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Intermediate Microeconomics

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

Author(s): Patrick M. Emerson

Subject(s): Microeconomics

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

Intermediate Microeconomics is a comprehensive microeconomic theory text that uses real world policy questions to motivate and illustrate the material in each chapter. Intermediate Microeconomics is an approachable yet rigorous textbook that covers the entire scope of traditional microeconomic theory and includes two mathematical approaches, allowing instructors to teach the material with or without calculus. With real-world policy topics as an entrée into each subject, Intermediate Microeconomics will help students engage with the material and facilitate learning not only the concepts, but their importance and application as well.
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Tale of Two Systems 2E

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

Author(s): René Reitsma, Kevin Krueger

Subject(s): Systems analysis and design

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This is the story of a web-based information system rebuild. The system in question is www.teachengineering.org, a digital library of K-12 engineering curriculum that was built from the ground up with established technology and which for 13 years enjoyed lasting support from its growing user community and its sponsors. These 13 years, however, cover the period during which smart phones and tablets became commonplace, during which the Internet of Things started replacing the Semantic Web, during which NoSQL databases made their way out of the research labs and into everyday development shops, during which we collectively started moving IT functions and services into ‘the cloud,’ and during which computing performance doubled a few times, yet again. During this same period, TeachEngineering’s user base grew from a few hundred to more than 3 million users annually, its collection size quadrupled, it went through several user interface renewals, and significant functionality was added while having an exemplary service record, and it enjoyed continued financial support from its sponsors.

Yet, although the system architecture could probably have survived a while longer, it started to become clear that with the newer technologies, better and newer services could be developed faster and at lower cost, that moving most of its functionality into the cloud would both boost performance and lower maintenance cost, and that the system’s resource and code footprint could be significantly reduced by rebuilding it on a different architecture, with different and more modern technology.

In this monograph we provide a side-by-side of this rebuild. We lay out the choices made in the old architecture —we refer to it as TE 1.0— and compare and contrast them with the choices made for TE 2.0. We explain why both the 1.0 and 2.0 choices were made and discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with them.

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A la defensa del disenso

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Author(s): Glencora Borradaile

Subject(s): Seguridad informática, Activismo político

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

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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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, Literary essays

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

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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Civil Rights and Liberties

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Rorie Spill Solberg

Subject(s): Legal systems: courts and procedures, Human rights, civil rights

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

This volume focuses on the constitutional doctrine and law in the areas of civil rights and liberties. It contains excerpts of landmark cases covering the first amendment, second amendment, fourteenth amendment and the right to privacy. The excerpts include the constitutional issues in these cases that are related to civil rights and liberties with other questions of law and dicta omitted.

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Handbook of Software Engineering Methods

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Author(s): Lara Letaw

Subject(s): Computer programming / software engineering, Software Engineering

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

Software engineering can help people create sustainable, extensible programs that solve problems people care about.

I won’t tell you how to be a software engineer; you’ll learn that over time by doing it. Instead, this book is about software engineering methods: Ways people achieve specific objectives in software engineering—that can save your project. My hope is that, after reading this book (or parts of it), you’ll feel better equipped for software engineering.

The first edition of the handbook can be found at the GitHub repository.
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Women Worldwide

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Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Tracy Butts, Patti Duncan, Janet Lockhart, Susan Shaw

Subject(s): Gender studies: women and girls

Institution(s): Oregon State University

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

During the past few years, we’ve witnessed how interconnected our world is. These instances of global interconnection—both positive and negative—have differing impacts on people based on gender while also creating and reinforcing the ways people experience gender. We see that experiences of gender are always shaped by nationality, race/ethnicity, sexual identity, social class, ability, age, and religion. This social construction of gender, its shaping of the world, and its effects on individuals and groups of people are at the core of this textbook.
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Open Judicial Politics

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

Author(s): Collected works

Editor(s): Rorie Spill Solberg, Eric Waltenburg

Subject(s): Law, Legal systems: judges and judicial powers

Publisher: Oregon State University

Last updated: 04/03/2024

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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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

Last updated: 04/03/2024

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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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: 04/03/2024

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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