tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/humanities?page=9Open Textbook Library - Humanities Textbooks2022-10-31T13:22:22Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png12742022-10-31T13:22:22Z2024-01-22T14:52:35ZThe Path to Funding: The Artist’s Guide to Building Your Audience, Generating Income, and Realizing Career Sustainability<img alt="Read more about The Path to Funding: The Artist’s Guide to Building Your Audience, Generating Income, and Realizing Career Sustainability" title="The Path to Funding: The Artist’s Guide to Building Your Audience, Generating Income, and Realizing Career Sustainability cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDIzMywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0f811a57921d6b6788d5f195fcb244a4728e762c/OER-Book-Cover-Path-to-Funding-Web-Book-Cover-900x1200-1-768x1024.png" />Based on coursework developed at Peabody Conservatory, this book breaks down the process of developing an artist mission statement, generating new ideas for creative projects, and creating an engaging project description. It also covers methods for artists to identify their audience, generate a comprehensive project budget, collect compelling work samples, and identify potential funders to support their creative work. Written by a team of active artists and educators, this resource provides creatives with tools and strategies to communicate passionately and effectively about their work and take control of their financial and artistic future.12702022-10-24T13:29:35Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZIntroduction to Philosophy<img alt="Read more about Introduction to Philosophy" title="Introduction to Philosophy cover image" class="cover " width="804" height="1056" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDIwNSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--2c5dcc373d367fa3ce827cd0e21a8d8c0a42e663/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-24%20at%208.29.47%20AM.png" />Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Introduction to Philosophy surveys logic, metaphysics, epistemology, theories of value, and history of philosophy thematically. To provide a strong foundation in global philosophical discourse, diverse primary sources and examples are central to the design, and the text emphasizes engaged reading, critical thinking, research, and analytical skill-building through guided activities.12652022-10-12T21:08:45Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZPeople Learning and Development<img alt="Read more about People Learning and Development" title="People Learning and Development cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="994" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDE4MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--fd48847452e3cfbe8be39da6c4981dc85019e73a/OpenEducation_Pressbooks-Cover_PeopleLearning-Development-768x994.jpeg" />Are you interested in the topic of people learning and development or are tasked to implement learning and training opportunities in your workplace? We invite you to use this resource full of information and tools to help support people and organizations in their learning journey. Learning happens everywhere, and you will explore the different modes of learning on and off the job. But is a training program actually the right solution to address a performance issue in your organization? Learn how to conduct a needs analysis to help you decide what is in the best interest of the organization and people. Training and learning opportunities have to be properly designed to be effective and deliver the results you expect. Find out how adults learn and what motivates them to develop their skills. Discover how learning supports the performance management process and how to ensure that learning gets transferred into the workplace. The ultimate goal of training and development is to increase productivity, employee engagement, and to make a positive impact on the organization’s bottom line. So, evaluating training and development programs is critical to determine the company’s return on investment (ROI). You will find all of this and more in this resource to help you invest in and reap the benefits of talent development in your company. Remember, this is an interactive resource. We invite you to answer the questions at the end of each chapter to test your knowledge.12592022-10-03T18:44:35Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZA Dam Good Argument - 1st Edition<img alt="Read more about A Dam Good Argument - 1st Edition" title="A Dam Good Argument - 1st Edition cover image" class="cover " width="768" height="994" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDE1NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--728904fb7fa5175c5aae33392d5c1e79139cec4a/Title-Page-A-Dam-Good-Argument-768x994.png" />Arguments are all around us. Everywhere we look, someone is trying to get our attention, change our minds, or sell us something. Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform those attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer–from evidence to structure to tone–impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.12582022-10-03T18:34:26Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZIntersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy<img alt="Read more about Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy" title="Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy cover image" class="cover " width="432" height="648" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDE1MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b70b7ab05c4496588787abf7052d3db1f5bc8a48/9780838936740_PIL79_OA%20(dragged).jpg" />"The present volume is timely not only because it models creative and effective strategies to advance both open education and information literacy, but especially because it poses critical questions and urges practitioners to go well beyond questions of access to and the use of information. It demands reflection on what is being accessed (and what is not), who is gaining access (and who is not), who is providing access (and who is not), and what the goal is of this access (and what lies beyond access)."—from the Foreword by Rajiv S. Jhangiani Information literacy skills are key when finding, using, adapting, and producing open educational resources (OER). Educators who wish to include OER for their students need to be able to find these resources and use them according to their permissions. When open pedagogical methods are employed, students need to be able to use information literacy skills as they compile, reuse, and create open resources. Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy captures current open education and information literacy theory and practice and provides inspiration for the future. Chapters include practical applications, theoretical musings, literature reviews, and case studies and discuss social justice issues, collaboration, open pedagogy, training, and advocacy. The book is divided into six parts: Foundations Teaching Info Lit with OER Librarian Support of Open Pedagogy/OER Social Justice/Untold Stories Student Advocacy Spreading the Love: Training Future Advocates and Practitioners Chapters cover topics including library-led OER creation; digital cultural heritage and the intersections of primary source literacy and information literacy; situated learning and open pedagogy; critical librarianship and open education; and developing student OER leaders. Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy—which went through an open peer review process—informs and inspires on OER, info lit, and their many iterative convergences. It is available as an open access edition at https://bit.ly/ACRLOERInfoLit.12562022-10-03T17:31:50Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZHow History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline<img alt="Read more about How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline" title="How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDE0OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--d03f1efff6b1983120209606db3bffc690faed75/HistoricalResearch_Digital-1-1-683x1024.jpeg" />Learn what it means to think like an historian! Units on “Thinking Historically,” “Reading Historically,” “Researching Historically,” and “Writing Historically” describe the essential skills of the discipline of history. “Performing Historically” offers advice on presenting research findings and describes some careers open to those with an academic training in history.12542022-09-26T13:21:24Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZOpen Music Theory - Version 2<img alt="Read more about Open Music Theory - Version 2" title="Open Music Theory - Version 2 cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDEzNywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--356fe49ac8f677133f57d1c73ba7285ee38de24c/OMT-cover-lower-res-1-683x1024.png" />Open Music Theory Version 2 (OMT2) is an open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula. As an open and natively-online resource, OMT2 is substantially different from other commercially-published music theory textbooks, though it still provides the same content that teachers expect from a music theory text. OMT2 has been designed inclusively. For us, this means broadening our topics beyond the standard harmony and atonal theory topics to include fundamentals, musical form, jazz, pop, and orchestration. And within those traditional sections of harmony and atonal theory, the authors have deliberately chosen composers who represent diverse genders and races. The book is accessible. And perhaps most importantly, the book is completely free and always will be. The text of the book is augmented with several different media: video lessons, audio, interactive notated scores with playback, and small quizzes are embedded directly into each chapter for easy access. OMT2 introduces a full workbook to accompany the text. Almost every chapter offers at least one worksheet on that topic. Some chapters, especially in the Fundamentals section, also collect additional assignments that can be found on other websites. Version 2 of this textbook is collaboratively authored and edited by Mark Gotham, Kyle Gullings, Chelsey Hamm, Bryn Hughes, Brian Jarvis, Megan Lavengood, and John Peterson.12512022-09-15T14:26:23Z2024-03-18T13:30:17ZResultados Científicos de la Investigación Multidisciplinaria desde la Perspectiva Ética<img alt="Read more about Resultados Científicos de la Investigación Multidisciplinaria desde la Perspectiva Ética" title="Resultados Científicos de la Investigación Multidisciplinaria desde la Perspectiva Ética cover image" class="cover " width="1132" height="1600" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDAwMSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1c73ef223da37be4a66abe12d1ab3da29c551fcb/submission_14_14_coverImage_es_ES.jpeg" />El presente manuscrito es resultado de investigaciones multidisciplinarias bajo diferentes perspectivas científicas-académicas, mediante la confrontación de criterios de diferentes autores bajo un enfoque descriptivo que señala la importancia de ética en varios escenarios actuales como son la discriminación del trabajo dentro del caso de estudio en Santo Domingo, se resalta la importancia de los principios éticos en los negocios globales, se analiza la perspectiva ética de la publicad en empresas ecuatorianas bajo un enfoque de responsabilidad social, se aborda temáticas como la ética laboral desde la perspectiva de un mercado cambiante, al igual que la ética en organizaciones sociales y por último se abordan el tema el impacto del comportamiento de los individuos dentro de las organizaciones empresariales. Estos estudios se realizan desde una mirada científica y se la acerca a la realidad ecuatoriana.12462022-09-05T20:33:05Z2024-01-22T14:52:34ZLearning from Arguments: An Introduction to Philosophy<img alt="Read more about Learning from Arguments: An Introduction to Philosophy" title="Learning from Arguments: An Introduction to Philosophy cover image" class="cover " width="606" height="800" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzk4MSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1a0c099020d81268d82aad5fae09792bdf007093/new-barcan-high-res_orig.png" />Learning from Arguments is a novel approach to teaching Introduction to Philosophy. It advances accessible versions of key philosophical arguments, in a form that students can emulate in their own writing, and with the primary aim of cultivating an understanding of the dynamics of philosophical argumentation. The book contains ten core chapters, covering the problem of evil, Pascal’s wager, personal identity, the irrationality of fearing death, free will and determinism, Cartesian skepticism, the problem of induction, the problem of political authority, the violinist argument, the future-like-ours argument, the ethics of eating meat, utilitarianism (both act and rule), and the trolley problem. Additionally, there is an introductory chapter explaining what arguments are and surveying some common argumentative strategies, an appendix on logic explaining the mechanics and varieties of valid arguments, and an appendix providing detailed advice for writing philosophy papers. Each of the ten core chapters offers a sustained argument for some controversial thesis, specifically written for an audience of beginners. The aim is to introduce newcomers to the dynamics of philosophical argumentation, using some of the arguments standardly covered in an introductory philosophy course, but without the additional hurdles one encounters when reading the primary sources of the arguments: challenging writing, specialized jargon, and references to unfamiliar books, philosophers, or schools of thought.12452022-09-05T20:22:12Z2024-03-25T13:30:24ZAmerican Literatures Prior to 1865<img alt="Read more about American Literatures Prior to 1865" title="American Literatures Prior to 1865 cover image" class="cover " width="645" height="751" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzk4MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--267ce1d895cd2c43318cba295ae5485405546c75/Screen%20Shot%202022-09-05%20at%203.21.53%20PM.png" />This work was created as part of the University Libraries’ Open Educational Resources Initiative at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. A web version of this text can be found at https://umsystem.pressbooks.pub/alpt1865/. This anthology of American Literatures Prior to 1865, is organized chronologically into four units, focusing on Colonial Literature, Literature of Native American Perspectives and Discovery, Literature of Nineteenth Century Reform, and Literature of the New Nation. It includes introductions to the many authors included to enhance the reader's contextual understanding of the chosen texts. This anthology is essential reading for any student or scholar of Early American literature.
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