This book is divided into two parts. Part I is a Composition Handbook designed to teach students the components of the writing process and the conventions of various forms of school and college writing assignments. Part II is an Anthology of Literature designed to help students read actively, analyze, understand, enjoy, and appreciate stories, poems, and plays by a diverse and inclusive group of exceptional writers.

TABLE OF CONTENT

I. The Writing Process
1. Access and Acquire Knowledge
2. Find Your Thesis
3. Make a Plan
4. Write Your First Draft
5. Revise and Edit
6. Cite Your Sources

II. Common Writing Assignments
7. The Narrative Essay
8. The Examples Essay
9. The Extended Definition Essay
10. The Process (“How to”) Essay
11. The Cause/Effect Essay
12. The Compare/Contrast Essay
13. The Argument Essay
14. Further Reading

III. Poetry
15. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth (Regular Verse)
16. “Birches” by Robert Frost (Blank Verse)
17. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes (Free Verse)
18. “How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet)
19. “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Robert Service (Ballad)
20. “Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats (Ode)
21. “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (Dramatic Monologue)
22. “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (Villanelle)
23. “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman (Elegy)
24. “Eastern Guard Tower” by Etheridge Knight (Haiku)
25. An Anthology of Poems for Further Study

IV. Short Stories
26. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)
27. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
28. Kate Chopin (1850–1904)
29. Charles G.D. Roberts (1860–1943)
30. E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861–1913)
31. O. Henry (1862–1910)
32. Edith Wharton (1862–1937)
33. Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (1870–1916)
34. Stephen Crane (1871–1900)
35. Willa Cather (1873–1947)
36. James Joyce (1882–1941)
37. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
38. Ring Lardner (1885–1933)
39. Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923)
40. William Faulkner (1897–1962)
41. Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
42. Eudora Alice Welty (1909–2001)
43. Roald Dahl (1916–1990)
44. Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
45. Fay Weldon (1931–)
46. Beryl Bainbridge (1932–2010)
47. William Dempsey Valgardson (1939–)
48. Alice Walker (1944–)
49. Leslie Marmon Silko (1948–)
50. Andrea Levy (1956–2019)

V. The Novella
51. Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1843-1916)
52. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1850–1904)

VI. The Novel
53. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

VII. Drama
54. Twelfth Night: Act 1
55. Twelfth Night: Act 2
56. Twelfth Night: Act 3
57. Twelfth Night: Act 4
58. Twelfth Night: Act 5
59. Twelfth Night: Study Guide
60. Hamlet: Act 1
61. Hamlet: Act 2
62. Hamlet: Act 3
63. Hamlet: Act 4
64. Hamlet: Act 5
65. Hamlet: Study Guide
66. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
67. The Importance of Being Earnest: Study Guide
68. Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
69. Major Barbara: Study Guide

Appendix A: Glossary of English Rhetoric, Grammar, and Usage
Appendix B: Glossary of Literary Terms
Appendix C: Writing an Analysis of a Poem, Story, or Play
Appendix D: Brave New World Casebook
Appendix E: The Turn of the Screw Casebook
Appendix F: Exercises and Tutorials on Grammar and MLA/APA Documentation
About the Authors
List of Links by Chapter for Print Users

This LibGuides-based open textbook with MathML, adapted from OpenStax Chemistry 2nd Edition, was created through a Round 14 Textbook Transformation Grant. Each chapter contains a set of downloadable end-of-chapter problems.

Table of Contents:

1. Matter and Measurements
2. Atoms, Molecules and Ions
3. Composition of Substances and Solutions
4. Stoichiometry of Chemical Reactions
5. Thermochemistry
6. Gases
7. Chemical Bonding and Molecular Geometry
8. Liquids, Solids, and Modern Materials
9. Solutions and Colligative Properties
10. Kinetics
11. Chemical Equilibria and Applications
12. Thermodynamics
13. Electrochemistry
14. Appen

This online textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience complex lifelong needs across multiple areas in their lives. Drs. Sennott and Loman drafted this book (along with the help from some friends) with the hope of providing pertinent, practical, and current resources to future special educators who plan to serve individuals with complex disabilities.

This online textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience complex lifelong needs across multiple areas in their lives. Drs. Sennott and Loman drafted this book (along with the help from some friends) with the hope of providing pertinent, practical, and current resources to future special educators who plan to serve individuals with complex disabilities.

An Interactive Guide to the Theory and Evidence of Practice

The re-emergence of midwifery as a primary health care profession is one of the great stories of Canadian health care systems, but this story has been largely undocumented. This invaluable interactive e-book details the history and philosophy of midwifery, how current midwifery theory and policies are developed, and the role of education and research in advancing the field. We include a special focus on the social determinants of women’s health throughout Canada and the world, the principle of health care as a human right, and the principles and scope of midwifery practice. A must-read for Canadian student midwives and others interested in midwifery.

Table of Contents:

I. Midwifery in a Health Care Context
1. Birth & its Meanings: Representations of Birth in Art
2. Midwifery Care & Human Rights
3. Midwifery Matters
4. Health Policy Analysis in Midwifery

II. Midwife as Practitioner
5. Midwife as Practitioner
6. Effective Communication
7. Working Across Differences in Midwifery
8. The Professional Framework for Midwifery Practice in Canada

III. Midwife as Educator
9. Health Education & Promotion
10. Approaches to Midwifery Education
11. The Academic Midwife: Scholar, Educator, Researcher

IV. Midwife as Researcher
12. Midwives Using Research: Evidence-based Practice & Evidence-Informed Midwifery
13. Midwife as Researcher

A textbook that covers major events from the beginning of time until 1900. The text is divided first by time period and then by region and country within the period. Learn about the following topics in this world history textbook:Ice Age, Neanderthals, Mesolithic Age, Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age,  Ancient Egypt, Greek Empire, Roman Empire, Nomads, Han Dynasty, Mayan Empire, Byzantine Empire, Dark Ages, Barbarians, Turkish Empire, Viking Empire, Vikings, Charlemagne, Classical Period, Middle Ages, Mongol Empire, Genghis Khan, Black Death, Plague, Colonization, America, Pilgrims, Ottoman Empire, American Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Reconstruction, Renaissance, Age of Discovery, Elizabethan Era, Reformation Era, Age of Enlightenment. Suggested Level: UP (Upper Primary)

All of the mathematics required beyond basic calculus is developed “from scratch.” Moreover, the book generally alternates between “theory” and “applications”: one or two chapters on a particular set of purely mathematical concepts are followed by one or two chapters on algorithms and applications; the mathematics provides the theoretical underpinnings for the applications, while the applications both motivate and illustrate the mathematics. Of course, this dichotomy between theory and applications is not perfectly maintained: the chapters that focus mainly on applications include the development of some of the mathematics that is specific to a particular application, and very occasionally, some of the chapters that focus mainly on mathematics include a discussion of related algorithmic ideas as well.

The mathematical material covered includes the basics of number theory (including unique factorization, congruences, the distribution of primes, and quadratic reciprocity) and of abstract algebra (including groups, rings, fields, and vector spaces). It also includes an introduction to discrete probability theory—this material is needed to properly treat the topics of probabilistic algorithms and cryptographic applications. The treatment of all these topics is more or less standard, except that the text only deals with commutative structures (i.e., abelian groups and commutative rings with unity) — this is all that is really needed for the purposes of this text, and the theory of these structures is much simpler and more transparent than that of more general, non-commutative structures.

Access also available here: https://shoup.net/ntb/

Table of Contents
1 Basic properties of the integers
2 Congruences
3 Computing with large integers
4 Euclid's algorithm
5 The distribution of primes
6 Abelian groups
7 Rings
8 Finite and discrete probability distributions
9 Probabilistic algorithms
10 Probabilistic primality testing
11 Finding generators and discrete logarithms in Z∗p
12 Quadratic reciprocity and computing modular square roots
13 Modules and vector spaces
14 Matrices
15 Subexponential-time discrete logarithms and factoring
16 More rings
17 Polynomial arithmetic and applications
18 Finite Fields
19 Linearly generated sequences and applications
20 Algorithms for finite fields
21 Deterministic primality testing

The sixth edition, first published as an ebook, and this seventh edition carry forward the philosophy and structure of the earlier editions. This book is not a comprehensive treatise on the subject of civil procedure, yet it provides a mixture of expository text, cases, and self-testing questions in nearly all of the major areas of the subject.

This course focuses on both theoretical knowledge and hands on application projects. The course will prepare students to not only utilize Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access software, but will also to be able to translate this knowledge to other similar application software commonly used in industry.
Chapter 1: Computers and Operating Systems - Hardware
Chapter 2: Computers and Operating Systems - Software
Chapter 3: Computers and Operating Systems - Security
Chapter 4: Processing Software - Concepts
Chapter 5: Processing Software - Formatting & Editing Techniques
Chapter 6: Processing Software - Inserting
Chapter 7: Processing Software - Other Features
Chapter 8: Presentations - Creating & Editing
Chapter 9: Presentations - Enhance
Chapter 10: Presentations - Add Media & Animation
Chapter 11: Spreadsheets
Chapter 12: Database Software - Database Objects
Chapter 13: Database Software - Querying a Database
Chapter 14: Database Software - Creating Reports & Forms

This text was created to provide students enrolled in Technical Education Programs or professionals in business and industry with contextual learning opportunities to develop the necessary computer skills to function in the 21st-century workforce in a non-IT technical field.

Topics and skills provided in this text include using and changing the Windows desktop; downloading software from the internet; the file hierarchy and saving files; using the basic functions of word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software to create and format documents; the use of email clients to send messages; how to attach documents and organize tasks; connecting to and using the internet; searching the web effectively; working with sounds and picture files, and understanding privacy issues and how to prevent identity theft when using computers and the internet. In addition, content regarding Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel will be covered in great depth.

This book was developed in an attempt to maintain in one location the information and references that point to the many important historical developments of the short life of the computer graphics world as we know it.

This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.

Table of Contents
1 Preface

2 Introduction

2.1 Services and protocols
2.2 The reference models
2.3 Organisation of the book
3 The application Layer

3.1 Principles
3.2 Application-level protocols
3.3 Writing simple networked applications
3.4 Summary
3.5 Exercises
4 The transport layer

4.1 Principles of a reliable transport protocol
4.2 The User Datagram Protocol
4.3 The Transmission Control Protocol
4.4 Summary
4.5 Exercises
5 The network layer

5.1 Principles
5.2 Internet Protocol
5.3 Routing in IP networks
5.4 Summary
5.5 Exercises
6 The datalink layer and the Local Area Networks

6.1 Principles
6.2 Medium Access Control
6.3 Datalink layer technologies
6.4 Summary
6.5 Exercises
7 Glossary

8 Bibliography

9 Indices and tables

This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.

Suppose you want to build a computer network, one that has the potential to grow to global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing, video on demand, electronic commerce, distributed computing, and digital libraries. What available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks, and what kind of software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an effective communication service? Answering this question is the overriding goal of this book—to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Foundation
Chapter 2: Direct Connections
Chapter 3: Internetworking
Chapter 4: Advanced Internetworking
Chapter 5: End-to-End Protocols
Chapter 6: Congestion Control
Chapter 7: End-to-End Data
Chapter 8: Network Security
Chapter 9: Applications

Suppose you want to build a computer network, one that has the potential to grow to global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing, video on demand, electronic commerce, distributed computing, and digital libraries. What available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks, and what kind of software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an effective communication service? Answering this question is the overriding goal of this book—to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.

This book is meant to provide you with an interactive experience as you learn to program. You can read the text, watch videos, and write and execute Python code. In addition to simply executing code, there is a unique feature called codelens that allows you to control the flow of execution in order to gain a better understanding of how the program works.

Table of Contents:
Scratch
Reeborg
Python - Getting Started
Python - Turtle Drawings (Loops and Functions)
Python - Functions in Detail
Python - Micro:bit and More Functions
Python - Image Processing
Python - Strings
Python - Lists
Student-Directed Research
End of Semester Review
Computing and Society
Career Exploration

This textbook covers the traditional introductory Computer Science I topics but takes a unique approach. Topics are covered in a language-agnostic manner in the first part with supplemental parts that cover the same concepts in a specific language. The current version covers C, Java, and PHP. This textbook as been used in several Computer Science I sections over multiple years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Table of Contents
I. The C Programming Language

II. The Java Programming Language

III. The PHP Programming Language

This textbook covers the traditional introductory Computer Science I topics but takes a unique approach. Topics are covered in a language-agnostic manner in the first part with supplemental parts that cover the same concepts in a specific language. The current version covers C, Java, and PHP. This textbook as been used in several Computer Science I sections over multiple years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

"Concept Development Studies in Chemistry" is an on-line textbook for an Introductory General Chemistry course. Each module develops a central concept in Chemistry from experimental observations and inductive reasoning. This approach complements an interactive or active learning teaching approach.

Concepts of Biology is designed for the introductory biology course for nonmajors taught at most two- and four-year colleges. The scope, sequence, and level of the program are designed to match typical course syllabi in the market. Concepts of Biology includes interesting applications, features a rich art program, and conveys the major themes of biology.