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Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience - 2nd Edition

Contributors: Farrington, Powell, Graham, and Anyanwu

Publisher: Encompass Digital Archive

License: CC BY

Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience gives instructors, students, and general readers a comprehensive and up-to-date account of African Americans’ cultural and political history, economic development, artistic expressiveness, and religious and philosophical worldviews in a critical framework. It offers sound interdisciplinary analysis of selected historical and contemporary issues surrounding the origins and manifestations of White supremacy in the United States. By placing race at the center of the work, the book offers significant lessons for understanding the institutional marginalization of Blacks in contemporary America and their historical resistance and perseverance.

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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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Read more about An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution

An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution

Contributors: Elmore and Halpin

Publisher: University System of Georgia

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Funded by the University System of Georgia’s “Affordable Learning Georgia” initiative, An Introduction to African and Afro-Diasporic Peoples and Influences in British Literature and Culture before the Industrial Revolution corrects, expands, and celebrates the presence of the African Diaspora in the study of British Literature, undoing some of the anti-Black history of British studies.

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Read more about Algoritmo de inteligencia artificial para la detección de cultivos de cacao (Teobroma cacao L.), banano (Musa paradisiaca L.) y palma africana (Elaeis guineensis J.).

Algoritmo de inteligencia artificial para la detección de cultivos de cacao (Teobroma cacao L.), banano (Musa paradisiaca L.) y palma africana (Elaeis guineensis J.).

Contributors: Zambrano-Garcia and Vlassova

Publisher: Editorial Grupo AEA

License: CC BY-NC-SA

Se analiza la expansión e intensificación de la agricultura no regulada e insostenible, principalmente en América Latina, enfocándose en Ecuador, donde la degradación del suelo está estrechamente relacionada con prácticas agrícolas insostenibles. Destaca la importancia de una planificación territorial exhaustiva y el uso de teledetección para evaluar cambios en el uso del suelo y la cobertura vegetal. La investigación se centra en la zona norte de las provincias del Guayas y de Los Ríos en Ecuador, enfocándose en el procesamiento de imágenes satelitales para detectar cultivos de banano, cacao y palma. Utiliza una metodología experimental y cuantitativa para comparar la efectividad de distintas metodologías de clasificación, evaluando la precisión del método de inteligencia artificial Bosques Aleatorios usando imágenes del satélite Sentinel-2. Los resultados del estudio incluyen el preprocesamiento de imágenes satelitales, el cálculo de índices espectrales NDVI y RESI, y la clasificación supervisada de las imágenes de Sentinel-2 utilizando los métodos de Máxima Verosimilitud y Bosques Aleatorios. Se realizaron análisis estadísticos detallados, incluyendo la validación de resultados mediante matrices de confusión y el cálculo del coeficiente Kappa. En conclusión, el manuscrito ofrece una comprensión profunda de cómo la teledetección y la inteligencia artificial pueden ayudar en la detección y clasificación de cultivos en áreas específicas, contribuyendo a la gestión agrícola y la planificación territorial sostenible.

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American Government and Politics in the Information Age

Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing

License: CC BY-NC-SA

This text is a comprehensive introduction to the vital subject of American government and politics. Governments decide who gets what, when, how (See Harold D. Lasswell, Politics: Who Gets What, When, How, [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1936]); they make policies and pass laws that are binding on all a society's members; they decide about taxation and spending, benefits and costs, even life and death.

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American Government - 3e

Contributors: Krutz and Waskiewicz

Publisher: OpenStax CNX

License: CC BY

American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government. The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but to work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses, future careers, and as engaged citizens.

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Sources of American Law: An Introduction to Legal Research - 8th Edition

Contributors: Steenken and Brooks

Publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press

License: CC BY-NC-SA

At its most basic definition the practice of law comprises conducting research to find relevant rules of law and then applying those rules to the specific set of circumstances faced by a client. However, in American law, the legal rules to be applied derive from myriad sources, complicating the process and making legal research different from other sorts of research. This text introduces first-year law students to the new kind of research required to study and to practice law. It seeks to demystify the art of legal research by following a “Source and Process” approach. First, the text introduces students to the major sources of American law and describes the forms the various authorities traditionally took in print. After establishing this base, the text proceeds to instruct students on the methods they will most likely use in practice, namely electronic research techniques and the consultation of secondary sources. Sources of Law incorporates screencasts currently hosted on YouTube that actively demonstrate the processes described in the static text. Finally, the text illustrates how the different pieces come together in the legal research process.

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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

Contributors: Berke, Bleil, and Cofer

Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

License: CC BY-SA

Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present is a text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.

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American Contract Law for a Global Age

Contributors: Burge and Snyder

Publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press

License: CC BY-NC-SA

American Contract Law for a Global Age by Franklin G. Snyder and Mark Edwin Burge of Texas A&M University School of Law is a casebook designed primarily for the first-year Contracts course as it is taught in American law schools, but is configured so as to be usable either as a primary text or a supplement in any upper-level U.S. or foreign class that seeks to introduce American contract law to students. As an eLangdell text, it offers maximum flexibility for students to read either in hard copy or electronic format on most electronic devices.

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American Environmental History

Contributor: Allosso

Publisher: Minnesota Libraries Publishing Project

License: CC BY-SA

For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.

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