MSL Academic Endeavors is the publishing imprint of the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University. The eBooks we make available here are open textbooks and other open education resources created by CSU faculty. Other eBooks found here are written by local authors about the culture and history of Cleveland Northeast Ohio.
If you are interested in publishing your manuscript with MSL Academic Endeavors, email an EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University Administrator at library.es@csuohio.edu or review our EngagedScholarship @ Cleveland State University eBooks Research Guide.
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Chinese Calligraphy and Culture: An Easy-to-Use Guide for Learners of all Ages
Huiwen Li, Han Lifen, and George Becker
2018Chinese Calligraphy and Culture is a concise introduction to the dazzling art form known as calligraphy. A series of step-by-step exercises enable students to become aware of calligraphy’s different styles. In particular, they will learn proper technique that leads... (read more)
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Chinese Language Teaching Plan: Designs and Analysis
Huiwen Li, Hui Pang, and Esther Seday
2019This book collects twelve Chinese language teaching plans written by experienced K-12 American school teachers. The teaching plans cover the elementary through advanced language proficiency levels. Modules in each of the plans include content and topic, student status, standards,... (read more)
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UST 290: Urban Geography
Brian Mikelbank
2024This text was compiled as an open-access resource for Urban Geography (UST 290) at Cleveland State University. The course serves undergraduate majors (mostly) in the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs, many of whom go on to careers... (read more)
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Haymarket to the Heights: The Movement of Cleveland's Orthodox Synagogues From Their Initial Meeting Places to the Heights
Jeffrey S. Morris
2014This document traces the movement, growth and demise of the small neighborhood synagogues, or shuls, established by newly-arrived Eastern European Jews in the Haymarket area as they migrated to the eastern suburbs.
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Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach
Abdullah Oguz
2022The world has become more complicated with the introduction and development of new technologies and methods, and novel risks such as Covid-19 pandemic. Competition has been tougher than it used to be. Organizations strive to keep up with the... (read more)
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Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach, 2nd Edition
Abdullah Oguz, Ph.D., PMP®
2025This second edition of the OER (Open Educational Resource) book, Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach, covers the fundamentals of project management, and aims to guide undergraduate and graduate students to acquire the building blocks of... (read more)
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HIS 103: Ancient World History to 1300 C.E.
Meshack Owino, Shelley Rose, and Kelly L. Wrenhaven
2019This textbook is divided into three sections: Africa, Asia & Americas, and Europe. It explores the history of the world from pre-historic times to 1300 C.E., paying specific attention to the interconnections (or disconnections) between peoples and regions. Students... (read more)
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Arts in the Small Community: Essays and Supplements Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Arts in the Small Community: A National Plan
Robert E. Gard Foundation and Barbara J. Strauss
2016The Arts in the Small Community: Essays and Supplements Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Arts in the Small Community: A National Plan. Eight essays and fourteen supplements from the original project provide the intellectual framework and the... (read more)
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Transnational Identities in National Politics: The SPD and the German Peace Movements, 1921 - 1966
Shelley E. Rose
2023Transnational Identities in National Politics problematizes the relationship between the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) and pacifists on the non-Communist Left between 1921 and 1966. It breaks from traditional master narratives by using gender, transnational, and biographical analysis to... (read more)
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The Primacy of the Public: Ethical Design for Technology
Marcus Schultz-Bergin
2021The Primacy of the Public presents a framework for engineering and technology ethics focused around three core ethical principles: the principle of welfare, the autonomy principle, and the fairness principle. To support this framework, the book begins with an... (read more)
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The Chief Purpose of Universities: Academic Discourse and Diversity of Ideas
Michael Schwartz and William M. Bowen
2010Civil societies around the world today are arguably facing existential crises in political, economic, scientific, technological, religious, moral, and environmental spheres, many of which leave them politically divided and torn asunder by conflict. This manuscript makes and elucidates the... (read more)
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A History of University Circle in Cleveland: Community, Philanthropy, and Planning
Darwin H. Stapleton
2020This book uses the concepts and processes of community-building, philanthropic activity, and city planning to frame the 200-year history of University Circle, the educational, medical, and cultural center of Cleveland, Ohio. While written for the general reader, it draws... (read more)
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Introduction to Substance Use Disorders
Patricia A. Stoddard Dare and Audrey Begun
2020Introduction to Substance Use Disorders (2020) is an Open Educational Resource book designed for use in an introductory substance misuse course. These materials were developed using a variety of published sources and online materials, including resources produced by U.S.... (read more)
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Understanding Literacy in Our Lives: First-Year Writing Perspectives
Julie Townsend
2021This collection of texts aims at making writing studies and New Literacy Studies accessible and relevant to first-year writers across all disciplines. Writers with different experience levels and a wide range of goals will benefit from learning how to... (read more)
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My Recollections of Old Cleveland
Warren C. Wick
2019My Recollections of Old Cleveland is a first person account of Cleveland’s gilded age by Warren Wick who lived it. My Recollections begins with a brief history of the Wick family coming to Cleveland from Youngstown by wagon... (read more)
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Cleveland State University: 50 Years
Regennia N. Williams
2014A hardcover edition authored by CSU alumna and Associate Professor of History Dr. Regennia Williams begins in the final days of Fenn College and journeys through the tenures of six University presidents. The book captures in words and photos... (read more)
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"The News is Everyone's": Fourteen Days at the Cleveland Press May 9 - June 3, 1977
Edward C. Wolf
2021“The News is Everyone’s” offers a unique first-person account of news gathering, editorial, and community service activities at The Cleveland Press in Spring 1977, five years before the newspaper ceased publication. Writer Edward Wolf, an intern at the newspaper... (read more)
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HIS 337: Greek Gods, Heroes, and Worship
Kelly L. Wrenhaven
2021This book examines ancient Greek religion and considers its role in the contexts of Greek culture and thought. Literary and material sources, such as epic, poetry, architecture, sculpture, and vase painting will be examined in order to establish the... (read more)
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Phonetics Workbook for Students of Communication Sciences and Disorders
April M. Yorke, Emily Sternad, Carley Shermak, and Alyssa Mahler
2020This workbook is designed to give students in communication sciences and disorders foundational knowledge in Phonetics. Students will learn to listen and transcribe the speech of typically developing speakers of Standard American English in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).... (read more)
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English 102: Reading, Research, and Writing
Emilie Zickel
2017This book is a remixed version of Robin Jeffrey's 2016 version of About Writing. It was created with support from the Cleveland State University Michael Schwartz Library's 2017 Textbook Affordability Small Grant
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