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A Dam Good Argument

CC BY (Attribution)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Liz Delf, Rob Drummond, Kristy Kelly

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides, Language learning: writing skills, Essays

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2022-10-01

Last updated: 2026-01-23

Arguments are all around us. Everywhere we look, someone is trying to get our attention, change our minds, or sell us something. Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform those attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer–from evidence to structure to tone–impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.
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Zero to MATLAB

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Adam L. Lambert, PhD

Subject(s): Mathematical and statistical software

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 2026-01-23

For immediate access, this book may be downloaded in PDF format. The original LaTeX files may be downloaded from the GitHub repository.

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The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel

Subject(s): Environmental policy and protocols

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2020-12-31

Last updated: 2026-01-23

In this volume, Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have brought together the experts who can explain the evolution of public lands policies and politics in all their complexities. While their subject is complex, their prose is clear, and while their subject is torn by some of the most viciously self-interested, deceitful arguments in politics today, their prose is calm, factual, and evenhanded. No one should underestimate what a rare and valuable gift this is.
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State and Local Government and Politics, 3rd Edition

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Christopher A. Simon, Brent S. Steel, Nicholas P. Lovrich

Subject(s): Regional, state and other local government

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2024-09-23

Last updated: 2026-01-23

This book is the third edition of a collective effort to understand and apply current conceptualizations of sustainability to a study of state and local government. It is an attempt to focus our attention on a basic understanding of the time-tested institutions and guiding principles likely to take society and governance towards greater advancement. Our work is, however, tempered by a developing understanding of smart growth — growth in productive capacity, quality of life and social justice that does not necessitate large-scale destructive or extractive activity. The growth sought produces widespread mutual benefit, is prudent in design and thoughtful in execution. The growth in question here is mindful of the past, yet builds better lives and futures for our posterity.
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Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Allison Hurst

Subject(s): Research methods / methodology, Sociology

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2023-03-21

Last updated: 2026-01-23

General Microbiology

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Linda Bruslind

Subject(s): Microbiology (non-medical)

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2019-08-01

Last updated: 2026-01-23

Welcome to the wonderful world of microbiology! Yay! So. What is microbiology? If we break the word down it translates to “the study of small life,” where the small life refers to microorganisms or microbes. But who are the microbes? And how small are they?
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Defend Dissent

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Glencora Borradaile

Subject(s): Computer security, Political activism / Political engagement

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2021-03-29

Last updated: 2026-01-23

Defend Dissent is an introduction to cryptography paired with the social impacts of surveillance and the protective potential of encryption, with a focus on US social movements. Each chapter ends with a story that brings social context to the material—from surveillance used against contemporary US protests to the African National Congress’s use of partially manual encryption in fighting apartheid in South Africa in the 80s.

This book can be read linearly, or you can pick and choose what you would like to learn about. Each chapter is prefaced with what you should read first (for background) and concludes with what you might want to read next.

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Applied Bioinformatics

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): David A. Hendrix

Subject(s): Computational biology / bioinformatics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2019-10-03

Last updated: 2026-01-23

The current edition of the book may be downloaded from the Applied Bioinformatics site.

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All Things Flow

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): William Smyth

Subject(s): Physics: Fluid mechanics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2019-08-07

Last updated: 2026-01-23

New Media Futures 2e

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Daniel Faltesek

Subject(s): Media studies: internet, digital media and society

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Publication date: 2026-01-01

Last updated: 2026-01-15

This second edition of New Media Futures anchors a foundational course in a New Media Program, which treats social research, media management, and media production as central to media education. While maintaining an emphasis on aesthetics, design, and production, this updated edition situates new media within broader questions of human behavior and disciplinary practice. The book examines intersections between communication and adjacent fields, and engages emerging debates in attention, information, artificial intelligence, and future-oriented methods. Designed to support intellectually-adventurous engagement, the text encourages readers to connect concepts across domains while developing a sensibility about communication’s role in shaping possible futures.