Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering
subject: Mathematical ability in children
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
description: The third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitable for teaching all the mathematics ever likely to be needed for an undergraduate course in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all the topics covered and many worked examples, it contains more than 800 exercises. A number of additional topics have been included and the text has undergone significant reorganisation in some areas.
creator: K.F. Riley
creator: M.P. Hobson
creator: S.J. Bence
publisher: Cambridge University Press
contributor: Dian Islamiati
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Management Information Systems
subject: Management Information Systems
subject: Management
subject: Economics
description: All individuals, companies and, in general, all organisations are continuously capturing data, many of which are of no significance to them at all. However, other data are available that would afford them a better understanding of their own environment and of themselves. These data – what we know as information – enable them to make more accurate decisions. For this reason, the right amount of information at the right time is a key factor for every organisation.
creator: Rafael Lapiedra Alcami
creator: Carlos Devece Caranana
source: http://repositori.uji.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10234/46625/s63.pdf
publisher: Universitat Jaume I
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

GIS Based Ground Water Quality Evaluation with Particular Reference to India
subject: Water Quality
publisher: OMICS International
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Golda Meir : A Political Biography
subject: Biography
description: For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job – that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974.
creator: Meron Medzini,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine : Jewish Statehood and the History of the Middle East Conflict
subject: History
description: Tamar Amar-Dahl offers a profound analysis of Israel’s political order and culture and the role of Zionism. The study uncovers the discrepancy between the Western democratic self-image of Israel and its military influenced practical approaches to civil society. It presents in-depth the historical developments, the political repercussions and the possible perspectives for a peaceful solution with the Arab neighbors.
creator: Tamar Amar-Dahl
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Craetive Commons
type: Textbooks

The Value of the University Armed Service Units
subject: Value
description: This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the value of the university armed service units – the University Officer Training Corps, University Royal Naval Units and University Air Squadrons. The units, many of which date back to the early 20th century, exist in order to provide students at UK universities with an experience of the British armed forces. Participation in the units is entirely voluntary, and there is no expectation that students will go on to join the armed forces on graduation, although a proportion of students each year do so.The Value of the University Armed Service Units brings together the results of a research project which explored what the value of the units might be to student participants, to graduates in civilian jobs who had the experience as students, to the armed forces, to universities whose students take part in the units, and to employers of graduates with service unit experience. This book draws on quantitative and qualitative research data to explore whether, how, and why the units have value to these different groups. Significant conclusions include the extent to which the units are able to assist students with the development of their transferable (graduate) skills; the potential significance of the units for future recruitment to the armed forces, particularly the Reserves; and the effect of unit experience in developing an informed understanding of the role and function of the British armed forces amongst the wider civilian population.
creator: Rachel Woodward, K. Neil Jenkings and Alison J. Williams
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Quantitative Research Methods for Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration (With Applications in R): 3rd Edition
subject: Quantitative
subject: Research Methods
description: The focus of this book is on using quantitative research methods to test hypotheses and build theory in political science, public policy and public administration. It is designed for advanced undergraduate courses, or introductory and intermediate graduate-level courses. The first part of the book introduces the scientific method, then covers research design, measurement, descriptive statistics, probability, inference, and basic measures of association. The second part of the book covers bivariate and multiple linear regression using the ordinary least squares, the calculus and matrix algebra that are necessary for understanding bivariate and multiple linear regression, the assumptions that underlie these methods, and then provides a short introduction to generalized linear models. The book fully embraces the open access and open source philosophies. The book is freely available in the SHAREOK repository; it is written in R Markdown files that are available in a public GitHub repository; it uses and teaches R and RStudio for data analysis, visualization and data management; and it uses publically available survey data (from the Meso-Scale Integrated Socio-geographic Network) to illustrate important concepts and methods. We encourage students to download the data, replicate the examples, and explore further! We also encourage instructors to download the R Markdown files and modify the text for use in different courses.
creator: Hank Jenkins-Smith
creator: Joseph Ripberger
publisher: University of Oklahoma Libraries
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Environmental Impact Assessment
subject: Environmental
description: Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a widely used tool for assessing the environmental implications of projects, policies and plans. It is also an integral part of the decision-making processes involving environmental issues. With the growing importance of environmental protection and an awareness of pursuing sustainable development, applying EIA techniques has become more important and compelling. We will start this free courseware module by introducing some of the current environmental issues facing Hong Kong, China and the world as a whole. Following on from this, we will introduce the concept of sustainable development. These background issues illustrate why environmental impact assessments are necessary in the first place, and what role they play in sustainable development.
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Environmental Control, Monitoring And Modeling
subject: Environmental
subject: Monitoring
subject: Modeling
description: We start by defining air pollution and examining the main sources of air pollution. We then classify air pollutants according to origin, chemical composition, state of matter, and area of impact; and examine the effects of air pollution, particularly the immediate health affects. We conclude by explaining Hong Kong's Air Pollution Index.
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Product Environmental, Health and Safety Standards
subject: Environmental
subject: Health and Safety
description: This module provides you with the foundational knowledge you need to understand what 'products' are, and how they can be classified, designed, produced and disposed of in ways that best preserve and promote the integrity of the environment, and of human health and safety. This module should take you about six hours to complete, including the time you will need to complete the activities and self-tests.
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Foundation Course In Biology And Earth Science
subject: Biology
subject: Earth Science
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Petropolitics : Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History
subject: Development
subject: Markets
subject: Regulation
description: The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to be purely private decisions are made within a complex and evolving web of government regulations. Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History provides an economic history of the petroleum industry in Alberta as well as a detailed analysis of the operation of the markets for Alberta oil and natural gas, and the main governmental regulations (apart from environmental regulations) faced by the industry. The tools used within this study are applicable to oil and gas industries throughout the world. Winner, 2014 Book of the Year, Petroleum History Society
creator: MacFadyen, Alan & Watkins, G. Campbell
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Calgary Press, Calgary
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Euclidean Plane and Its Relatives
subject: Euclidean Plane
description: This book is designed for a semester-long course in Foundations of Geometry and meant to be rigorous, conservative, elementary and minimalistic.
creator: Anton Petrunin
publisher: Independent
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Underground Water Impact Report for the Surat Cumulative Management Area
subject: Water Impact
description: The Surat Underground Water Impact Report forms part of the regulatory framework for managing the impacts of this groundwater extraction.
publisher: Department of Natural Resources and Mines
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Turn on the light on science
subject: science
description: "Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of an existing perception of what a scientist should look and be like. For example, the popular image of ‘a scientist’ overlooks the presence of women almost entirely unless attributed to specific subjects and/or with narrow character depictions. The implications can be far-reaching. Young people, being heavily swayed by what they see and hear in the media, may avoid scientific careers because of these limited or unflattering portrayals of the scientific community, regardless of whether they reflect real life. Based on findings from the Light’13 project, this book examines such stereotypes and questions whether it is possible to adjust people’s perception of scientists and to increase interest in science and scientific careers through a series of specific actions and events."
creator: Antonio Tintori,
creator: Rossella Palomba,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Ubiquity Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Landscape in the Longue Duree
description: Pebbles are usually found only on the beach, in the liminal space between land and sea. But what happens when pebbles extend inland and create a ridge brushing against the sky? Landscape in the Longue Durée is a 4,000 year history of pebbles. It is based on the results of a four-year archaeological research project of the east Devon Pebblebed heathlands, a fascinating and geologically unique landscape in the UK whose bedrock is composed entirely of water-rounded pebbles. Christopher Tilley uses this landscape to argue that pebbles are like no other kind of stone – they occupy an especial place both in the prehistoric past and in our contemporary culture. It is for this reason that we must re-think continuity and change in a radically new way by considering embodied relations between people and things over the long term. Dividing the book into two parts, Tilley first explores the prehistoric landscape from the Mesolithic to the end of the Iron Age, and follows with an analysis of the same landscape from the eighteenth into the twenty-first century. The major findings of the four-year study are revealed through this chronological journey: from archaeological discoveries, such as the excavation of three early Bronze Age cairns, to the documentation of all 829 surviving pebble structures, and beyond, to the impact of the landscape on local economies and its importance today as a military training camp. The results of the study will inform many disciplines including archaeology, cultural and art history, anthropology, conservation, and landscape studies.
creator: Christopher Tilley,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: UCL Press, London
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Educational Research
subject: Research, Education
description: From 2005 to 2011, an ICT-integrated Teacher Education Program, funded by the African Development Bank, was developed and offered by 12 universities drawn from 10 countries which worked collaboratively to design, develop, and deliver their own Open Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) programs for teachers in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, ICTs for teachers, and Teacher Education Professional Development. Four Bachelors of Education in mathematics and sciences were developed and peer-reviewed by African Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the participating institutions. A total of 73 modules were developed and translated to ensure availability in English, French and Portuguese making it a total of 219 modules. These modules have also been made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) on oer.avu.org, and have since then been accessed over 2 million times.
creator: Ridwan Mohamed Osman
source: https://oer.avu.org/bitstream/handle/123456789/758/EDU14_EN%20Educational%20Research.pdf
publisher: African Virtual University
contributor: Yusri Fahmi
rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. CC-BY, SA
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks