Here is a selection of the 72 books added to the collection in the past week.
This batch includes new BC Open Textbook titles. Our open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons license, and are offered in various e-book formats free of charge, or print on demand books available at cost. There are currently 228 titles in the collection which covers the top 40 first & second year subject areas in BC’s public post-secondary institutions. Searching OneSearch with the corporate name “BCcampus”, or the collection name “BC Open Textbook” or “BC Open Textbook Project” should bring up the entire set of titles. The collection was funded by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and managed by BCcampus.
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BUSINESS
Principles of marketing [electronic resource]. Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing – not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today’s environment.
COMMUNICATION
Professional communications OER [electronic resource]: Modules 1-4 : overiew /by the Olds College OER Development Team. “This is a series of modules intended for use in Higher Education courses or by independent learners. This resource is useful for instructors whose courses cover introductory communication skills, workplace communication, technical communication, or business writing. It contains four modules (Foundations, Writing, Presentations, and Interpersonal), each with its own lesson plans, assessments, and supporting materials.
COMPUTING
Beginning Excel [electronic resource] /Noreen Brown, Barbara Lave, Julie Romey, Mary Schatz, Diane Shingledecker. This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.
EDUCATION
B.C. open textbook print on demand guide [electronic resource] /Lauri Aesoph. The BC Open Textbook Print on Demand Guide is an in-progress (open creation) practical manual on the what, why, and how of creating your own hard copy textbook of any openly licensed textbook found in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. However, these same steps can be used to create a print-on-demand textbook from other collections providing you have access to the correct file types. This guide will be updated as new information, practices and processes are developed”.
BC open textbook authoring guide [electronic resource]: a guide to authoring & adapting open textbooks /Lauri Aesoph and Amanda Coolidge. This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the PressBooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book are faculty who are participating in the B.C. Open Textbook project. However, there may be content within this book that is useful to others working on similar Open Educational Resource initiatives.
Web literacy for student fact-checkers [electronic resource] /by Mike Caulfield. This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly. We will show you how to use date filters to find the source of viral content, how to assess the reputation of a scientific journal in less than five seconds, and how to see if a tweet is really from the famous person you think it is or from an impostor. We’ll show you how to find pages that have been deleted, figure out who paid for the web site you’re looking at, and whether the weather portrayed in that viral video actual matches the weather in that location on that day. We’ll show you how to check a Wikipedia page for recent vandalism, and how to search the text of almost any printed book to verify a quote. We’ll teach you to parse URLs and scan search result blurbs so that you are more likely to get to the right result on the first click. And we’ll show you how to avoid baking confirmation bias into your search terms. In other words, we’ll teach you web literacy by showing you the unique opportunities and pitfalls of searching for truth on the web. Crazy, right?
FILM STUDIES
Exploring movie construction and production [electronic resource]: what’s so exciting about movies? /John Reich. Exploring Movie Construction and Production covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students’ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.
FINE ARTS
Complete works of Giotto /Luciano Bellosi.
GEOGRAPHY
World regional geography [electronic resource] /Caitlin Finlayson. World Regional Geography presents an overview of the discipline by introducing students to key themes and concepts in the discipline of geography through a study of the world’s regions. This text emphasizes depth over breadth by arranging each chapter around a central theme and then exploring that theme in detail as it applies to the particular region.The theme of globalization and inequality unites all of the regions discussed. This core focus enables students to draw connections between regions and to better understand the interconnectedness of our world.
HEALTH SCIENCES
Health case studies [electronic resource]: toward closing the healthcare communication gap /Glynda Rees, Rob Kruger, Janet Morrison. Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies that align with the open textbooks Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care and Anatomy and Physiology: OpenStax. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation. The case studies can be used online in a learning management system, in a classroom discussion, in a printed course pack or as part of a textbook created by the instructor. This flexibility is intentional and allows the educator to choose how best to convey the concepts presented in each case to the learner. Because these case studies were primarily developed for an electronic healthcare system, they are based predominantly in an acute healthcare setting.
HISTORY
Power and status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284 /by Inge Mennen. Based on epigraphic, literary and legal materials, the author deals with issues such as the third-century development of emperorship, the shift in power of the senatorial elite and the developing position of senior military officers and other high equestrians. By analyzing the various senior power-holders involved in Roman imperial administration by social rank, this book presents new insights into the diachronic development of imperial administration, appointment policies and socio-political hierarchies between the second and fourth centuries AD.
LITERATURE
Peace shall destroy many /Rudy Henry Wiebe ; introduction, J.M. Robinson ; general editor, Malcolm Ross. Rudy Wiebe’s celebrated first novel about religious intolerance, Peace Shall Destroy Many takes place in a Mennonite community, its elements are universal, delineating the way young idealism rebels against staid tradition, as a son clashes with his father. In the face of violent confrontations between beliefs all over the world, the novel remains as compelling now as it was nearly forty years ago.
PHILOSOPHY
A concise introduction to logic [electronic resource] /Craig DeLancey. Concise Introduction to Logic is an introduction to formal logic suitable for undergraduates taking a general education course in logic or critical thinking, and is accessible and useful to any interested in gaining a basic understanding of logic. This text takes the unique approach of teaching logic through intellectual history; the author uses examples from important and celebrated arguments in philosophy to illustrate logical principles. The text also includes a basic introduction to findings of advanced logic. As indicators of where the student could go next with logic, the book closes with an overview of advanced topics, such as the axiomatic method, set theory, Peano arithmetic, and modal logic. Throughout, the text uses brief, concise chapters that readers will find easy to read and to review.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
The historical Jesus: a comprehensive guide /Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz ; [translated by John Bowden from the German]. After surveying the quest for the historical Jesus, it assesses the sources, non-Christian and Christian, for Jesus. Then it examines the historical, chronological, geographical and social setting of his activity and some of his major characteristics-as charismatic, prophet, healer, poet, and teacher. All this leads on to studies of the passion and resurrection and the beginnings of Christology. Each section discusses a specific topic in the clearest possible terms, using tables and diagrams where relevant. The main results of scholarly research are given with explanations of how they relate to a wider whole.
SCIENCES
Environmental biology [electronic resource] /Matthew R. Fisher, editor ; OpenStax, Kamala Dorsner, Alexandra Geddes, Tom Theis, Jonathan Tomkin. Environmental Biology enables students to develop a nuanced understanding of today’s most pressing environmental issues. This text helps students grasp the scientific foundation of these issues so that they can better understand the world around them and their impact upon it. This open textbook covers the most salient environmental issues, from a biological perspective. The text is designed for an introductory-level college science course. Topics include the fundamentals of ecology, biodiversity, pollution, climate change, food production, and human population growth.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Global women’s issues [electronic resource]: women in the world today /Bureau of International Information Programs, United States Department of State ; Dr. Janni Aragon, Dr. Mariel Miller. This book is based on the twelve critical areas of concern identified in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. This extended version of Global Women’s Issues: Women in the World Today includes, for each chapter, a summary, key words, multiple choice questions, discussion questions, essay questions, and a list of additional resources.
My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime in hell /Arthur Bear Chief. My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell is a simple and outspoken account of the sexual and psychological abuse that Arthur Bear Chief suffered during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. In a series of chronological vignettes, Bear Chief depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story at an examination for discovery in connection with a lawsuit brought against the federal government. Although the terrific adversity Bear Chief faced in his childhood made an indelible mark on his life, his unyielding spirit is evident throughout his story.
“Speaking my truth”: reflections on reconciliation & residential school /selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry. Following the success of an earlier edition, this volume has been revised and re-edited for scholastic and academic purposes. These essays, which shed light on the lived and living experiences and legacies of Residential Schools, are offered in the sincere hope that your reading and discussion of them will become part of a much needed dialogue on reconciliation in Canada.
Colonial caring: a history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /edited by Helen Sweet and Sue Hawkins. Issues of gender, class and race permeate this book, as the complex relationships between nurses, their medical colleagues, governments and the populations they nursed are examined in detail, using case studies which draw on exciting new sources. Many of the chapters are based on first-hand accounts of nurses and reveal that not all were motivated by patriotic vigour or altruism, but went out in search of adventure. The book will be an essential read for colonial historians, as well as historians of gender and ethnicity.
Feminism and the politics of childhood: friends or foes? /edited by Rachel Rosen & Katherine Twamley. Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps, care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education. Together the contributions offer new ways to conceptualise relations between women and children, and to address injustices faced by both groups.
Lectures in America /Gertrude Stein. Introduces the American reader to the whole field of modern European art – ranging widely throughout painting, literature, and music.
Maria Petyt: a Carmelite mystic in wartime /edited by Joseph Chalmers, Elisabeth Hense, Veronie Meeuwsen, Esther van de Vate. Based on the discovery of a previously unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt – A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine. The book contains a transcription of the manuscript, an English translation of it, and several articles opening up new horizons concerning the life and spirituality of Maria Petyt and her historical and religious backgrounds. The authors characterize Maria Petyt as a self-confident spiritual daughter with a strong political mission, a zealous figure fighting side by side with Louis XIV for the catholic victory during the Dutch War, and as one who lived and profoundly understood the spirituality of Teresa of Avila.
Nepal and the gospel of God [electronic resource] /by Jonathan Lindell for the United Mission to Nepal. The rate of church growth in Nepal is one of the fastest in the world. This growth is not primarily due to the presence of foreign missionary agencies that have been present in the country since the 1950s. Rather it has been through the evangelistic efforts of the Nepali people themselves, reaching out despite the risk of imprisonment for proselytising. This book tells the story of the church in Nepal up to 1979.
The Oxford handbook of political theory /edited by John S. Dryzek, Bonnie Honig and Anne Phillips. his Handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the lively and contested field of political theory, and will help set the agenda for the field for years to come. Forty-five chapters by distinguished political theorists look at the state of the field, where it has been in the recentpast, and where it is likely to go in future. They examine political theory’s edges as well as its core, the globalizing context of the field, and the challenges presented by social, economic, and technological changes.
Resistance and renewal: surviving the Indian residential school /Celia Haig-Brown. Presents Native perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School and a general overview of the evolution of Native education.
Revolutionizing a world: from small states to universalism in the pre-Islamic Near East /Mark Altaweel and Andrea Squitieri. This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East’s social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions. Its geographical coverage spans, from east to west, modern-day Libya and Egypt to Central Asia, and from north to south, Anatolia to southern Arabia, incorporating modern-day Oman and Yemen. Its temporal coverage spans from the late eighth century BCE to the seventh century CE during the rise of Islam and collapse of the Sasanian Empire. The authors argue that the persistence of large states and empires starting in the eighth/seventh centuries BCE, which continued for many centuries, led to new socio-political structures and institutions emerging in the Near East. This book’s argument is framed within a larger theoretical framework termed as ‘universalism’, a theory that explains many of the social transformations that happened to societies in the Near East, starting from the Neo-Assyrian period and continuing for centuries.
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