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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature. This smallest change value, the quantum of action, leads to what is called quantum physics. In the structure of modern physics, quantum physics covers three points; this volume covers the introduction to the point in the lower right: the foundations of quantum theory.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars
Copyright Year: 1990
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best adventures about the motion inside people, inside animals, and inside any other type of matter – from the largest stars to the smallest nuclei.
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The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification
Copyright Year: 2008
Contributor: Schiller
Publisher: Motion Mountain
License: CC BY-NC-ND
This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise, unified and final description of all motion.
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Applied Discrete Structures
Copyright Year: 2017
Contributors: Doerr and Levasseur
Publisher: Alan Doerr & Kenneth Levasseur
License: CC BY-NC-SA
In writing this book, care was taken to use language and examples that gradually wean students from a simpleminded mechanical approach andmove them toward mathematical maturity. We also recognize that many students who hesitate to ask for help from an instructor need a readable text, and we have tried to anticipate the questions that go unasked.
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Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributors: Mayer, Warner, Siedel, Lieberman, and Martina
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Mayer, Warner, Siedel and Lieberman's Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment is an up-to-date textbook with coverage of legal and regulatory issues that are more technical than the topics in the authors' Foundations of Business Law and the Legal Environment.
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Building Strategy and Performance
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributor: Warren
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future.
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Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective
Copyright Year: 2014
Contributors: Watson, Berthon, Pitt, and Zinkhan
Publisher: BCcampus
License: CC BY
This book is written both for practitioners and business students. Managers wishing to understand how electronic commerce is revolutionizing business will find that our comprehensive coverage of essential business issues (e.g., pricing and distribution) answers many of their questions. Advanced business students (junior, seniors, and graduate students) will find that the blend of academic structure and practical examples provides an engaging formula for learning.
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Corporate Governance
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributor: de Kluyver
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Corporate Governance by de Kluyver is a primer on corporate governance. It is designed to help students understand corporate governance by looking at the subject from both a macro- and micro-perspective.
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Developing New Products and Services
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributor: Sanders
Publisher: Saylor Foundation
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Developing New Products and Services by Sanders is an outstanding contribution to market research. The book focuses on the upfront activities and ideas for new product and service development.
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Economics – Theory Through Applications
Copyright Year: 2012
Contributors: Cooper and John
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You're thinking, ”Yeah, sure. I've heard that before.“
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