The OpenIntro project was founded in 2009 to improve the quality and availability of education by producing exceptional books and teaching tools that are free to use and easy to modify. Our inaugural effort is OpenIntro Statistics. Probability is optional, inference is key, and we feature real data whenever possible.

My Truth by Natasha Jagroep will be of interest in particular, to sufferers from the debilitating condition of depression. It offers help and some comfort to those who might have given up on the possibility of leading a normal and productive life.

For her, depression is a blessing. It is getting the opportunity for aligning again with your true self. Discovering your own truth, your inner voice. She sees it as the beginning of spiritual awakening. The key is to find the way for connecting your...

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Projectmanagement laat studenten op een unieke en laagdrempelige manier kennismaken met projectmatig werken om projecten succesvol aan te pakken. Niet alleen in het bedrijfsleven, ook in het onderwijs worden steeds meer werkzaamheden projectmatig aangepa...

Samuel Beckett’s short play Play / Comédie and his only film Film were written around the same time (1962-1963). They both have self-referential titles that invite meditation on the genres they represent. Although medium-specific opportunities and challenges underlie their very different geneses, they have influenced each other in terms of both form and content. In more ways than one, Film continues where Play left off. Whereas in Play the genesis shows a steady increase in speech tempo to...

The Visual Thinking Workbook is a great tool to help you kick-start your visual journey and gain the confidence to produce amazing, compelling drawings. The book is to be used in combination with the theory book Visual Thinking. The workbook is crammed with tons of visual exercises, ranging from tracing illustrations to drawing hacks. It will inspire you to design and share your own icons! Drawing people and interactions, highlights simple ways of drawing people, emotions and interactions. It...

Would you like to learn how to provide First Aid in life-threatening situations? This book, published by The Orange Cross, contains educational material for the Lifesaving Measures diploma or certificate. It provides a step-by-step guide that anyone can understand.

In addition to theory and practical solutions, this book also contains illustrations and colour photos that explain what to do in an emergency. This concisely written handbook is suitable both as course material and as a reference ...

Today's increased attention to integrity can be regarded as part of a more comprehensive professional culture. Yet in a desensitised and detached social climate, integrity is no longer self-evident as a core value of professional conduct. Examples of this shift are overabundant.Attention to scientific integrity fits in completely with this development. Yet what is scientific integrity actually? Is it important to pay so much attention to it? Which issues does it involve? Is anything known abo...

One mindset is that the project management process itself should be lead. You promote proactive project management by planning and evaluating relevant management initiatives – and by adapting the level of effort and the tools for the project’s degree of complexity. The entire book can be considered as a method with tools for such planning and evaluating the project management.

Another mindset is that the project management is not only a task for the project managers. The project owners, ...

In a Business Intelligence project usually a – possibly large – number of documents is made available, which describe the desired information and KPI’s from the information consumer’s point of view. These information consumers are always knowledge workers in the company that are fully accomplished in their own domain, such as physicians in a hospital. Together with the specifications of all the reports that the knowledge workers want to see, these reports constitute the basis for the ...

Research Methods for Empirical Legal Studies gives an overview of methods for empirical legal research. It begins with general methodological issues, such as reliability and validity as well as research ethics. Subsequently, the book discusses data collection: sampling, interviewing, observation and survey instruments, and research design. Then, data analysis methods are introduced, for qualitative as well as quantitative data. In separate chapters, statistical testing and multivariate analys...