Statics: A Lecturebook

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"Statics: A Lecturebook is a hybrid textbook/lecture notes set is designed to provide you with an undergraduate-level, engineering-focused introduction to the topic of engineering statics. To this end, the text covers the following key topical areas: • Vector fundamentals: including basic definition...

Social Theory for Sports Lovers

Author(s): Synthia Sydnor

Sport looms large in current times, entwined with political movements, climate change, and pandemic. Yet what is sport’s function in society? Through the lens of respected intellectual traditions, Social Theory for Sports Lovers engages with this wondrous, sometimes decadent thing, sport. Readers --...

Framing and Priming in Presidential Campaign Ads

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“A lot of people still don’t really know who I am,” said John F. Kerry to reporters in spring 2004, just as he emerged as the Democratic presidential nominee and began the general election campaign in earnest (Jackson, 2004). Like all presidential candidates, Kerry was obligated to establish a posit...

OpenStax Entrepreneurship

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"This textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level. Due to the wide range of audiences and course approaches, the book is designed to be as flexible as possible. Theoretical and practical aspects are presented in a balanced manner, and specific com...

Introduction to Analog & Digital Circuits

Author(s): Brian Dean, Daniel Llamocca

The Introduction to Analog and Digital Circuits book is written for students who are interested in learning the fundamental elements of electrical circuits from an engineering perspective. The book is divided in two main sections: digital circuits (6 chapters) and analog circuits (6 chapters). Th...

Disarmingly Funny: The Perils of Television's Political Comedy

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Sample On September 13, 2008 the season premier of Saturday Night Live opened with comediennes Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and New York Senator Hillary Clinton. The sketch aired in the final months of election coverage, and introduced what would become Fey’s most noted...

Family Matters: An Autoethnographic Narrative of Addicted Selves and Addicted Others with/in the Family.

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Abstract This chapter explores the negotiation of family relationships in the context of addiction, based on my experiences living with and through family addiction. I use autoethnography to recall the ways in which a sister, her sister, and the family experienced addiction in the home. Within th...

The Poppies of Troy

Author(s): John Walsh

The Poppies of Troy revisits the ancient epic story of the Trojan War and retells it through the medium of a graphic novel. In an exciting version that honors much of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the author uses certain aspects of these epics from the 8th century BC to address contemporary issues of t...

Where Do I Fit? My Place in the Global Community

Author(s): Akwasi Osei, Fidelis O. Balogun

The reality of our times is instant global connectivity in all areas of human endeavor. We are truly a global village within which humanity, in all its diversities, lives much closer together and share much more in common than ever before.  The quantum advances in technology has revolutionized all a...

Introduction to Humanities

Author(s): Tamara Hill