The Computational Content Analyst
subject: Communication Studies, Media studies, Research methods
description: Most digital content, whether it be thousands of news articles or millions of social media posts, is too large for the naked eye alone. Often, the advent of immense datasets requires a more productive approach to labeling media beyond a team of researchers. This book offers practical guidance and Python code to traverse the vast expanses of data—significantly enhancing productivity without compromising scholarly integrity. We’ll survey a wide array of computer-based classification approaches, focusing on easy-to-understand methodological explanations and best practices to ensure that your data is being labeled accurately and precisely.
creator: Chris J. Vargo
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/103064/9781040227176.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Towns between Empires
subject: Urban Development European history
description: Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governance. Chapters give insight into the concepts and solutions applied by urban governments to political, social and economic issues that were under their care and control. The authors approach various aspects of this topic: town councils as political and economic elites of early modern towns, urban political systems as models of early modern ideas of administration, relations between towns and central authorities (the Prince), healthcare as good governance.
creator: Mária Pakucs-Willcocks, Julia Derzsi
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/102990/9789633869017.pdf
publisher: Central European University Press
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

The Hard Edge of Soft Power
subject: Human geography Sociology
description: This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case studies from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia, this volume features the sensitivity of grounded local research framed within geopolitical perspectives.
creator: Sven Daniel Wolfe,
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/103605/9789819635153.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Taxation in the Digital Era
subject: Civil service Economics Law
description: This open access edited volume discusses the impact of digitalization on taxation, using the Swedish welfare state model as a lens through which to examine the disruptive effect of new technologies on traditional tax models. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it integrates perspectives from economics, law, audit, and public policy to shed light on contemporary challenges in taxation. With Sweden as a central case study, the chapters in this book address broader concerns surrounding the impact of digital transformation on how states calculate and enforce tax, as well as the role of international coordination in reforming tax policy.
creator: Åsa Hansson, Joakim Wernberg.
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/107703/9783031933653.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2026
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Translations and Participation
subject: Cultural studies Migration Theory of education
description: In an era of heightened global interconnectedness and cultural exchange, social cleavages and dynamics of alienation become increasingly apparent. This necessitates a closer look at the intricate relationship between translations and participations as they unfold together. The contributors to this volume spark a cross-disciplinary dialogue on the interdependencies between translational practices — lingustic as well as cultural — and social participation.
creator: Jörg Dinkelaker Klara-Aylin Wenten
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/88587/9783839471005.pdf
publisher: transcript Verlag
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Effective Financial Communication
subject: Communication studies Economics Corporate finance
description: Financial communication and investor relations are strategic corporate functions, tasked with fostering relationships with financial audiences, such as investors, analysts, and journalists. These financial audiences are of critical importance to the establishment, growth, and sustainable success of corporations. This book draws on insights from finance and accounting research, economics, and psychology as well as media and communication studies to explain the role of effective financial communication in corporate disclosure, storytelling, and relationship management on capital markets. This book develops a distinct perspective, guiding readers through the state of research by focusing on the effects and effectiveness of financial communication.
creator: Christian Pieter Hoffmann\ Nadine Strauß
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/92414/9781040127575.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Communication Research into the Digital Society
subject: Communication New media technology
description: Media and communication have become ubiquitous in today’s societies and affect all aspects of life. On an individual level, they impact how we learn about the world, how we entertain ourselves, and how we interact with others. On an organisational level, the interactions between media and organisations, such as political parties, NGOs, businesses and brands, shape organisations’ reputation, legitimacy, trust and (financial) performance, as well as individuals’ consumer, political, social and health behaviours.
creator: Theo Araujo Peter Neijens
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/98505/9789048560608.pdf
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Fatal Family Violence and the Dementias
subject: Violence Family Violence
description: This book explores dementia-related aggression, violence, and homicide through a detailed analysis of “gray mist killings.” The term gray mist killing refers to intimate partner homicides (IPHs) committed by spouses/partners suffering from dementia, homicides of dementia sufferers committed by their caregiving spouses/partners or other family members, and IPHs attributable to the complications of caring for a co-resident family member suffering from dementia.
creator: Emily Yates-Doerr,
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/90262/9781003846567.pdf
publisher: University of California Press
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Borders, Migrations and Human Rights
subject: Migration Immigration and emigration
description: In an era marked by rising securitarian policies and contested human mobility, Borders, Migrations, and Human Rights offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary examination of the complex relationship between state sovereignty, migration, and fundamental rights. Edited by Maurizio Ambrosini, Marilisa D’Amico, and Emilia Perassi, this volume brings together leading scholars to analyze the resurgence of border enforcement as a central political priority, often at the expense of international legal obligations and human dignity.
creator: Maurizio Ambrosini Marilisa D'Amico
source: file:///C:/Users/LIA/Downloads/9788855269025_web%20(1).pdf
publisher: Ledizioni
date: 2025
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Communication Concepts
subject: Communication
description: Communication challenges abound in the 21st century. Communicators everywhere are struggling to connect with diverse, distracted audiences, in both urgent and everyday contexts. In other words, communication has never been more vital, but it’s becoming harder and harder to be heard. In this book, we make sense of communication. From multiple perspectives, we unpack the practices, politics, pleasures, and problems that are activated when meaning is shared across real and virtual spaces. This book will help you use the thinking tools of communication theory to understand why communication matters and how it impacts (and is impacted by) our rapidly changing world.
creator: Erin Hawley
source: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/communication-concepts/
publisher: Council of Australian University Librarians
date: 2025
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Entangled Histories of Art and Migration
subject: Migration History of art
description: Dedicated to the stories of migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and exiles, this collection asks how these stories are interwoven with art, art practices, activism, reception, and (re-)presentation. It explores the complex entanglements of art and aesthetic practices with migration, flight, and other forms of enforced dislocation and border/border crossings in global contexts - the latter significant phenomena of social transformation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
creator: Cathrine Bublatzky (editor) Burcu Dogramaci(editor)
source: file:///C:/Users/LIA/Downloads/external_content.pdf
publisher: Intellect
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Teexbooks

Communication in Practice
subject: Communication
description: This approachable and conversational textbook is intended for undergraduate communication courses. Dr. Jeremy Rose draws from an accomplished lecturing career to explore the fundamentals of communication with media examples and real world scenarios.
creator: Jeremy Rose
source: https://open.lib.umn.edu/commpractice/
publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
date: 2025
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Women's Empowerment and Public Policy in the Arab Gulf States
subject: Gender Identity Public administration
description: This open access book explores the various dimensions of women’s empowerment in public policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a particular focus on Qatar, comparing the country to the other Gulf states. Through its rich compilation of empirical qualitative research, the text unpacks the various ways in which women’s empowerment materializes in the GCC context, providing insights into public policy perspectives in high-income rentier states more broadly.
creator: Rabia Naguib
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/86968/978-981-99-6006-4.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2024
contributor: Mustabsyirah
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

The Mass Media Landscape
subject: Mass Media
description: The Mass Media Landscape is a compilation of lessons to help audiences understand the evolution of U.S. mass media and disruptive media technologies. It includes overviews of media law, media ethics and media literacy. Chapters contain interactive exercises, review quizzes, writing assignments, and multimedia content. Following are four points of emphasis: Media literacy extends beyond the ability to identify misinformation and disinformation or follow reliable news sources.
creator: Dave Bostwick, Alyssa Riley, Dominique M.
source: https://uark.pressbooks.pub/massmedialandscape/
publisher: University of Arkansas
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textboxs

Advances in Cultural Tourism Research : Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Tourism Advances, June 2023, Belgium
subject: Culture, Research
description: This open access book pertains to the "International Conference on Cultural Tourism Advances," held on June 27 and 28, 2023, at KU Leuven, Belgium. It focuses on advancing understanding of the sustainable development potential of cultural tourism by examining successful policy interventions, emerging cultural tourism trends, advancements in visitor management systems, new business and governance models, and the opportunities arising from ICT in the twenty-first century. This book presents recent key advances and their significant outcomes in the domain of European Cultural Tourism.
creator: Neuts, Bart (editor), Martins, João (editor), Ioannides, Marinos (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94594/1/978-3-031-65537-1.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage
subject: Culture
description: This open access book addresses the gap in existing knowledge on cultural heritage from a circular economy and sustainable development perspective for cities. It introduces innovative economic, environmental and governance models and evaluation tools tested and validated for adaptive reuse within the “CLIC - Circular models Leveraging Investments in Cultural Heritage Adaptive Reuse” project funded by the European Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Action Program. The CLIC project is a trans-disciplinary research project bringing together expertise from disciplines such as heritage studies, regeneration and urban development, business management, economics, ecology and social sciences. The research covered in this book, responds to the European Societal Challenge 5 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials', aimed at achieving resource efficient and climate change resilient economy and society through systemic innovation.
creator: Fusco Girard, Luigi (editor), Gravagnuolo, Antonia (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93856/1/978-3-031-67628-4.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

A New Gender Equality Contract for Europe
subject: Gender Equality
description: This open access book, supported by FEPS and Fondation Jean-Jaurès, centres on the work of contemporary progressive feminist thinkers and the idea that there is no democracy without gender equality. The authors develop the concept of a feminism that works for everyone – regardless of their gender, social or cultural identity – in the context of EU policy. The book features gender experts with multidisciplinary backgrounds from across Europe, providing a comprehensive exploration of efforts to move away from “gender backlash” rhetoric and towards a new gender contract for a fairer, more equal European Union.
creator: Pető, Andrea (editor), Thissen, Laeticia (editor), Clavaud, Amandine (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/94602/978-3-031-59993-4.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2025
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Communication and Media Studies
subject: Communication and Media Studies
description: Introduction to Communication and Media Studies is an in-depth exploration of how communication shapes our world. This book traces the historical evolution of media, from the early days of the printing press to today’s digital age, examining key developments such as the telegraph, radio, television, and the internet. It also covers critical theories that explain media’s impact on society, including the effects of advertising, the role of public relations, and the emergence of social media as a powerful force in modern communication. Chapters on media literacy, critical thinking, and rhetorical analysis help students develop critical skills for understanding and analyzing media messages.
creator: J.J. Sylvia IV
source: https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/comm-media-studies/
publisher: ROTEL
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Social Media and Digital Politics
subject: Social Media
description: Informed by critical theory, this book employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to examine the ever-increasing impact that social media has on politics and contemporary civic discourse. In just the past decade, social media platforms have been at the forefront of political discord that played out in the January 6th insurrection, the expulsion of a US President from major social media platforms, the attempted regulation of social media in various states, and the takeover of Twitter (now “X”) by one of the richest and (arguably) most financially influential persons in the world. This book examines these phenomena through a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of their meaning and implication for democratic society. Informed by SNA, James Jaehoon Lee and Jeffrey Layne Blevins examine several types of social and political commentary on one of the most influential social media networks and argue that the use of emotional appeals in these posts about social and political topics degrades the quality of civic discourse and encourages the abandonment of reasoning in democratic self-governance.
creator: Lee, James Jaehoon , Blevins, Jeffrey Layne
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93148/1/9781040149645.pdf
publisher: Taylor & Francis
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Neuroscience, Psychology and Conflict Management
subject: Conflict Management
description: This peer reviewed eBook introduces readers to foundational concepts in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, personality psychology and social psychology to help explain why conflict occurs, how it develops and how it may be managed and/or resolved.
creator: Judith Rafferty
source: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/neuroscience-psychology-conflict/
publisher: James Cook University
date: 2024
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

New Media Futures
subject: Mass Media
description: This book is intended for use in a large introductory class in new media in a program that covers the “full-stack” including critical/cultural studies, media management, diffusion of innovation, and synthetic media production. The first half of this basic sequence covered new media and democracy, finance, intellectual property law, basic games, and transmedia. The second half of the sequence covers many topics related to aesthetics, design, technology, and methodology.
creator: Daniel Faltesek, Daniel Adams
source: https://open.oregonstate.education/new-media-futures/
publisher: Oregon State University
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Interpersonal Communication: Context and Connection
subject: Communication
description: Interpersonal Communication: Context and Connection provides an engaging overview of interpersonal communication grounded in theory, research, and practical application, with an eye to the lived experience of college students. The first three chapters provide the foundation of interpersonal communication with an examination of the theoretical and conceptual background of communication, self, and perception. The next section of the book examines unique features of messaging, with an exploration of listening, verbal, and nonverbal communication. Chapters 7, 8, and 9 explore dynamic factors that shape interpersonal relationships, including emotions, climate, and conflict.
creator: Hilary Altman, et all
source: https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Communication/Interpersonal_Communication/Interpersonal_Communication:_Context_and_Connection_(ASCCC_OERI)
publisher: Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Acceleration and Cultural Change
subject: Cultural Change
description: This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of current society: e.g., the loss of biological and cultural diversity owing to the forces of globalisation; and the emergence of new forms of diversity through globalisation and migration; the intersectional dimension of climate change; the incredible rising of anger demonstrations around the world and resentful, overheated identities often linked to right-wing nationalism; the way digital devices have changed the meaning of temporality in people's life-worlds; the regulatory and competitive pressures on universities which are a result of many factors in the intersection of globalisation, massification and marketisation; youth's weakened belief in progress connected to changes in the contemporary world, such as growing inequality, political alienation and environmental destruction; recent pathbreaking research and original theory in sociology and anthropology related to the changes in an overheated world; and what post-Coronavirus social life might become. Highly topical, engaging and written in a conversational style, this book is a must-read for social scientists and discerning lay persons who want a fresh perspective on understanding the critical issues of our time.
creator: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland Visentin, Martina
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/85044/978-3-031-33099-5.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge
subject: Communication
description: The intersection of scholarly communication librarianship and open education offers a unique opportunity to expand knowledge of scholarly communication topics in both education and practice. Open resources can address the gap in teaching timely and critical scholarly communication topics—copyright in teaching and research environments, academic publishing, emerging modes of scholarship, impact measurement—while increasing access to resources and equitable participation in education and scholarly communication.
creator: Maria Bonn, Josh Bolick, Will Cross
source: https://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/publications/booksanddigitalresources/digital/9780838936566_OA.pdf
publisher: Association of College and Research Libraries
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies - First Edition
subject: Women’s & Gender Studies
description: Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies (2023) is an eTextbook designed to provide an introduction to the fields of Women’s Studies and Gender Studies for students taking introductory courses. The textbook touches on a variety of subjects including gender theories, feminisms, intersectionality, equity, and activism. Chapters contain questions to consider and list of suggested readings by theorists and activists. This multimedia eTextbook incorporates videos and podcasts to create a rich introductory experience for students.
creator: Colleen Lutz Clemens
source: https://paadopt.org/bookshelf/introduction-to-womens-gender-studies/
publisher: The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT)
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation
subject: Cultural studies
description: This open access book identifies various forms of heritage destruction and analyses their causes. It proposes strategies for avoiding and solving conflicts, based on integrating heritage into the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It reflects on the identity-building role of heritage, on multidimensional conflicts and the destruction of heritage, and considers conflict-solving strategies and future perspectives. Furthermore, it engages theoretically and practically with the concepts of responsibility, reconciliation and sustainability, relating mainly to four Sustainable Development Goals, i.e. SDGs 4 (education), 11 (e.g. World Heritage), 13 (climate action) and 17 (partnerships for the goals).
creator: Albert, Marie-Theres (editor) Bernecker, Roland (editor) Cave, Claire (editor) Prodan, Anca Claudia (editor) Ripp, Matthias (editor)
source: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/92799
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health
subject: Medical anthropology
description: This open access edited book brings together new research on the mechanisms by which maternal and reproductive health policies are formed and implemented in diverse locales around the world, from global policy spaces to sites of practice. The authors – both internationally respected anthropologists and new voices – demonstrate the value of ethnography and the utility of reproduction as a lens through which to generate rich insights into professionals’ and lay people’s intimate encounters with policy. Authors look closely at core policy debates in the history of global maternal health across six different continents, including: Women’s use of misoprostol for abortion in Burkina Faso The place of traditional birth attendants in global maternal health Donor-driven maternal health programs in Tanzania Efforts to integrate qualitative evidence in WHO maternal and child health policy-making Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health will engage readers interested in critical conversations about global health policy today.
creator: Wallace, Lauren J. (editor) MacDonald, Margaret E. (editor) Storeng, Katerini T. (editor)
source: ibrary.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/52826/978-3-030-84514-8.pdf?sequence=1
publisher: Sprinnger Nature
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Ttextbooka

Anthropological Perspectives on Environmental Communication
subject: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
description: In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America – the paradoxes and the plurality of meanings associated with the creation of sustainable futures are explored. The book focuses on how communication practices collide with organizational frameworks, customary practices, livelihoods, and landscape. In so doing, the authors explore the meanings of environmental communication, pushing beyond environmental advocacy rhetoric to emphasize stronger anthropological engagement within communities to achieve more impactful environmental communication practice.
creator: Sjölander-Lindqvist, Annelie (editor), Murin, Ivan (editor), Dove, Michael E. (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/53326/978-3-030-78040-1.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Adaptive Peacebuilding
subject: International Relations
description: This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study.
creator: de Coning, Cedric (editor) Saraiva, Rui (editor) Muto, Ako (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/62377/978-3-031-18219-8.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion - 2nd Edition
subject: Social Science
description: This Open Education resource, “Cases on Social Issues: For Class Discussion – 2nd Edition”, includes valuable cases for student use on issues of discrimination, diversity, equity, inclusion and general social issues in the workplace. Included are cases for discussion on workplace scenarios as follows: homophobia; working with Indigenous communities; oil and gas pipelines and the family ranch; invisible disabilities; employee anxiety; safety for women, transgender women and non-binary people; and the bullying of new immigrants and refugees.
creator: Deidre Maultsaid , Brianna Doyle, Celine Wai Shan Li
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/cases-on-social-issues-for-class-discussion
publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University
date: 2023
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

The Path to Funding: The Artist’s Guide to Building Your Audience, Generating Income, and Realizing Career Sustainability
subject: Communication
description: Based on coursework developed at Peabody Conservatory, this book breaks down the process of developing an artist mission statement, generating new ideas for creative projects, and creating an engaging project description. It also covers methods for artists to identify their audience, generate a comprehensive project budget, collect compelling work samples, and identify potential funders to support their creative work. Written by a team of active artists and educators, this resource provides creatives with tools and strategies to communicate passionately and effectively about their work and take control of their financial and artistic future.
creator: Forshee, Manceor, and McGinness
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-artist-s-guide-to-building-your-audience-generating-income-and-realizing-career-sustainability
publisher: The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises
subject: Sociology
description: This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, unemployment and immigration. Contributions assess how civic groups respond to the various crises affecting Europe, especially the economic and refugee crises, presenting new findings from a systematic comparative study conducted in eight European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, and the UK).
creator: Lahusen, Christian (editor), Zschache, Ulrike (editor), Kousis, Maria (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/42919/2021_Book_TransnationalSolidarityInTimes.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Adaptive Mediation and Conflict Resolution
subject: Mediation
description: This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations characterized by uncertainty and a lack of predictability. It is also a facilitated mediation process whereby the content of agreements emerges from the parties to the conflict themselves, informed by the context within which the conflict is situated.
creator: de Coning, Cedric (editor), Muto, Ako (editor) , Saraiva, Rui (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/54018/978-3-030-92577-2.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Academic Flying and the Means of Communication
subject: Communication
description: This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the consequences of academic flying, it investigates the issue of why academics fly, and it begins an effort to think through what can replace flying, and how. Finally, it confronts scholars and scientists, students, activists, research funders, university administrators, and others, with a call to translate this research into action.
creator: Bjørkdahl, Kristian (editor), Franco Duharte, Adrian Santiago (editor)
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/52442/978-981-16-4911-0.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Urban Literacy: Learning to Read the City Around You
subject: Literacy
description: This book introduces students to the basic concepts of urban studies. It is an interdisciplinary text that was developed for lower-division undergraduate students. The book is organized into thematic chapters that explore different aspects of urban life, such as the environment, housing, and culture. Each chapter introduces a new way of conceptualizing the city, presents core theories and concepts, and provides examples and case studies from cities around the globe to illustrate the ideas presented in the text.
creator: Leanne Serbulo
source: https://pdx.pressbooks.pub/urbandevelopment/
publisher: Portland State University Library
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Anthropology
subject: Anthropology
description: OpenStax Introduction to Anthropology is a four-field text integrating diverse voices, engaging field activities, and meaningful themes like Indigenous experiences and social inequality to engage students and enrich learning. The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropology as a living and evolving field.
creator: Jennifer Hasty, David G. Lewis, Marjorie M. Snipes
source: https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-anthropology
publisher: OpenStax
date: 2022
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Small Group Communication: Forming & Sustaining Teams
subject: Communication
description: Small Group Communication: Forming & Sustaining Teams is an interdisciplinary textbook focused on communication in groups and teams. This textbook aims to provide students with theories, concepts, and skills they can put into practice to form and sustain successful groups across a variety of contexts.
creator: Jasmine R. Linabary, Moon Castro,
source: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1q6EHMTtgUj-pp9Xxh1EK8a5yHWYsYGUj
publisher: Jasmine R. Linabary
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: Digital PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Humans R Social Media - Open Textbook Edition
subject: Social Media
description: Social media and humans exist in a world of mutual influence, and humans play central roles in how this influence is mediated and transferred. Originally created by University of Arizona Information scholar Diana Daly, this Third Edition of the book Humans are Social Media uses plain language and features contributions by students to help readers understand how we as humans shape social media, and how social media shapes our world in turn.
creator: Diana Daly, University of Arizona
source: https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/hrsm/
publisher: University of Arizona
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Twksbooks

Design Ethnography
subject: Ethnology
description: This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of reflection and explication, it strengthens the discipline of design and makes it more open to interdisciplinary dialogue.
creator: Müller, Francis
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46115/2021_Book_DesignEthnography.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2021
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Crisis Reporters, Emotions, and Technology
subject: Media and communication
description: This open access book explores the emotional labour of crisis reporters in an original style that combines fictional and factual narrative. Exploring how journalists make sense of their emotional experience and development in relation to their professional ideology, it illustrates how media professionals learn to think and act within crisis situations. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists reporting on wars, terror attacks and natural disasters, the book rethinks traditional concepts in journalistic thought. Finally, it reflects on the specific, contemporary vulnerabilities of industry professionals, including the impact of new technologies, specific forms of precarity, and a particular strain of cynicism central to the industry.
creator: Kotišová, Johana
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/d5303a70-b3aa-4c82-8391-ac881d727aed/1007295.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2020
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
type: Textbooks

British Media Coverage of the Press Reform Debate
subject: Media and communication --- Social Sciences
description: This open access book provides a detailed exploration of the British media coverage of the press reform debate that arose from the News of the World phone hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry. Gathering data from a content analysis of 870 news articles, Ogbebor shows how journalists cover debates on media policy and illustrates the impact of their coverage on democracy. Through this analysis, the book contributes to knowledge of paradigm repair strategies; public sphere; gatekeeping theory; the concept of journalism as an interpretive community; political economy of the press; as well as the neoliberal and social democratic interpretations of press freedom.
creator: Ogbebor, Binakuromo
source: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/41273/2020_Book_BritishMediaCoverageOfThePress.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2020
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition
subject: Sociology
description: This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change. The three books together describe the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary co-creation of healthy cities using the core human value of human health and air quality as guiding principle for profound regional innovation.
creator: Jean-Paul Close
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-45620-1.pdf
publisher: Springer Nature
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships
subject: Communication
description: Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships helps readers examine their own one-on-one communicative interactions using a mindfulness lens. The writing team of Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Katherine Thweatt incorporates the latest communication theory and research to help students navigate everyday interpersonal interactions.
creator: John S. Wrench. Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, Katherine S. Thweatt,
source: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/interpersonal-communication-a-mindful-approach-to-relationships/
publisher: Open SUNY
date: 2020
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Human Behavior and the Social Environment II
subject: Human Behavior
description: These materials will help students and instructors alike explore human behavior and how it is shaped and impacted by both traditional and non-traditional paradigms. This text will also support the reader in having a deeper understanding of how the environment, in all of its complexity, can affect individuals, families, groups, and communities. It is my hope that the information contained in this book will help you, as a future social worker, approach client systems with empathy, understanding, and a compassionate curiosity that allows for comprehensive assessment, individualized approaches to treatment, and continuity of care.
creator: Whitney Payne,
source: https://uark.pressbooks.pub/humanbehaviorandthesocialenvironment2/
publisher: University of Arkansas
date: 2020
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sustainable Tourism and Natural Resource Conservation in the Polar Regions
subject: Social Sciences
description: In total, 40 papers were presented at the conference which explored how expectations towards tourism development in peripheral places can be managed to contribute to the cultural well-being of peripheral communities and enhance the protection of the environment. The seven papers contained herein, in addition to the editorial, can roughly be grouped into two categories. The first set of four papers deals with methods and key assets for developing sustainable tourism operations in the Polar Regions. The second set of three papers deals more with the implications of different means of access to the more remote parts of the Polar Regions.
creator: Machiel Lamers (Ed.) --- Edward Huijbens (Ed.)
source: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/689
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Open Access and the Library
subject: Media and communication
description: Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution.The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the role of libraries was to buy or license content on behalf of their users and then act as gatekeepers to regulate access on behalf of rights holders
creator: Oberländer, Anja --- Reimer, Torsten
source: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1211
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Anthropometry, Body Composition and Resting Energy Expenditure in Human
subject: Sociology
description: Data on nutritional status of human populations are periodically needed, as well as their relationships with anthropometry, body composition, body image and energy expenditure, and also with health lifestyle outcomes. All these parameters contribute jointly to give a complete knowledge on dietary and lifestyle habits, and hence how to proceed to improve it in order to enjoy an optimal healthy status. So, you are kindly invited to submit proposals for manuscripts that fit the objectives and the topics of this Nutrients Special issue.
creator: Tur, Josep A. --- Mar Bibilonic, Maria del
source: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1575
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries
subject: Sociology
description: The Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries Special Issue is a collection of papers from researchers in counties with developed economies who are responding to increasing prevalence of food insecurity. Food insecurity is relatively hidden, and the real extent of the problem is likely to be underestimated in many of these countries. Novel methods to estimate the prevalence of food insecurity in the face of no routine measurement are presented. Population surveys highlight adverse mental health outcomes and new and emerging subgroups that are experiencing food insecurity.
creator: Pollard, Christina --- Booth, Sue
source: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1467
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Understanding Society and Natural Resources: Forging New Strands of Integration Across the Social Sciences
subject: Sociology
description: In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new.
creator: Rechkemmer, Andreas --- J. Manfredo, Michael --- J. Vaske;, Jerry --- A. Duke, Esther
source: -
publisher: Springer
date: 2014
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Cross-National Perspectives in Classifications and Identity Politics
subject: Sociology
description: This open access book examines the question of collecting and disseminating data on ethnicity and race in order to describe characteristics of ethnic and racial groups, identify factors of social and economic integration and implement policies to redress discrimination. It offers a global perspective on the issue by looking at race and ethnicity in a wide variety of historical, country-specific contexts, including Asia, Latin America, Europe, Oceania and North America. In addition, the book also includes analysis on the indigenous populations of the Americas
creator: Patrick Simon --- Victor Piché --- Amélie A. Gagnon
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-20095-8.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2015
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Social Innovations in the Urban Context
subject: Sociology
description: This book addresses the practice of social innovation, which is currently very much in the public eye. New ideas and approaches are needed to tackle the severe and wicked problems with which contemporary societies are struggling. Especially in times of economic crisis, social innovation is regarded as one of the crucial elements needed to move forward.
creator: Taco Brandsen --- Sandro Cattacin --- Adalbert Evers --- Annette Zimmer
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-21551-8.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creatiev Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Insecurity
subject: Sociology
description: This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine the research findings, connecting them to broader literatures and interdisciplinary themes. The book examines commonalities and differences in the operation of various structures of power (gender, class, race/ethnicity, generation) and their interactions within the institutional domains of intra-national and especially inter-national migration that produce context-specific forms of social injustice
creator: Tanh-Dam Truong --- Des Gasper --- Jeff Handmaker --- Sylvia I. Bergh
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-28012-2.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2014
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism
subject: Sociology
description: This open access book provides a comprehensive European perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geography, design, engineering, policy and media studies. The contributors have collaborated to produce a truly stimulating and educating book on ageism which brings a clear overview of the state of the art in the field.
creator: Liat Ayalon --- Clemens Tesch-Römer
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73820-8.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy
subject: Sociology
description: This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood. Childhood is a field of conceptual, moral and political contestation, where the ‘battles’ may range from minor tensions and everyday negotiations of symbolic or practical importance involving a limited number of people, to open conflicts involving violence and law enforcement.
creator: Marie Louise Seeberg --- Elżbieta M. Goździak
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-44610-3.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Regulating Content on Social Media
subject: Media and communication
description: How are users influenced by social media platforms when they generate content, and does this influence affect users’ compliance with copyright laws? These are pressing questions in today’s internet age, and Regulating Content on Social Media answers them by analysing how the behaviours of social media users are regulated from a copyright perspective. Corinne Tan, an internet governance specialist, compares copyright laws on selected social media platforms, namely Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and Wikipedia, with other regulatory factors such as the terms of service and the technological features of each platform. This comparison enables her to explore how each platform affects the role copyright laws play in securing compliance from their users
creator: Tan, Corinne
source: -
publisher: UCL Press
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Open Access and the Library
subject: Media and communication
description: Libraries are places of learning and knowledge creation. Over the last two decades, digital technology—and the changes that came with it—have accelerated this transformation to a point where evolution starts to become a revolution.The wider Open Science movement, and Open Access in particular, is one of these changes and is already having a profound impact. Under the subscription model, the role of libraries was to buy or license content on behalf of their users and then act as gatekeepers to regulate access on behalf of rights holders.
creator: Oberländer, Anja --- Reimer, Torsten
source: Oberländer, Anja --- Reimer, Torsten
publisher: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1211
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
subject: Sociology --- Arts in general --- Social Sciences
description: his volume features thirteen original chapters on the causes and consequences of gender segregation in scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematics (“STEM”) occupations and fields of study. Although women have made great strides in equalizing access to labor markets and higher education, many STEM fields—particularly in the physical sciences and engineering—remain strongholds of gender segregation in the United States and other reputably gender-progressive societies.
creator: Maria Charles (Ed.) --- Sarah Thébaud (Ed.)
source: https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/851
publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe
subject: Sociology --- Economics
description: This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes or focusing on health and mortality.
creator: Gabriele Doblhammer --- Jordi Gumà
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-72356-3.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Contested Childhoods: Growing up in Migrancy
subject: Social Sciences --- Law --- Sociology
description: This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves are central actors engaged in contesting the meaning of childhood. Childhood is a field of conceptual, moral and political contestation, where the ‘battles’ may range from minor tensions and everyday negotiations of symbolic or practical importance involving a limited number of people, to open conflicts involving violence and law enforcement.
creator: Marie Louise Seeberg --- Elżbieta M. Goździak
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-44610-3.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism
subject: Economics --- Sociology
description: his open access book provides a comprehensive European perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and consequences of ageism, as well as ways to respond to and research ageism. The book represents a collaborative effort of researchers from over 20 countries and a variety of disciplines, including, psychology, sociology, gerontology, geriatrics, pharmacology, law, geography, design, engineering, policy and media studies.
creator: Liat Ayalon --- Clemens Tesch-Römer
source: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-319-73820-8.pdf
publisher: Springer
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Morals Not Knowledge : Recasting the Contemporary U.S. Conflict Between Religion and Science
subject: Morals
description: In a time when conservative politicians challenge the irrefutability of scientific findings such as climate change, it is more important than ever to understand the conflict at the heart of the “religion vs. science” debates unfolding in the public sphere. In this groundbreaking work, John H. Evans reveals that, with a few limited exceptions, even the most conservative religious Americans accept science’s ability to make factual claims about the world. However, many religious people take issue with the morality implicitly promoted by some forms of science. Using clear and engaging scholarship, Evans upends the prevailing notion that there is a fundamental conflict over the way that scientists and religious people make claims about nature and argues that only by properly understanding moral conflict between contemporary religion and science will we be able to contribute to a more productive interaction between these two great institutions
creator: John H. Evans
source: https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.47/read/
publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: Ebooks
language: English
type: Textbooks

Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 1
subject: Western Civilization
description: Western Civilization: A Concise History​ is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics: Volume 1: from the origins of civilization in Mesopotamia c. 8,000 BCE through the early Middle Ages in Europe c. 1,000 CE. Volume 1 covers topics including Mesopotamia,Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates, and the early European Middle Ages.
creator: Christopher Brooks
source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K-q0OeTZUB3mIJTn-pdQTE-AirQux7Dy/view
publisher: Portland Community College
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 2
subject: Civilization
description: Western Civilization: A Concise History​ is an Open Educational Resource textbook covering the history of Western Civilization from approximately 8,000 BCE to 2017 CE. It is available in three volumes covering the following time periods and topics: Volume 2: from the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. Volume 2covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
creator: Christopher Brooks
source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lg2E6y990weTx1EyhpOGlbyeUnV6kmJo/view
publisher: Portland Community College
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Western Civilization: A Concise History - Volume 3
subject: Western Civilization
description: What is “Western Civilization”? Furthermore, who or what is part of it? Like all ideas, the concept of Western Civilization itself has a history, one that coalesced in college textbooks and curriculums for the first time in the United States in the 1920s. In many ways, the very idea of Western Civilization is a “loaded” one, opposing one form or branch of civilization from others as if they were distinct, even unrelated. Thus, before examining the events of Western Civilization’s history, it is important to unpack the history of the concept itself.
creator: Dr. Christopher Brooks
source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VGV8BGT-Sh1c7aGROqgoUpnP9ymnM0IU/view
publisher: Portland Community College
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
subject: Sociology
description: Most Americans probably agree that we enjoy a great amount of freedom. And yet perhaps we have less freedom than we think, because many of our choices are influenced by our society in ways we do not even realize. Perhaps we are not as distinctively individualistic as we believe we are. For example, consider the right to vote. The secret ballot is one of the most cherished principles of American democracy. We vote in secret so that our choice of a candidate is made freely and without fear of punishment. That is all true, but it is also possible to guess the candidate for whom any one individual will vote if enough is known about the individual. This is because our choice of a candidate is affected by many aspects of our social backgrounds and, in this sense, is not made as freely as we might think.
creator: Velmarie Albertini, Marcia Andrejevich
source: https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/
publisher: https://open.lib.umn.edu
date: -
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: Digital PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World
subject: Sociology
description: Most Americans probably agree that we enjoy a great amount of freedom. And yet perhaps we have less freedom than we think, because many of our choices are influenced by our society in ways we do not even realize. Perhaps we are not as distinctively individualistic as we believe we are. For example, consider the right to vote. The secret ballot is one of the most cherished principles of American democracy. We vote in secret so that our choice of a candidate is made freely and without fear of punishment. That is all true, but it is also possible to guess the candidate for whom any one individual will vote if enough is known about the individual. This is because our choice of a candidate is affected by many aspects of our social backgrounds and, in this sense, is not made as freely as we might think.
creator: Velmarie Albertini, Marcia Andrejevich
source: https://open.lib.umn.edu/sociology/
publisher: https://open.lib.umn.edu
date: -
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: Digital PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Principles of Sociological Inquiry
subject: Sociological Inquiry
description: This textbook has been on my mind since 1994, when I sat in my own undergraduate sociology research methods class, enjoying the material but also wondering about its relevance to my everyday life and future plans (the idea that one day I would be teaching such a class hadn’t yet occurred to me). While the importance of understanding research methods is usually clear to students who intend to pursue an advanced degree, I’ve long thought that we research methods teachers could do a better job of demonstrating to all of our students the relevance of what it is that we’re teaching. Today, as an active researcher who uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, I appreciate the need not only for students to understand the relevance of research methods for themselves but also for them to understand the relevance of both qualitative and quantitative techniques for sociological inquiry.
creator: Ron Hammond and Paul Cheney
source: https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/Documents/Open%20Textbooks/Soci%20102%20Principles%20of%20Sociological%20Inquiry%20V%201.1.pdf
publisher: College of the Canyons
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Sociology 101 V2.1
subject: Sociology
description: Sociology is a relatively new discipline in comparison to chemistry, math, biology, philosophy andother disciplines that trace back thousands of years. Sociology began as an intellectual/philosophical effortby a French man named Auguste Comte who coined the term “Sociology.” Sociology is the science of society and of human behavior when influenced by society. Why did thinkers of the day find a need for the new science of sociology? Societies had changedin unprecedented ways and had formed a new collective of social complexities that the world hadnever witnessed before. Western Europe was transformed by the Industrial Revolution, atechnological development of knowledge and manufacturing that began in the late 1600s and continued untilthe early 1900s.
creator: Ron Hammond and Paul Cheney
source: https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/Documents/Open%20Textbooks/SOCIOLOGY101_VERSION2.1%20with%20cover.pdf
publisher: College of the Canyons
date: -
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Sociology 200: Introduction to Women’s Studies
subject: Sociology
description: Sociology’s roots are in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, from where founding fathers Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Georg Simmel hail. Sociology waxed and waned in popularity outside of the U.S. over its short history. Today, sociology has become a United States-centered scientific discipline with most sociologists living in the U.S.. There is significant sociological work being done in various countries of the world, but most of the 14,000 members of the American Sociological Association (the world’s largest professional sociology organization) live in the U.S Sociology is a relatively new discipline in comparison to chemistry, math, biology, philosophy and other disciplines that trace back thousands of years
creator: Katie Coleman
source: https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/Documents/Open%20Textbooks/Sociology%20200%20Womens%20Studies%20FULL%20TEXT%20V%202%20Final%20Cover.pdf
publisher: College of the Canyons
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Intimate Relationships and Families . Sociology 103 v.2
subject: Intimate Relationships, Sociology
description: Sociological theories are the core and underlying strength of the discipline. They guide researchers in their studies; they also guide practitioners in their intervention strategies. And they will provide you with a basic understanding of how to see the larger social picture in your own personal life. A theory is a set of interrelated concepts used to describe, explain, and predict how society and its parts are related to each other. Let’s use binoculars as a metaphor to illustrate the usefulness of a theory. Binoculars serve to magnify, enlarge, clarify, and expand our view of the thing we are looking at. Unlike binoculars, you can’t see or touch a theory, but it is a framework to help you “see” the world sociologically. Some things you want to look at need 20x80 strength binoculars while you might see other things better with 8x40 or 10x30 lenses. It’s the same with society. Some things need the lens of Conflict Theory, while others need a Structural Functional or Symbolic Interactionist lens.
creator: Ron Hammond and Paul Cheney
source: https://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/Documents/Open%20Textbooks/Sociology%20103%20-%20Final%20Book.docx.pdf
publisher: www.canyons.edu
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
subject: COMMUNICATION
description: Communication is the heart of business. Short emails, complex reports, private chats, impassioned pitches, formal presentations, and team meetings move information and ideas around an organization, define strategy, and drive decisions. Business communication is concise, direct, clear, and compelling.
creator: Multiple Contributors
source: https://mcom320.net/fulltextbook.pdf
publisher: Independent
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology
subject: Cultural Anthropology
description: Anthropology is the study of all humans in all times in all places. But it is so much more than that. “Anthropology requires strength, valor, and courage,” Nancy Scheper-Hughes noted. “Pierre Bourdieu called anthropology a combat sport, an extreme sport as well as a tough and rigorous discipline. … It teaches students not to be afraid of getting one’s hands dirty, to get down in the dirt, and to commit yourself, body and mind. Susan Sontag called anthropology a “heroic” profession.” What is the payoff for this heroic journey? You will find ideas that can carry you across rivers of doubt and over mountains of fear to find the the light and life of places forgotten. Real anthropology cannot be contained in a book. You have to go out and feel the world’s jagged edges, wipe its dust from your brow, and at times, leave your blood in its soil.
creator: Michael Wesch
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/
publisher: New Prairie Press
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

DESAFÍOS DE LA FORMACIÓN CIUDADANA EN LA ERA DIGITAL: ESTADODELARTE
subject: FORMACIÓN CIUDADANA , DIGITAL
description: Esta publicación es posible gracias al proyecto “Fortaleciendo la Democracia a través del Ciudadanía Digital en Chile y México”, desarollado por La Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile y el Instituto Belisario Domínguez del Senado de México, y financiado por el Fondo Conjunto de Cooperación México–Chile (convocatoria 2015). Dicho fondo es administrado por la Agencia de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo de Chile (AGCID) y la Agencia Mexicana de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AMEXCID).
creator: David Guzmán, Escuela de Pedagogía , David Silva
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks
publisher: Independent
date: 2015
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: Spanyol
type: Textbook

An Introduction to Organizational Communication
subject: Organizational Communication
description: We know that choosing the appropriate textbook for your classroom is always a time consuming process. Communication Within, Between, and Among Organizational Stakeholders: Theory, Research, and Practice for the 21st Century will include a lot of content that is available in other books in addition to content not available at all in other organizational communication books on the market. We’ve also included a number of pedagogical features to the book to make the reading experience more meaningful. The field of organizational communication has undergone an interesting history over the past century. Starting out as simple how-to manuals for business speaking and developing into the full-fledged discipline that it is today, organizational communication is a unique area of study with its own history, trends, and research methodologies. When selecting an organizational communication textbook, many professors struggle with finding a book that is theoretically strong, current, and relevant to their students. First, this book will examine both the historic and modern theories of organizational communication.
creator: Jason S. Wrench, Narissra Punyanunt-Carter
source: https://2012books.lardbucket.org/pdfs/an-introduction-to-organizational-communication
publisher: https: books.lardbucket.org
date: 2012
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Fundamentals of Public Speaking
subject: Public Speaking
description: Given the demands for good communication skills in the civic realm and in the workplace, a course in public speaking is perhaps more important than ever. There is no quick path to a great speech. Good speaking is developed through practice and hard work. The public speaking course is a unique course. Unlike, say, a course in the principles of law or the history of Central Asia, the public speaking course requires you to both know content and be able to perform a skill well. You will learn important principles of public speaking, but simply knowing these principles is insufficient; you must also be able to apply them well. By the same token, you might be able to get through a speech without saying “um,” but if the content of the speech is bad, it is not a good speech. The best public speakers not only speak smoothly, they also say important and interesting things.
creator: Tammera Stokes Rice
source: https://www.canyons.edu
publisher: College of the Canyons
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

An Introduction to Interpersonal Communication: A Primer on Communication Studies
subject: Communication
description: By its very nature communication is not a skill we are born with. If lucky, we are born with the senses necessary to learn to use the communication skills we can learn. Our journey in interpersonal communication will be to take the senses that we have and learn better to use them. We will look into ourselves at a deep level. Only when individuals understand themselves better, can they improve their own, communication skills. In chapter one, you will have an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of communication. The very process of communication is complex even to explain, yet in real time occurs very quickly. As each section is explained, try to apply it to your own life and you will have more comprehensive learning experience. ]
creator: Victoria Leonard
source: https://www.canyons.edu
publisher: https://www.canyons.edu
date: 2012
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Scholarly Communications
subject: Communications
description: In an academic research environment, scholarly communications become central part of the process of deliberations. Scholarly communications are carried out using certain channels of communicat ions by scholars and academicians. Most important ones are scholarly journals, conference proceedings, research monographs, dissertations, research reports and personal memoirs. Internet now provides much easier and instant means of connection. Social media is a boon for any type of communication. The learned societies – the formal institutions epresenting scientific and think tank communities – are primarily responsible for initiating scholarly journals in their respective subject areas, where members can communicate their results of scientific research and get valuable feedbacks from readers of these journals or fellow members of these learned societies. Since the mid-twentieth century and later, learned societies have started collaborating with for-profit publishers – for achieving global outreach, global readership and global authorship.
creator: Anup Kumar Das
source: https://www.oercommons.org
publisher: United Nations Educational
date: 2015
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Media, Society, Culture and You Subtitle : An Introductory Mass Communication Text
subject: Media, Society, Culture, Mass Communication Text
description: Interpersonal communication generally refers to the exchange of meaning between two or more people on a personal, often one-on-one, level. Interpersonal communication can be verbal or nonverbal. Most often, it happens in face-to-face settings. It differs from mass communication, which involves sharing meaning through symbolic messages to a wide audience from one source to many receivers. Sometimes, particularly in computer-mediated communication, messages conveyed using computers, it can be difficult to tell the difference between interpersonal communication and mass communication because individuals can send messages intended only for other individuals that might quickly reach large numbers of people. Social media platforms are often structured in ways that allow interpersonal messages to “go viral” and become mass messages whether the original sender intended to address a mass audience or not.
creator: Mark Poepsel
source: https://open.umn.edu
publisher: Rebus Community
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: Indonesia
type: Textbook

Message Processing: The Science of Creating Understanding
subject: Message Processing, Science,
description: This chapter introduces “message processing” as a study of human communication processes, with a focus on how people create understanding in interaction. It explains how “message processing” contrasts with traditional approaches to studying human communication (which typically focus on outcomes that follow from communicating in particular ways, rather than how communication itself works), and why this is an important and fundamental topic in the study of communication.
creator: JESSICA GASIOREK , R. KELLY AUNE
source: http://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/
publisher: Independent
date: 2018
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Go home: The politics of immigration controversies
subject: immigration
description: "The 2013 Go Home vans marked a turning point in government-sponsored communication designed to demonstrate control and toughness on immigration. In this study, the authors explore the effects of this toughness: on policy, public debate, pro-migrant and anti-racist activism, and on the everyday lives of people in Britain. Bringing together an authorial team of eight respected social researchers, alongside the voices of community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens, and with an afterword by journalist Kiri Kankhwende, this is an important intervention in one of the most heated social issues of our time."
creator: Hannah Jones,
source: http://www.oapen.org/search
publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Mobile Screens : The Visual Regime of Navigation
subject: Navigation
description: Nanna Verhoeff’s new book is a must for anybody interested in visual culture and media theory. It offers a rich and stimulating theoretical account of the central dimension of our contemporary existence – interfacing and navigating both data and physical world through a variety of screens (game consoles, mobile phones, car interfaces, GPS devices, etc.) In the process of exploring these new screen practices, Verhoeff offers fresh perspectives on many of the key questions in media and new media studies as well as a number of new original theoretical concepts. As the first theoretical manual for the society of mobile screens, this book will become an essential reference for all future investigations of our mobile screen condition. – Lev Manovich
creator: Verhoeff, Nanna
source: http://www.oapen.org/search
publisher: Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam
contributor: Rika zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Citizen Outsider
subject: Citizen
description: While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.
creator: Jean Beaman,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of California Press, Oakland
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Constructions of Cultural Identities in Newsreel Cinema and Television after 1945
subject: Cultural
description: Newsreel cinema and television not only served as an important tool in the shaping of political spheres and the construction of national and cultural identities up to the 1960s. Today’s potent televisual forms were furthermore developed in and strongly influenced by newsreels, and much of the archived newsreel footage is repeatedly used to both illustrate and re-stage past events and their significance. This book addresses newsreel cinema and television as a medium serving the formation of cultural identities in a variety of national contexts after 1945, its role in forming audiovisual narratives of a »biopic of the nation«, and the technical, aesthetical, and political challenges of archiving and restaging cinematic and televisual newsreel.
creator: Kornelia Imesch,
creator: Sigrid Schade,
creator: Samuel Sieber,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Environment in the lives of children and families
subject: Environment
description: Epdf available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Based on involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how environmental practices are negotiated within families, and how they relate to values, identities, and society. It contributes to understanding of the ways in which families and childhood are constructed as sites for intervention in climate change debates.
creator: Ann Phoenix,
creator: Janet Boddy,
creator: Catherine Walker,
creator: Uma Vennam,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Policy Press, Bristol, UK
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Behaviour, Development and Evolution
subject: Behaviour,
description: "The role of parents in shaping the characters of their children, the causes of violence and crime, and the roots of personal unhappiness are central to humanity. Like so many fundamental questions about human existence, these issues all relate to behavioural development. In this lucid and accessible book, eminent biologist Professor Sir Patrick Bateson suggests that the nature/nurture dichotomy we often use to think about questions of development in both humans and animals is misleading. Instead, he argues that we should pay attention to whole systems, rather than to simple causes, when trying to understand the complexity of development. In his wide-ranging approach Bateson discusses why so much behaviour appears to be well- designed. He explores issues such as ‘imprinting’ and its importance to the attachment of offspring to their parents; the mutual benefits that characterise communication between parent and offspring; the importance of play in learning how to choose and control the optimal conditions in which to thrive; and the vital function of adaptability in the interplay between development and evolution. Bateson disputes the idea that a simple link can be found between genetics and behaviour. What an individual human or animal does in its life depends on the reciprocal character of its transactions with the world about it. This knowledge also points to ways in which an animal's own behaviour can provide the variation that influences the subsequent course of evolution. This has relevance not only for our scientific approaches to the systems of development and evolution, but also on how humans change institutional rules that have become dysfunctional, or design public health measures when mismatches occur between themselves and their environments. It affects how we think about ourselves and our own capacity for change."
creator: Patrick Bateson,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Open Book Publishers
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Gender in Science and Technology : Interdisciplinary Approaches
subject: Science
description: What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of new technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and history of chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering.
creator: Waltraud Ernst,
creator: Ilona Horwath,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Peace and Democratic Society
subject: Societ
description: Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challenging and insightful essay, Amartya Sen explores ideas around 'organised violence' (such as war, genocide and terrorism) and violence against the individual. Highlighting the inadequacies of some of the widely accepted explanations for violenceâÂ€Â”including the idea that the world is experiencing a 'clash of civilisations'âÂ€Â”Sen makes a plea for a global, multilateral debate on the causes of conflict, and an understanding of the multiple identities of the individuals involved. The introductory essay draws on the findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, which was chaired by Sen, and established to promote mutual communication and understanding among all faiths and communities in the Commonwealth. Its timely report, "Civil Paths to Peace", suggests that governments, media and educatorsâÂ€Â”indeed, everyoneâÂ€Â”must take the time to understand the complexities around violent behaviour and its causes, without prejudging what these might be.
creator: Amartya Sen,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Open Book Publishers
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Visualising Facebook
subject: Visualising
description: Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and representation, to that of communication, where an image not only documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself more exciting.
creator: Daniel Miller,
creator: Jolynna Sinanan,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: UCL Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Advising in austerity
subject: Advising
description: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In a world dominated by austerity politics and policies, Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK, presenting a rare and rich view of the world of advice giving. Based on original research it examines how advisors negotiate the private troubles of those who come to Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) and construct ways forward. Exploring how advisors are trained, the strong contributor team reflect on the challenges facing Citizens Advice Bureaux in the future, where austerity will ensure that the need for advice services increase, while funding for such services declines.
creator: Samuel Kirwan,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Policy Press, Bristol, UK
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Enduring Uncertainty
subject: Uncertainty
description: Focusing on the lived experience of immigration policy and processes, this volume provides fascinating insights into the deportation process as it is felt and understood by those subjected to it. The author presents a rich and innovative ethnography of deportation and deportability experienced by migrants convicted of criminal offenses in England and Wales. The unique perspectives developed here – on due process in immigration appeals, migrant surveillance and control, social relations and sense of self, and compliance and resistance – are important for broader understandings of border control policy and human rights. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
creator: Ines Hasselberg,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Berghahn Books, USA/UK
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Universe, Life and Everything
description: The way we understand the world we live in is changing. Our traditional understanding is being challenged by developments in physics, including quantum mechanics, and our inability to explain certain complex phenomena such as consciousness. In this book, scholars from a variety of backgrounds discuss how our understanding of our world is expanding to include such phenomena.
creator: Sarah Durston,
creator: Ton Baggerman,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion
subject: Knowledge
description: "Language is a human universal reflecting our deeply social nature. Among its essential functions, language enables us to quickly and efficiently share information. We tell each other that many things are true—that is, we routinely make assertions. Information shared this way plays a critical role in the decisions and plans we make. In Knowledge and the Norm of Assertion, a distinguished philosopher and cognitive scientist investigates the rules or norms that structure our social practice of assertion. Combining evidence from philosophy, psychology, and biology, John Turri shows that knowledge is the central norm of assertion and explains why knowledge plays this role. Concise, comprehensive, non-technical, and thoroughly accessible, this volume quickly brings readers to the cutting edge of a major research program at the intersection of philosophy and science. It presupposes no philosophical or scientific training. It will be of interest to philosophers and scientists, is suitable for use in graduate and undergraduate courses, and will appeal to general readers interested in human nature, social cognition, and communication."
creator: John Turri,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Open Book Publishers
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Measuring Poverty and Wellbeing in Developing Countries
subject: Measuring
description: Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes with respect to poverty reduction are high; (ii) the determinants of living standards are often volatile; and (iii) related information bases, while much improved, are often characterized by significant non-sample error. It also remains, to a surprisingly high degree, an activity undertaken by technical assistance personnel and consultants based in developed countries. This book seeks to enhance the transparency, replicability, and comparability of existing practice. It also aims to significantly lower the barriers to entry to the conduct of rigorous poverty measurement and increase the participation of analysts from developing countries in their own poverty assessments. The book focuses on two domains: the measurement of absolute consumption poverty and a first-order dominance approach to multidimensional welfare analysis. In each domain, it provides a series of computer codes designed to facilitate analysis by allowing the analyst to start from a flexible and known base. The volume covers the theoretical grounding for the code streams provided, a chapter on ‘estimation in practice’, a series of eleven case studies where the code streams are operationalized, a synthesis, an extension to inequality, and a look forward.
creator: Channing Arndt
creator: Finn Tarp,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Memory in Motion. Archives, Technology, and the Social
subject: Social
description: How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very much up in the air. The essays in this collection discuss the new technologies of memory from a variety of perspectives that explicitly investigate their impact on the very concept of the social. Contributors: David Berry, Ina Blom, Wolfgang Ernst, Matthew Fuller, Andrew Goffey, Liv Hausken, Yuk Hui, Trond Lundemo, Adrian Mackenzie, Sónia Matos, Richard Mills, Jussi Parikka, Eivind Røssaak, Stuart Sharples, Tiziana Terranova, Pasi Väliaho.
creator: Ina Blom,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Playful Identities
subject: Identities
description: In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital cartographies, the combined essays form a groundbreaking volume that features the most recent insights in play and game studies, media research, and identity studies.
creator: Val erie Frissen,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Social Problems: Continuity and Change
subject: Social Problems
description: Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them. It is easy for students to read a social problems textbook and come away feeling frustrated by the enormity of the many social problems facing us today. Social Problems: Continuity and Change certainly does not minimize the persistence of social problems, but neither does it overlook the possibilities for change offered by social research and by the activities of everyday citizens working to make a difference. Readers the book will find many examples of how social problems have been improved and of strategies that hold great potential for solving them today and in the future. You will find several pedagogical features help to convey the “continuity and change” theme of this text and the service sociology vision in which it is grounded: Each chapter begins with a “Social Problems in the News” story related to the social problem discussed in that chapter. These stories provide an interesting starting point for the chapter’s discussion and show its relevance for real-life issues. Three types of boxes in each chapter provide examples of how social problems have been changed and can be changed. In no particular order, A first box, “Applying Social Research,” discusses how the findings from sociological and other social science research have either contributed to public policy related to the chapter’s social problem or have the potential of doing so. A second box, “Lessons from Other Nations,” discusses how another nation or nations have successfully addressed the social problem of that chapter. A third box, “People Making a Difference,” discusses efforts by individuals, non-profit organizations or social cha…
publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices
subject: Social Science
creator: Anol Bhattacherjee
publisher: Global Text Project
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation
subject: Sustainability
description: With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field. This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability. This subject is of vital importance seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet but is only peripherally served by existing college textbooks. The content is intended to be useful for both a broad-based introductory class on sustainability and as a useful supplement to specialist courses which wish to review the sustainability dimensions of their areas of study. By covering a wide range of topics with a uniformity of style, and by including glossaries, review questions, case studies, and links to further resources, the text has sufficient range to perform as the core resource for a semester course. Students who cover the material in the book will be conversant in the language and concepts of sustainability, and will be equipped for further study in sustainable planning, policy, economics, climate, ecology, infrastructure, and more. Furthermore, the modular design allows individual chapters and sections to be easily appropriated without the purchase of a whole new text. This allows educators to easily bring sustainability concepts, references, and case studies into their area of study. This appropriation works particularly well as the text is free downloadable to anyone who wishes to use it. Furthermore, readers are encouraged to work with the text. Provided there is attribution to the source, use…
creator: Tom Theis
creator: Jonathan Tomkin
publisher: OpenStax CNX
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Centrality of Style
subject: Centrality
description: In The Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field. Calling attention to this paradox in his foreword to the collection, Paul Butler observes, "Many of the chapters work within the liminal space in which style serves as both a centralizing and decentralizing force in rhetoric and composition. Clearly, the authors and editors have made an invaluable contribution in their collection by exposing the paradoxical nature of a canon that continues to play a vital role in our disciplinary history."
creator: Mike Duncan
creator: Star M. Vangur
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Power of Selling
subject: Selling
description: The Power of Selling is the perfect textbook to teach students about the proven process of selling. More important, it teaches students how to apply the tenets of selling to how to sell themselves and get the job they want, with the same process professional sales people learn (or brush up) on their own selling skills. What makes someone successful in sales? Are great sales people born or made? Is there one magic selling process, or does the process change based on the business‚ or the customer? How can the selling process really come alive for students in the classroom? How do students learn how to sell for life, not just for a course? The Power of Selling by Kim Richmond answers these questions and makes the principles of selling come alive. Kim looks at the topic of selling through a different lens, and provides inspiration and ideas. The Power of Selling provides an exciting and interactive experience for both professors and students through the use of 4 unique elements: 1. Content The content is based on the core selling tenets so instructors will find the familiar principles of selling. In addition, the impact of Sales 2.0 is addressed at every stage including how to use interactive tools such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs, and wikis effectively. 2. Selling U: The last section of each chapter is called Selling U. It applies the concepts covered in the chapter to a student’s job search. Selling U topics include how to think about yourself as a brand, how to create a powerful cover letter and resume, how to create your personal elevator pitch, how to use networking and informational interviews to get the word out about your brand, how to prepare and dress for an interview, and how to negotiate and accept the right job offer. What makes The Power of Selling different is that Selling U is integrated into every chapter, which makes this text the ultimate guide to selling yourself. 3. Video Resources: Videos are used throughout the book. Additional videos th…
creator: Kimberly Richmond
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A scholarly contribution to educational praxis
subject: contribution
description: This publication contains original research targeting scientific specialists in the field of education. Not only is the disposition of its research endeavours grounded on a philosophical basis, it is also embedded in the empirical. The research methodology of each chapter emanates from applicable philosophical assumptions in the form of an applicable theoretical and conceptual framework. The latter forms a firm basis for the application of sound empiricism. Both qualitative and quantitative empirical approaches were alternatively applied in the various chapters. The content of each chapter was meticulously analysed before being finally accepted. In response to the call for chapters, 26 abstracts were received. After evaluation of these abstracts, 24 authors were granted the opportunity of submitting full manuscripts for evaluation. Subsequently the latter were submitted to a rigorous double-blind peer review process. These manuscripts were submitted to at least two or three specialist reviewers in their particular fields of specialisation. All of these review reports are preserved and kept for enquiry and assessment. The content of the current book was chosen from a selection for a 2014 publication which did not obtain a subsidy from the DHET, titled Nuances of Teaching Learning and Research, published by AndCork Publishers. After careful re-evaluation, a much smaller number of chapters was selected, substantially reworked and considerably extended, after which the chapters were again submitted to a double-blind peer review process. Ultimately, of the 26 abstracts originally received only 10 were finally accepted as suitable for publication in the current volume. Finally, in terms of the requirements set by clause 6.12 of the Department of Higher Education and Training policy on reworked publications, this book now contains more than 50% original content not published before. The content of this book adds to the body of scholarly knowledge in education. In his evalu…
creator: M. A. Mokoena, Izak Oosthuizen,
creator: Izak Oosthuizen,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: AOSIS, Durbanville, South Africa
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook
subject: Community
description: With funding from Alberta Open Educational Resources, Bow Valley College and NorQuest College collaborated to create Open Educational Resources (OER) in the form of e-textbooks for English language learners. NorQuest College created In the Community: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Textbook. The textbook: helps learners notice, learn, and practice English that will be helpful in your community gives learners practice in the four main language skills–listening, speaking, reading, and writing helps learners learn about intercultural skills helps learners develop some important essential skills can be used as an online textbook with interactive activities or downloaded, printed and used as a regular textbook The textbook is aimed at Canadian Language Benchmarks levels 5/6 and has been designed to be facilitated by an instructor.
creator: NorQuest College
publisher: Independent
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
subject: Perspectives
subject: Cultural
subject: Anthropology
description: We are delighted to bring to you this novel textbook, a collection of chapters on the essential topics in cultural anthropology. Different from other introductory textbooks, this book is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author. Each author has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology. Our approach to cultural anthropology is holistic. We see the interconnectedness of cultural practices and, in all of the chapters, we emphasize the comparison of cultures and the ways of life of different peoples. We start with Laura Nader’s observation that cultural differences need not be seen as a problem. In our complicated world of increasing migration, nationalism, and climate challenges, cultural diversity might actually be the source of conflict resolution and new approaches to ensuring a healthier world. Indeed, as Katie Nelson reminds us, anthropology exposes the familiarity in the ideas and practices of others that seem bizarre. Robert Borofsky advocates for anthropology’s ability to empower people and facilitate good. Borofsky calls on anthropologists to engage with a wider public to bring our incredible stories and important insights to helping resolve the most critical issues we face in the world today. This book brings Nader, Nelson, Borofsky, and many others together to demonstrate that our anthropological understandings can help all of us to improve the lives of people the world over. We need you, as students, to see the possibilities. As instructors, we want to help you share anthropological knowledge and understanding easily. We want all readers to be inspired by the intensely personal writings of the anthropologists who contribute to this volume.
publisher: Independent
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective
subject: Lifespan
subject: Psychological
description: This textbook introduces the idea of lifespan development from a psychological perspective.
creator: Martha Lally
creator: Suzanne Valentine-French
publisher: Independent
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Cycling Futures
description: Australasian researchers, practitioners, policy makers and community members are engaged in a global discussion on the role of cycling in addressing these concerns. Contributors to this book report on and extend this discussion as they explore the insights generated locally and internationally on the past, present and future of cycling. The focus of the first half of the book is largely on the current engagement with cycling, challenges faced by existing and would-be cyclists and the issues cycling might address. The second half of the book is concerned with strategies and processes of change. Contributors working from different ontological positions reflect on changing socio-spatial relations to enable the broadest possible participation in cycling.'
creator: Marilyn Bonham,
creator: Marilyn Johnson,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

e-Learning cookbook. TPACK in professional development in higher education
subject: education
description: Information and communication technology (ICT) makes it possible to bring information to everyone who wants to learn. Rapid advances in technology offer strong support for using ICT in teaching. Online education can intensify and improve students' learning process, and enables us to reach more students than by traditional means. The number of courses and modules being offered online is increasing rapidly worldwide. Although online education can reach more people nowadays and new and challenging learning experiences can be created with it, in the average university course the digital dimension too often remains limited to simply publishing the existing face-to-face course content online. It is crucial that lecturers have and can obtain knowledge about how to design technology-enhanced teaching. Technical advances can be expected to continue in the future, and those who wish to implement educational technology in their own teaching practice must reckon on becoming lifelong learners. This fits the culture of academic teachers perfectly: they are already lifelong learners and creators of new knowledge within their discipline. This book is based on the notion that a lecturer who uses ICT in teaching must learn how to apply his or her knowledge about content, pedagogy and technology in an integrated manner. The idea of integrating these three types of knowledge is based on the TPACK model, which stands for Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge model. The material for this book was developed in a Dutch higher education innovation project known as MARCHET (Make Relevant Choices in Educational Technology, MARCHET, 2009-2011).
creator: Nataša Brouwer,
creator: Peter J. Dekker
creator: Jakko van der Pol
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Dutch Polder Model in science and research
subject: science
description: Scientific research in the Netherlands is doing remarkably well. Dutch researchers, universities and institutes reside at or near the top of international rankings. In this essay, José van Dijck and Wim van Saarloos, the president and vice-president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), explore how such a small country could become a global player in science and research. They highlight interconnectedness, collaboration, trust, and interwoven research and education among the quintessentially Dutch factors that paved the way to the success. They also show, however, that the country's efforts to reach the top sometimes chip away at these trusted foundations. Investments in its research base are lagging, and some typically Dutch strengths have recently come under pressure. They close off with some suggestions on how the country may turn the tide, prolong its great achievements, and ensure a leading role for Dutch research in the nation's future.
creator: José van Dijck
creator: Wim van Saarloos
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Bloomsbury Scientists
subject: Scientists
description: Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own inventive way. Their collective energy changed the social mood of the era and brought a new synthesis of knowledge to ideas in science and art. Class barriers were threatened as power shifted from the landed oligarchy to those with talent and the will to make a difference. A time of unexpected opportunities, from the new disciplines of Genetics and Ecology to Post-Impressionism and beyond, Michael Boulter seamlessly weaves together the stories originating from Bloomsbury’s laboratories, libraries and studios. He narrates the breakthroughs of scientists such as Ray Lankester and Marie Stopes alongside the creative outputs of H. G. Wells and Virginia Woolf, among many others, and intricately connects them all through personal friendships, grievances, quarrels and affections. Bloomsbury Scientists offers a fresh and crucial perspective on this history at a time when the complex relationship between science and art continues to be debated.
creator: Michael Boulter,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: UCL Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Politicizing Digital Space: Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy
subject: Politicizing
description: "The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration. Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism. Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics."
creator: Trevor Garrison Smith
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Westminster Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Performing the Digital Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures
subject: Performance
description: How is performativity shaped by digital media – and how do performance practices themselves reflect and alter techno-social configurations? Performing the Digital inquires into the technological terms and conditions of performance and performance studies, and maps and theorizes the registers of performance at work in digital cultures. The contributions range from the performativity of algorithms and digital devices to the modulation of affect, atmospheres and the body; from performing cities, protest, organization and the economy to the scholarly performances of research.
creator: Beyes
creator: Leeker Timon,
creator: Martina
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Self-directed learning research Self-directed learning Self-directed learning research
subject: learning
description: This book will benefit specialists in the field of the education sciences. It represents significant progress in knowledge production. Self-directed learning has become increasingly important, not only for education in South Africa but also for education sciences in the international arena. This is a result of the changing education landscape, caused by the demands of the 21st century as well as the rapid change in knowledge production. Learners should be equipped with skills to take responsibility for their own learning. New innovative strategies should be incorporated into teaching and learning in order to meet the changing demands in education. Traditional teacher-centred practices are still the norm in most South African schools and higher-education institutions and do not adequately prepare students for lifelong learning in the 21st century. The content focuses on the theory behind self-directed learning, explores strategies such as cooperative learning, problembased learning, case-based teaching and large-group teaching that enhance self-directed learning and the use of blended learning in a self-directed learning environment. The book demonstrates how self-directed learning can be enhanced in mathematics, computer-science and life-science education and through the use of student tutors for geography. Digital technology could, for example, also be used in innovative ways for education in isiZulu folk poetry. The findings are based on original empirical research and a sound theoretical-conceptual framework. In an environment of rapidly changing knowledge production, this book responds to the challenge of how to equip learners with the necessary skills to take responsibility for their own learning. The book presents innovative teaching and learning strategies for meeting the changing demands in education. Group activities, the responsibilities of learners and the obstacles that hinder their learning are analysed, and the way in which educators can support them i…
creator: Elsa Mentz,
creator: Izak Oosthuizen,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: AOSIS, Durbanville
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Reading With My Eyes Open : Embracing the critical and the personal in language pedagogy
subject: Reading
description: Untangling the various approaches to language teaching and their history, Gerdi Quist maps recent thinking in language studies at university. Using an interdisciplinary theoretical framework, drawn from educational philosophy, cultural studies, intercultural studies and language pedagogy, the author discusses the many tensions and currents in contemporary language teaching. The author puts forward an alternative pedagogy, that of a cultuurtekst-perspective, which engages learners at complex linguistic and cultural levels. In discussing the case study in which this approach is tested, the author develops her argument for embracing various critical perspectives through the personal engagement of students. From the start the author acknowledges her own engaged position as a language teacher in a liberal humanistic educational environment. She adopts a self -critical perspective through which her engagement with adverse student reaction leads to deepening insights both for the author and her students as part of the non-linear process of learning. Gerdi Quist teaches Dutch language and lectures on multiculturalism and intercultural communication. Recent publications included a book chapter and journal articles on language pedagogy and intercultural communication. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/baj)
creator: Gerdi Quist,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Garden Learning: A Study on European Botanic Gardens’ Collaborative Learning Processes
subject: Learning
description: "From 2007-2013 the European 7th Framework Program Science in Society (FP7) funded a multitude of formal and informal educational institutions to join forces and engage in alternative ways to teach science—inside and outside the classroom—all over Europe. This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural History Museums in 11 European countries, to establish a collaborative learning network and expand their understanding of inquiry based science teaching (IBST). Suzanne Kapelari provides insight into the complex theoretical background and practical considerations that informed the project design and which guided the consortium through a three-year process of collaborative knowledge creation. ‘Expansive Learning Theory’ is fundamental to this approach and places emphasis on communities as learners, on transformation and creation of culture, on horizontal movement and hybridization of knowledge, and on the formation of theoretical concepts. This book is to be considered for planning and running international science education projects as well as a multifaceted theoretical underpinning of teaching. It serves as a conceptual and practical resource for formal and informal science educators and project managers. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 266616."
creator: Suzanne Kapelari
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Imagining the Future City : London 2062
subject: the Future City
description: London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice. This book approaches the question of London’s future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.
creator: Sarah Bell
creator: James Paskins
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Immigrant and Refugee Families
subject: Immigrant
subject: Refugee Families
description: Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences uses a family systems lens to discuss challenges and strengths of immigrant and refugee families in the United States. Chapters address immigration policy, human rights issues, economic stress, mental health and traumatic stress, domestic violence, substance abuse, family resilience, and methods of integration.
creator: Jaime Ballard
creator: Elizabeth Wieling
creator: Catherine Solheim
publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Fundamentals of Global Strategy
subject: Global Strategy
description: The globalization of the competitive landscape has forced companies to fundamentally rethink their strategies. Whereas once only a few industries such as oil could be labeled truly global, today many—from pharmaceuticals to aircraft to computers—have become global in scale and scope. As a consequence, creating a global competitive advantage has become a key strategic issue for many companies, and students need to possess an understanding of the impact of global strategies on a business. Crafting a global strategy requires making decisions about which strategy elements can and should be globalized and to what extent, and de Kluyver's Fundamentals of Global Strategy can help you illuminate these facts to your students. Fundamentals of Global Strategy poses the following questions for your students to analyze: What markets and/or regions should a company compete in and why? To what degree can and should products and services be standardized? Is it advantageous to adopt a more or less uniform market positioning worldwide? What value-added activities should it keep in-house, outsource, or relocate for competitive advantage? How can competitive responses be most effectively coordinated on a global basis?
creator: Cornelis de Kluyver
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

First Amendment: Cases, Controversies, and Contexts
subject: Amendment
description: This Casebook (Revised First Edition, August 2016) is intended to be used in an upper-division course covering the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its 14 chapters are substantially the same length, with the exception of Chapter One, the introduction, and Chapters Eleven and Twelve which in combination are the usual length. It is intended for 13 or 14 week semester that meets once or twice per week. Each Chapter contains a “Chapter Outline” at the beginning for ease of reference. The Casebook is organized with the Speech Clauses as Part One and the Religion Clauses as Part Two. Unlike many other courses, there is no accepted organizational scheme within these broad areas. As the Introduction notes, First Amendment doctrine, especially within freedom of speech, presents a varied and haphazard landscape. The Casebook follows a scheme that has proven effective in Professor Robson’s years of teaching the course to hundreds of students. The selection of cases tends toward the most recent and these tend to be less heavily edited. These recent cases often contain extended discussions of earlier cases that are not included in the Casebook.
creator: Ruthann Robson
publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit
subject: Entrepreneurship
subject: Innovation Toolkit
description: This book is designed for upper year undergraduate students and graduate students studying fundamental entrepreneurship concepts
creator: Lee Swanson
publisher: Independent
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing
subject: Design Discourse
subject: Composing and Revising Programs
description: Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing, edited by David Franke, Alex Reid, and Anthony Di Renzo, addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures — what the editors characterize as the "art and science of writing" — often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to "function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract, the human and the technical."
creator: David Franke
creator: Alex Reid
creator: Anthony Di Renzo
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
subject: Critical Expressivism
description: Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field."
creator: Tara Roeder
creator: Roseanne Gatto
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Theory of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 2
subject: Theory
description: The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion" (p. 3). An expression of more than a quarter-century of reflection and scholarly inquiry, this volume represents a significant contribution to contemporary rhetorical theory.
creator: Charles Bazerman
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1
subject: Rhetoric
description: The first in a two-volume set, A Rhetoric of Literate Action is written for "the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, [who] now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing." The reader is offered a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward; a consideration of how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer's motives; and advice on how to bring the text to completion and "how to manage the work and one's own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively."
creator: Charles Bazerman
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Recovering from a disaster : A study of the Relief and Reconstruction Process in Sri Lanka After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
subject: Recovering
description: On 26 December 2004 at 6.58 hours (Sri Lanka Time), a massive earthquake with its epicentre outside the coast of Sumatra generated a series of gigantic waves, tsunamis. At 8.35 hours the waves reached the eastern and southern coastline of Sri Lanka, crushing hundreds of villages and towns, killing and maiming tens of thousands of people within seconds. When the waves pulled back, and the ocean calmed down, local people came running to the scene to help. In the first couple of days after the disaster the survivors and their helpers had to manage largely on their own. When the professional experts arrived, most of them without any prior knowledge about the country, they took full command over the situation, brushing aside the local communities and their indigenous emergency systems. At this stage, those who were meant to die had already succumbed, and most of the wounded had received assistance from friends and neighbours.
creator: Arne Olav Øyhus
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Cappelen Damm Akademisk/NOASP (Nordic Open Access Scholarly Publishing)
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Long Night of the Tankers : Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil
subject: Oil
description: Long Night of the Tankers presents a fresh account of a lesser-known but critical component of the Atlantic naval theatre during World War II. Using war diaries, after-action reports, and first-hand accounts, authors Bercuson and Herwig examine the story behind Operation Neuland, the German plan to interrupt vital oil supplies from reaching the United States and the United Kingdom by preventing Allied oil tankers from leaving refineries in the Caribbean. The story begins in February 1942 and follows this German attempt to scuttle the Allied war machine through to the end of the war. Told largely from the German perspective, it details the planning and execution of the Germans and the diplomatic, political, and military responses of the Allies, particularly the United States, to overcome the German effort. Winner, 2014 John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Naval History (North American Society for Oceanic History)
creator: David J. Bercuson,
creator: Holger H. Herwig,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Calgary Press, Calgary
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Daniele Toninelli, Robert Pinter and Pablo de Pedraza
description: Daily activity sees data constantly flowing through cameras, the internet, satellites, radio frequencies, sensors, private appliances, cars, smartphones, tablets and the like. Among all the tools currently used, mobile devices, especially mobile phones, smartphones and tablets, are the most widespread, with their use becoming prevalent in everyday life within both developed and developing countries. Shopping, reading newspapers, participating in forums, projecting and completing surveys, communicating with friends and making new ones, filing tax returns and getting involved in politics are all examples of how ingrained mobile technology is to modern lifestyleMobile devices allow a wide range of heterogeneous activities and, as a result, have great potential in terms of the different types of data that can be collected. The use of mobile devices to collect, analyse and apply research data is explored here. This book focuses on the use of mobile devices in various research contexts, aiming to provide a detailed and updated knowledge on what is a comparatively new field of study. This is done considering different aspects: main methodological possibilities and issues; comparison and integration with more traditional survey modes or ways of participating in research; quality of collected data; use in commercial market research; representativeness of studies based only on the mobile-population; analysis of the current spread of mobile devices in several countries, and so on. Thus, the book provides interesting research findings from a wide range of countries and contexts. This book was developed in the framework of WebDataNet’s Task Force 19. WebDataNet, was created in 2009 by a group of researchers focusing on the discussion on data collection methods. Supported by the European Union programme for the Coordination of Science and Technology, WebDataNet has become a unique, multidisciplinary network that has brought together leading web-based data collection experts from …
creator: Daniele Toninelli,
creator: Robert Pinter
creator: Pablo de Pedraza
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: textbooks

Writing as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium
subject: Writing
description: Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging in spatial context from the Americas to the Near East, the chapters in this volume bring a variety of perspectives which contribute to both specific and broader questions of writing materialities. The authors also aim to place past graphical systems in their social contexts so they can be understood in relation to the people who created and attributed meaning to writing and associated symbolic modes through a diverse array of individual and wider social practices. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai)
creator: Kathryn E. Piquette
creator: Ruth D. Whitehouse
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: textbooks

Product Certification and Laboratory Accreditation Practices
subject: Product Certification
subject: Laboratory
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Leading with Cultural Intelligence
subject: Cultural Intelligence
subject: Leading
description: Organizations in the 21st century are in need of culturally intelligent managers and leaders. The pressure to build authentic global networks and to cultivate an appreciation and respect for cultural differences and similarities has driven cultural intelligence to the forefront of diversity and inclusion work. Preparing today's students to be effective leaders in their professional lives requires that they hone their cultural intelligence as it is vital to working inter- and intra-culturally in today’s global economy. This unique ability to identify, recognize, and acknowledge the differences and similarities that exist between and among cultural groups and systems will set their leadership skills apart from the masses. And when applied, cultural intelligence can bridge the gap in cultural misunderstanding by creating awareness, knowledge, and patience of cultural norms and behaviors. The purpose of Leading With Cultural Intelligence by Mia Moua is to outline the important ideas of cultural intelligence and the steps that must be considered and then practiced to become a culturally intelligent leader. The most important aspect covered within this book is that cultural intelligence is both a strategy and a tool towards cultural competency and proficiency. This book outlines the importance of understanding culture and its impact on organizations, the strategic value of cultural intelligence, and the significance of integrating and practicing cultural intelligence in everyday business life. When all these aspects are properly integrated and applied in the leadership and management process, organizations are more innovative and adaptable to respond to cultural changes.
creator: Mai Moua
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Tourism the International Business
subject: Tourism
subject: International Business
description: That is what this book focuses on. By understanding what travel and tourism is all about, those who operate businesses that rely on the visitor will be in a better position to take a pro-active role in securing that business for themselves. The text is divided into four sections: an overview of tourism, the development of tourism, the marketing of tourism, and the future of tourism.
creator: Robert Christie Mill
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

CLARIN in the Low Countries
subject: Countries
description: "This book describes the results of activities undertaken to construct the CLARIN research infrastructure in the Low Countries, i.e., in the Netherlands and in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium). CLARIN is a European research infrastructure for humanities and social science researchers that work with natural language data. This book introduces the CLARIN infrastructure, describes various aspects of the technical implementation of the infrastructure, and introduces data, applications and software services created in the Low Countries for a wide variety of humanities disciplines. These enable researchers to accelerate their research activities and to base their conclusions on a much larger and richer empirical base than was possible before, thus providing a basis for carrying out groundbreaking research in which old questions can be investigated in new ways and new questions can be raised and investigated for the first time. Given CLARIN’s focus on language data, linguistics and particularly syntax are prominently present. However, other humanities disciplines that work with natural language data such as history, literary studies, religion studies, media studies, political studies, and philosophy are represented as well. The book is a must read for humanities scholars and students who want to understand and use the potential that the Digital Humanities offer, as well as for computer scientists and developers of research infrastructures, in particular for researchers working on the CLARIN infrastructure in other countries."
creator: Jan Odijkand
creator: Arjanvan Hessen
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Horizons of Shamanism: A Triangular Approach to the History and Anthropology of Ecstatic Techniques
subject: History
description: "The multifarious and sometimes contested concept of “shamanism” has aroused intense popular and scholarly interest since its initial coinage by the Russian scholar V. M. Mikhailovsky in the late 19th century. In this book, three leading scholars, representing different branches of the humanities, dwell on the current status of shamanic practices and conceptions of the soul, both as ‘etic’ scholarly categories in historical research and as foci of spiritual revitalization among the indigenous populations of post-Soviet Siberia. Framed by an introduction and a critical afterword by historian of religions Ulf Drobin, the three essays address issues crucial to the understanding of cultural history and the history of religions. Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer, Research Professor in CERES, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgetown, Jan N. Bremmer, professor emeritus and former Chair of Religious Studies at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen and Carlo Ginzburg at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. The editor Peter Jackson, is Professor at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies at Stockholm University."
creator: Jackson, Peter
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Stockholm University Press, Stockholm, Sweden
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information
subject: Information
description: "This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The exploitation, integration and application of these sources, termed volunteered geographic information (VGI) or crowdsourced geographic information (CGI), offer scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple scales and for diversified objectives. The Handbook is organized in five parts, addressing the fundamental questions: What motivates citizens to provide such information in the public domain, and what factors govern/predict its validity?What methods might be used to validate such information? Can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks, in which inert and static sensors are replaced or combined by intelligent and mobile humans equipped with sensing devices? What limitations are imposed on VGI by differential access to broadband Internet, mobile phones, and other communication technologies, and by concerns over privacy? How do VGI and crowdsourcing enable innovation applications to benefit human society? Chapters examine how crowdsourcing techniques and methods, and the VGI phenomenon, have motivated a multidisciplinary research community to identify both fields of applications and quality criteria depending on the use of VGI. Besides harvesting tools and storage of these data, research has paid remarkable attention to these information resources, in an age when information and participation is one of the most important drivers of development. The collection opens questions and points to new research directions in addition to the findings that each of the authors demonstrates. Despite rapid progress in VGI research, this Handbook also shows that there are technical, social, political and methodological challenges that require further studies and research."
creator: Cristina Capineri,
creator: Muki Haklay,
creator: Haosheng Huang,
creator: Vyron Antoniou,
creator: Juhani Kettunen,
creator: Frank Ostermann
creator: Ross Purves
source: http://oapen.org/download
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Chernobyl Herbarium Fragments of an Exploded Consciousness
subject: Herbarium
description: We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.
creator: Michael Marder
creator: Anaïs Tondeur,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Open Humanities Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Business Processes and Information Technology
subject: Business
subject: Technology
description: Business Processes and Information Technology takes a business process focus towards understanding and managing operations, information systems, and management/ decision making in contemporary organizations. A wide range of information technologies in business processes are integrated throughout.
creator: Ulric J. Gelinas Jr
creator: Steve G. Sutton
creator: Jane Federowicz
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Business, Government, and Society
subject: Business
subject: Government
subject: Society
creator: William Frey
creator: Jose A. Cruz-Cruz
publisher: Connexions
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
subject: Business Law
subject: Legal Environment
description: Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with coverage of legal and regulatory issues that are more technical than the topics in the authors’ Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment. Appropriate for students who have already taken an introductory Legal Environment or Business Law course, the text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with which they are already familiar with their clear, concise and readable style. Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and various aspects of property law. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.
creator: Don Mayer
creator: Daniel Warner
creator: George Siedel
creator: Jethro Lieberman
creator: Alyssa Martina
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Accountancy
subject: Accountancy
description: Accounting is the process by which financial information about a business is recorded, classified, summarized, interpreted, and communicated. Accounting is the language of business.
publisher: Wikibooks.org
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future
subject: Writing
subject: Social Science
description: In Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Asao B. Inoue theorizes classroom writing assessment as a complex system that is "more than" its interconnected elements. To explain how and why antiracist work in the writing classroom is vital to literacy learning, Inoue incorporates ideas about the white racial habitus that informs dominant discourses in the academy and other contexts. Inoue helps teachers understand the unintended racism that often occurs when teachers do not have explicit antiracist agendas in their assessments. Drawing on his own teaching and classroom inquiry, Inoue offers a heuristic for developing and critiquing writing assessment ecologies that explores seven elements of any writing assessment ecology: power, parts, purposes, people, processes, products, and places.
creator: Asao Inoue
publisher: Parlor Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
subject: Public Health Ethics
description: Introducing public health ethics poses two special challenges. First, it is a relatively new field that combines public health and practical ethics. Its unfamiliarity requires considerable explanation, yet its scope and emergent qualities make delineation difficult. Moreover, while the early development of public health ethics occurred in a western context, its reach, like public health itself, has become global. A second challenge, then, is to articulate an approach specific enough to provide clear guidance yet sufficiently flexible and encompassing to adapt to global contexts. Broadly speaking, public health ethics helps guide practical decisions affecting population or community health based on scientific evidence and in accordance with accepted values and standards of right and wrong. In these ways, public health ethics builds on its parent disciplines of public health and ethics. This dual inheritance plays out in the definition the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers of public health ethics: “A systematic process to clarify, prioritize, and justify possible courses of public health action based on ethical principles, values and beliefs of stakeholders, and scientific and other information” (CDC 2011). Public health ethics shares with other fields of practical and professional ethics both the general theories of ethics and a common store of ethical principles, values, and beliefs. It differs from these other fields largely in the nature of challenges that public health officials typically encounter and in the ethical frameworks it employs to address these challenges. Frameworks provide methodical approaches or procedures that tailor general ethical theories, principles, values, and beliefs to the specific ethical challenges that arise in a particular field. Although no framework is definitive, many are useful, and some are especially effective in particular contexts. This chapter will conclude by setting forth a straightforward, stepwis…
publisher: Independent
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Sociology and The Sociological Perspective
subject: Sociology
subject: Perspective
creator: Saylor.org
publisher: Saylor.org
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Organizational Behavior
subject: Organizational Behavior
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Corruption in South Africa's liberal democratic context : Equipping Christian leaders and communities for their role in countering corruption
subject: Corruption
description: This book is meant for academics in the fields of theology and ecclesial management, for business leaders and governmental authorities in the private and public domain. This collected work by mainly practical theologians reflects on the phenomenon of corruption in the liberal democracy of post-apartheid South Africa. Liberal democracy has considerable salience in the contemporary world. Not only is it the form that many of the world’s most powerful and influential nations approve of, but it is a political system that is being tried – and used – by many formerly developing countries. South Africa is described as predominantly Christian. In such a context corruption is not to be expected. However, it is strongly prevalent. It undermines the values of both democracy and Christianity. Not only does corruption promote a general lack of trust in institutions and leadership, but it stimulates a perpetual culture of corruption that invades all spheres of life. The research is based on a qualitative empirical study. Its aim is to stimulate discourse in theology and related disciplines. Data were collected by means of interviews with political, business, church, and labour union managers and leaders in South Africa’s Gauteng area, who have experienced corruption. This area is the hub of economic, executive political and public office activities in South Africa. Respondents were specifically asked how their experience of corruption was informed by their norms, which in turn were influenced by their religious convictions and cultural conventions. The book suggests strategies for redressing the current ‘culture of corruption’. Although the chapters represent different perspectives, the shared objective is to emphasise that corruption is unethical, to describe and explain why it is taking place and how the situation should appear. The explanation focuses on the negative consequence of corruption: it does not respect human dignity – the ‘otherness’ of others; it exacerbates povert…
creator: Ferdinand Kruger
creator: Ben De Kler
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: AOSIS, Durbanville
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Open Data and the Knowledge Society
subject: Knowledge Society
description: This book considers the role of the open data movement in fostering transformation toward a 'knowledge society'.
creator: Bridgette Wessels,
creator: Rachel Finn,
creator: Thordis Sveinsdottir
creator: Kush Wadhwa
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Amsterdam university Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Craetive Commons
type: Textbooks

Making Institutional Repositories Work
subject: Work
description: Quickly following what many expected to be a wholesale revolution in library practices, institutional repositories encountered unforeseen problems and a surprising lack of impact. Clunky or cumbersome interfaces, lack of perceived value and use by scholars, fear of copyright infringement, and the like tended to dampen excitement and adoption. This collection of essays, arranged in five thematic sections, is intended to take the pulse of institutional repositories—to see how they have matured and what can be expected from them, as well as introduce what may be the future role of the institutional repository.
creator: Burton B. Callicott,
creator: David Scherer,
creator: Andrew Wesolek
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Purdue University Press, USA
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Focusing on Organizational Change
subject: Organizational Change
description: Never before have strategic leaders been confronted with so much overwhelming change. The traditional approach is to teach the leader or leaders how to direct or control the organizations’ reaction on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis. This approach is stressful and overwhelming for executive leaders, makes middle managers feel torn between honoring their senior leaders and listening to the demands of front line employees, and is alienating for front line employees. Focusing on Organizational Change offers an alternative to the traditional approach by focusing on building the change capacity of the entire organization in anticipation of future pressures to change. Based on systematic research of more than 5,000 respondents working within more than 200 organization or organizational units conducted during the previous decade, this book offers a clear and proven method for diagnosing your organizational change capacity. While building organizational change capacity is not fast or easy, it is essential for effective leadership and organizational survival in the 21st century.
creator: William Judge
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us
subject: Evolution
subject: Anthropology
description: Becoming Human: How Evolution Made Us is an Irreverent, fast-moving introduction to basic evolutionary theories and human origins. The focus is not just on our prehistory. Becoming Human highlights how evolution affects the way we are today, and helps us to anticipate what might happen to us in the future. The work explores the history of evolutionary theory, for Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle to new discoveries in genetics and paleoanthropology. The book especially explores the traces of evolution in our bodies today, the development of evolutionary theory, how evolution was affected by the way we reproduce, and the development of our unusual brains. Whether you're interested in the reason that our babies cry so loudly when chimpanzees don't or curious about how natural selection might have favoured cooperation as well as competition, Becoming Human is an excellent first stop on the path to learning more. The book is easy-to-read but challenging, an ideal introduction to our species' origin. The book was originally created to accompany the course 'Becoming Human,' a free online course from Open2Study (a project of Open Universities Australia). The author, anthropologist Greg Downey, has prepared a collection of his scripts, together with web links, academic references and other resources for more information. Although the book is ideal for those who are doing the online course, Becoming Human, it's also a great way to understand better how evolution produced humans.
creator: Greg Downey
publisher: Enculture Press, Australia
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries
subject: Creative
subject: Industries
description: "In recent years research into creative labour and cultural work has usually addressed the politics of production in these fields, but the sociotechnical and aesthetic dimensions of collaborative creative work have been somewhat overlooked. This book aims to address this gap. Through case studies that range from TV showrunning to independent publishing, from the film industry to social media platforms such as Tumblr and Wattpad, this collection develops a critical understanding of the integral role collaboration plays in contemporary media and culture. It draws attention to diverse kinds of creative collaboration afforded via the intermediation of digital platforms and networked publics. It considers how these are incorporated into emergent market paradigms and investigates the complicated forms of subjectivity that develop as a consequence. But it also acknowledges historical continuities, not least in terms of the continued exploitation of ‘support personnel’ and of resulting artistic conflicts but also of alternative models that resist the precarious nature of contemporary cultural work. Finally, this volume attempts to situate creative collaboration in broader social and economic contexts, where the experience and outcomes of such work have proved more problematic than the rich potential of their promise would lead us to expect. "
creator: James Graham
creator: Alessandro Gandini
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Westminster Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Coming of Age in Byzantium : Adolescence and Society
subject: Society
description: The various phases of life and their manifestations in theory and social reality constitute a well-established area of research in the fields of western medieval studies and ancient history. In this respect the Byzantine East has been widely neglected. This volume will focus on the Byzantine experience of adolescence, which may be defined as the biological transition from childhood to adulthood as well as the social and psychological experience of leaving the care of parents, guardians and family groups and the gradual integration into adult society.
creator: Despoina Ariantzi,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: De Gruyter, Berlin; Boston
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Understanding Society and Natural Resources
subject: Resources
subject: Society
description: In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social science disciplines as a means for furthering natural resource social science and environmental problem solving. The chapters provide an overview of the history, vision, advances, examples and methods that could lead to integration. The quest for integration among the social sciences is not new. Some argue that the social sciences have lagged in their advancements and contributions to society due to their inability to address integration related issues. Integration merits debate for a number of reasons. First, natural resource issues are complex and are affected by multiple proximate driving social factors. Single disciplinary studies focused at one level are unlikely to provide explanations that represent this complexity and are limited in their ability to inform policy recommendations. Complex problems are best explored across disciplines that examine social-ecological phenomenon from different scales. Second, multi-disciplinary initiatives such as those with physical and biological scientists are necessary to understand the scope of the social sciences. Too frequently there is a belief that one social scientist on a multi-disciplinary team provides adequate social science representation. Third, more complete models of human behavior will be achieved through a synthesis of diverse social science perspectives.
creator: Michael J. Manfredo
creator: Jerry J. Vaske
creator: Andreas Rechkemmer
creator: Esther A. Duke
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Springer
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations
subject: Improving the Effectiveness
subject: Boards of Directors
subject: Nonprofit Organizations
description: The purpose of this book is to help boards of directors of nonprofit organizations improve their performance after completing the Board Check-Up, online board performance self-assessment tool found at www.boardcheckup.com. This book is also valuable as a stand-alone resource for any board seeking to assess its performance in that it contains the diagnostic questions on which the online self-assessment tool is based. It goes further by providing a framework for boards to use in discussing needed changes in board performance. It also forms an integral part of a University at Albany, SUNY online course titled, The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations. This massive open online course (MOOC) can be taken for free or academic credit through Coursera’s online teaching and learning platform. For more information about this book, the Board Check-Up, and the nonprofit governance MOOC
creator: Dr. Vic Murray
creator: Dr. Yvonne Harrison
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Explaining Criminal Career
subject: Society and social sciences
description: Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple quantitative theory of crime, conviction and reconviction, the assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of cohort samples drawn from the “UK Home Office” Offenders Index (OI). Mathematical models based on the theory, together with population trends, are used to make: exact quantitative predictions of features of criminal careers; aggregate crime levels; the prison population; and to explain the age-crime curve, alternative explanations are shown not to be supported by the data. Previous research is reviewed, clearly identifying the foundations of the current work. Using graphical techniques to identify mathematical regularities in the data, recidivism (risk) and frequency (rate) of conviction are analysed and modelled. These models are brought together to identify three categories of offender: high-risk / high-rate, high-risk / low-rate and low-risk / low-rate. The theory is shown to rest on just 6 basic assumptions. Within this theoretical framework the seriousness of offending, specialisation or versatility in offence types and the psychological characteristics of offenders are all explored suggesting that the most serious offenders are a random sample from the risk/rate categories but that those with custody later in their careers are predominantly high-risk/high-rate. In general offenders are shown to be versatile rather than specialist and can be categorised using psychological profiles. The policy implications are drawn out highlighting the importance of conviction in desistance from crime and the absence of any additional deterrence effect of imprisonment. The use of the theory in evaluation of interventions is demonstrated.
creator: John F. Macleod,
creator: Peter G. Grove,
creator: David P. Farringtz
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Oxford University Press
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Open : The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science
subject: Society and social sciences
description: "Affordable education. Transparent science. Accessible scholarship. These ideals are slowly becoming a reality thanks to the open education, open science, and open access movements. Running separate—if parallel—courses, they all share a philosophy of equity, progress, and justice. This book shares the stories, motives, insights, and practical tips from global leaders in the open movement."
creator: Rajiv S. Jhangiani
creator: Robert Biswas-Diener
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
subject: Public Domain
creator: James Boyle
publisher: Yale University Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Native Peoples of North America
subject: Native Peoples
description: Native Peoples of North America is intended to be an introductory text about the Native peoples of North America (primarily the United States and Canada) presented from an anthropological perspective. As such, the text is organized around anthropological concepts such as language, kinship, marriage and family life, political and economic organization, food getting, spiritual and religious practices, and the arts. Prehistoric, historic and contemporary information is resented. Each chapter begins with an example from the oral tradition that reflects the theme of the chapter. The text includes suggested readings, videos and classroom activities.
creator: Dr. Susan Stebbins
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis
subject: Society and social sciences,
subject: Politics and government
creator: Wyn Grant
creator: Graham K. Wilson
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Prison, Architecture and Humans
subject: Prison
subject: Architecture
subject: Humans
description: What is prison architecture and how can it be studied? How are concepts such as humanism, dignity and solidarity translated into prison architecture? What kind of ideologies and ideas are expressed in various prison buildings from different eras and locations? What is the outside and the inside of a prison, and what is the significance of movement within the prison space? What does a lunch table have to do with prison architecture? How do prisoners experience materiality in serving a prison sentence? These questions are central to the texts presented in this anthology. Prison, Architecture and Humans is the result of a collaboration between researchers and architects from Italy, Norway and Sweden. It presents new approaches to prison architecture and penological research by focusing on prison design, prison artefacts, everyday prison life and imprisoned bodies. The book will be of interest to students, researchers, architects and politicians.
publisher: Open Access
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Principles of Sociological Inquiry – Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
subject: Principles of Sociological
subject: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
description: The author of Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods, Amy Blackstone, started envisioning this textbook while sitting in her own undergraduate sociology research methods class. She enjoyed the material but wondered about its relevance to her everyday life and future plans (the idea that one day she would be teaching such a class hadn’t yet occurred to her). Now that she teaches the research methods course, she realizes that students today wonder the very same thing. While the importance of understanding research methods is usually clear to those students who intend to pursue an advanced degree, Amy wanted to write a text that would assist research methods teachers in demonstrating to all types of students the relevance of this course. In addition, Amy Blackstone’s experience as an active researcher who uses both qualitative and quantitative methods made her acutely aware of the need for a balanced approach in teaching methods of sociological inquiry. Together, Amy Blackstone’s experiences as a student, researcher, and teacher shape the three overriding objectives of Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Relevance, Balance, and Accessibility. Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods emphasizes the relevance of research methods for the everyday lives of its readers, undergraduate students. Each chapter describes how research methodology is useful for students in the multiple roles they fill: As consumers of popular and public information As citizens As current and future employees. Connections to these roles are made throughout and directly within the main text of the book Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods also provides balanced coverage of qualitative and quantitative approaches by integrating a variety of examples from recent and classic sociological research. The text challenges students to debate and discuss the strengths and…
creator: Amy Blackstone
publisher: Saylor Foundation

Pragmatic Philanthropy
subject: Pragmatic Philanthropy
description: This cutting edge text considers how Asian philanthropists and charitable organizations break with Western philanthropic traditions and examines the key traits and trends that make social investment in Asia unique. Based on 30 case studies of excellent social delivery organizations (SDOs) and social enterprises as well as interviews with ultra-high net-worth individuals throughout Asia, this book examines which characteristics and strategies lead to successful philanthropy and social delivery organizations. Providing evidence based findings on philanthropy, social investment and social delivery organizations in Asia, this book provides invaluable resources for those wishing to deepen their understanding of the sector and what this means for political and economic development in the region.
creator: Ruth A. Shapiro
creator: Manisha Mirchandani
creator: Heesu Jang
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

New Directions in Dental Anthropology: Paradigms, Methodologies and Outcomes
subject: Anthropology
publisher: University of Adelaide Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Knowledge and Networks
subject: Knowledge
subject: Networks
subject: Human Geography
description: This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has become increasingly important for scholars to capture societal outcomes by studying social relations and networks, whereas the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge. The individual contributions help integrate network arguments of connectivity, geographical arguments of contiguity and contextuality into a more comprehensive understanding of the ways in which people and organizations are constrained by and make use of space and networks for learning and innovation. Experts in the fields of geography, sociology, economics, political science, psychology, management and organizational studies develop conceptual models and propose empirical research that illustrates the ways in which networks and geography play together in processes of innovation, learning, leadership, and power.
publisher: Springer Nature
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

International Relations
subject: International Relations
description: A ‘Day 0’ introduction to International Relations. Written by a range of emerging and established experts, the chapters offer a broad sweep of the basic components of International Relations and the key contemporary issues that concern the discipline. The narrative arc forms a complete circle, taking readers from no knowledge to competency. The journey starts by examining how the international system was formed and ends by reflecting that International Relations is always adapting to events and is therefore a never-ending journey of discovery. The chapters are short, with simple paragraphs and clear sentences placing the reader inside crucial issues and debates so they can understand how things work, and where they fit in the world around them.
creator: Stephen Mcglinchey
publisher: e-International Relations Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Human Relations
subject: Human Relations
subject: Social interaction
description: Knowing how to get along with others, resolve workplace conflict, manage relationships, communicate well, and make good decisions are all critical emotional intelligence skills students need to succeed in career and in life. Our Human Relations book will address all of the critical topics to obtain career success. This book isn’t an organizational behavior (OB) text, which is too theoretical for many of our students’ needs. While this book will focus on some of the theories you might find in an OB book, the focus is a direct benefit to students in their current and future jobs. This book also isn’t a professional communications, business English, or professionalism book, as the focus is much broader: it focuses on general career success and how to effectively maneuver in the workplace. The core concept in the book is emotional intelligence and how these skills carry over into career success, such as through ethics, communication, diversity, teamwork, conflict, good decision making, stress management, motivation, and leadership.
source: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Human%20Relations.pdf
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Sociology
subject: Social Sciences
subject: OpenStax Featured
subject: Sociology Studies
description: Introduction to Sociology was written by teams of sociology professors and writers and peer-reviewed by college instructors nationwide. The textbook was developed for OpenStax College as part of its Open Educational Resources initiative. This free online text meets standard scope and sequence requirements and incorporates current events such as the Occupy Wall Street movement. The text is designed for the Introduction to Sociology course at any two- to four-year school.
creator: OpenStax
source: https://cnx.org/contents/r-QzKsl_@7.23:_97x1rAv@2/Introduction-to-Sociology
publisher: OpenStax
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Nietzsche on Power, Knowledge and Morality
subject: Sociology
description: Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Today we take a bridge into the twentieth century, constructed by Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber's critical theory. Each author is different in important ways, but they also agree on two crucial points: we must subject our consciousness and assumptions to critical scrutiny and, along with increasing liberation and rationalization in some ways, modern society also has repressive elements. Nietzsche is the oldest of these thinkers; he dies in 1900 and stops working a decade before due to mental illness. While he was ill, his sister, a proto-Nazi and associate of Hitler, cared for him. Her control of his papers and how they were released to the public painted him as a proto-Nazi himself, but reading his whole oeuvre illuminates that Nietzsche subjected Judaism and Christianity to the same scrutiny. In The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche attempts to use the genealogy method to be critical of modern morality without taking a certain vantage point. We discuss most specifically his genealogy of the ideas of good and bad and of good and evil. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Nietzsche, Freud and Weber and The Problem of Modernity 10:23 - Chapter 2. Nietzsche in a Historical Context 25:35 - Chapter 3. Nietzsche's Major Works 33:21 - Chapter 4. Major Themes in "On the Genealogy of Morals" Complete course materials are available at the Yale Online website: online.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2009.
source: http://youtu.be/ALiZkclxdko
publisher: YaleCourses published via YouTube.com
date: 2011-03-05T04:56:22.000Z
rights: Standard YouTube License

Introduction to Sociology - The Sociological Imagination - Part 1
description: The Sociological Imagination: Who We Are and How We Got Here - Part 1--This course provides a sampling of problems and methods used by sociologists, with concrete examples from everyday life, history, and contemporary events.
source: http://youtu.be/4FduU3EokBY
publisher: New York University published via YouTube.com
date: 2010-12-21T18:33:19.000Z
rights: Standard YouTube License