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    Read more about Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

    Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

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    Contributors: Gildenhard and Hodgson

    Publisher: Open Book Publishers

    License: CC BY

    In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would endow Pompey with unprecedented powers, the bill proved hugely popular among the people, and one of the praetors, Marcus Tullius Cicero, also hastened to lend it his support. In his first ever political speech, variously entitled pro lege Manilia or de imperio Gnaei Pompei, Cicero argues that the war against Mithridates requires the appointment of a perfect general and that the only man to live up to such lofty standards is Pompey. In the section under consideration here, Cicero defines the most important hallmarks of the ideal military commander and tries to demonstrate that Pompey is his living embodiment.

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    Read more about Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

    Tacitus, Annals, 15.20­-23, 33­-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary

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    Contributors: Owen and Gildenhard

    Publisher: Open Book Publishers

    License: CC BY

    The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome's most infamous villains, and Tacitus' Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat.

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    Read more about A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students

    A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students

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    Contributor: Lamoreaux

    Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources

    License: CC BY

    A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives.

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    Read more about Open Research

    Open Research

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    Contributors: Pitt, de los Arcos, and Farrow

    Publisher: OER Hub

    License: CC BY-SA

    If you have an interest in openness, open education, research skills or want to find out more about the impact of Open EducationalResources (OER), then this resource is for you. You could be:

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    Read more about A Concise Introduction to Logic

    A Concise Introduction to Logic

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    Contributor: DeLancey

    Publisher: Open SUNY

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    A Concise Introduction to Logic is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history; the author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles. The text also includes a basic introduction to findings of advanced logic. As indicators of where the student could go next with logic, the book closes with an overview of advanced topics, such as the axiomatic method, set theory, Peano arithmetic, and modal logic. Throughout, the text uses brief, concise chapters that readers will find easy to read and to review.

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    Read more about Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

    Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming

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    Contributor: Haverbeke

    Publisher: No Starch Press

    License: CC BY-NC

    JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications.

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    Read more about Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers

    Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers

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    Contributor: Caulfield

    Publisher: Mike Caulfield

    License: CC BY

    The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. For some reason we have decided not to teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any surprise that propaganda is winning?

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    Read more about A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications

    A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies & Applications

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    Contributors: Hall and Wahlin

    Publisher: Ohio State University Libraries

    License: CC BY-NC

    Welcome to the textbook for Engineering Technical Communications courses at The Ohio State University. Our aim in writing this textbook was to create a resource specifically focused on and applicable to the kinds of communication skills most beneficial to the students who take our courses. Therefore, this textbook focuses on developing both technical and professional communication skills and will help readers practice strategies for critically analyzing audiences and contexts, real-world applications of rhetorical principles, and skills for producing documents (reports, proposals, instructions), presentations, videos, and wide variety of other professional communications.

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    Read more about Project Management

    Project Management

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    Contributor: Watt

    Publisher: BCcampus

    License: CC BY

    This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share.

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    Read more about Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

    Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

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    Contributor: Van Cleave

    Publisher: Matthew J. Van Cleave

    License: CC BY

    This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is not a formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a “critical thinking textbook.”

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