tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/humanities?page=22Open Textbook Library - Humanities Textbooks2019-09-21T14:04:57Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png7762019-09-21T14:04:57Z2024-01-22T14:52:21ZIntroduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind<img alt="Read more about Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind" title="Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzMzLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1e4caaa1a7475f49941abfb0bb5dbae9b6a3bae2/978-1-989014-07-3.jpg" />Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field. It focuses on debates about the status and character of the mind and its seemingly subjective nature in an apparently more objective world.7742019-09-14T15:36:42Z2023-08-31T14:10:13ZEnglish Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate<img alt="Read more about English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate" title="English Composition: Connect, Collaborate, Communicate cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="457" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzMxLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--fe61f5cc9792747b93d150e0dad8312039c0c5cd/978-1-948027-07-6.jpg" />This OER textbook has been designed for students to learn the foundational concepts for English 100 (first-year college composition). The content aligns to learning outcomes across all campuses in the University of Hawai'i system. It was designed, written, and edited during a three day book sprint in May, 2019.7642019-09-07T17:53:31Z2024-01-22T18:58:55ZClicaBrasil: Portuguese Language and Culture for Intermediate Students<img alt="Read more about ClicaBrasil: Portuguese Language and Culture for Intermediate Students" title="ClicaBrasil: Portuguese Language and Culture for Intermediate Students cover image" class="cover " width="245" height="320" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzIwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--8b98747720d0703a438f771bdba39a6b655f97ff/9781937963156.jpg" />ClicaBrasil was developed for intermediate level Portuguese language courses at UT-Austin. People all ove the world are now using it for different purposes: self-study, classroom instruction, tutoring, or as a pastime.The lessons in ClicaBrasil integrate reading, writing, listening and reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication, and cultural activities. Numerous video clips (157, to be precise!) that show different Brazilians speaking about their lives, their culture, and their country support and enhance these activities.7622019-08-29T14:02:37Z2024-01-22T14:52:10ZInterpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film<img alt="Read more about Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film" title="Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzE2LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--e0ce9ec9ad4fd88f0bc3cb6fffa9070a470e07b3/978-0-9997970-0-6.png" />This book explores the role of traditional East Asian worldviews, ethical values, and common practices in the shaping of East Asian narratives in literature and film. It offers a specific method for this analysis. The interpretive goal is to arrive at interpretations that more accurately engage cultural information so that narratives are understood more closely in terms of their native cultural rather than that of the reader/interpreter. Current neuroscience related to processes of perception and the attribution of meaning form the basis for the theory of interpretation offered in the first half of the volume.7602019-08-24T21:16:28Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZHistory of International Relations<img alt="Read more about History of International Relations" title="History of International Relations cover image" class="cover " width="483" height="599" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzE0LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--b719ab1a15081811a0c97e0f74ac8323123cf0ab/978-1-78374-024-6.png" />Existing textbooks on international relations treat history in a cursory fashion and perpetuate a Euro-centric perspective. This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these international systems were brought into contact with each other through the agency of Mongols in Central Asia, Arabs in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, Indic and Sinic societies in South East Asia, and the Europeans through their travels and colonial expansion. The concluding section concerns contemporary issues: the processes of decolonization, neo-colonialism and globalization – and their consequences on contemporary society.7452019-07-21T13:35:12Z2024-01-22T14:52:13ZLogical Reasoning<img alt="Read more about Logical Reasoning" title="Logical Reasoning cover image" class="cover " width="652" height="802" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjkyLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--220938d6e649c5da5f2640a3db6c81ccf3f8f3cc/0000LogicaRea.png" />The goal of this book is to improve your logical-reasoning skills. These skills are also called "critical thinking skills." They are a complex weave of abilities that help you get someone's point, generate reasons for your own point, evaluate the reasons given by others, decide what or what not to do, decide what information to accept or reject, explain a complicated idea, apply conscious quality control as you think, and resist propaganda. Your most important critical thinking skill is your skill at making judgments─not snap judgments that occur in the blink of an eye, but those that require careful reasoning. This book is also available as an adaptable Word file.7302019-06-22T18:30:17Z2024-03-13T22:08:42ZMythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology<img alt="Read more about Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology" title="Mythology Unbound: An Online Textbook for Classical Mythology cover image" class="cover " width="600" height="800" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Njc1LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--2deb1aed83cfe64cfb539994686adde195959202/0000MytholUnb.jpg" />Mythology Unbound7282019-06-22T16:46:01Z2024-01-22T14:52:18ZMetaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy<img alt="Read more about Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy" title="Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy cover image" class="cover " width="160" height="241" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjczLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1f39ef2d132a3a03163d77c546b9ae8c52cd3227/9781783742004.jpg" />Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’ Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual’s reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about ‘oughts’ and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming.Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest.7252019-06-15T16:57:41Z2024-01-22T18:57:45ZLet's Get Writing!<img alt="Read more about Let's Get Writing!" title="Let's Get Writing! cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="525" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjcwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--1487cdbebd777f04e1de47ed0d78a78b08860081/0000LetGetWri.png" />This introduction is designed to exemplify how writers think about and produce text. The guiding features are the following: Every good piece of writing is an argument. Everything worth writing and reading begins with a specific question. Improving skills takes practice, feedback, and re-thinking, redoing, revising. The layout of our book implies there is a beginning, middle, and end to a writing course, but because writing is both an art and a skill, people will find their own processes for learning, improving, and using these skills. Writing processes differ because we are each looking for a workable schemata that fits our way of thinking. Try out a variety of writing processes and strategies, and find what works for you. If you are not uncomfortable on this journey, you simply are not stretching yet. Learning is prickly, awkward, and risky, so if it does not feel a bit unnerving, push harder and farther.7172019-05-28T18:30:27Z2024-01-22T14:52:03ZBrehe’s Grammar Anatomy<img alt="Read more about Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy" title="Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy cover image" class="cover " width="450" height="675" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NjYxLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--c855c0d60f550301441b7b34cb74eb7cac2b42f7/9781940771496.jpg" />Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy makes grammar accessible to general and specialist readers alike. This book provides an in-depth look at beginner grammar terms and concepts, providing clear examples with limited technical jargon. Whether for academic or personal use, Brehe’s Grammar Anatomy is the perfect addition to any resource library. Features: Practice exercises at the end of each chapter, with answers in the back of the book, to help students test and correct their comprehension Full glossary and index with cross-references Easy-to-read language supports readers at every learning stage
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