This is the first in a series of Contracts casebooks. It was originally titled "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts."

The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not “legalese”), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost any legal topic. But we begin the first-year curriculum with subjects that pervade the entire field of law. Contract principles have a long history and they form a significant part of the way that lawyers think about many legal problems. As you will discover when you study insurance law, employment law, family law, and dozens of other practice areas, your knowledge of contract doctrine and theory will be invaluable.

Table of Contents
I. Introduction to the Legal Significance of Promise Making

1. What is a Promise?
2. Which Promises Are Enforced?
II. The Consideration Requirement and Alternatives

1. Consideration Doctrine
2. Bargain or Gift?
3. Adequacy Doctrine
4. Promissory Estoppel
5. The Material Benefit Rule
III. Contract Formation

1. Offer
2. Acceptance
3. Revocation of Offers
4. UCC Section 2-207
5. Frontiers of Contract Formation

Access also available here: https://www.cali.org/books/contract-doctrine-theory-practice-volume-1

This is Volume 1 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not ŇlegaleseÓ), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost any legal topic. But we begin the first-year curriculum with subjects that pervade the entire field of law. Contract principles have a long history and they form a significant part of the way that lawyers think about many legal problems. As you will discover when you study insurance law, employment law, family law, and dozens of other practice areas, your knowledge of contract doctrine and theory will be invaluable.

This is Volume 2 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not "legalese"), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost any legal topic. But we begin the first-year curriculum with subjects that pervade the entire field of law. Contract principles have a long history and they form a significant part of the way that lawyers think about many legal problems. As you will discover when you study insurance law, employment law, family law, and dozens of other practice areas, your knowledge of contract doctrine and theory will be invaluable.

This is Volume 2 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not "legalese"), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost any legal topic. But we begin the first-year curriculum with subjects that pervade the entire field of law. Contract principles have a long history and they form a significant part of the way that lawyers think about many legal problems. As you will discover when you study insurance law, employment law, family law, and dozens of other practice areas, your knowledge of contract doctrine and theory will be invaluable.

Table of Contents
IV. Defining the Obligation to Perform

1. Excuse
2. Mistake
3. Substantial Performance
4. Exclusive Dealing Contracts
V. Regulating the Bargaining Process

1. Unconscionability
2. Modification
3. Rules Concerning Information
4. The Statute of Frauds

Access also available here: https://www.cali.org/books/contract-doctrine-theory-practice-volume-2

This is Volume 3 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. Its former title is "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts."

The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not “legalese”), to formulate and evaluate legal arguments, to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost any legal topic. But we begin the first-year curriculum with subjects that pervade the entire field of law. Contract principles have a long history and they form a significant part of the way that lawyers think about many legal problems. As you will discover when you study insurance law, employment law, family law, and dozens of other practice areas, your knowledge of contract doctrine and theory will be invaluable.

Control Systems is an inter-disciplinary engineering text that analyzes the effects and interactions of mathematical systems. This book is for third and fourth year undergraduates in an engineering program.

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

1. Animals 1: Dog Lovers 1
2. Animals 2: Dog Lovers 2
3. Travel 1: Hanging Out At Breakfast 1
4. Travel 2: Hanging Out At Breakfast 2
5. Hobbies I : Anne’s Almost 4 Months Old
6. Hobbies 2: Collecting Brazilian Musical Instruments
7. Relationships 1: It’s The Same Thing All Over Again
8. Relationships 2: Eloísa’s The Black Sheep Of The Family
9. Food 1: Kill Me Now, Or Feed Me Something Brazilian
10. Food 2: Brazilian “Churrasco” With A Capital Bbq!
11. Working Out 1: I'm Just Not Feeling It
12. Working Out 2: I Love Going To The Gym
13. Wedding 1: A Coisa Tava Chique!
14. Wedding: Mixing It Up. When Brazilians Marry Americans
15. Grandparents 1: Hopscotch And Marbles Or Polly Pocket?
16. Grandparents 2: Well Grandma, There Isan Easier Way To Do It
17. Moms In The Park 1: Don’t Cry. You’reok!
18. Moms In The Park 2: They Are Getting Along Really Well
19. School 1: I Have My Very Own Locker!
20. School 2: What Are You Doing About The Whole Lunch Thing?
21. Shopping 1: They’ll Love This With A Passion!
22. Shopping 2: It Looks Like Spun Gold, Doesn’t It?
23. Shopping 3: Capricha Lá!
24. Directions 1: Tô Perdido – I’m Lost
25. Directions 2: Moço, Dá Licença – I’m Lost
26. Traffic 1: Don’t Be Blaming Me On This!
27. Traffic 2: I Hate This Traffic!
28. Gossip 1: Ói, Que Safado!
29. Gossip 2: Vai Ser Uma Dupla Interessante
30. Soccer 1: Você Foi Muito Fominha Hoje!
31. Soccer 2: Ninguém Tira O Título Da Gente
32. Jam Session 1: Acabou Batendo Aqui Na Cabeça
33. Jam Session 2:Tem Que Agradar Todomundo, Né?
34. Studio 1: Behind The Scenes, Ói, Que Safado!
35. Studio 2: Behind The Scenes – Eu Também Acho

Reviews of the book available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/conversa-brasileira

A Cool, Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics, an innovative and non-traditional approach to learning Discrete Math, is available for low cost from Blurb or via free download.

Table of Contents
1 Meetup at the trailhead
2 Sets
3 Relations
4 Probability
5 Structures
6 Counting
7 Numbers
8 Logic
9 Proof
About the Book
A Cool, Brisk Walk Through Discrete Mathematics, an innovative and non-traditional approach to learning Discrete Math, is available for low cost from Blurb or via free download.

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

Through good economic times and bad, marketing remains the pivotal function in any business. Determining and satisfying the needs of 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 of marketing. This text introduces students to the marketing strategies and tools that practitioners use to market their products.

This is a review of Core Concepts of Marketing: https://louis.oercommons.org/courses/core-concepts-of-marketing/view completed by Cassie Ditt, Assistant Professor of Marketing at McNeese State University.

CHAPTER 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to International Marketing
1.1 Defining Marketing
1.2 Defining International Marketing
1.3 The Motivation for International Marketing
1.4 Stages in International Marketing
1.5 Why International Marketing Matters
1.6 Challenges of Global Marketing
1.7 What is Globalization
1.8 The Globalization Debate
1.9 Standardization and Customization

CHAPTER 2
Chapter 2: International Business and Trade
2.1 International Trade
2.2 International Economic Cooperation among Nations
2.3 Understanding Tariffs
2.4 Regional Economic Integration
2.5 The United Nations and the Impact on Trade
2.6 Trade Controversies
2.7 Foreign Direct Investment

CHAPTER 3
Chapter 3: Social and Cultural Environment
3.1 Factors Shaping the Global Marketing Environment
3.2 The Social and Cultural Environment
3.3 Importance of Culture on Markets
3.4 What is Culture
3.5 Describing Culture
3.6 Marketing Across Cultures

CHAPTER 4
Chapter 4: The Economic and Political Environment
4.1 The Economic Environment
4.2 The Political Environment
4.3 Political Risk
4.4 Legal Risk

CHAPTER 5
Chapter 5: Economic Development in the World
5.1 World Economies
5.2 Classifying World Economies
5.3 Understanding the Developed World
5.4 The Developing World
5.5 Emerging Markets

CHAPTER 6
Chapter 6: Global Market Planning
6.1 Measuring Market Attractiveness
6.2 Global Market Opportunity Assessment - PESTEL Analysis
6.3 Global Market Opportunity Assessment - CAGE Analysis
6.4 Global Market Opportunity Assessment - Scenario Planning and Analysis
6.5 Selecting the Countries to Enter
6.6 Global Market Segmentation
6.7 Using Demographics to Guide Global Marketing Strategy
6.8 Target Market Selection
6.9 Basics of Positioning
6.10 Global Positioning

CHAPTER 7
Chapter 7: Global Market Entry Modes
7.1 International Entry Modes
7.2 Exporting
7.3 Licensing
7.4 Franchising
7.5 Contract Manufacturing
7.6 Joint Ventures

CHAPTER 8
Chapter 8: Global Products
8.1 Global Product Development
8.2 Global Products and Services
8.3 Product Adaptation Decisions
8.4 Global Innovation
8.5 Global Innovation at the BOP

CHAPTER 9
Chapter 9: Global Branding
9.1 Formulating a Global Brand Strategy
9.2 Global Branding
9.3 Global Brand Structures
9.4 Determinants of Global Brand Structure
9.5 Managing Key Strategic Brands

CHAPTER 10
Chapter 10: Global Channels and Supply Chains
10.1 Basics of Distribution Channels
10.2 Global Supply Chains
10.3 Global Sourcing and Distribution
10.4 Organizing The Channel

CHAPTER 11
Chapter 11: Global Promotions
11.1 Changes in Promotion
11.2 Global Communication Platform
11.3 Global Communication Strategies

CHAPTER 12
Chapter 12: Global Pricing
12.1 Basics of Pricing
12.2 Introduction to Global Pricing
12.3 Global Pricing Approaches
12.4 Currency Fluctuations and Global Pricing
12.5 Tariffs and Global Pricing
12.6 Quotas and Dumping

CHAPTER 13
Chapter 13: The International Marketing Plan
13.1 Marketing Plan Basics
13.2 Writing the International Marketing Plan

Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his tumultuous political career in Carthage, to his perilous exile and eventual suicide in the East. As Rome completed its bloody transition from dysfunctional republic to stable monarchy, Nepos labored to complete an innovative and influential collection of concise biographies. Putting aside the detailed, chronological accounts of military campaigns and political machinations that characterized most writing about history, Nepos surveyed Roman and Greek history for distinguished men who excelled in a range of prestigious occupations. In the exploits and achievements of these illustrious men, Nepos hoped that his readers would find models for the honorable conduct of their own lives. Although most of Nepos' works have been lost, we are fortunate to have his biography of Hannibal. Nepos offers a surprisingly balanced portrayal of a man that most Roman authors vilified as the most monstrous foe that Rome had ever faced.

Reviews available here: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/cornelius-nepos-life-of-hannibal-latin-text-notes-maps-illustrations-and-vocabulary

Trebia. Trasimene. Cannae. With three stunning victories, Hannibal humbled Rome and nearly shattered its empire. Even today Hannibal's brilliant, if ultimately unsuccessful, campaign against Rome during the Second Punic War (218-202 BC) make him one of history's most celebrated military leaders. This biography by Cornelius Nepos (c. 100-27 BC) sketches Hannibal's life from the time he began traveling with his father's army as a young boy, through his sixteen-year invasion of Italy and his tumultuous political career in Carthage, to his perilous exile and eventual suicide in the East. As Rome completed its bloody transition from dysfunctional republic to stable monarchy, Nepos labored to complete an innovative and influential collection of concise biographies. Putting aside the detailed, chronological accounts of military campaigns and political machinations that characterized most writing about history, Nepos surveyed Roman and Greek history for distinguished men who excelled in a range of prestigious occupations. In the exploits and achievements of these illustrious men, Nepos hoped that his readers would find models for the honorable conduct of their own lives. Although most of Nepos' works have been lost, we are fortunate to have his biography of Hannibal. Nepos offers a surprisingly balanced portrayal of a man that most Roman authors vilified as the most monstrous foe that Rome had ever faced.

The tug of war between individual freedom and institutional power is a continuing theme of history. Early on, the focus was on the church; more recently, it is was on the civil state. Today, the debate is about making corporate power compatible with the needs of a democratic society. The modern corporation has not only created untold wealth and given individuals the opportunity to express their genius and develop their talents but also has imposed costs on individuals and society. How to encourage the liberation of individual energy without inflicting unacceptable costs on individuals and society, therefore, has emerged as a key challenge.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Corporate Governance: Linking Corporations and Society
Chapter 2: Governance and Accountability
Chapter 3: The Board of Directors: Role and Composition
Chapter 4: Recent U.S. Governance Reforms
Chapter 5: CEO Selection and Succession Planning
Chapter 6: Oversight, Compliance, and Risk Management
Chapter 7: The Board's Role in Strategy Development
Chapter 8: CEO Performance Evaluation and Executive Compensation
Chapter 9: Responding to External Pressures and Unforeseen Events
Chapter 10: Creating a High-Performance Board
Chapter 11: Epilogue: The Future of Corporate Governance

Career and life planning is a lifetime process and this course is designed to equip you with the tools necessary to navigate each step of the way. This course is divided into six units to guide you through the career exploration and planning process.

Unit 1: Getting Started: Creating Your Career & Life Planning Vision:
Introduces the career exploration and planning process and highlights important success factors such as mental outlook, self-confidence and the power of positive thinking as you develop your personal vision.

Unit 2: Engaging in Self-Exploration:
Valuable career assessments will be administered and interpreted to help identify core values, personality preferences, interests, skills, abilities and character strengths.

Unit 3: Conducting Career Research:
Research techniques and tools for exploring the world of work, current job market trends, and online resources for career information will be covered.

Unit 4: Decision Making and Goal Setting:
Steps involved in the decision making process will be explored while identifying obstacles and challenges faced when making decisions. Goal Setting and educational planning tools will be introduced to help identify next steps and develop a personalized academic and skills based educational plan.

Unit 5: Developing your Self-Marketing Campaign:
The job search process, networking, resume and cover letter writing and interviewing techniques will be addressed to help create a strong marketing campaign.

Unit 6: Turning your Career and Life Planning Vision into Reality:
Creating a personal career vision statement and action plan is the focus of this unit. Staying motivated and determined to making the vision a reality.

This is a multimedia-enabled case in which students will be guided, by an industry expert, to apply structured problem-solving that addresses a typical supply chain problem, missing parts. What first appears as the issue may be a symptom of a root cause(s). The case utilizes videos, data files for analytics, audio recording, and videogame-style exercises to find the missing box of parts. The case is a collaboration between the Conestoga Centre for Supply Chain Innovation and ATS Automation and utilizes the ATS Business Model (ABM) approach to identifying and solving root causes. The case can be used in any Continuous Improvement course or program for either Business or Engineering students.

Examines intercultural communication, including cultural patterns, verbal and nonverbal communication codes and their practical application in today's diverse society.

Chapter 1 - Foundations of Culture
Chapter 2 - Understanding Cultural Identity
Chapter 3 - Social Construction of Cultural Identity
Chapter 4 - Cultural Biases
Chapter 5 - Taxonomies of Cultural Patterns
Chapter 6 - Understanding Intercultural Communication
Chapter 7 - Intercultural Communication Competence
Chapter 8 - Striving for Engaged and Effective Intercultural Communication

This lesson helps students recognize that they need to use different types of searching language in order to retrieve relevant results and to emphasize that research is an iterative process. Use when students have already formulated a research question and are about to begin searching for information on their topic.