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The Bright Continent: African Art History

Contributor: Curnow

Publisher: MSL Academic Endeavors

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This book aims to act as your map through the world of African art. As such, it will help you define the competencies you need to develop–visual analysis, research, noting what information is critical, asking questions, and writing down your observations–and provide opportunities for you to practice these skills until you are proficient. It will also expose you to new art forms and the worlds that produced them, enriching your understanding and appreciation.

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Genetics, Agriculture, and Biotechnology

Contributors: Suza and Lee

Publisher: Iowa State University

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This textbook provides an introduction to plant genetics and biotechnology for the advancement of agriculture. A clear and structured introduction to the topic for learners new to the field of genetics, the book includes: an introduction to the life cycle of the cell, DNA and how it relates to genes and chromosomes, DNA analysis, recombinant DNA, biotechnology, and transmission genetics.

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Visuals for influence: in project management and beyond

Contributor: van der Hoorn

Publisher: University of Southern Queensland

License: CC BY-NC-SA

‘Visuals for influence: in project management and beyond’ is a practical guide with 24 visuals to download, adapt and deploy to engage your stakeholders. This practical guide will build your confidence and practical skills to quickly and effectively leverage the benefits of visuals to maximise your influence.

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Introduction to Narrative Journalism

Contributor: Wielechowski

Publisher: UM-Dearborn Open Education

License: CC BY-NC

This textbook was created for beginning narrative journalists exploring the craft. It is inspired by the Narrative Journalism course (JASS/COMP/ENGL 310) at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and it is intended to be used as a guide and handbook. It is structured around the five elements of fiction, and provides both instruction and student examples of various narrative journalism projects.

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Liquidity, Markets and Trading in Action

Contributors: Ozenbas , Pagano, Schwartz , and Weber

Publisher: Springer

License: CC BY

This open access book addresses four standard business school subjects: microeconomics, macroeconomics, finance and information systems as they relate to trading, liquidity, and market structure. It provides a detailed examination of the impact of trading costs and other impediments of trading that the authors call “frictions”. It also presents an interactive simulation model of equity market trading, TraderEx, that enables students to implement trading decisions in different market scenarios and structures. Addressing these topics shines a bright light on how a real-world financial market operates, and the simulation provides students with an experiential learning opportunity that is informative and fun.

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Humanizing Science through STEAM Challenges

Contributors: Bahng and Hauptman

Publisher: Iowa State University

License: CC BY-NC

In a science methods course during the Covid19 pandemic, 51 future elementary teachers authored children's books and then read them aloud as part of a giving-back, service-learning activity as Open Educational Resources (OER). The 51 children's stories and their accompanying audiobooks aim to integrate STEM and the Arts to humanize science and scientific inquiry with history and philosophy of science in mind.

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Modeling, Functions, and Graphs

Contributor: Yoshiwara

Publisher: Bruce Yoshiwara

License: Free Documentation License (GNU)

Modeling, Functions, and Graphs covers the content of a typical college algebra course with an emphasis on functions and modeling; when combined with a trigonometry text or supplement, this text can be used in a precalculus course.

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Trigonometry

Contributor: Yoshiwara

Publisher: Bruce Yoshiwara

License: Free Documentation License (GNU)

This text covers the content of a standard trigonometry course, beginning with a review of facts from geometry.

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Elementary Algebra

Contributor: Yoshiwara

Publisher: Bruce Yoshiwara

License: Free Documentation License (GNU)

This text introduces the basic skills and ideas of algebra.

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Intermediate Algebra

Contributor: Yoshiwara

Publisher: Bruce Yoshiwara

License: Free Documentation License (GNU)

Intermediate Algebra is a textbook for students who have some acquaintance with the basic notions of variables and equations, negative numbers, and graphs, although we provide a "Toolkit" to help the reader refresh any skills that may have gotten a little rusty. In this book we journey farther into the subject, to explore a greater variety of topics including graphs and modeling, curve-fitting, variation, exponentials and logarithms, and the conic sections. We use technology to handle data and give some instructions for using a graphing calculator, but these can easily be adapted to any other graphing utility.

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