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Math in Society - Edition 2.5
No full textMath in Society is a free/ open textbook. This book is a survey of contemporary mathematical topics/ most non-algebraic/ appropriate for a college-level topics course for liberal arts majors. The text is designed so that most chapters are independent/ allowing the instructor to choose a selection of topics to be covered. Emphasis is placed on the applicability of the mathematics. Core material for each topic is covered in the main text/ with additional depth available through exploration exercises appropriate for in-class/ group/ or individual investigation. This book is appropriate for Math 107 (Washington State Community Colleges common course number).https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1075/thumbnail.jp
United States Patent 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 2: Patent Statutory Law contains the text of Title 35 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/1081/thumbnail.jp
Evidence: Jury Impeachment
No full textThe anti-jury impeachment rule/ contained in Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) and state counterparts/ is a rule preventing the admission of jury testimony or statements in connection with an inquiry into the validity of the verdict/ subject to certain exceptions. Through a series of cases and hypotheticals drawn from actual cases/ this chapter gives readers a roadmap for how to address any jury impeachment issue in practice. Faculty materials also available: In addition to the free/ open learning materials for students listed above/ this eLangdell chapter includes a teacher\u27s manual. Faculty and staff at CALI member schools can access these materials by logging in to eLangdell with a cali.org username and password. Contact CALI if you have questions.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1085/thumbnail.jp
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
No full textThe Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure appear in the Appendix to Title 11 of the United State Code. This publication was made with data provided by the United States government on the Office of Law Revision Counsel Bulk US Code. This title is current through July 31/ 2014.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1089/thumbnail.jp
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
No full textThis series of Federal Rules books/ consisting of the Federal Rules of Evidence/ Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure/ are powered by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School/ and created in partnership with The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI).These rules govern the conduct of all criminal proceedings brought in Federal courts. Our Federal Rules ebooks include: The complete rules as of December 1/ 2012 (for the 2013 edition). All notes of the Advisory Committee following each rule. Internal links to rules referenced within the rules. External links to the LII website\u27s version of the US Code.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1091/thumbnail.jp
Building Strategy and Performance
No full textThis book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future. Kim Warren takes special care with this new textbook/ Building Strategy and Performance/ to ensure that it delivers instruction on how to deliver strategy powerfully over a sustained period of time. This book helps you to show your students where the levers are that they can control and how to choose what to do/ when/ and how much to achieve their specific goals. This book effectively outlines the dynamics of strategy/ how one drives performance - past/ today and into the future. It shows what causes performance to improve or deteriorate and what your students can do to change this trajectory for the better. But don\u27t take our word for it/ review the book now to see if it can help you to deliver the kind of tactical strategy course you desire for your students.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1096/thumbnail.jp
The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall/ Flow/ and Heat
No full textThis book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people/ animals/ things/ images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life. Carefully observing everyday motion allows us to deduce six essential statements: everyday motion is continuous/ conserved/ relative/ reversible/ mirror-invariant – and lazy. Yes/ nature is indeed lazy: in every motion/ it minimizes change. This text explores how these six results are deduced and how they fit with all those observations that seem to contradict them. In the structure of modern physics/ shown in Figure 1/ the results on everyday motion form the major part of the starting point at the bottom. The present volume is the first of a six-volume overview of physics. It resulted from a threefold aim I have pursued since 1990: to present 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/1111/thumbnail.jp
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Vol. II
No full textVolumes in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing. In each chapter/ authors present their unique views/ insights/ and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences/ these teachers-as-writers invite students to join in the larger conversation about the craft of writing. Consequently/ each essay functions as a standalone text that can easily complement other selected readings in writing or writing-intensive courses across the disciplines at any level. Volume 2 continues the tradition of the previous volume with topics/ such as the rhetorical situation/ collaboration/ documentation styles/ weblogs/ invention/ writing assignment interpretation/ reading critically/ information literacy/ ethnography/ interviewing/ argument/ document design/ and source integration.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1128/thumbnail.jp
Foundations of Computation
No full textFoundations of Computation is a free textbook for a one-semester course in theoretical computer science. It has been used for several years in a course at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The course has no prerequisites other than introductory computer programming. The first half of the course covers material on logic/ sets/ and functions that would often be taught in a course in discrete mathematics. The second part covers material on automata/ formal languages/ and grammar that would ordinarily be encountered in an upper level course in theoretical computer science.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1129/thumbnail.jp
Combinatorics Through Guided Discovery
No full textThis book is an introduction to combinatorial mathematics/ also known as combinatorics. The book focuses especially but not exclusively on the part of combinatorics that mathematicians refer to as “counting.” The book consists almost entirely of problems. Some of the problems are designed to lead you to think about a concept/ others are designed to help you figure out a concept and state a theorem about it/ while still others ask you to prove the theorem. Other problems give you a chance to use a theorem you have proved. From time to time there is a discussion that pulls together some of the things you have learned or introduces a new idea for you to work with. Many of the problems are designed to build up your intuition for how combinatorial mathematics works. There are problems that some people will solve quickly/ and there are problems that will take days of thought for everyone. Probably the best way to use this book is to work on a problem until you feel you are not making progress and then go on to the next one. Think about the problem you couldn\u27t get as you do other things. The next chance you get/ discuss the problem you are stymied on with other members of the class. Often you will all feel you\u27ve hit dead ends/ but when you begin comparing notes and listening carefully to each other/ you will see more than one approach to the problem and be able to make some progress. In fact/ after comparing notes you may realize that there is more than one way to interpret the problem. In this case your first step should be to think together about what the problem is actually asking you to do. You may have learned in school that for every problem you are given/ there is a method that has already been taught to you/ and you are supposed to figure out which method applies and apply it. That is not the case here. Based on some simplified examples/ you will discover the method for yourself. Later on/ you may recognize a pattern that suggests you should try to use this method again.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1141/thumbnail.jp