Humanities Textbooks
Animals & Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributor: Nobis
Publisher: Open Philosophy Press
License: CC BY-SA
This book provides an overview of the current debates about the nature and extent of our moral obligations to animals. Which, if any, uses of animals are morally wrong, which are morally permissible (i.e., not wrong) and why? What, if any, moral obligations do we, individually and as a society (and a global community), have towards animals and why? How should animals be treated? Why?
(11 reviews)
Understanding Music: Past and Present
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Clark, Heflin, Kluball, and Kramer
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
License: CC BY-SA
Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.
(14 reviews)
Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Berke, Bleil, and Cofer
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
License: CC BY-SA
Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present is a text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.
(23 reviews)
World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Getty and Kwon
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
License: CC BY-SA
This peer-reviewedWorld Literature Ianthology includes introductory text and images before each series of readings. Sections of the text are divided bytimeperiod in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location.
(6 reviews)
Compact Anthology of World Literature
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Getty and Kwon
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
License: CC BY-SA
A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works, let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology, therefore, is on non-Western and European works, with only the British authors who were the most influential to European and non-Western authors (such as Shakespeare, whose works have influenced authors around the world to the present day). In a world literature class, there is no way that a student can be equally familiar with all of the societies, contexts, time periods, cultures, religions, and languages that they will encounter; even though the works presented here are translated, students will face issues such as unfamiliar names and parts of the story (such as puns) that may not translate well or at all. Since these stories are rooted in their cultures and time periods, it is necessary to know the basic context of each work to understand the expectations of the original audience.
(13 reviews)
Exploring Public Speaking - 4th Edition
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Barton and Tucker
Publisher: University System of Georgia
License: CC BY-NC-SA
In Exploring Public Speaking, especially in its second through fourth editions, we have attempted to create a usable, zero-cost textbook for basic public speaking courses or courses that include basic public speaking skills as one of their primary learning outcomes. The free, open nature of the text means that instructors are able to use all or part of it, and add their own materials.
(46 reviews)
Technical Writing
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Hamlin and Rubio
Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This open textbook offers students of technical writing an introduction to the processes and products involved in professional, workplace, and technical writing. The text is broken up into sections reflecting key components of researching, developing, and producing a technical report. Readers will also learn about other professional communication, designing documents, and creating and integrating graphics. Written especially for an academic setting, this book provides readers with guidance on information literacy and documenting sources. This book was collected, adapted, and edited from multiple openly licensed sources.
(28 reviews)
Applied Developmental Systems Science: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Theories, Meta-Theories, Methods, and Interventions but Didn't Realize You Needed to Ask. An Advanced Textbook
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Skinner, Kindermann, and Roeser
Publisher: Portland State University Library
License: CC BY-NC
This textbook provides a toolbox, a guidebook, and an instruction manual for researchers and interventionists who want to conceptualize and study applied problems from a developmental systems perspective, and for those who want to teach their graduate (or advanced undergraduate) students how to do this. It is designed to be useful to practitioners who focus on applied developmental problems, such as improving the important developmental contexts where people live, learn, and work, including the applied professions in education, social work, counseling, health care, community development, and business, all of which at their core are concerned with optimizing the development of their students, clients, patients, workers, citizens, and others whose lives they touch.
(1 review)
Modern Philosophy
Copyright Year: 2013
Contributor: Ott
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This is a textbook in modern philosophy. It combines readings from primary sources with two pedagogical tools. Paragraphs in italics introduce figures and texts. Numbered study questions (also in italics) ask students to reconstruct an argument or position from the text, or draw connections among the readings. And I have added an introductory chapter (Chapter 0 – Minilogic and Glossary), designed to present the basic tools of philosophy and sketch some principles and positions. The immediate goal is to encourage students to grapple with the ideas rather than passing their eyes over the texts. This makes for a better classroom experience and permits higher-level discussions. Another goal is to encourage collaboration among instructors, as they revise and post their own versions of the book.
(5 reviews)
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
Copyright Year: 2016
Contributors: Sachant, Blood, and LeMieux
Publisher: University of North Georgia Press
License: CC BY-SA
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses.
(58 reviews)