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Read more about Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers - 2e

Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers - 2e

Copyright Year: 2014

Contributor: Downey

Publisher: Green Tea Press

License: CC BY-NC

Think Stats is an introduction to Probability and Statistics for Python programmers.

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Read more about Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple

Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple

Copyright Year: 2012

Contributor: Downey

Publisher: Green Tea Press

License: CC BY-NC

Think Bayes is an introduction to Bayesian statistics using computational methods.

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Read more about Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python - 2e

Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python - 2e

Copyright Year: 2012

Contributor: Downey

Publisher: Green Tea Press

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Complexity Science is an interdisciplinary field—at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and natural science—that focuses on discrete models of physical and social systems. In particular, it focuses on complex systems, which are systems with many interacting components.

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Read more about Yorùbá Yé Mi

Yorùbá Yé Mi

Copyright Year: 2014

Contributor: Mosadomi

Publisher: COERLL

License: CC BY-NC-ND

The Yorùbá Yé Mi textbook, combined with an open access, multi-media website at http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/yemi, is an interactive, communicative, introductory Yorùbá program. It provides college/university students with basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of language learning in Yorùbá. It exposes the learner not only to Yorùbá language in meaningful situations but also to the culture of the Yorùbá-speaking people of South-western Nigeria. It contains effective techniques for teaching and learning Yorùbá including tones, and is user friendly in its approach.

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Read more about Conversa Brasileira

Conversa Brasileira

Copyright Year: 2013

Contributor: Kelm

Publisher: COERLL

License: CC BY

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.

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Read more about Calculus Volume 1

Calculus Volume 1

Copyright Year: 2016

Contributors: Strang and Herman

Publisher: OpenStax

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in three volumes for flexibility and efficiency. Volume 1 covers functions, limits, derivatives, and integration.

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Read more about Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1

Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 1

Copyright Year: 2015

Contributor: Konomi

Publisher: Portland State University Library

License: CC BY-NC

This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses more on social and professional life beyond school.

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Read more about FROM MSA to CA: A Beginner's Guide to Transitioning to Colloquial Arabic

FROM MSA to CA: A Beginner's Guide to Transitioning to Colloquial Arabic

Copyright Year: 2015

Contributor: Gomaa

Publisher: Portland State University Library

License: CC BY-NC

This book is for students who have studied Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) for one year or more and would like to learn colloquial Arabic basics using their knowledge of MSA. It aims at transitioning learners from Novice Mid level to Intermediate Low through presenting situations useful for living in an Arab country. The book has several features including hyperlinks, practice dialogues with open answers, cultural tips, and more.

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Read more about Applied Probability

Applied Probability

Copyright Year: 2009

Contributor: Pfeiffer

Publisher: OpenStax CNX

License: CC BY

This is a "first course" in the sense that it presumes no previous course in probability. The mathematical prerequisites are ordinary calculus and the elements of matrix algebra. A few standard series and integrals are used, and double integrals are evaluated as iterated integrals. The reader who can evaluate simple integrals can learn quickly from the examples how to deal with the iterated integrals used in the theory of expectation and conditional expectation. Appendix B provides a convenient compendium of mathematical facts used frequently in this work. And the symbolic toolbox, implementing MAPLE, may be used to evaluate integrals, if desired.

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Read more about Understanding Basic Music Theory

Understanding Basic Music Theory

Copyright Year: 2013

Contributor: Schmidt-Jones

Publisher: OpenStax CNX

License: CC BY

Although it is significantly expanded from "Introduction to Music Theory", this book still covers only the bare essentials of music theory. Music is a very large subject, and the advanced theory that students will want to pursue after mastering the basics will vary greatly. A trumpet player interested in jazz, a vocalist interested in early music, a pianist interested in classical composition, and a guitarist interested in world music, will all want to delve into very different facets of music theory; although, interestingly, if they all become very well-versed in their chosen fields, they will still end up very capable of understanding each other and cooperating in musical endeavors. The final section does include a few challenges that are generally not considered "beginner level" musicianship, but are very useful in just about every field and genre of music.

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