Open Educational Resources & E-Textbooks

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• Biology
  • Biology
    Barbara Akre, Jean Brainard, Niamh Gray-Wilson, and Douglas Wilkin
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    This FlexBook underwent a thorough review conducted by practicing teachers, domain experts, copyeditors, and technical editors. It can be used in its current form, "flexed" (customized), and/or printed by the user. CK-12 supports feedback on all of its FlexBooks so that they can be continually improved and updated, while remaining aligned with state standards and curriculum guidelines.
    
    
  • CK-12 Biology
    Barbara Akre, Jean Brainard, Niamh Gray-Wilson, and Douglas Wilkin
          CK-12’s Biology delivers an overview in the life sciences for high school students, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the study of cell biology, genetics, evolution, ecology, and human physiology. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • CK-12 Life Science
    Jean Brainard, Niamh Gray-Wilson, Jessica Harwood, Corliss Karasov, Doris Kraus, and Jane Willan.
          CK-12’s Life Science delivers a full course of study in the life sciences for the high school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of living things, the building blocks of life, genetics and evolution, the kingdoms of life, the human body, and the ecology of living communities. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Computing Life
    
          Computers are embedded in much of what we do, whether it's a form of instant communication or the navigation of city streets via a GPS unit. Computers have also proved to be extremely useful to scientific researchers ... NIGMS has created this virtual online booklet ... to inform young people about the various scientific and medical careers that are open to them and to educate people more generally about the role of computers in scientific inquiry and discovery
    
    
  • Genetics Home Reference
    
          Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells. They provide structure for the body, take in nutrients from food, convert those nutrients into energy, and carry out specialized functions. Cells also contain the body’s hereditary material and can make copies of themselves.
    
    
  • Human Physiology
    Kevin Young and Provo College Nursing Students
          Human Physiology explains, system by system, the workings of your body. It is intended as an understandable undergraduate-level guide to how the body systems function at a cellular level and how they work together to maintain a favorable environment for your cells
    
    
  • Human Physiology
    Wikibooks contributors
          This book began as a class project in July 2006 with a small class of pre-nursing students. We knew nothing about how to create or edit a Wikibook, but we decided to do it anyway. We received a lot of help from the active Wikibooks community, and through the chaos a book emerged! I didn't teach physiology again until spring 2007, when we used this book as our textbook and improved upon it chapter by chapter. We are happy with our accomplishments, but the book could still be much improved.
    
    
  • Inside the Cell
    National Institute of General Medical Sciences
          At this very moment, electricity is zapping through your brain, voracious killers are coursing through your veins, and corrosive chemicals sizzle in bubbles from your head to your toes. In fact, your entire body is like an electrical company, chemical factory, transportation grid, communications network, detoxification facility, hospital, and battlefield all rolled into one. The workers in each of these industries are your cells. Cells are the smallest form of life—the functional and structural units of all living things. Your body contains trillions of cells, organized into more than 200 major types. At any given time, each cell is doing thousands of jobs. Some of these tasks are so essential for life that they are carried out by virtually all cells. Others are done only by cells that are highly skilled for the work, whether it is covering up your insides (skin cells), preventing you from sloshing around like a pile of goo (bone cells), purging your body of toxic chemicals (liver cells), or enabling you to learn and remember (brain cells). Cells also must make the products your body needs, such as sweat, saliva, enzymes, hormones, and antibodies. In Chapter 1, "An Owner's Guide to the Cell," we'll explore some of the basic structures that allow cells to accomplish their tasks and some of the ways scientists study cells. In Chapter 2, "Cells 101: Business Basics," we'll focus on the functions shared by virtually all cells: making fuel and proteins, transporting materials, and disposing of wastes. In Chapter 3, "On the Job: Cellular Specialties," we'll learn how cells specialize to get their unique jobs done. In Chapters 4, "Cellular Reproduction: Multiplication by Division," and 5, "The Last Chapter: Cell Aging and Death," we'll find out how cells reproduce, age, and die. Much of the research described in this booklet is carried out by cell biologists at universities and other institutions across the nation who are supported by U.S. tax dollars, specifically those distributed by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIGMS is keenly interested in cell biology because knowledge of the inner workings of cells underpins our understanding of health and disease. Although scientists daily learn more about cells and their roles in our bodies, the field is still an exciting frontier of uncharted territory and unanswered questions. Maybe someday, you will help answer those questions.
    
    
  • Molecular Biology Laboratory Manual
    Denny R Randal
          
    
    
  • The Evolution of the Human Brain: How Does It Account for the Knowledge Explosion?
    Mark Erickson
          The evolution of the human brain is a point of much debate among evolutionary biologists. Paleoneurology, which studies the evolution of the human brain, seems to be caught on the horns of a dilemma.
    
    
  • The New Genetics
    
          Explains the role of genes in health and disease, the basics of DNA and its molecular cousin RNA, and new directions in genetic research.
    
    
  • The Structures of Life
    
          I certainly recommend this booklet for those wishing to excite undergraduate students, to educate their scientific co-workers, and to show non-specialist and laypersons why structural biology is such an important field of biomedical research with direct and tangible effects on all our lives.
    
    
• Business and Economics
  • Business Fundamentals
    Donald J McCubbrey
          The Business Fundamentals text is designed to introduce students, particularly those in developing economies, to the essential concepts of business and other organizations. It does this by focusing on small, entrepreneurial start-ups, and expanding the discussion in each chapter to include issues that are faced in larger organizations when it is appropriate to do so. Traditional business models are discussed as well as eBusiness models, with appropriate links to the IS Global Text and other relevant websites. All major functional areas of modern organizations are covered.
    
    
  • Capture. Deliver. Excel
    Ilja van Roon
          Good business writing allows you to share knowledge, catalyse change and align people with strategy. And to sell more of your products, services and ideas! That is why the ability to express yourself in clear, structured and compelling writing is crucial to your success. This online version of the book Capture. Deliver. Excel. shows you how to * apply the 7 principles of business writing; * develop and execute an effective writing strategy; * manage the writing process. The book is written by Ilja van Roon, who writes for executives at multinationals, government ministers and entrepreneurs. Speaking about the book, Jay Conrad Levinson, the father of Guerrilla Marketing, said that "what all businesses need the most right now has just been put into words by Ilja van Roon. It should be mandatory reading for anyone in business -- beginners and experts alike!"
    
    
  • Core Concepts of Marketing
    John Burnett
          Through good economic times and bad, marketing remains the pivotal function i n any business. Determining and satisfying the needs o f customers through products that have value and accessibility and whose features are clearly communicated is the general purpose of any business. It is also a fundamental definition o f marketing. This text introduces students to the marketing strategies and tools that practitioners use to market their products.
    
    
  • ECONOMETRICS
    Bruce E. Hansen
          Econometrics is the study of estimation and inference for economic models using economic data. Econometric theory concerns the study and development of tools and methods for applied econometric applications. Applied econometrics concerns the application of these tools to economic data.
    
    
  • Econometrics
    Bruce E. Hansen
          This book is intended to serve as the textbook for a …rst-year graduate course in econometrics. It can be used as a stand-alone text, or be used as a supplement to another text. Students are assumed to have an understanding of multivariate calculus, probability theory, linear algebra, and mathematical statistics. A prior course in undergraduate econometrics would be helpful, but not required. For reference, some of the basic tools of matrix algebra, probability, and statistics are reviewed in the Appendix.
    
    
  • Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective
    Richard T. Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, George M. Zinkhan
          The book's title reflects some key themes that we develop. First, we are primarily concerned with electronic commerce, which we define as using technology (e.g., the Internet) to communicate or transact with stake-holders (e.g., customers). Second, we discuss how organizations must change in order to take advantage of electronic commerce opportunities. In this sense, our book offers the strategic perspective (i.e., the best way to operate a successful business in the 21st century). Third, with the growing importance of the Internet and related technologies, organizations must take electronic commerce into account when they are creating strategic plans. Thus, electronic commerce is a strategic perspective that all firms must adopt, both in the present and in the future. In other words, an organization that does not explicitly consider electronic commerce as a strategic imperative is probably making a crucial error. Here, we focus primarily on the opportunities and tactics that can lead to success in the electronic marketplace.
    
    
  • eMarketing
    Rob Stokes
          1991 Web Father, Tim Berners-Lee releases World Wide Web (www) with scientists from CERN. 1992 America Online (AOL) is launched and raises $23m in floatation. The term ‘surfing the net’ is introduced by Jean Armour Polly. The World Bank goes online. 1993 Mainstream media attention increases awareness of the Internet. First Internet publication. Wired, goes on sale. Mosaic introduces the first web browser with graphical interface and is the forerunner of Netscape Navigator. First online shopping malls and virtual banks emerge as does evidence of spam. First clickable banner advert is sold by Global Network Navigator to a law firm. 1995 Amazon is launched by Jeff Bezos. Trial dial up systems such as AOL and CompuServe launch. Charging is introduced for domain names. Search technology companies such as Alta Vista, Infoseek, Excite and Metacrawler rapidly appear. 1996 Yahoo! is launched on the stock exchange and shares are up nearly 300% on first day. There is no doubt about it – the Internet has changed the world we live in. Never before has it been so easy to access information, communicate with people all over the globe and share articles, videos, photos and all manner of media. The Internet has led to an increasingly connected environment, and the growth of Internet usage has resulted in declining distribution of traditional media: television, radio, newspapers and magazines. Marketing in this connected environment and using that connectivity to market is eMarketing. eMarketing embraces a wide range of strategies, but what underpins successful eMarketing is a user-centric and cohesive approach to these strategies. While the Internet and the World Wide Web have enabled what we call New Media, the theories that lead to the development of the Internet were being developed from the 1950s.
    
    
  • Emotion and Reason in Consumer Behavior
    Arjun Chaudhuri
          Emotion and Reason in Consumer Behavior is a pioneering book, among the first if not the first to apply systematic emotion theory and measurement techniques to the analysis of consumer behavior. I am confident that it will not be the last. Emotion was long a difficult notion in the social and behavioral sciences because of the perceived difficulty of measuring one of its core components: subjective experience. Behaviorists almost entirely eschewed the concept of emotion because it appeared to be impossible to objectively measure and verify subjective experiences because they appear essentially to be “private events.”
    
    
  • Global Consumer Behavior
    Chantal Ammi
          
    
    
  • Introduction to Economic Analysis
    R. Preston McAfee
          This book presents introductory economics ("principles") material using standard mathematical tools, including calculus. It is designed for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics. It also contains the standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that ought to be standard but is not. The book can easily serve as an intermediate microeconomics text. The focus of this book is on the conceptual tools and not on fluff. Most microeconomics texts are mostly fluff and the fluff market is exceedingly over-served by $100+ texts. In contrast, this book reflects the approach actually adopted by the majority of economists for understanding economic activity. There are lots of models and equations and no pictures of economists.
    
    
  • Quantum Microeconomics
    
          quantum Physics. A minimum amount of a physical quantity which can exist and by multiples of which changes in the quantity occur. (Oxford English Dictionary) The “quantum” of economics is the optimizing individual. All of economics ultimately boils down to the behavior of such individuals. Microeconomics studies their basic actions and interactions: individual markets, supply and demand, the impact of taxes, monopoly, etc. Macroeconomics then lumps together these individual markets to study national and international issues. In structure this book—which covers only microeconomics—is not unlike a hiking trip. We start out by putting our boots on and getting our gear together: in Part I we study the optimizing individual. Then we set out on our path and immediately find ourselves hacking through some pretty thick jungle: even simple interactions between just two people (Part II) can be very complicated! As we add even more people (in studying auctions, for example), things get even more complicated, and the jungle gets even thicker. Then a miracle occurs: we add even more people, and a complex situation suddenly becomes simple. After hacking through thick jungle, we find ourselves in a beautiful clearing: competitive markets (Part III) are remarkably easy to analyze and understand.
    
    
  • Quantum Microeconomics
    Yoram Bauman
           Quantum Microeconomics follows a "building-blocks" approach that builds up from individual optimization to strategic interactions between individuals to competitive market interactions between many individuals, thereby integrating decision theory, game theory, and price theory into a coherent whole. As described in the preface: In structure this book is not unlike a hiking trip. We start out by putting our boots on and getting our gear together: in Part I we study the optimizing individual. Then we set out on our path and immediately find ourselves hacking through some pretty thick jungle: even simple interactions between just two people (Part II) can be very complicated! As we add even more people (in studying auctions, for example), things get even more complicated, and the jungle gets even thicker. Then a miracle occurs: we add even more people, and a complex situation suddenly becomes simple. After hacking through thick jungle, we find ourselves in a beautiful clearing: competitive markets (Part III) are remarkably easy to analyze and understand. The basic text, Quantum Microeconomics, is intended for use in introductory classes
    
    
  • Quantum Microeconomics with Calculus
    
          quantum Physics. A minimum amount of a physical quantity which can exist and by multiples of which changes in the quantity occur. (Oxford English Dictionary) The “quantum” of economics is the optimizing individual. All of economics ultimately boils down to the behavior of such individuals. Microeconomics studies their basic actions and interactions: individual markets, supply and demand, the impact of taxes, monopoly, etc. Macroeconomics then lumps together these individual markets to study national and international issues. In structure this book—which covers only microeconomics—is not unlike a hiking trip. We start out by putting our boots on and getting our gear together: in Part I we study the optimizing individual. Then we set out on our path and immediately find ourselves hacking through some pretty thick jungle: even simple interactions between just two people (Part II) can be very complicated! As we add even more people (in studying auctions, for example), things get even more complicated, and the jungle gets even thicker. Then a miracle occurs: we add even more people, and a complex situation suddenly becomes simple. After hacking through thick jungle, we find ourselves in a beautiful clearing: competitive markets (Part III) are remarkably easy to analyze and understand.
    
    
  • QuickStart to Excel XP
    
          
    
    
  • QuickStart to Windows XP
    
          This unit will provide an introduction to the MS-Windows XP client operating system. The emphasis is on the minimum knowledge required to work productively on your Personal Computer
    
    
  • QuickStart to Word 97
    
          Welcome to Microsoft Word 97, which is one of most powerful and widely used word processing programs. Whether you want to type a simple letter or produce a complex book, Word can handle the job for you. These notes are only intended to get you going with the basic operation of Word. Books of several hundreds of pages have been devoted to the "ins" and "outs" of Word and even the most experienced Word users keep discovering new capabilities, features or possibilities. We just aim to give you sufficient confidence to type simple documents such as essays and projects. As you start using Word, you will discover new features as you go along. Do not be afraid to experiment or share your experiences with your fellow students.
    
    
  • QuickStart to Word XP
    
          This unit provides a quick overview of the functionality of Microsoft Word 2002. MS-Word is the word processor of the MS-Office XP productivity software suite. The emphasis in this unit is on giving an overview of the basic knowledge required to work productively with Word, rather than a detailed step-by-step introductory tutorial. On the other hand, there is so much functionality in Word that it is outside the scope of this overview to deal in depth with the more advanced topics. It is, in our view, better to learn about the advanced features as your experience grows and you develop a particular need for a specific functionality such as mail merge, collaborative document development, tables with calculations, VBA automation or web/XML integration
    
    
  • The Economy of Ideas
    John Perry Barlow
          
    
    
  • The influence of cause-related marketing on consumer choice: Does one good turn deserve another?
    Michael J. Barone , Anthony D. Miyazaki and Kimberly A. Taylor
          Are consumers more likely to select brands offered by companies that engage in cause-related marketing (CRM)? Somewhat surprisingly, little evidence exists that directly addresses this issue. Accordingly, the present examination investigates whether and when CRM efforts influence consumer choice. The results from several studies indicate that information regarding a company’s support of social causes can affect choice. However, CRM’s influence on choice is found to depend on the perceived motivation underlying the company’s CRM efforts as well as whether consumers must trade off company sponsorship of causes for lower performance or higher price. The results also indicate that CRM cues affect choice primarily through compensatory strategies involving trade-offs rather than through noncompensatory strategies. Implications of the current findings for existing theory are discussed along with directions for future research.
    
    
  • The Wealth of Networks
    Yochai Benkler
          The Wealth of Networks How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
    
    
  • Tourism the International Business
    Robert Christie Mill
          
    
    
  • U.S. Monetary Policy
    US Gov.
          US monetary policy affects all kinds of economic and financial decisions people make in this country—whether to get a loan to buy a new house or car or to start up a company, whether to expand a business by investing in a new plant or equipment, and whether to put savings in a bank, in bonds, or in the stock market, for example. Furthermore, because the U.S. is the largest economy in the world, its monetary policy also has significant economic and financial effects on other countries.
    
    
  • Unleashing the Ideavirus
    Seth Godin
          The #1 question people ask me after reading Permission Marketing: “So, how do we get attention to ask for permission in the first place?” This manifesto is the answer to that question.
    
    
  • USA Economy in Brief
    US Gov.
          This mini-publication discusses the factors that make the U.S. economy the world's most productive, competitive, and influential. It focuses on workers and productivity, small and large business, the service economy, goods and services, the role of government, and the concept of "creative destruction," the process where jobs, companies, entire industries come and go because of their success or failure in the marketplace. USA Economy in Brief includes colorful charts to illustrate, for instance, U.S. annual exports and imports and the U.S. trade deficit.
    
    
• Communication
  • A practical grammar of the Latin language
    George J. Adler
          A practical grammar of the Latin language; with perpetual exercises in speaking and writing: For the use of schools, colleges, and private learners
    
    
  • COMMUNICATION SKILLS
    Tara Dixon, Martin O’Hara
          Aims This resource has been compiled to give a general introduction to effective communication for practice educators. In the first section, the key components of the communication process will be discussed. The basic skills required for effective communication will be explored in the next few sections, and some specific contexts for communication, including giving presentations and feedback meetings, will be examined. On completion of this resource, you should be able to: • Identify the key components of the communication process. • Identify some typical problems that can arise in the communication process and demonstrate knowledge of skills to overcome these. • Demonstrate increased awareness of forms of communication and social behaviour. • Identify and use strategies for managing specific contexts for communication, including giving presentations.
    
    
  • Communication Theory
    Wikibooks Contributors
          This book is an introduction to communication theory — the theory of how humans share, encode, and decode what they know, what they need, and what they expect from each other.
    
    
  • Culture-Based Negotiation Styles
    Michelle LeBaron
          
    
    
  • Developing Intercultural Competence
    Nicolas Sola and James Wilkinson, Thames Valley University
          In a world in which national boundaries are being eroded and where cultural diversity is experienced within nations as much as between them, the ability to manage and to work in multicultural teams is becoming ever more important. The Erasmus / Socrates funded IICEE project (Interpersonal and Intercultural Competence for the Enlarged Europe) has developed a module to prepare people for work and leadership in such a world. In seeking to develop intercultural competence, an approach is needed which, on the one hand, develops awareness of relevant concepts and on the other, equips learners with practical skills which enable them to manage and work in multicultural teams. Accordingly, the IICEE module is structured around three learning units: interpersonal and intercultural communication, teamwork and presentation skills; creative problem solving strategies; and crosscultural project management and team facilitation. A collaboration of partners from 12 different European countries, the IICEE project is itself a case study in cross-cultural management, and besides outlining the content of the IICEE module, this paper also describes the IICEE project experience and how it has contributed to the design of the module. The paper also reports on the experience of delivering ICBE (Intercultural Communication for the Business Environment), a Masters level module offered at Thames Valley University which is essentially the same as IICEE but without the European focus, thus allowing a more global application. Finally, the paper concludes with reference to new work that may provide a suitable framework for the many disparate elements and apparent contradictions inherent in many conceptions of intercultural competence. These include basic questions concerning intercultural competence: its goal, scope, application and theoretical underpinning.
    
    
  • In Search of Intercultural Competence
    Darla K. Deardorff
          
    
    
  • Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation
    Roger W. Harris
          This e-primer provides case studies and lessons learned on the use of information and communication technologies in poverty alleviation programmes and projects. A poverty alleviation framework is presented as a guide to analyze the impact of the case studies.
    
    
  • Three Modules on Clear Writing Style: An Introduction to The Craft of Argument
    Joseph M. Williams and Gregory Colomb
          
    
    
• Computer Science
  • Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
    Shriram Krishnamurthi
          The book is the textbook for the programming languages course at Brown University, which is taken primarily by third and fourth year undergraduates and beginning graduate (both MS and PhD) students. It seems very accessible to smart second year students too, and indeed those are some of my most successful students. The book has been used at over a dozen other universities as a primary or secondary text. The book’s material is worth one undergraduate course worth of credit. This book is the fruit of a vision for teaching programming languages by integrating the “two cultures” that have evolved in its pedagogy. One culture is based on interpreters, while the other emphasizes a survey of languages. Each approach has significant advantages but also huge drawbacks. The interpreter method writes programs to learn concepts, and has its heart the fundamental belief that by teaching the computer to execute a concept we more thoroughly learn it ourselves.
    
    
• Electronics
  • A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Louis Scharf
          
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 1 - DC
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 2 - AC
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 3 - Semiconductors
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 4 - Digital
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 5 - Reference
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
  • All About Circuits: Vol 6 - Experiments
    Tony R. Kuphaldt
          This is a series of textbooks covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for both students and hobbyists who are looking to expand their knowledge in this field. These textbooks were written by Tony R. Kuphaldt.
    
    
• Engineering
  • Basics of Fluid Mechanics
    Genick Bar–Meir, Ph. D.
          This book, Basics of Fluid Mechanics, describes the fundamentals of fluid mechanics phenomena for engineers and others. This book is designed to replace all introductory textbook(s) or instructor’s notes for the fluid mechanics in undergraduate classes for engineering/science students but also for technical peoples. It is hoped that the book could be used as a reference book for people who have at least some basics knowledge of science areas such as calculus, physics, etc.
    
    
• General Science
  • CK-12 Chemistry
    Sharon Bewick, Jonathan Edge, Therese Forsythe, and Richard Parsons.
          CK-12’s Chemistry delivers a full course of study in the physical sciences for the advanced high school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of atomic structure, chemical elements, chemical compounds, stoichiometry, chemical kinetics, the physical states of matter, the properties and behavior of solutions, thermodynamics, nuclear chemistry, and organic chemistry. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • CK-12 Earth Science
    Craig Freudenrich, John Benner, David Bethel, Dana Desonie, Corliss Karasov, Mary Lusk, Erik Ong, Kurt Rosenkrantz, and Julie Sandeen.
          CK-12’s Earth Science delivers a course of study in the earth and space sciences for the high school student, relating an understanding of the history, disciplines, tools, and modern techniques of science to the exploration of Earth’s minerals and energy resources, its internal and external processes, its past, its waters, its weather and climate, the total environment and human actions, and our place in the solar system and beyond. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Earth Science
    Craig Freudenrich, John Benner, David Bethel, Dana Desonie, Corliss Karasov, Mary Lusk, Erik Ong, Kurt Rosenkrantz, and Julie Sandeen
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    This FlexBook underwent a thorough review conducted by practicing teachers, domain experts, copyeditors, and technical editors. It can be used in its current form, "flexed" (customized), and/or printed by the user. CK-12 supports feedback on all of its FlexBooks so that they can be continually improved and updated, while remaining aligned with state standards and curriculum guidelines.
    
    
  • Earth Systems, an Earth Science Course
    Curriki
          The following collection contains assignments and analysis for an Open Source Earth Science course for grades 9 - 10. The collection has been prepared from resources contributed by teachers and partner educational organizations on Curriki, an online community for creating and sharing open source curricula. The Open Source Earth Science course has been organized to meet the CA Science Standards for Earth Sciences in grades 9 - 10, as adopted by the California State Board of Education. This course is part of a set of collections that contain additional Earth Science resources on Curriki that can be accessed at www.curriki.org
    
    
  • Open Source Chemistry Course
    Curriki
          The following comprehensive collection contains an Open Source Chemistry course for grades 9-12. The collection has been prepared from resources contributed by teachers and partner educational organizations on Curriki, an online community for creating and sharing open source curricula. The ELR for Open Source Chemistry can be accessed at http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse/OpenSourceChemsitryCourseGrades9-12?bc=;Coll_Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse.ELRSubmissionForOpenSourceChemstry This course is part of a set of collections that contain additional resources on Curriki that can be accessed at www.curriki.org This open source textbook and additional resources have been collected into a Chemistry group on Curriki - CLRN - Open Source Chemistry Course. You can access these resources by joining Curriki at: https://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/JoinCurriki Once a member you can access and join the group, CLRN- Open Source Chemistry Course at: http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Group_CLRN-OpenSourceChemistryCourse/ This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
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• Geology
  • Introduction to Physical Oceanography
    Robert Stewart
          This is a new textbook describing physical-oceanographic processes, theories, data, and measurements. In addition to the classical topics, I have included discussions of heat fluxes, the role of the ocean in climate, the deep circulation, equatorial processes including El Nino, data bases used by oceanographers, the role of satellites and data from space, ship-based measurements, and the importance of vorticity in understanding oceanic flows.
    
    
• History
  • A Comprehensive Outline of World History
    Jack E. Maxfield
          This course presents Jack E. Maxfield's "A Comprehensive Outline of World History" as originally organized, chronologically by era and across regions within an era.
    
    
  • About America: How the U.S. is Governed
    State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs and Braddock Communications
          This joint publication of the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs and Braddock Communications presents a comprehensive yet easy-to-read overview of the various levels of and institutions related to government in the U.S. "How the United States Is Governed" describes how federal, state, and local governments are elected, how they operate, and how the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government relate under the U.S. constitutional system. It also highlights how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and other institutions allow Americans to influence and shape government policy. This publication contains a glossary and a list of useful Web sites.
    
    
  • Outline of U.S. History
    Alonzo L. Hamby
          A chronological look at how the United States took shape -- from its origins as an obscure set of colonies on the Atlantic coast a little more than 200 years ago into what one political analyst today calls "the first universal nation." This fully illustrated edition has been completely revised and updated by Alonzo L. Hamby, Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio University.
    
    
  • U.S History
    Wikibooks
          The United States History Wikibook covers US history from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
    
    
• Humanities
  • Outline of American Literature
    
          The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements as romanticism, realism and experimentation.
    
    
• Law - Criminal Justice
  • Outline of U.S. Legal System
    
          This Outline covers the history and organization of the federal and state judicial systems; the criminal and civil court processes; the background, qualifications, and selection of federal judges; the role of other participants (lawyers, defendants, interest groups) in the judicial process; and the implementation and impact of judicial policies.
    
    
• Mass Media
  • Broadcast Engineer's Reference Book
    E.P.J. Tozer
          
    
    
  • Handbook of Independent Journalism
    
          This handbook covers the ins and outs of what every professional journalist should know — from how to research, write, and edit a story to how to write headlines, choose graphics, and select quotes and sound bites. Print, radio, TV, and Web-based or online journalism forms are discussed in detail, as well as the skills required in beat reporting.
    
    
• Math
  • A First Course in Complex Analysis
    Matthias Beck, Gerald Marchesi, and Dennis Pixton
          These are the lecture notes of a one-semester undergraduate course which we have taught several times at Binghamton University (SUNY) and San Francisco State University. For many of our students, complex analysis is their first rigorous analysis (if not mathematics) class they take, and these notes reflect this very much. We tried to rely on as few concepts from real analysis as possible. In particular, series and sequences are treated “from scratch.” This also has the (maybe disadvantageous) consequence that power series are introduced very late in the course. We thank our students who made many suggestions for and found errors in the text. Special thanks go to Collin Bleak, Jon Clauss, Sharma Pallekonda, and Joshua Palmatier for comments after teaching from this book.
    
    
  • A First Course in Linear Algebra
    Robert A. Beezer
          A First Course in Linear Algebra is an introductory textbook designed for university sophomores and juniors. Typically such a student will have taken calculus, but this is not a prerequisite. The book begins with systems of linear equations, then covers matrix algebra, before taking up finite-dimensional vector spaces in full generality. The final chapter covers matrix representations of linear transformations, through diagonalization, change of basis and Jordan canonical form. Along the way, determinants and eigenvalues get fair time.
    
    
  • Advanced Algebra II: Activities and Homework
    Kenny M. Felder
          This is the main text of Kenny Felder's course in Advanced Algebra II. It consists of a series of worksheets, some intended to be used in class as group activities, and some intended to be used as homework assignments. This text is designed for use with the "Advanced Algebra II: Conceptual Explanations"
    
    
  • Advanced Algebra II: Conceptual Explanations
    Kenny M. Felder
          This is the Conceptual Explanations part of Kenny Felder's course in Advanced Algebra II. It is intended for students to read on their own to refresh or clarify what they learned in class. This text is designed for use with the "Advanced Algebra II: Homework and Activities"
    
    
  • Algebra I
    CK-12 Foundation
          CK-12 Foundation's "Algebra" Flexbook is an introduction to algebraic concepts for the high school student. Topics include: Equations & Functions, Real Numbers, Equations of Lines, Solving Systems of Equations & Quadratic Equations.
    
    
  • Calculus
    Raja Almukkahal, Victor Cifarelli, Chun-Tak Fan, and Louise Jarvis
          Calculus book from the CK12 Organization.
    
    
  • Calculus
    Gilbert Strang
          Published in 1991 and still in print from Wellesley-Cambridge Press, the book is a useful resource for educators and self-learners alike. It is well organized, covers single variable and multivariable calculus in depth, and is rich with applications. There is also an online Instructor's Manual and a student Study Guide.
    
    
  • Calculus
    David Guichard
          An introductory level single variable calculus book, covering standard topics in differential and integral calculus, and infinite series written by David Guichard, Professor of Mathematics at Whitman College. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Calculus
    Benjamin Crowell
          This short introductory text focuses mainly on integration and differentiation of functions of a single variable, although iterated integrals are discussed. Infinitesimals are used when appropriate, and are treated more rigorously than in old books like Thompson's Calculus Made Easy, but in less detail than in Keisler's Elementary Calculus: An Approach Using Infinitesimals. Numerical examples are given using the open-source computer algebra system Yacas, and Yacas is also used sometimes to cut down on the drudgery of symbolic techniques such as partial fractions. Proofs are given for all important results, but are often relegated to the back of the book, and the emphasis is on teaching the techniques of calculus rather than on abstract results. The book is designed more for self-study than for classroom use; full solutions are given for nearly all the end-of-chapter problems.
    
    
  • CK_12 Calculus
    Raja Almukkahal, Victor Cifarelli, Chun-Tak Fan, and Louise Jarvis.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • CK_12_Geometry
    Victor Cifarelli, Andrew Gloag, Dan Greenberg, Jim Sconyers, and Bill Zahner.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • CK_12_Trigonometry
    Mara Landers, and Brenda Meery
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • College Algebra
    Carl Stitz, Ph.D. Jeff Zeager, Ph.D.
          
    
    
  • Elementary Calculus. An Infinitesimal Approach
    H. Jerome Keisler
          
    
    
  • Elements of Abstract and Linear Algebra
    E. H. Connell
          In 1965 I first taught an undergraduate course in abstract algebra. It was fun to teach because the material was interesting and the class was outstanding. Five of those students later earned a Ph.D. in mathematics. Since then I have taught the course about a dozen times from various texts. Over the years I developed a set of lecture notes and in 1985 I had them typed so they could be used as a text. They now appear (in modified form) as the first five chapters of this book. Here were some of my motives at the time. 1) To have something as short and inexpensive as possible. In my experience, students like short books. 2) To avoid all innovation. To organize the material in the most simple-minded straightforward manner. 3) To order the material linearly. To the extent possible, each section should use the previous sections and be used in the following sections. 4) To omit as many topics as possible. This is a foundational course, not a topics course. If a topic is not used later, it should not be included. There are three good reasons for this. First, linear algebra has top priority. It is better to go forward and do more linear algebra than to stop and do more group and ring theory. Second, it is more important that students learn to organize and write proofs themselves than to cover more sub ject matter. Algebra is a perfect place to get started because there are many “easy” theorems to prove. There are many routine theorems stated here without proofs, and they may be considered as exercises for the students. Third, the material should be so fundamental that it be appropriate for students in the physical sciences and in computer science. Zillions of students take calculus and cookbook linear algebra, but few take abstract algebra courses. Something is wrong here, and one thing wrong is that the courses try to do too much group and ring theory and not enough matrix theory and linear algebra. 5) To offer an alternative for computer science ma jors to the standard discrete mathematics courses. Most of the material in the first four chapters of this text is covered in various discrete mathematics courses. Computer science ma jors might benefit by seeing this material organized from a purely mathematical viewpoint.
    
    
  • Fundamentals of Geometry
    Oleg A. Belyaev
          
    
    
  • Geometry
    Victor Cifarelli, Andrew Gloag, Dan Greenberg, Jim Sconyers, and Bill Zahner.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • High School Mathematics Extensions
    Zhuo Jia Dai, User:R3m0t, Martin Warmer, Tom Lam
          High School Mathematics Extensions: this electronic textbook is aimed at, but not limited to, 14 to 18 year olds who are interested in mathematics in general. Several interesting topics not covered in the standard high school curriculum are introduced in this text.
    
    
  • Introductory Probability
    Grinstead and Snell
          Introductory Probability emphasizes the use of computing to simulate experiments and make computations.
    
    
  • Linear Algebra
    Jim Hefferon
          This book helps students to master the material of a standard US undergraduate linear algebra course. The material is standard in that the topics covered are Gaussian reduction, vector spaces, linear maps, determinants, and eigenvalues and eigenvectors. An- other standard about the book is its audience: sophomores or juniors, usually with a background of at least one semester of Calculus. The help that it gives to students comes from taking a developmental ap- proach — this book’s presentation emphasizes motivation and naturalness, driven home by a wide variety of examples and by extensive and careful exercises. The developmental approach is what sets this book apart, so I will expand on it below. Courses in the beginning of most Mathematics programs focus less on under- standing the theory and more on correctly applying formulas and algorithms. Later courses ask for mathematical maturity: the ability to follow different types of arguments, a familiarity with the themes that underlie many mathematical investigations such as elementary set and function facts, and a capacity for some independent reading and thinking. Linear algebra is an ideal spot to work on the transition. It comes early in a program so that progress made here pays off later, but also comes late enough that students are serious, often ma jors and minors. The material is coherent, accessible, and elegant. There are a variety of argument styles — proofs by contradiction, if and only if statements, and proofs by induction, for instance — and examples are plentiful. So, this book aims to help students develop from being successful at their present level, in classes where a ma jority of students are interested mainly in science or engineering, to being successful at the next level, that of serious students of the sub ject of mathematics itself. Helping students make this transition means taking the mathematics seri- ously, so all of the results in this book are proved. On the other hand, we cannot assume that students have already arrived, and so in contrast with more abstract texts, we give many examples and they are often quite detailed. In the past, linear algebra texts commonly made this transition abruptly. They began with extensive computations of linear systems, matrix multiplica- tions, and determinants. When the concepts — vector spaces and linear maps — finally appeared, and definitions and proofs started, often the change brought students to a stop. In this book, while we start with a computational topic, linear reduction, from the first we do more than compute. We do linear systems quickly but completely, including the proofs needed to justify what we are com- puting. Then, with the linear systems work as motivation and at a point where the study of linear combinations seems natural, the second chapter starts with the definition of a real vector space. This occurs by the end of the third week. Another example of our emphasis on motivation and naturalness is that the third chapter on linear maps does not begin with the definition of homomor- phism, but with that of isomorphism. That’s because this definition is easily motivated by the observation that some spaces are “just like” others. After that, the next section takes the reasonable step of defining homomorphism by isolating the operation-preservation idea. This approach loses mathematical slickness, but it is a good trade because it comes in return for a large gain in sensibility to students. One aim of our developmental approach is that students should feel through- out the presentation that they can see how the ideas arise, and perhaps picture themselves doing the same type of work. The clearest example of the developmental approach taken here — and the feature that most recommends this book — is the exercises. A student progresses most while doing the exercises, so they have been selected with great care. Each problem set ranges from simple checks to reasonably involved proofs. Since an instructor usually assigns about a dozen exercises after each lecture, each section ends with about twice that many, thereby providing a selection. There are even a few problems that are challenging puzzles taken from various journals, competitions, or problems collections. (These are marked with a ‘?’ and as part of the fun, the original wording has been retained as much as possible.) In total, the exercises are aimed to both build an ability at, and help students experience the pleasure of, doing mathematics.
    
    
  • Mathematics under the Microscope
    Alexandre V. Borovik
          AL EXANDRE V. BOROVI K MAT HEMAT I CS UNDER T HE MI CROS COP E This is an abbreviated draft version of the book, to be published by the American Mathematical Society. c
    
    
  • Trigonometry
    Mara Landers, and Brenda Meery.
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    
  • Trigonometry
    Lmov, Evil Saltine, JEdwards, llg, Programmermatt, Alsocal (Wikibooks Users)
          It is easy to explain in word-terms what trigonometry means, but it is more important to understand what mechanisms of thinking, which will help you understand not only trigonometry, but everything in life in a much more vivid way. In mathematics, trigonometry is an important set of disciplines which relate to two and three dimensional objects; practically anything that you can see around you can be related to the principles of trigonometry and algebra -- in the real-world, it is very useful in engineering and construction, where its principles are important in accurately determining the lengths, sizes and areas of objects without having to actually create them first. Imagine the need to build a structure with only the basic land-area given to you: using the principles of trigonometry, you can easily calculate the geometric properties of objects to an unerring degree of accuracy. Trigonometry, however, isn't just about using formulae to find the correct angle or size in school. It describes the relationships that occur naturally between objects and their similarity in structure. When we compare them using a similar set of ideas, it gives us a lot of power to understand the basis of other things in life beyond that of just their appearance. Even though we can look at a circle, an oval, square or rectangle, we can know that there are principles we can apply to their shape which can be expressed through one entity: the triangle.
    
    
  • TRIGONOMETRY
    MICHAEL CORRAL
          About the author: Michael Corral is an Adjunct Faculty member of the Department of Mathematics at Schoolcraft College. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, and received an M.A. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. This text was typeset in LATEX 2ε with the KOMA-Script bundle, using the GNU Emacs text editor on a Fedora Linux system. The graphics were created using TikZ and Gnuplot.
    
    
  • UNDERSTANDING ALGEBRA
    JAMES W. BRENNAN
          FORWARD This is the PDF version of my Understanding Algebra website, currently located at www.jamesbrennan.org/algebra, as of December 2002. I offer it in the hope that it will help you to understand the concepts of algebra. I grant you the right to make one printed copy for your personal use. Please ask me first if you need to make multiple copies. I make no guarantee that this work is free from errors. In fact, it is quite likely that I have goofed up an example or two. Please feel free to point out any errors you find. You may contact the author by emailing jbrennan@boisestate.edu. This PDF file was designed for double-sided printing. Consult the documentation for your printer to find out how to do this (typically it involves first printing just the even or odd pages and then re-inserting the stack into your printer’s paper tray). For best results, I recommend copying it onto a disk and taking it to a copy shop such as Kinko’s. They will do a very nice job, and they can bind it and provide a heavy paper cover. Although I use color in this document, it is not entirely necessary, and you can save a little on the printing cost by printing in black-and- white if you need to.
    
    
  • Vector Calculus
    Michael Corral
          This is a text on elementary multivariable calculus, designed for students who have completed courses in single-variable calculus. The traditional topics are covered: basic vector algebra; lines, planes and surfaces; vector-valued functions; functions of 2 or 3 variables; partial derivatives; optimization; multiple integrals; line and surface integrals. The book also includes discussion of numerical methods: Newton's method for optimization, and the Monte Carlo method for evaluating multiple integrals. There is a section dealing with applications to probability. Appendices include a proof of the right-hand rule for the cross product, and a short tutorial on using Gnuplot for graphing functions of 2 variables. There are 420 exercises in the book. Answers to selected exercises are included.
    
    
• Physics
  • A Radically Modern Approach to Introductory Physics
    David J. Raymond
          This text has developed out of an alternate beginning physics course at New Mexico Tech designed for those students with a strong interest in physics. The course includes students intending to ma jor in physics, but is not limited to them. The idea for a “radically modern” course arose out of frustration with the standard two-semester treatment. It is basically impossible to in- corporate a significant amount of “modern physics” (meaning post-19th cen- tury!) in that format. Furthermore, the standard course would seem to be specifically designed to discourage any but the most intrepid students from continuing their studies in this area — students don’t go into physics to learn about balls rolling down inclined planes — they are (rightly) interested in quarks and black holes and quantum computing, and at this stage they are largely unable to make the connection between such mundane topics and the exciting things that they have read about in popular books and magazines.
    
    
  • A Textbook for High School Students Studying Physics
    FHSST Authors
          Physics is the study of the world around us. In a sense we are more qualified to do physics than any other science. From the day we are born we study the things around us in an effort to understand how they work and relate to each other. Learning how to catch or throw a ball is a physics undertaking for example. In the field of study we refer to as physics we just try to make the things everyone has been studying more clear. We attempt to describe them through simple rules and mathematics. Mathematics is merely the language we use. The best approach to physics is to relate everything you learn to things you have already noticed in your everyday life. Sometimes when you look at things closely you discover things you had overlooked initially. It is the continued scrutiny of everything we know about the world around us that leads people to the lifelong study of physics. You can start with asking a simple question like ”Why is the sky blue?” which could lead you to electromagnetic waves which in turn could lead you wave particle duality and to energy levels of atoms and before long you are studying quantum mechanics or the structure of the universe. In the sections that follow notice that we will try to describe how we will communicate the things we are dealing with. This is our langauge. Once this is done we can begin the adventure of looking more closely at the world we live in.
    
    
  • Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers
    Sean Mauch
          For the past few years I have been working on an open source textbook. It contains material on calculus, functions of a complex variable, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. The text is still under development, but I believe that the current version will be useful for students and instructors. I am trying to distribute the text to as wide an audience as possible, so please tell all your friends and link to my main page. By ``open source'' I mean that all of the source used in the creation of the text is available for download. The LATEX source which comprises the text, the Mathematica notebooks and xfig files used to make the graphics, etc. are all available. I hope this will save instructors time, as they will be able to cut and paste portions of the text to make problem sets, solution sets and handouts.
    
    
  • CK12 People's Physics Book
    James H. Dann, and James J. Dann
          CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
    
    CK-12 users should treat this FlexBook as anonline textbook. This FlexBook underwent a thorough review conducted by practicing teachers, domain experts, copyeditors, and technical editors. It can be used in its current form, "flexed" (customized), and/or printed by the user. CK-12 supports feedback on all of its FlexBooks so that they can be continually improved and updated, while remaining aligned with state standards and curriculum guidelines.
    
    
  • Classical and Quantum Chaos
    Predrag Cvitanovc – Roberto Artuso – Ronnie Mainieri – Gregor Tanner – Gabor Vattay – Niall Whelan – Andreas Wirzba
          Rereading classic theoretical physics textbooks leaves a sense that there are holes large enough to steam a Eurostar train through them. Here we learn about harmonic oscillators and Keplerian ellipses - but where is the chapter on chaotic oscillators, the tumbling Hyperion? We have just quantized hydrogen, where is the chapter on the classical 3-body problem and its implications for quantization of helium? We have learned that an instanton is a solution of field-theoretic equations of motion, but shouldn’t a strongly nonlinear field theory have turbulent solutions? How are we to think about systems where things fall apart; the center cannot hold; every tra jectory is unstable?
    
    
  • Conceptual Physics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Brief Contents 1 Conser vation of Mass and Energy 7 2 Conser vation of Momentum 39 3 Conser vation of Angular Momentum 63 4 Relativity 73 5 Electricity 95 6 Fields 113 7 The Ray Model of Light 133 8 Waves 163 For a semester-length course, all seven chapters can be covered. For a shor ter course, the book is designed so that chapters 1, 2, and 5 are the only ones that are required for conti- nuity; any of the others can be included or omitted at the instructor’s discretion, with the only constraint being that chapter 6 requires chapter 4.
    
    
  • Essential Physics 1
    Frank Firk
          This book is an intensive introduction for potential Physics Majors.
    
    
  • Essential Physics 1
    Frank Frik
          Essential Physics 1, is an intensive introduction to classical and special relativity, Newtonian dynamics and gravitation, Einsteinian dynamics and gravitation, and wave motion. Mathematical methods are discussed, as needed; they include: elements of differential geometry, linear operators and matrices, ordinary differential equations, calculus of variations, orthogonal functions and Fourier series, and non-linear equations for chaotic systems. The contents of this book can be taught in one semester. It is a book for first-year college students who have an interest in pursuing a career in Physics or a closely related field.
    
    
  • Introduction to Methods of Applied Mathematics
    Sean Mauch
          For the past few years I have been working on an open source textbook. It contains material on calculus, functions of a complex variable, ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. The text is still under development, but I believe that the current version will be useful for students and instructors. I am trying to distribute the text to as wide an audience as possible, so please tell all your friends and link to my main page. By ``open source'' I mean that all of the source used in the creation of the text is available for download. The LATEX source which comprises the text, the Mathematica notebooks and xfig files used to make the graphics, etc. are all available. I hope this will save instructors time, as they will be able to cut and paste portions of the text to make problem sets, solution sets and handouts.
    
    
  • Light and Matter : B1 Newtonian Physics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Why a New Physics Textbook? We Americans assume that our economic system will always scam- per to provide us with the products we want. Special orders don’t upset us! I want my MTV! The truth is more complicated, espe- cially in our education system, which is paid for by the students but controlled by the professoriate. Witness the perverse success of the bloated science textbook. The newspapers continue to com- pare our system unfavorably to Japanese and European education, where depth is emphasized over breadth, but we can’t seem to cre- ate a physics textbook that covers a manageable number of topics for a one-year course and gives honest explanations of everything it touches on. The publishers try to please everybody by including every imag- inable topic in the book, but end up pleasing nobody. There is wide agreement among physics teachers that the traditional one-year in- troductory textbooks cannot in fact be taught in one year. One cannot surgically remove enough material and still gracefully nav- igate the rest of one of these kitchen-sink textbooks. What is far worse is that the books are so crammed with topics that nearly all the explanation is cut out in order to keep the page count below 1100. Vital concepts like energy are introduced abruptly with an equation, like a first-date kiss that comes before “hello.” The movement to reform physics texts is steaming ahead, but despite excellent books such as Hewitt’s Conceptual Physics for non- science ma jors and Knight’s Physics: A Contemporary Perspective for students who know calculus, there has been a gap in physics books for life-science ma jors who haven’t learned calculus or are learning it concurrently with physics. This book is meant to fill that gap.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B2 Conservation Laws
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B3 Vibrations and Waves
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B4 Electricity and Magnetism
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B5 Optics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Light and Matter: B6 The Modern Revolution in Physics
    Benjamin Crowell
          Light and Matter is a six-volume series of introductory physics textbooks. This digital textbook was reviewed for its alignment with the content standards only; California’s Social Content Review criteria were not applied. Districts, schools, and individuals planning to take advantage of this free textbook are reminded to conduct their own review to determine whether this resource meets their instructional needs.
    
    
  • Mathematical Tools for Physics
    James Nearing
          his text is in PDF format, and is my attempt to provide a less expensive alternative to some of the printed books currently available for this course. If you find any mistakes or any parts that are unclear or any topics that you think I should not have omitted, please tell me. I intend this for the undergraduate level, providing a one-semester bridge between some of the introductory math courses and the physics courses in which we expect to use the mathematics. This is the course typically called Mathematical Methods in Physics. The text itself has been expanded so that it now contains far more than a one semester course. The text is available as a single file to download and save, or as the separate chapters. The advantage of the single file is that the internal hyperlinks will take you anywhere in the book, while the internal links in the separate chapters are confined to that chapter. The single file contains a full index (also linked). In the body of the text, the equation references are linked, so that clicking on the reference will take you to that equation. To return to your original position, either click on the left arrow (Previous View) at the top (or sometimes bottom), or use a keyboard shortcut [ Command<-- on Mac, Alt<-- on Windows, Control<-- on Linux ]. The table of contents and the index are also linked. There are also a few links to web sites within the text. If you want to read this on the screen there are two formats. The first is for a smaller screen and is formatted so that the page is wider than it is tall. The format for a large monitor is designed with small margins, so that you can more easily use a two-page display. If you choose to print the book and have a printer that does two-sided copy, or if you upload it to a commercial printer, there is a version with identical content, but with margins shifted for such printing and binding. It is 487 pages. This is a corrected and slightly revised version of the original: Dec, 2008.
    
    
  • Relativity: The Special and General Theory
    Albert Einstein
          The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the mathematical apparatus of theoretical physics. The work presumes a standard of education corresponding to that of a university matriculation examination, and, despite the shortness of the book, a fair amount of patience and force of will on the part of the reader. The author has spared himself no pains in his endeavour to present the main ideas in the simplest and most intelligible form, and on the whole, in the sequence and connection in which they actually originated. In the interest of clearness, it appeared to me inevitable that I should repeat myself frequently, without paying the slightest attention to the elegance of the presentation. I adhered scrupulously to the precept of that brilliant theoretical physicist L. Boltzmann, according to whom matters of elegance ought to be left to the tailor and to the cobbler. I make no pretence of having withheld from the reader difficulties which are inherent to the subject. On the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees. May the book bring some one a few happy hours of suggestive thought! --Albert Einstein
    
    
  • Simple Nature
    Benjamin Crowell
          Simple Nature An Introduction to Physics for Engineering and Physical Science Students
    
    
  • Special Relativity
    Wikibook Project
          Special Relativity is an introductory text for physics undergraduates and advanced high school students. It is also approachable by the educated layman. It is carefully designed to tackle the physics of simultaneity
    
    
  • The Age of Einstein
    Frank W. K. Firk
          The Age of Einstein, is a brief introduction to Einstein's Theories of Special and General Relativity. It is a book for the inquisitive general reader who wishes to gain an understanding of the key ideas put forward by the greatest scientist of the 20th-century. No more than a modest grasp of High School Mathematics is required to follow the arguments.
    
    
• Political Science
  • About American: The Constitution
    
          This illustrated publication includes the complete text of the U.S. Constitution (preamble, seven articles, and 27 amendments), as well an updated introduction and explanatory notes by J.W. Peltason, author of Understanding the Constitution and Government by the People. The introduction includes sections explaining how the Constitution set up the U.S. federal system, the background to the Constitutional Convention and how the participants arrived at a final version of the document, its ratification, and sections on the call for a Bill of Rights and the need for additional amendments over the years.
    
    
  • Free At Last
    Michael Jay Friedman,
          This book recounts how African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to win — both in law and in practice — the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans. It is a story of dignified persistence and struggle, a story that produced great heroes and heroines, and one that ultimately succeeded by forcing Americans to confront squarely the shameful gap between their universal principles of equality and justice and the inequality, injustice, and oppression faced by millions of their fellow citizens
    
    
• Religion
  • Apologetic Conversations
    Vincent Cheung
          Our subject is apologetics. Specifically, I have in mind the intellectual vindication of the biblical worldview and the destruction of all non-biblical worldviews in the context of informal debates, such as in personal conversations.
    
    
  • Captive to Reason
    Vincent Cheung
          This book is a collection of short articles that mainly deal with Christian philosophy and apologetics. These articles explain and apply the author's thinking to particular contexts and questions, and as such, they properly supplement what he has previously written.
    
    
  • Faith With Reason
    Joseph R. Farinaccio
          This is a book about worldviews. Everybody has one, but most individuals never really pay much attention to their own personal philosophy of life. This is a tragedy because there is no state of awareness so fundamental to living life. Since there are many worldviews out there this book was written to help individuals understand why biblical Christianity is so important, not only in our understanding of God, but ourselves and the world around us as well.
    
    
  • Presuppositional Confrontations
    Vincent Cheung
          
    
    
  • The Many Faces, and Causes, of Unbelief
    Bert Thompson, Ph.D.
          
    
    
  • Ultimate Questions
    Vincent Cheung