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Author(s): Ryan Pace
Business Entity Taxation rejects the traditional textbook method of providing the student with an onslaught of detail and complication. Rather, the focus is on a strong presentation of the fundamentals. To use a basketball analogy, a player must first develop a strong ability to pass, dribble and shoot. Once those skills are mastered, the student can readily adapt his or her skills to execute more advanced plays and sophisticated strategies presented by the coach.
Author(s): Han Liu
As the open education movement has been blooming for more than a decade in PK-12 education, digital media for teaching and learning manifested in OERs (Open Educational Resources) have increased exponentially in quantity, variety, and more pedagogically sound designs along with emerging cutting-edge technology. Teachers in early childhood education integrate digital media on a daily basis for their classroom instruction and assigned student learning activities at home or in other digital environments.
Author(s): Amelia Cuomo, Pauline Gagnon, JOSEPH P. MONAGHAN
Theatre Arts: An Interdisciplinary Approach offers modules in four major categories: Ideas, Stories, Enactment and Realization. Within these categories, you will discover subtopics like creativity, actors and blocking. At first glance, there seems to be a wide variety of concepts listed under these categories. Some, like auditions and casting, are obviously part of creating theatre while others, such as gaming, might seem like distant relatives.
Author(s): Melissa Gutschall
Nutrition and Health is designed to supplement any introductory nutrition course studying essential nutrients and the importance of good nutrition to health at various stages of life. The text is intended to guide the student in identifying key concepts with the use of topic outlines, project resources, study guides and experiential activities. Course management is made simple with organization, clarity, and the availability of resources in one document and student engagement is promoted with the use of hands-on activities and discussions.
Author(s): Leila E Harrison, Bobbie Ann Adair White, Richard Sanker
Guide to Becoming a Physician is geared toward anyone who thinks they want to be a physician and helps bring to light aspects to consider at each step along the way. It’s written with the beginner in mind with the hope that it will serve as an informative guide to help these individuals decide if it’s a pathway they want to pursue and if they do, how to navigate each stage. Most chapters include worksheets to help individuals apply the material to their life.
Author(s): Carl Campbell
Readers of Earth in Space and Time will become more critical interpreters of scientific ideas related to the Earth and will therefore make informed decisions in the future. The publication uses a “story book” format that starts at the beginning of everything and moves step-by-step to current times. Suitable for non-science majors who want to fulfill their science requirement, students will learn the integral role that earth science has in everything we produce, manufacture, and consume. The publication includes online resource links, figures, photos, and charts.
Author(s): Jude Thaddeus Socrates
Linear Algebra is a powerful tool that allows scientists to model physical phenomena and efficiently solve the systems of equations that arise from them. It is essential to almost every field of mathematics, such as geometry, topology, number theory, and abstract algebra. As such, it is not only computationally useful, with applications in data science, quantum mechanics, statistics, computer science, and all branches of engineering, but it also a great opportunity for the student to explore the beauty and elegance of mathematics.
Author(s): Kerrie Farkas
Transportable Writing Tool: A Guide for Writing and Revising transforms the way writing is viewed and practiced by delivering a comprehensive and focused tool that allows writers to use more effective writing processes and produce more effective texts.
Author(s): Crystal Etzel
How does one become a competent public speaker?
Public Speaking teachers have been asking this question for a very long time. There are many answers to this question. The answer this book chooses is The Progymnasmata.
