The Unicode cookbook for linguists: Managing writing systems using orthography profiles. This text is a practical guide for linguists, and programmers, who work with data in multilingual computational environments. We introduce the basic concepts needed to understand how writing systems and character encodings function, and how they work together at the intersection between the Unicode Standard and the International Phonetic Alphabet. Although these standards are often met with frustration by users, they nevertheless provide language researchers and programmers with a consistent computational architecture needed to process, publish and analyze lexical data from the world's languages. Thus we bring to light common, but not always transparent, pitfalls which researchers face when working with Unicode and IPA. Having identified and overcome these pitfalls involved in making writing systems and character encodings syntactically and semantically interoperable (to the extent that they can be), we created a suite of open-source Python and R tools to work with languages using orthography profiles that describe author- or document-specific orthographic conventions. In this cookbook we describe a formal specification of orthography profiles and provide recipes using open source tools to show how users can segment text, analyze it, identify errors, and to transform it into different written forms for comparative linguistics research.

 

Write Here, Right Now: An interactive Introduction to Academic Writing and Research utilizes PressBooks to create and host a writing e-textbook for first year university students that would effectively integrate into the flipped classroom model. The textbook could also be used for non-flipped classroom designs, as the embedded videos, diagrams and linked modules would act as an all-in-one multimedia textbook geared towards multiple learning styles and disciplines. The components of the textbook, including the embedded videos, could be swapped in and out in order to accommodate a professor’s best idea of his/her own course design.

 

 

 

 

  

The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S. E. Hinton, first published in 1967 by Viking Press. Hinton was 15 when she started writing the novel but did most of the work when she was 16 and a junior in high school. Hinton was 18 when the book was published. The book details the conflict between two rival gangs divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "greasers" and the upper-class "Socs". The story is told in first-person perspective by teenaged protagonist Ponyboy Curtis.

The story in the book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1965, but this is never explicitly stated in the book.

 

 

 

 

 

Words of Wisdom: Intro to Philosophy. Words of Wisdom can come from anyone. In this text we discuss topics ranging from "Are Humans good by nature?" to "Is there a God?" to "Do I have the right to my own opinion?" Philosophy is the study of wisdom, and can emerge in our conversations in social media, in school, around the family dinner table, and even in the car. The text uses materials that are 2,500 years old, and materials that were in the news this year. Wise people come in all shapes and types, and from every culture on earth. We have poetry and folktales, sacred writings and letters. Dialogues and interviews, news columns, Ted Talks, You Tube recordings and even comedy are all a part of the content in this text.You will be most successful reading this on line. The formatting in the downloadable versions is not wonderful. There is work being done by the software, but in the meantime, you will want to use it by clicking here on "read book:".

 

 

 

  

An Introduction to Philosophy. The goal of this text is to present philosophy to newcomers as a living discipline with historical roots. While a few early chapters are historically organized, the goal in the historical chapters is to trace a developmental progression of thought that introduces basic philosophical methods and frames issues that remain relevant today. Later chapters are topically organized. These include philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, areas where philosophy has shown dramatic recent progress. This text concludes with four chapters on ethics, broadly construed. Traditional theories of right action is covered in a third of these. Students are first invited first to think about what is good for themselves and their relationships in a chapter of love and happiness.

Business Plan Development Guide. This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

Project Management. This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share.

 

 

 

 

 

Developing New Products and Services. A number of powerful concepts and tools are presented so your students can better understand how to facilitate new product development. For example, three templates are featured that facilitate new product and service development. The FAD (features, attributes, and design) template is used to identify the features and attributes that can be used for product and service differentiation. The Ten–Ten planning process contains two templates: an Organizational and Industry Analysis template and the Business Plan Overview template. These two templates coupled with the FAD template can be used to develop a full-blown business plan.

 

 

 

The Power of Selling is the perfect textbook to teach students about the proven process of selling. More important, it teaches students how to apply the tenets of selling to how to sell themselves and get the job they want, with the same process professional sales people learn (or brush up) on their own selling skills.

What makes someone successful in sales? Are great sales people born or made? Is there one magic selling process, or does the process change based on the business‚ or the customer? How can the selling process really come alive for students in the classroom? How do students learn how to sell for life, not just for a course? The Power of Selling by Kim Richmond answers these questions and makes the principles of selling come alive.

 

 

 

 

In the edition Security factors of education policy: international experience and Ukrainian realities relationship and mutual influence between education and security factors under modernization challenges and external threats are analyzed. New approaches for identification of national security criteria in education sphere based on relevant international experience are proposed. The process of national education system reform is considered. Key issues of the new framework Law of Ukraine "On Education" are identified.

 

 

 

 

 

Compendium of Good Practices for Advancing Women's Political Participation in the OSCE Region.

To mark 20 years since the launch of the Beijing Platform for Action, ODIHR has published this compendium of good practices to reflect on where progress has been made and identify some of the continuing challenges in achieving gender equality in politics. The compendium explores the participation of women through political parties, in elections, local politics and in parliaments, recognizing that these should be seen as connected and related areas.

 

The Story of Contract Law: Implementing the Bargain. This book includes many classic teaching cases and introduces new ones. The book also includes many problems, most based on actual cases. The book takes especial care with the doctrine of concurrent conditions, a common-law rule adopted in the late 1700s that required doctrinal readjustment across all the law governing contract performance and remedies.

 

 

 

 

 

Law School Materials for Success is designed to give you the essentials of that process. It is purposefully brief – most law students do not have the time for an extensive examination of the study of law school. Rather, they need a source for some basic, critical advice and some pointers on where to go for more if necessary. That is what this book and the accompanying podcasts are designed to provide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notes on Diffy Qs: Differential Equations for Engineers. First introductory course in differential equations aimed at engineers. Based on Math 286 at UIUC. Goes over First order ODEs, constant coefficient higher order ODEs, systems of ODEs, Fourier series, eigenvalue problems, Laplace transform.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think Stats. A textbook for a new kind of introductory prob-stat class. It emphasizes the use of statistics to explore large datasets. It takes a computational approach, which has several advantages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radiation in the Environment. In the post-nuclear era the word ‘radiation’, in the popular lexicon, has taken on a specialized and negative meaning. Largely because of media misinterpretation the word now suggests to the non-scientist the malignant effects associated with the misuse of nuclear energy. But ‘radiation’ is not all harmful, nor indeed is it all nuclear in origin.
We live in an environment bathed in radiation of natural origin and essential to the maintenance of life on the planet. Sunlight and its secondary thermal emissions of heat radiation is the engine of life on the planet Earth. In addition to this ubiquitous low-energy radiation there are natural high-energy radiations in which life has developed and for which evolution and nature have provided effective defence mechanisms.

 

 

 

Учебник Биологическая и биоорганическая химия содержит систематизированное изложение курса биологической химии в соответствии с программой по дисциплине, утвержденной для студентов высших медицинских (фармацевтических) учебных заведений – университетов, институтов и академий. В основном тексте учебника рассмотрены структура и ферментативные реакции превращения основных классов биомолекул – белков, аминокислот, углеводов, липидов, нуклеотидов, порфиринов; освещены вопросы строения и свойств нуклеиновых кислот ДНК и РНК, молекулярной биологии и генетики, биохимические основы физиологических функций организма человека и их нейрогуморальной регуляции. Значительное внимание уделено молекулярным механизмам функционирования клеток крови, печени, почек, мышц, соединительной ткани, иммунной и нервной систем. Рассмотрены биохимические основы патогенеза атеросклероза, сахарного диабета, ожирения, болезней эндокринной, иммунной, нервной систем и соединительной ткани. Каждая глава учебника содержит кроме информационного материала тестовые задания для самопроверки и контроля усвоения знаний.

 

 

 

Pharmacology. The textbook for students of higher medical educational establishments of the 4th level of accreditation has been written according to Pharmacology syllabus and addressed to English-speaking students. The textbook contains main chapters of Pharmacology, outlines the characteristics of medicinal drugs based on modern data concerning their mechanisms of action and usage.

 

 

 

 

 

The "Internal Medicine: Critical Care" provides the depth and breadth of coverage that reflects the complexity and expertise needed to practice emergency medicine successfully in today's fast – paced environments. It is an important contemporary clinical emergency care resource for students of higher education eshtablishments – medical universities, institutes and academies.

The textbook was published in the English language, illustrated with pictures and tables, which are easy to learn and to store in memory for a long time. This textbook also gives possibility to find answers quickly when you are faced with a difficult diagnosis or need the latest treatment recommendations, step-by-step guidelines and new pharmacologic considerations.

 

 

 

The basic questions of general and medical biology are highlighted in this textbook. The general laws of life, the study of the cell including fundamentals of the human cytogenetics, the study of heredity and variability including the human genetics, laws of phylogenetic development of organisms, fundamentals of general parasitology, biology of the most meaningful human parasites, way of transmission, diagnosis and prophylaxis of parasitogenic diseases are presented. The content of textbook is organized according to the Program on Medical Biology for the first year English-speaking medical students.

 

 

 

 

Pediatric physical examination. Taking into account the analysis of the concepts of domestic and foreign scientific schools, the textbook contains the fundamentals and principles of pediatric clinical examination. The book is intended for students of medical universities, interns and pediatric residents, as well as general practitioners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Human anatomy. This illustrated edition is convenient to use: the material is divided into sections by systems. An overview of bones, joints, muscles, tissues, organs, blood supply and innervation of organs is given. Color illustrations add clarity. The book is intended for a wide range of readers, will also be useful to English-speaking students of medical universities and colleges, and professionals working in the medical industry.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Introduction to Econometrics with R The interest in the freely available statistical programming language and software environment R (R Core Team, 2018) is soaring. By the time we wrote first drafts for this project, more than 11000 add-ons (many of them providing cutting-edge methods) were made available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), an extensive network of FTP servers around the world that store identical and up-to-date versions of R code and its documentation. R dominates other (commercial) software for statistical computing in most fields of research in applied statistics. The benefits of it being freely available, open source and having a large and constantly growing community of users that contribute to CRAN render R more and more appealing for empirical economists and econometricians alike.

 

 

 

 

The Smart Enough City. New technology alters perceptions not just of what is possible but also of what the world can—and should—look like. Digital and data-driven technologies, accompanied by the widespread adoption of tech goggles, have convinced many that smart cities are what the challenges of the twenty-first century require: that smarter cities—more connected, more optimized, more efficient—will be better cities. This seductive logic generates severe misperceptions and subverts opportunities to truly improve urban life. Instead of addressing the real issues that cities face, smart cities present novelty solutions to poorly specified problems. The realization of those solutions looms as a crisis in
urbanism: the smart city will be a place where self-driving cars strangle downtowns and debilitate public transportation, where democracy is reduced to sending pictures of potholes with an app, where police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, where governments and companies surveil public space to control behavior.

 

 

 

 

Think Java is an introduction to Java programming for beginners. It is tailored for students preparing for the Computer Science Advanced Placement (AP) Exam, but it is for anyone who wants to learn Java.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.

 

 

Canadian History: Post-Confederation. This textbook introduces aspects of the history of Canada since Confederation. “Canada” in this context includes Newfoundland and all the other parts that come to be aggregated into the Dominion after 1867. Much of this text follows thematic lines. Each chapter moves chronologically but with alternative narratives in mind. What Aboriginal accounts must we place in the foreground? Which structures (economic or social) determine the range of choices available to human agents of history? What environmental questions need to be raised to gain a more complete understanding of choices made in the past and their ramifications?

 

 

 

 

У монографії Морально-етичні цінності громадянського суспільства здійснено аналіз морально-етичних цінностей громадянського суспільства. Окреслено коло факторів, що детермінують зміну ціннісної складової сучасного соціуму. Виявлено аксіологічні домінанти, що грають вирішальну роль у процесі становлення громадянського суспільства.

 

 

 

 

 

 

У книзі Три розмови про Україну під однією обкладинкою зібрано три відверті розмови з видатними українцями про знаменні події в історії України (від боротьби за відновлення української держави 80-90-х рр. ХХ століття до російсько-української війни на Донбасі). Це не просто сухі факти, це багатогранна розповідь з автобіографічними елементами та унікальними світлинами, що раніше ніде не публікувалися. Це діалоги з людьми, які у своїй царині доклали багато зусиль для становлення України.