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  The Rights of Englishmen, A Primary Source Reader for Students of Early Modern British History & Early American History

  Robin Brooks Ishler

  This book is a collection of primary sources from the United Kingdom and English-Speaking North America from the Magna Carta in 1215 through the middle of the 19th Century, with commentary and an introduction from Dr. Robin Ishler. The purpose of the book is not only to act as a resource for students of Early Modern British history and early American history, but also to demonstrate the deep political and philosophical connections between the United States and the larger English legal and societal context from which it emerged. Dr. Ishler argues that it is an unfortunate reality that many history and political science courses in the United States often downplay these fundamental linkages. The book aims to show the history of the so called ‘rights of Englishmen’ as they were codified, interpreted, examined, and implemented in different ways in the United Kingdom and throughout the British Empire in North America. It also explores a few representative works of English and American political philosophy. The book seeks to demonstrate how the United Kingdom and the United States are both products of the same great conversation on rights, laws, and representative government. While the colonial society in which these ideas emerged was deeply flawed, the ideas themselves evolved to become the cornerstone of contemporary democracy in their respective countries.

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  Organizational Health Psychology: A Compilation of Open Access Research for Future Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

  Caitlin Lapine

  Organizational Health Psychology: A Compilation of Open Access Research for Future Industrial-Organizational Psychologists is a text designed for industrial organizational psychology graduate students and organizational practitioners working to make the workplace better for all employees. This open educational resource provides important scholarly journal articles that describe current findings in the occupational health space, including research conducted on the COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on current work.

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  Constitutional Freedoms in the United States

  Tom Rozinski

  Constitutional Freedoms is an undergraduate text for courses in civil rights and liberties. It covers most of the subject areas of other undergraduate texts, although it rearranges some in ways that are more conducive to student learning. The major difference is that freedoms of speech and press are treated together as aspects of communication, rather than separately because so distinguished in the US Constitution. The book includes sections on Supreme Court procedure, methods of interpretation, and tests for unconstitutionality, as well as information about experiential learning opportunities for students.

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  Legal Writing Simplified

  Michelle Zakarin

  This book has been designed to help law students learn to write analytically in a straight-forward, simple, yet effective style. I have included text to explain the particular writing concepts and videos that explain concepts clearly. Different modalities can be useful in order to appeal to different learning styles. My hope is to demonstrate that mastering the art of legal writing can positively impact all aspects of law school and all aspects of a legal career.

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  A Clinical Reference for Neuroanatomy

  Stephanie Klinesmith

  This work is available online in three parts:

  Part I: Gross Brain & Spinal Cord
  

  Part II: Brainstem & Cranial Nerves

  Part III: Forebrain & Cerebellum

  The American Association of Anatomy (AAA) has put forth learning objectives for the four preclinical courses in the anatomical sciences. In conjunction, they have also provided a list of clinical syndromes and scenarios that medical students should understand during their preclinical studies. This resource uses these clinical syndromes as a guide to provide students with a quick reference to clinical syndromes covered in preclinical neuroanatomy. This work is comprised of three parts. Part I addresses issues related to gross brain, embryology, and spinal cord functions. Part II addresses issues related to the brainstem and cranial nerves. Part III addresses issues related to the forebrain and cerebellum.

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  Readings in American Political Theory

  Tom Rozinski

  A survey of important ideas in American history from the founding to the 1980s. In addition to the creation of American government, the book presents readings on Jacksonian government, the struggle over slavery, the debate over secession, women's suffrage, laissez-faire government v. progressivism, the expansion of government aid to the disadvantaged, conflicting strategies during the civil rights movement, and the rise of conservatism in the late 20th century. Montesquieu and Tocqueville complement the American writers.

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  Corporate Finance

  Kenneth S. Bigel

  Corporate Finance is a comprehensive guide covering the three fundamental topics in Corporate Finance, including Capital Budgeting under Certainty, Capital Structure Theory, and Short-term Financial Management and Operating Leverage. In-depth explanations of topics and terms are provided as well as key illustration in the manner of problem sets and solutions, tables, and diagrams. Review problems are also included so that students can conduct self-assessments. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.

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  Optimizing Your Capstone Experience: A Guidebook for Allied Health Professionals

  Virginia E. Koenig

  This guidebook is designed for allied health professional students. Each chapter in this guidebook provides students with useful information, tools, and examples that will support them before, during, and after their capstone journey. This is a one of a kind resource that can be used in a variety of professional academic settings. The primary goal of this guidebook is to support students throughout their capstone experience and to help them understand how the capstone process will enrich both their personal and professional advancement.

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  Introduction to Financial Analysis

  Kenneth S. Bigel

  This Open Textbook is a dynamic guide incorporating the essential skills needed to build a foundation in Financial Analysis. Students and readers will learn how to insightfully read a Financial Statement, utilize key financial ratios in order to derive forward-looking investment-related inferences from the accounting data, engage in elementary forecasting and modeling, master the theory of the Time Value of Money, and learn to price stocks and bonds in an environment in which interest rates constantly change. Ample problems and solutions, and review questions are provided to the student so that s/he can gauge his/her progress. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.

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  The Human Microbiome Project

  Neil J. Normand

  This resource is a collection of articles, book chapters, and videos about the Human Microbiome.The Microbiome is loosely defined as microorganisms, such as bacteria, that are found throughout the human body. It plays an important role in our understanding of our interactions with microorganisms and can help better understand which microorganisms are associated with clinical conditions and can help to improve the overall state of human health. The Human Microbiome provides some background information on microorganisms in general. There is a lot of Microbiome information provided. Some in the form of informative video content, some in the form of an online course at MIT and links to papers and online books and other important websites that inform a lot about the microbiome. Finally, since this is intended to be a resource for Lander College for Women, a Womens Jewish College, there is also information about the impact of the human microbiome on women's health, as well as information regarding a parallel concept in Jewish Philosophy, that a human being is a microcosm of a world.-Neil Normand, Touro University, 2021

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  Interpersonal Communication

  Gena Bardwell, Sherry Reiter, David Nussbaum, George Backinoff, and Georgia Westbrook

  Interpersonal Communication relies on, and adapts, with gratitude, materials from the following Open Educational Resources:

  Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies published by the University of Minnesota Libraries.