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State and Local Government and Politics, 3rd Edition

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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

Last updated: 23/09/2024

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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Open Judicial Politics 3E Vol.1

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Author(s): Collected Works

Editor(s): Rorie Spill Solberg, Eric Waltenburg

Subject(s): Law

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 19/09/2024

The impetus for this volume was a multitude of conversations regarding pedagogy and teaching related to our judicial process courses. Based on these conversations, we identified four main threads or needs of our colleagues: First, many of us bring or want to bring more “political science” into our classes, though we also want to avoid the high costs of reinventing successful existing courses to do so. Second, our programs all require a political methodology course, and we want to reinforce those lessons in our substantive courses. We want to encourage our students’ understanding of how to read and understand research studies as well as how to craft their own research questions. Third, we want to keep our courses as current as possible. And fourth, we wanted to find a way to bring the cost of our courses down, as we see so many students struggle with the high costs of a college degree. This volume (as well as any future editions) addresses each of these concerns.
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Government Powers and Limitations

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Rorie Spill Solberg

Subject(s): Government powers, Legal systems: courts and procedures

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/08/2024

This volume focuses on constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of government powers and limitations. It includes excerpts of landmark cases related to the judiciary and executive, contracts and takings clauses, and due process. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to government powers and limitations with other questions of law and dicta omitted.
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A Handbook of Higher Education Leadership

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Author(s): Collected Works

Editor(s): Dr. Ed Ray

Subject(s): Higher education, tertiary education

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 21/05/2024

Thirty-five experienced and accomplished higher education leaders have come together to provide twenty-five essays on twelve topics about which all leaders, aspiring leaders and students of higher education should be informed. This is a labor of love, provided for free electronically, and there are no star turns here. Each essay is focused on providing the reader with advice based on wisdom acquired from lessons learned. Some topics covered include: beginning and completing a leadership position, responding to authority, establishing accountability, budget policy, long-term planning, affordability and student success, creating a safe community, fundraising, research funding, college athletics, and crisis management.
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Introduction to Advanced Engineering Mathematics and Analysis

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Author(s): Brian D. Wood

Subject(s): Engineering: general

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

An introduction to applied mathematics written for students in engineering and science. Focus is on a rigorous presentation that also builds understanding by discussion, analogy, and examples. Discussion of concepts involved in modeling physical processes is a central theme in the text. Updated with new chapter on feedforward neural networks.

A full version (1.3) of this textbook can be downloaded here.
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Wildlife Habitat Management

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Brenda C. McComb

Subject(s): Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Forests and woodland

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This book is the result of over 35 years of working in academic and research organizations in which foresters, biologists, and individuals from other disciplines collaborated, fought, argued, and occasionally agreed about how forests should be managed.

A full copy of the book can be downloaded here.
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All Things Flow

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Author(s): William Smyth

Subject(s): Physics: Fluid mechanics

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

The current online version of this book is available free at http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/salty/all-things-flow-fluid-mechanics-for-the-natural-sciences/.

A print version can be purchased at https://www.lulu.com/shop/william-smyth/all-things-flow-fluid-mechanics-for-the-natural-sciences/paperback/product-24248422.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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The Joy of Cryptography

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Author(s): Mike Rosulek, PhD

Subject(s): Coding theory and cryptology

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/03/2024

The current edition of the book, along with supplementary materials, may be found at the Joy of Cryptography site.
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Biochemistry Free For All

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Author(s): Kevin Ahern, Indira Rajagopal, Taralyn Tan

Subject(s): Biochemistry

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/03/2024

For immediate access, this book may be downloaded as an iPad version or in PDF format.

All formats of the book (and Powerpoint files), along with other biochemistry OER materials, are found at the Biochemistry Free and Easy site.
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Zero to MATLAB

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Author(s): Adam L. Lambert, PhD

Subject(s): Mathematical and statistical software

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 01/03/2024

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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