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A la defensa del disenso

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

Author(s): Glencora Borradaile

Subject(s): Seguridad informática, Activismo político

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 08/06/2022

A la defensa del disenso es una introducción a la criptografía que atiende los efectos sociales de la vigilancia, así como el potencial de protección que brinda el cifrado, con un enfoque en los movimientos sociales nacidos en Estados Unidos. Cada capítulo termina con una historia que aporta un contexto social al material: desde la vigilancia contra protestas contemporáneas en Estados Unidos, hasta la forma en que el Congreso Nacional Africano usó cifrado parcialmente manual para luchar contra el Apartheid en la Sudáfrica de los años 80 del siglo pasado.

Puedes leer este libro en forma lineal o puedes elegir los temas sobre los cuales te gustaría aprender. Al inicio de cada capítulo se menciona lo que deberías leer primero (como antecedente) y al final, lo que podría ser de tu interés a continuación.

Traducido por Lauren Robbins

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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

Last updated: 31/05/2022

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.

También disponible en Español

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Foundations of Epidemiology

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Marit L. Bovbjerg

Subject(s): Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 15/12/2021

Foundations of Epidemiology is an open access, introductory epidemiology text intended for students and practitioners in public or allied health fields. It covers epidemiologic thinking, causality, incidence and prevalence, public health surveillance, epidemiologic study designs and why we care about which one is used, measures of association, random error and bias, confounding and effect modification, and screening.

Concepts are illustrated with numerous examples drawn from contemporary and historical public health issues.

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Strategic Marketing in the Global Forest Industries

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Eric Hansen & Heikki Juslin

Subject(s): Forestry industry

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 12/11/2021

The forest industry is increasingly global and every marketer of forest products should have a global perspective. As a natural resource-based industry, the forest industry has an especially high profile role in environmental protection and is increasingly involved in climate change mitigation and management. Global forests are not only important because they provide a source of industrial raw material, but also because of the various other human needs they satisfy. A forest products marketer should have a basic understanding of the role that global forests play in society.

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Permaculture Design: Tools for Climate Resilience

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Andrew Millison

Subject(s): Sustainable agriculture

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 12/11/2021

This book is predominantly about climate, and the macro influences of climate and climate change on design. As we get through the topics of climate analogues and climate change forecasting, we will end up moving down this list to see the climate’s influence on specific design choices.

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Monitoring Animal Populations and their Habitats: A Practitioner's Guide

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

Author(s): Brenda McComb, Benjamin Zuckerberg, David Vesely, Christopher Jordan

Subject(s): Ethology and animal behaviour

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 09/11/2021

In the face of so many unprecedented changes occurring in our lives, our ecosystems and our globe, society is more often expecting scientists to provide information that can help guide communities toward a more sustainable future. This book is our attempt to provide a framework that managers of natural resources can use to design monitoring programs that will benefit future generations by providing the information needed to make informed decisions. In addition we offer tools and approaches that engage individuals in our society in monitoring programs. We firmly believe that people and communities who are empowered in the design and implementation of monitoring programs are more likely to use the information that results from the program, and support it over time.

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Introduction to Permaculture

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Andrew Millison

Subject(s): Sustainable agriculture

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 09/11/2021

Permaculture Design is a method of land planning that can be applied at scales from the home garden to city block to village to farm. It is an ethically based whole-systems design approach that uses concepts, principles, and methods derived from ecosystems, indigenous technologies, and other time-tested practices to create sustainable human settlements and institutions. Although rooted in horticulture and agriculture, Permaculture design is interdisciplinary, touching on a wide range of subjects including regional planning, ecology, animal husbandry, appropriate technology, architecture, social justice, and international development.

This open text book is derived from the content of the Massive Open Online Course “Intro to Permaculture”. The original course also included interactive mapping and design tools that accompanied this content. The course and book provide a general overview of the Permaculture design system. The book can be downloaded as a print version. However, there are many accompanying videos and content pages that are linked to throughout the text, so it is best viewed online where the links can be accessed.

History and Science of Cultivated Plants

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) English

Author(s): Sushma Naithani

Subject(s): Botany and plant sciences

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 08/11/2021

History and Science of Cultivated Plants narrates how humans transitioned from foragers to farmers and have arrived at present-day industrial agriculture-based civilization. It entails myths, historical accounts, and scientific concepts to describe how human efforts have shaped and produced easier to grow, larger, tastier, and more nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains from wild plants. Using examples of various economically and socially important crops central to human civilization, the book describes the origin of crop plants, the evolution of agricultural practices, fundamental concepts of natural selection vs. domestication, experimental and methodical plant breeding, and plant biotechnology.

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Classical Sociological Theory and Foundations of American Sociology

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Allison L. Hurst

Subject(s): Sociology

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 08/11/2021

There are many excellent introductory readers to sociological theory out there. Why another one? The primary reason is that this is an Open Access textbook, free to you, the student, thanks to Oregon State University. We know that textbooks can be very expensive, and we think it is particularly problematic to charge students for access to work that has been published, in its original form, several decades ago. If you wanted, you could find all of the work included here in your local library, although you would have to put together many different books and articles. That is the second reason for this textbook – important passages have been collected for you, assembled here in one handy volume.

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Romeo and Juliet

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

Author(s): Rebecca Olson

Subject(s): Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 05/11/2021

This edition of Romeo and Juliet was edited by students for students. We believe that reliably edited versions of the play should be available for free online. But we wanted ours to be easy to get in other ways as well. The editors—Oregon State University students who remember, far better than their professors, what it was like to read the play for the first time—carefully considered every pronoun, punctuation mark, and footnote. Our goal: to make a friendly, confidence-building edition that supported classroom activities at the high school and college level.

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