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Environmental Science: A Systems Thinking Approach

Author(s): Jeff Klemens, Chris Pastore

Environmental Science takes a Systems Thinking based approach to non-majors science education. The text integrates an introduction to systems thinking, including the practice of stock and flow modeling, with environmental science. The text progresses from simple models representing the flow of mater...

Prescription for Success: A Guide for Pre-Health Students

Author(s): Ellen Miller

This guide is designed to provide insight and guidance to students seeking a career in health professions as well as tips on how to promote their best self in the admission process in this keenly competitive but incredibly satisfying field. This book is divided into sections. The first section wi...

Knowing: Critical Thinking in the Modern Era

Author(s): Ted Greenhalgh

Feeling lost in the Internet woods? Unsure what to believe in the media with all the "fake news" everywhere? Fear not, this book explores how to navigate the complex information landscape by using the methods of scientists and other experts. Utilizing the best practices created over the past 2500 ye...

Biology 101 Lab Manual

Author(s): Ann S Evans, Robert Hannon, Jennifer M Martin, Eric Lamberton, PENGFEI SONG

The Biology 101 Lab Manual provides students with the opportunity to assume active roles in their exploration of the world of biology. Lab sessions supplement the lecture by implementing hands-on group activities and discussion. These activities aim to mirror the scientific community through a spiri...

The Silent Violence: A Beautiful Mess

Author(s): Jerome Rabow

The Silent Violence: A Beautiful Mess is the result of what 16 students accomplished in a 10 week semester. The class was devoted to examining the way in which educational institutions both create and perpetuate inequalities between individuals and groups. All students bring to the classroom creativ...

Operations and Supply Management

Author(s): SUPPLY CHAIN LEADERSHIP CENTER

The goal of Operations and Supply Chain Management is to present operations and supply chain management for nonbusiness majors from a practitioner’s approach rather than the standard academic approach to a study of operations and supply chain management. Carl von Clausewitz wrote a book in the early...

Understanding Screenwriting: A Step-by-Step Approach to Writing the Feature Film Screenplay

Author(s): John Vourlis

Understanding Screenwriting is a step-by-step approach to writing the feature film screenplay. The book is a process-oriented guide for teaching students (as well as aspiring screenwriters) how to create well-structured and well-crafted screenplays. The material was developed through years of studyi...

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management: A Practitioner's Perspective - High School Version

Author(s): William McLaury, Eugene Spiegle

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management, A Practitioner’s Perspective is based on both authors many years of experience working in the field of supply chain management.  It addresses the most fundamental concepts and best practices of contemporary supply chain management from the tactical and strate...