OpenStax Business Law Essentials I

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"Business Law I Essentials is a brief introductory textbook designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business. The concepts are presented in a streamlined manner, and cover the key concepts necessary to establish a strong foundation ...

Organizational Sensemaking in a Mixed-Media Environment: The Case of Paula Deen

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Abstract The rise of online media has changed not only the way organizations communicate with external stakeholders, but also the way that organizational crises are created, perpetuated, and managed (Sweetser & Metzgar, 2007; Choi & Lin, 2009). The 24/7 news cycle, combined with the “every-person...

Linear Algebra

Author(s): Kaiming Zhao

This book is intended as a textbook for a one-term undergraduate second linear algebra course which prepares students for both applied mathematics and pure mathematics, in particular, for Galois Theory. The students are assumed to have some knowledge on calculus, linear systems, determinates and mat...

Starting Life With a Clean Slate: Transgender Woman Starting a New Job

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Abstract Kylie stared at the computer screen, feeling the panic rise inside her as she read and reread the e-mail. It was April of her senior year, and she had already secured her dream job with a Fortune 500 company. Just weeks after graduation, movers would arrive in her small college town in t...

Keys for Living: Suicide Prevention

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Analyzing Case Studies

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Sample The types of cases you are going to read in this book are what we call decision-based cases, or cases that require the reader to come to some kind of decision. Every case is essentially laid out in a very similar pattern. First, you will be introduced to the main character of the case. Sec...

She Singled Me Out Because I'm a Woman: Gender/ed Dynamics and Workplace Bullying

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Sample After finishing a 9-month internship while pursuing her animal ecology degree, Emery was about to graduate and was very excited for her next career move. She had always known that she wanted to work in nature, and the environmental education internship she had just completed (along with th...

Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry

Author(s): Pedro Irigoyen, Frank Rudo, DAVID SARNO, JUN HO SHIN, Paris Svoronos, Peter Wong

Laboratory Experiments for General Chemistry, Fourth Edition updates and expands on earlier editions of this lab manual and is designed for the conventional two-semester General Chemistry sequence that is required for most STEM and pre-health programs. The experiments cover a wide range of topics in...

Introduction to Criminal Investigations

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Leaving the Nest Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future Career

Author(s): Nikole Knight

Too often even students who are close to graduation have not yet made sense of the process and are not yet secure in how college will help them be successful in their future. Leaving the Nest: Five Steps to Survival in College and Your Future is written for students who are presently in college w...