On Purpose: A Writer's Guide to Rhetorical Situation

Author(s): Martha R Dolly

On Purpose focuses on audience, purpose, genre, and other elements of rhetorical situation. Its goal is to prepare social science majors for future research-based academic and professional writing, including non-academic genres. The author, Martha Rowe Dolly, has taught social science advanced compo...

Discrete Math-The Graphic Novel

Author(s): Eric Gossett

Discrete Math: The Graphic Novel: Is fun to read. Features content sections that serve as short, easy to read overviews of many standard topics. Students can read the appropriate section of the graphic novel, then read, in more depth, the material in the textbook. Can be flexibly sequenced...

Online Like a Boss! A Comprehensive Guide for Taking the Guesswork Out of the Online Communication Experience

Author(s): Katherine Hampsten, Bradley Wesner

In today’s technologically advanced world, students are quickly becoming more and more adept at learning the rapidly-changing technology around them.However, learning to apply that to the professional world has become a problem. Online Like a Boss! A Comprehensive Guide for Taking the Guesswork Out...

Qualitative Communication Consulting: Stories and Lessons from the Field

Author(s): Craig Engstrom, Joshua Frye

Qualitative Communication Consulting is an innovative textbook. Each chapter tells a story that captures the rewards and challenges of consulting though qualitative lenses. Together, chapters cover the challenges of starting a consulting business, dealing with skeptical clients, explaining to collea...

An Introduction to Business: From a North Carolina Perspective

Author(s): Devon Hall

An Introduction to Business: From a North Carolina Perspective is an introductory textbook specifically written for North Carolina community college business students. Like other introductory textbooks, An Introduction to Business: From a North Carolina Perspective introduces business concepts from ...

Business and Technical Writing

Author(s): Jeffrey Jablonski

Business and Technical Writing takes a rhetorical approach that emphasizes writing in context and aims to move students through a continuum of writing experiences ranging from less contextualized workplace simulations to more situated, more authentic, client-based projects.   Business and Technic...

Introduction to Statistics

Author(s): Mehdi Razzaghi, Erin R Militzer

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Applied Communication

Author(s): Kevin Mitchell

Microbiology: Laboratory Manual for Allied Health and General Microbiology

Author(s): Jay Sperry

This microbiology laboratory manual has been used for many years for both a general introductory microbiology laboratory manual and for introductory medical microbiology laboratory manual for the allied health disciplines at the University of Rhode Island. It gives a comprehensive coverage of the ba...

Philosophy and the Good Life: A Text for Beginners

Author(s): Marcos Arandia

Whereas most textbooks consist either of 1) anthologies consisting almost entirely of primary source material without commentary or explanation or 2) a series of summaries of classic texts containing little of what the philosophers themselves actually wrote, Philosophy and the Good Life steers a mid...