps the reader to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making "How to Think about Weird Things" a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.
    
    
  • Presuppositional Confrontations
    Vincent Cheung
          
    
    
  • Questions That Matter: An Invitation to Philosophy
    Miller-Jensen
          This popular choice for introductory philosophy courses again offers primary source readings woven into a text that is organized by key questions in philosophy. The discussion of each question is presented in a logical and historical light, showing connections, roots and influences. The clarity of the presentation and the successful student pedagogical aids provide an accessible, guided introduction to philosophy for college students
    
    
  • Scriptures of the World's Religions
    Fieser-Powers
          This anthology of scriptures in English translation from the world's living religions offers approximately 80 selections that vary in length from a few paragraphs to 15 pages. Sections and subsections contain brief editor's introductions which discuss the nature and scope of scripture within each religion, and the history of the scripture presented.
    
    
  • The Many Faces, and Causes, of Unbelief
    Bert Thompson, Ph.D.
          
    
    
  • The Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
    Harris-Platzner
          Designed for students undertaking their first systematic study of the "Hebrew Bible", this text has two goals: to acquaint readers with the content and major themes of the biblical documents, and to introduce them to issues in biblical scholarship. Pedagogically rich and reader-friendly, this text was designed for conventional introductory courses using historical-critical methodology, and will also be useful in courses studying the Bible as literature, or as a reference text in the study of ancient religion.
    
    
  • Ultimate Questions
    Vincent Cheung
          
    
    
  • Why It's Hard to Be Good: An Introduction to Ethical Theory
    Palmer
          Why It's Hard to Be Good" by Donald Palmer is a text for Ethical Theory and Ethical Problems courses, and is ideal for instructors using primary source readings. Through the use of cartoons and humor Palmer makes the study of ethics easier!