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An Introduction to Formal Logic

Contributor: Magnus

Publisher: Fecundity

License: CC BY-SA

forall x is an introduction to sentential logic and first-order predicate logic with identity, logical systems that significantly influenced twentieth-century analytic philosophy. After working through the material in this book, a student should be able to understand most quantified expressions that arise in their philosophical reading.

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The Flat World Knowledge Handbook for Writers

Contributor: McCrimmon

Publisher: Saylor Foundation

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Are you teaching freshman level students? Is this one of the first college level courses your students have ever taken? Probably. That is why this English Handbook is different (and we think better). Miles McCrimmon's, The Flat World Knowledge Handbook for Writers is based on the understanding that writing is at the center of the college experience, not just something students do on their way to ”higher-level“ coursework.

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A History of the United States Vol. 2

Contributor: Trowbridge

Publisher: Flat World Knowledge

License: CC BY-NC-SA

A History of the United States Vol. 2 by Trowbridge is an engaging, accessible narrative that makes US history (after 1865) come alive and bridges the gap between academia and your students. This text does more than cover the basic timeline of events students need to be familiar with, it provides opportunities to read about history from a variety of perspectives and appeals to students of diverse backgrounds and abilities. Trowbridge made a concerted effort to reach students where they live, regardless of whether they have already discovered a love for history or they are about to in your class.

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Writing Commons

Contributor: Moxley

Publisher: OpenStax CNX

License: CC BY-NC

Welcome to Writing Commons, the open-education home for writers. Our primary goal is to provide the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing. We believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers–part of the cultural commons.

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Native Peoples of North America

Contributor: Stebbins

Publisher: Open SUNY

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Native Peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric, historic and contemporary information is presented. Each chapter begins with an example from the oral tradition that reflects the theme of the chapter. The text includes suggested readings, videos, and classroom activities.

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Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique

Contributors: Raunig and Ray

Publisher: Independent

License: CC BY-NC-ND

The essays collected in this volume were selected from Transform, athree-year (2005-8) research project of the European Institute forProgressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). Following up on the eipcp'sprevious Republicart project (2002-5), Transform supported a widerange of activities, research and exchanges focused on investigatingpolitical and artistic practices of ‘institutional critique'. These includedexhibitions, conferences and the publication of the web journaltransversal, in which all of the following essays appeared.

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Changing the Victorian Subject

Contributor: Tonkin

Publisher: Independent

License: CC BY-NC-ND

The essays in this collection examine how both colonial and British authors engage with Victorian subjects and subjectivities in their work. Some essays explore the emergence of a key trope within colonial texts: the negotiation of Victorian and settler-subject positions. Others argue for new readings of key metropolitan texts and their repositioning within literary history. These essays work to recognise the plurality of the rubric of the 'Victorian' and to expand how the category of Victorian studies can be understood.

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Technical Writing

Contributors: Hamlin and Rubio

Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources

License: CC BY-NC-SA

A textbook with a focus on writing in the workplace, with an emphasis on audience analysis, writing for specific situations, document design, research processes, and visual aids.

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History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

Contributor: Mitchell

Publisher: Independent

License: CC BY-NC-ND

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, it explores their use of the Victorians' own vocabularies of history, memory and loss to re-member the nineteenth century today. While her focus is neo-Victorian fiction, Mitchell positions these novels in relation to debates about historical fiction's contribution to historical knowledge since the eighteenth century. Her use of memory discourse as a framework for understanding the ways in which they do lay claim to historical recollection, one which opens up a range of questions beyond historical fidelity on the one hand, and the problematics of representation on the other, suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary historical fiction and its prevalence, popular appeal, and nmnenonic function today.

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Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama - Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion

Contributor: Porter

Publisher: Independent

License: CC BY-NC-ND

Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making' and ‘unmaking'? And what did ‘finished' or ‘incomplete' mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction' in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of ‘iconophobic' early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of ‘fragmentation' and ‘wholeness' in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture. An interdisciplinary study, this book argues that the idea of ‘finish' had transgressive associations in the early modern imagination. It centres on the depiction of incomplete visual practices in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, John Lyly, and Robert Greene. The first book of its kind to connect dramatists' attitudes to the visual with questions of materiality, Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama draws on a rich range of illustrated examples. Plays are discussed alongside contexts and themes, including iconoclasm, painting, sculpture, clothing and jewellery, automata, and invisibility. Asking what it meant for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to ‘begin' or ‘end' a literary or visual work, this book is invaluable for scholars and students of early modern English literature, drama, visual culture, material culture, theatre history, history and aesthetics. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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