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Richard Lunsford
No full textRichard Lunsford, 10.5x14.5cm Property of F.B. Lamberthttps://mds.marshall.edu/lambert_papers/2556/thumbnail.jp
Financial Accounting
No full textThis book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence/ utilizing the Socratic method of asking and answering questions.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1000/thumbnail.jp
Writing for Success
No full textWriting for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps/ builds writing/ reading/ and critical thinking/ and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements/ this book addresses each concept with clear/ concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate/ and reinforce/ learning. Each chapter allows your students to demonstrate mastery of the principles of quality writing. With its incremental approach/ it can address a range of writing levels and abilities/ helping each student in your course prepare for their next writing or university course. Constant reinforcement is provided through examples and exercises/ and the text involves students in the learning process through reading/ problem-solving/ practicing/ listening/ and experiencing the writing process. Each chapter also has integrated examples that unify the discussion and form a common/ easy-to-understand basis for discussion and exploration. This will put your students at ease/ and allow for greater absorption of the material. Tips for effective writing are included in every chapter/ as well. Thought-provoking scenarios provide challenges and opportunities for collaboration and interaction. These exercises are especially helpful if you incorporate group work in your course. Clear exercises teach sentence and paragraph writing skills that lead to common English composition and research essays. Features: Exercises are integrated in each segment. Each concept is immediately reinforced as soon as it is introduced to keep students on track. Exercises are designed to facilitate interaction and collaboration. This allows for peer-peer engagement/ development of interpersonal skills/ and promotion of critical thinking skills. Exercises that involve self-editing and collaborative writing are featured. This feature develops and promotes student interest in the areas and content. There are clear internal summaries and effective displays of information. This contributes to ease of access to information and increases the ability of your students to locate desired content. Rule explanations are simplified with clear/ relevant/ and theme-based examples. This feature provides context that will facilitate learning and increase knowledge retention. There is an obvious structure to the chapter and segment level. This allows for easy adaptation to your existing and changing course needs or assessment outcomes.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1041/thumbnail.jp
Basic Analysis: Introduction to Real Analysis
No full textThis free online textbook (e-book in webspeak) is a one semester course in basic analysis. This book started its life as my lecture notes for Math 444 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the fall semester of 2009/ and was later enhanced to teach Math 521 at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison). A prerequisite for the course is a basic proof course. It should be possible to use the book for both a basic course for students who do not necessarily wish to go to graduate school/ but also as a first semester of a more advanced course that also covers topics such as metric spaces.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1072/thumbnail.jp
Contract Doctrine/ Theory & Practice Volume 2
No full textThis is Volume 2 in a three volume series written for Contracts Law. Its orginal title was Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts. The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not “legalese”)/ to formulate and evaluate legal arguments/ to become comfortable with the distinctive style of legal analysis. We could teach these skills using almost any legal topic. But we begin the first-year curriculum with subjects that pervade the entire field of law. Contract principles have a long history and they form a significant part of the way that lawyers think about many legal problems. As you will discover when you study insurance law/ employment law/ family law/ and dozens of other practice areas/ your knowledge of contract doctrine and theory will be invaluable.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1077/thumbnail.jp
United States Copyright Law
No full textThis Intellectual Property Supplement from eLangdell Press contains the text of federal laws and regulations in the area of copyright/ trademarks and patents. The editors have endeavored to gather all relevant laws/ rules and regulations. This collection is intended to be used primarily as a statutory supplement for law students and legal scholars in academic settings/ although practitioners in this area of law will also find it useful. This volume/ Volume 1: Copyright Statutory Law contains the text of Title 17 of the United States Code as it appears on the most current edition available on the U.S. Government website FDSYS. Updates to the U.S. Code not yet found in the FDSYS published editions can be found in the United States House of Representatives Office of Law Revision Counsel\u27s Classification Tables. Some formatting modification has been performed to better accommodate electronic readers.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1080/thumbnail.jp
Computer-Aided Exercises in Civil Procedure - 7th Edition
No full textThe sixth edition/ first published as an ebook/ and this seventh edition carry forward the philosophy and structure of the earlier editions. This book is not a comprehensive treatise on the subject of civil procedure/ yet it provides a mixture of expository text/ cases/ and self-testing questions in nearly all of the major areas of the subject. In order to maximize accessibility/ flexibility/ and compatibility of the book/ the authors have chosen CALI\u27s eLangdell Press to publish and distribute the sixth edition (as chapters) and this revised seventh (as a complete book) electronically with a Creative Commons license. Publishing a law textbook electronically with far fewer restrictions than most commercial books and using a somewhat new/ boutique outfit such as eLangdell Press is an unconventional choice/ to say the least. But the authors share the eLangdell vision of more flexible teaching materials for professors and more cost-effective books for students. Professors may now edit and remix this work to match their teaching without worry of copyright infringement. Students may now adopt this book/ read it using any number of software or devices/ and even print it - all for free. The book\u27s authors/ like its publishers/ believe that this new book model represents an important and long overdue step forward in the way law school books are published. All the exercises have been substantially revised for this edition. The individual exercises also are reorganized and expanded so that they follow a more standardized pattern: expository text on the topic area/ work-book questions/ and introduction to the related online CALI lessons. This book/ and the accompanying interactive exercises known as CALI Lessons available online through the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) at www.cali.org/ are intended to provide a challenging educational experience. For each exercise/ students should read the text in this book and answer the questions before accessing the rest of the exercise online. Professors choosing to assign only some of the exercises - or students looking for additional work only in certain areas of the subject - may especially want to consider these exercises and lessons: Exercise Two: Jurisdiction (Jurisdiction & Venue and Jurisdiction Over the Person); Exercise Three: Pleading a Complaint; Exercise Five: Motions to Dismiss and Waiver under Federal Rule 12; Exercise Six: Joinder and Supplemental Jurisdiction (An Exercise in Civil Procedure/ Review of Joinder Concepts/ Joinder of Claims and Parties/ and An Interpleader Primer); Exercise Eight: Summary Judgment; and Exercise Eleven: Preclusion. Additionally/ Exercise One: Holding and Dicta in the Context of a Diversity Case is an excellent introduction to legal method. The first two editions of this book/ by Roger Park/ included Exercise One: Holding and Dicta in the Context of a Diversity Case/ Exercise Two: Jurisdiction/ Exercise Three: Pleading a Complaint/ Exercise Four: Demurrers and Judgments on the Pleadings/ Exercise Five: Motions to Dismiss and Waiver Under Rule 12/ Exercise Nine: Judgment as a Matter of Law/ and Exercise Ten: Evidence for Civil Procedure Students. For the last five editions of this book/ Douglas McFarland has edited the above exercises and added Exercise Six: Joinder and Supplemental Jurisdiction/ Exercise Seven: Discovery/ Exercise Eight: Summary Judgment/ and Exercise Eleven: Preclusion. Accordingly/ the book has become more comprehensive/ expanding from seven to eleven exercises. Of course/ each new edition incorporates changes and updates in procedural law. All of the information necessary to prepare for an interactive exercise is contained in this book. Reference to additional materials may be useful/ but is not necessary. Each exercise can be assigned separately. No exercise is a prerequisite for another. In fact/ students will find the expository material and work-book questions in each exercise independently valuable even without completing the CALI lesson for that chapter. The CALI lessons are valuable either to provide additional understanding and self-testing of subjects discussed in class or as primary substitutes for areas not covered in depth in class. In general/ the interactive/ online exercises follow a non-linear branching format. They seek to present challenges and questions instead of rote learning or leading students through an error-free educational experience. Although the exercises eventually evaluate student answers/ they sometimes eschew immediate feedback in favor of the development of a line of questions. The ideal is the creation of a classroom-like Socratic dialogue. For a description of general goals and educational theory of the exercises/ see Roger C. Park & Russell Burris/ Computer-Aided Legal Instruction in Law: Theories/ Techniques/ and Trepidations/ 1978 Am. B. Found. Res. J. 1. This book and accompanying exercises cannot reproduce the spontaneity and flexibility of the live classroom/ but they can be a useful supplement. They require an active learning process in which students respond to questions dozens of times during each hour of instruction/ and receive prompt evaluation of their answers. Another benefit of computer-aided instruction—and the phrase “computer-aided” is used loosely here and in the title of this book; the exercises are compatible with many non-computer devices such as tablets and smartphones—is its “individualized” nature. Law professors and students should not take this literally/ however. Surveys administered at several law schools indicate that an overwhelming majority of students believe that the exercises are more valuable when done in pairs or threes instead of alone. Students who do the exercises with a partner are more likely to consider their responses carefully and to enjoy the experience. They also have lively discussions about what their response should be and why the computer responded as it did. As with previous editions/ we continue to welcome and solicit comments from professors and students about the book and the accompanying exercises.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1087/thumbnail.jp
Civil Procedure: Pleading
No full textThis chapter covers the Civil Procedure topic of Pleading: The Plaintiff‘s Complaint. The chapter takes approximately four class periods to cover in detail. The student is exposed to cases/ presented with questions that are designed to both guide class discussion and to help the student focus his reading of the materials/ pleadings from cases/ and the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Faculty materials available: This eLangdell chapter includes a teacher\u27s manual. Faculty and staff at CALI member schools can access these faculty-only materials by logging in to eLangdell with their normal cali.org username and password. Contact CALI if you have questions. This chapter covers the Civil Procedure topic of Pleading: The Plaintiff\u27s Complaint. The chapter takes approximately four class periods to cover in detail. The student is exposed to cases/ presented with questions that are designed to both guide class discussion and to help the student focus his reading of the materials/ pleadings from cases/ and the applicable Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. There are two accompanying files available only to faculty who are registered at cali.org (registration is free for faculty at CALI member schools): a Teaching Manual and a Supplemental Material document. The Supplemental Material should be distributed to students at the appropriate point in the unit. Please see the Teaching Manual for details.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1088/thumbnail.jp
Fundamentals of Mathematics
No full textFundamentals of Mathematics is a work text that covers the traditional study in a modern prealgebra course/ as well as the topics of estimation/ elementary analytic geometry/ and introductory algebra. It is intended for students who: have had previous courses in prealgebra wish to meet the prerequisites of higher level courses such as elementary algebra need to review fundamental mathematical concenpts and techniques This text will help the student devlop the insight and intuition necessary to master arithmetic techniques and manipulative skills. It was written with the following main objectives: to provide the student with an understandable and usable source of information to provide the student with the maximum oppurtinity to see that arithmetic concepts and techniques are logically based to instill in the student the understanding and intuitive skills necessary to know how and when to use particular arithmetic concepts in subsequent material cources and nonclassroom situations to give the students the ability to correctly interpret arithmetically obtained results We have tried to meet these objects by presenting material dynamically much the way an instructure might present the material visually in a classroom. (See the development of the concept of addition and subtraction of fractions in section 5.3 for examples) Intuition and understanding are some of the keys to creative thinking/ we belive that the material presented in this text will help students realize that mathematics is a creative subject.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1120/thumbnail.jp
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change
No full textThis book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people/ animals/ things/ images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature. This smallest change value/ the quantum of action/ leads to what is called quantum physics. In the structure of modern physics/ quantum physics covers three points; this volume covers the introduction to the point in the lower right: the foundations of quantum theory. The present introduction to quantum physics arose from a threefold aim I have pursued since 1990: to present the basics of motion in a way that is simple/ up to date and captivating. In order to be simple/ the text focuses on concepts/ while keeping mathematics to the necessary minimum. Understanding the concepts of physics is given precedence over using formulae in calculations. The whole text is within the reach of an undergraduate. In order to be up to date/ the text is enriched by the many gems – both theoretical and empirical – that are scattered throughout the scientific literature. In order to be captivating/ the text tries to startle the reader as much as possible. Read- ing a book on general physics should be like going to a magic show. We watch/ we are astonished/ we do not believe our eyes/ we think/ and finally we understand the trick. When we look at nature/ we often have the same experience. Indeed/ every page presents at least one surprise or provocation for the reader to think about. Numerous interesting challenges are proposed. The motto of the text/ die Menschen stärken/ die Sachen klären/ a famous statement by Hartmut von Hentig on pedagogy/ translates as: ‘To fortify people/ to clarify things.\u27 Clarifying things – and adhering only to the truth – requires courage/ as changing the habits of thought produces fear/ often hidden by anger. But by overcoming our fears we grow in strength. And we experience intense and beautiful emotions. All great adventures in life allow this/ and exploring motion is one of them. Enjoy it!https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1123/thumbnail.jp