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  The Bright Continent: African Art History (Second Edition)

  Kathy Curnow

  Significant original research is included in this textbook. Through nearly 1000 images, it explores both "traditional" and "contemporary" African art through general discussion and specifics. The first chapter discusses materials, gender, training, and patronage. Chapter Two covers the elements and principles of design, as well as stylistic and contextual analysis. Chapter Three takes a thematic approach to African art, including numerous case studies. Chapter Four explores how religions—traditional, Christian, and Muslim—impact art and how different types of societies—nomadic, small-scale, and kingdom-based—favor varied arts. Appendices on note-taking and research are included. Maps; index. 668 pages.

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  The Bright Continent: African Art History (Web Version)

  Kathy Curnow

  Significant original research is included in this textbook. Through nearly 1000 images, it explores both "traditional" and "contemporary" African art through general discussion and specifics. The first chapter discusses materials, gender, training, and patronage. Chapter Two covers the elements and principles of design, as well as stylistic and contextual analysis. Chapter Three takes a thematic approach to African art, including numerous case studies. Chapter Four explores how religions—traditional, Christian, and Muslim—impact art and how different types of societies—nomadic, small-scale, and kingdom-based—favor varied arts. Appendices on note-taking and research are included. Maps.

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  Introduction to Writing in College

  Melanie Gagich

  This book was created not only to help students entering Cleveland State University’s College Writing sequence save money on textbooks, but also to introduce my course, university resources, and common college writing genres.

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  A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing

  Melanie Gagich and Emilie Zickel

  This book combines the Introduction to Writing in College by Melanie Gagich and ENG 102: Reading, Writing and Research by Emilie Zickel, which were both supported by Cleveland State University's 2017 Textbook Affordability Small Grant.

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  Charles Chesnutt in the Classroom

  Adrienne Gosselin

  Charles Chesnutt in the Classroom is designed to introduce students, teachers, and interested readers to historical connections between Groveland, Ohio, the location for most of Chesnutt’s northern fiction, and Cleveland, Ohio, where Chesnutt was born in 1858 and died in 1932. Chesnutt’s life, which spans two centuries, offers a unique lens to not only observe Cleveland the verge of urbanization but also understand its influence on black education, Black Nationalism and the emerging Black Middle Class, with particular attention paid to deconstructing Chesnutt’s use of satiric perspective in describing race relations in Northeast Ohio and state of American politics at the turn of the 19^th century.

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  Right to Vote: The 15th and 19th Amendments

  Stephanie D. Hinnershitz, Shelley Rose, and Robert S. Shelton

  The 15th and 19th Amendments to the US Constitution. The year 2020 will mark the anniversaries of two amendments to the US Constitution that expanded the nation’s ideas about citizenship and extended the right to vote to African American men and to women. To commemorate the ratifications of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) and the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the US Constitution, the Cleveland State University history department and the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County will sponsor a yearlong series of events on the theme of “Suffrage: The 15th and 19th Amendments.” This book serves as an online resource, providing primary documents and links to other online primary source repositories, syllabi, schedules, lesson plans, and exercises for teachers, and papers to be presented at an academic conference scheduled for October 2020.

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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

  Chinese 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 to the writing of Regular Script (楷书/楷書).

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  Chinese Language Teaching Plan: Designs and Analysis

  Huiwen Li, Hui Pang, and Esther Seday

  This 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, learning targets, class materials, teaching/learning methods and procedure, and learning assessment, followed with a teaching plan analysis that explains the rationale for the design, special features, and user guide. With this teaching plan book, we aim to provide some good teaching plan examples for current and student teachers.

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  UST 290: Urban Geography

  Brian Mikelbank

  This 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 in city government, urban planning, and community development. For these students, a solid understanding of the spatial aspects of the city is critical. The book integrates open-access materials (or materials otherwise free to CSU students) to cover spatial arrangement, spatial development, neighborhoods, the spatial implications of urban policy, and the data and methods of the modern urban geographer. By the end of the semester, students see the city from a geographic perspective -- recognizing and understanding the complex spatial influences at work in the city around them.

  This open-source effort was supported by a Textbook Affordability Grant from the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University.

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  Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach

  Abdullah Oguz

  The 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 changes in the internal and external environment. In the light of unprecedented changes, project managers must be prepared in response to the demands from their organizations and key stakeholders like clients, customers and government agencies. This book covers the fundamentals of project management, and aims to guide undergraduate and graduate students to acquire the building blocks of project management. This book also includes Microsoft Project tutorials for project scope, schedule, resources, and cost, and monitoring and controlling.

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  Project Management: Navigating the Complexity with a Systematic Approach, 2nd Edition

  Abdullah Oguz, Ph.D., PMP®

  This 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 project management. All sections of the first edition were revised. Considering the use of the increasing usage of agile (adaptive) project management frameworks and methods by project teams in various industries, the content of Chapter 12 "Agile (Adaptive) Project Management" was revised and expanded and a new dedicated Scrum section was added. Due to the unprecedented rise of Generative AI (GenAI) with the introduction of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models, a new chapter on the utilization of Generative AI in project management was also added. This second edition also includes new exercises for students and updated PowerPoint presentations and Blackboard question pools are also available for instructors.

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  HIS 103: Ancient World History to 1300 C.E.

  Meshack Owino, Shelley Rose, and Kelly L. Wrenhaven

  This 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 are encouraged to think beyond their experiences with western civilizations to recognize the widespread impact of historical events and trends, including how they helped shape the world today. Touching upon each world region, the readings investigate the impact of environment, economics, politics, and religion on diverse societies. Key topics are sites of change and integration such as the rise of cities, religion, technology, migration and trade, the spread of disease, gender relationships, warfare and social movements.

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  The Primacy of the Public: Ethical Design for Technology

  Marcus Schultz-Bergin

  The 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 examination of multiple perspectives we may take on engineering and technology, all of which support the centrality of ethical analysis and evaluation. These include the nature of engineering as a profession, the social context of engineering and technology, and the view that many technologies constitute social experiments.

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  Introduction to Substance Use Disorders

  Patricia A. Stoddard Dare and Audrey Begun

  Introduction 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. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Addictive Behavior (2020), edited by A.L. Begun and M.M. Murray, and most notably Theories and Biological Basis of Substance Misuse, Part I and Part 2 by A.L. Begun.

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  Understanding Literacy in Our Lives: First-Year Writing Perspectives

  Julie Townsend

  This 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 study reading, writing, communication, literacy, and education with the tools available from the discipline of writing. The essays contained in this text are strong examples of first-year writers investigating a wide range of contexts to better understand the literacies that make up their lives. Written by Julie Townsend and various authors. Edited by Julie Townsend.

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  HIS 337: Greek Gods, Heroes, and Worship

  Kelly L. Wrenhaven

  This 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 nature and function of religion in Greek society. Topics include the gods/goddesses, heroes, cult, magic, curses, initiation rites, athletic competition, local mythic traditions, religious festivals, oracles, and healing sanctuaries.

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  English 102: Reading, Research, and Writing

  Emilie Zickel

  This 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