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Weather and Climate Forecasting: The Scientific Method in Action

Author(s): Thomas Kovacs

Weather and Climate Forecasting is an introductory college textbook focusing on applying the scientific method to everyday, severe weather, and climate change forecasting. Studies have shown that these topics are most relevant and engaging to students interested in weather and climate courses satisf...

Not Your Momma's Feminism: Introduction to Women's & Gender Studies

Author(s): Courtney Jarrett

Not Your Momma’s Feminism: Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies is a textbook designed primarily for use in the introductory course in the field of Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) with the intent of providing both a skills- and concept-based foundation in the field. The text is driven by a sing...

Purpose, Pattern, and Process

Author(s): Lennis Polnac, Arun John

Purpose, Pattern, and Process explores the processes writers engage in when they write. It focuses on how the purpose of the writing and the patterns of organization used to develop the content affect how those writing processes work. The organization and much of the content of this text is based on...

Art Start: Fundamentals of the Studio, A Guidebook for Artmaking

Author(s): Dennis Lick

Art Start Fundamentals of the Studio: A Guidebook for Students in the Visual Arts immediately engages the reader with useful guidelines for effective art making. Foundation topics of composition, color, pictorial illusion, formalism, and sculptural space introduce the broad range of conceptual and t...

Community Health across Diverse Cultures

Author(s): Lana Zinger

Among developed nations, the United States ranks near the bottom on most standard measures of health status! In order to understand and solve this health enigma, we need to start by examining personal health practices of Americans.The single greatest opportunity to improve health and reduce prem...