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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: 06/02/2025

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.

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Introduction to Climate Science

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Andreas Schmittner

Subject(s): Climate change, Atmospheric physics, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Climatology and climate modelling

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 06/02/2025

This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth's energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized. Ethical and economical aspects of human-caused climate change and solutions are presented.
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Chemical Biology & Biochemistry Laboratory Using Genetic Code Expansion Manual

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Ryan Mehl, Kari van Zee, Kelsey Kean

Subject(s): Chemical biology

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 06/02/2025

Proteins play vital roles in most biological processes; these roles include acting as catalysts for physiological reactions, as regulators for those reactions, or as structural framework around which these processes can occur. Proteins’ complex organization of diverse functionality in 3D space leads to an astonishing range of function for living organisms. Understanding this intimate relationship between structure and function is the backbone of understanding the natural world and is the key to controlling it.
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Marine Law and Policy for Scientists and Managers

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Holly V. Campbell

Subject(s): International law, transport and commerce: maritime law

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 06/02/2025

This open educational resource is designed for use by undergraduate and graduate ocean science, natural resource, fisheries and wildlife, and environmental policy students enrolled in a ten-week academic quarter. The purpose of this project is to provide students and non-law professionals with a freely accessible, clearly written guide to support engaging and effective learning. As such, the book serves as a gateway and an invitation to become a well informed, committed and involved ocean citizen as well as to explore the field beyond our course study.

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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: 06/02/2025

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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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: 06/02/2025

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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Business Writing Style Guide

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

Author(s): John Morris, Julie Zwart

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 06/02/2025

In light of the cost of textbooks and education in general, we undertook this project to create a free resource to be used broadly by students in a business context. We wanted to provide comprehensive coverage of the writing process, but keep our topics relevant to business education. We hope that this textbook provides equal value to both non- and native-English learners alike. Just like we acknowledge that students will continue to develop their writing skills, we expect this project to challenge and further our own skills as writers.

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New Media Futures

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Author(s): Daniel Faltesek

Subject(s): Media studies

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 06/02/2025

This book is intended for use in a large introductory class in new media in a program that covers the “full-stack” including critical/cultural studies, media management, diffusion of innovation, and synthetic media production. The first half of this basic sequence covered new media and democracy, finance, intellectual property law, basic games, and transmedia. The second half of the sequence covers many topics related to aesthetics, design, technology, and methodology.

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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: 06/02/2025

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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Classical Sociological Theory and Foundations of American Sociology

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Author(s): Allison L. Hurst

Subject(s): Sociology

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 06/02/2025

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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