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Fixed Income Mathematics
Kenneth S. Bigel
2025
Bond Math is at the center of the functioning of the bond markets, yet this critical sub-finance discipline is usually not accessible to the typical investor. This is an approachable study of the mathematical theories underlying Fixed Income instruments. It is not a study of bonds per se or the bond markets. The text commences with a basic review of the time value of money, i.e., the theory of compound interest. It then proceeds to discuss how bond prices and yields are determined. Next, it covers the relationships between bond prices and general movements of interest rates in the economy. Other topics include bond portfolio management, how an investor may cope with ever-changing interest rates, and “callable bonds.”
The author has intentionally simplified this otherwise abstruse topic so that it will be accessible to the average reader. Most readers will be comfortable with the basic ninth-grade mathematics involved. Each chapter smoothly transitions to the next; before moving on to the next chapter, the reader will sense a feeling of mastery and completion. Chapters are followed by review questions so that the student can gauge his/her mastery.
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Legal Writing Simplified
Michelle Zakarin
2025
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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Organizational Health Psychology: A Compilation of Open Access Research for Future Industrial-Organizational Psychologists
Caitlin Lapine
2025
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
2025
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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Practical Experimental Microbiology: Laboratory Manual
Rivka Levron
2025
Microbiology, especially the laboratory component, is a highly practical and useful course for students pursuing many career options. While a number of excellent microbiology laboratory manuals are available, many are more suitable for a full-year course in microbiology or for more advanced studies.
Microbiology Experimental Laboratory Manual is comprehensive in teaching students basic microbiological techniques, i.e., how to grow and stain bacteria, how to identify bacteria and fungi, and means of identifying different species of bacteria microscopically. Further experiments enable students to identify the most effective soap/detergent from those readily available; to discover which spices have the most anti-bacterial activity; to identify which sources of milk provide 'good' vs. 'bad' bacteria; and grow common micro-organisms from samples of soil, raw meat, and milk products. In addition, the lab course is designed to help students think scientifically and develop independent thinking skills by designing their own microbiological experiments to carry out during the course of the semester. The present manual is suitable for students pursuing paramedical professions, and is adaptable for those in a distance-learning course with limited access to laboratory resources.
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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
2025
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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Readings in American Political Theory
Tom Rozinski
2024
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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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
2024
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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Corporate Finance
Kenneth S. Bigel
2023
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
2023
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
2022
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
2021
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
2020
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.
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