A service of the USF Tampa Library, the Textbook Affordability Project (TAP) helps counter the rising cost of an education by connecting students and faculty with alternatives to full-price textbooks.
Textbooks submitted to this collection will be accessible to anyone with a connection to the WWW via a persistent URL. Our services ensure that the content is digitally preserved for long-term access.
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Social Science Research: Principles, Methods, and Practices
Anol Bhattacherjee
This book is designed to introduce doctoral and graduate students to the process of scientific research in the social sciences, business, education, public health, and related disciplines. It is a one-stop, comprehensive, and compact source for foundational concepts in behavioral research, and can serve as a stand-alone text or as a supplement to research readings in any course on research methods.
The contents and examples are designed for anyone interested in behavioral research (not just information systems people), and so, the book should appeal to most business programs, social sciences, education, public health, and related disciplines.
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Topics in Contemporary Mathematics, Enhanced Edition, 9th Edition
Ignacio Bello, Britton, and Kaul
***While the entire text of this book is not open access, we have chosen to include this with our Open Access Text Book Series due to the large amount of material that has been made available. Additional Information and original source of material can be located at www.onlinebello.com
Written for the Math for Liberal Arts course,
TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS
helps users see math at work in the world by presenting problem solving in purposeful and meaningful contexts.
Many of the problems in the book demonstrate how math relates to subjects such as sociology, psychology, business, and technology?that generally interest users.
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MAC 1105: College Algebra
Marcus McWaters
These videos are being used as instructional aides by Professor Ignacio Bello, of the University of South Florida Mathematics Department, College of Arts & Sciences, to help students in the College Algebra (MAC 1105) classes.
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Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
Mark Briggs
This handbook introduces journalists to the skills necessary to survive and thrive in the digital environment. The content is practical, not conceptual, and readers will be able to perform skills the same day they read about them. The handbook is organized to focus on on discipline at a time, and guides users along the way, breaking down each skill and technology into digestible lessons that will be immediately usable.