Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Human Resources Management
Timothy Durfield · Citrus College
LibreTexts
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Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to the Uniform Commercial Code and various aspects of property law. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy necessary for business people to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.
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SOCIODEMICS: The UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship Project - The Associations Between Gender and Risk of Infectious Disease
Flora Rudacille & Gracie McDonough · College of Southern Nevada
UN SDG 5. Sociology and Epidemiology. Student-created research.
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Getting Started as an Entrepreneur
Wikipedia · Wikibooks
Getting Started as an Entrepreneur is a brief introduction to the basics of starting your own technology-driven business. Written in concise, simple language, the book is a quick read that you can absorb in a couple of hours. The book emphasizes both traditional and social entrepreneurship as exciting paths for start-up entrepreneurs. With inspiring profiles of entrepreneurs whose work provides models of creative thinking and ideas that make a difference in the world!
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Introduction to Spreadsheets (BSOT 112)
Gabrielle Brixey · Coalinga College
LibreTexts
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Introduction to Business and Professional Responsibility
Robert Rebman · Benedictine University
LibreTexts
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BUS 340: Business Law
Brian Mom · Sacramento City College
This text is an introduction to law in its relationship to the environment of business. The course covers the American legal system as an instrument of economic, social, and political control. It stresses basic business torts, business crimes, contracts and sales transactions, agency, legal structures of business, government regulation, and property rights.
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Principles of Management
Karen Calendo · Concordia University Chicago
"Principles of Management" is a comprehensive guide to understanding the multifaceted role of managers and the foundational concepts that shape effective management practice. The text explores managerial responsibilities, leadership styles, and strategic thinking through historical, theoretical, and practical lenses. Key topics include ethical decision-making, organizational structure, human resource management, motivation, team dynamics, communication, and operations.
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Customer Centric Strategy
Kerri Shields · Centennial College
Customer centricity is about organizational transformation making the customer the focus for business decisions, processes, product development, services, and procedures. Some companies purport to be customer centric but they fall short in connecting this concept throughout all functional areas of the business. While it is important to offer superb customer service, being customer centric is far more than that.
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BMT 1620: Financial Planning and Investments
Elijah Cooks · Prince George's Community College
This text addresses financial planning concepts, their application and the risk factor in the management of finances.
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Building Information - Representation and Management
Alexander Koutamanis · Delft University of Technology
The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analog building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM.
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Information Governance Modern OER Textbook
Gregory Hess · Baker College
Information Governance in the Age of AI (2026 Practices) is an Open Educational Resource (OER) designed for undergraduate students in business, information systems, cybersecurity, and law. Modernizing traditional governance frameworks for the realities of the zettabyte data deluge, this text prepares students to navigate the complexities of Generative AI, global privacy regulations (such as the EU AI Act and GDPR), and zero-trust architectures. Through practical case studies and modern framework
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Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing
Joan Wagner Ed. · University of Regina
Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the foundational tools, techniques, and knowledge required to empower them to meet the leadership challenges found within the incessantly changing health c
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Computer Applications for Managers
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
This text is aimed at beginning to intermediate computer users. It teaches a range of computer skills from the basics of using Windows, to basic internet literacy, to creating projects using Microsoft Office. Assignments show step-by-step visuals to help students complete projects, and include integration across Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.
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Business Information Systems - Design an App for That
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text is designed to help students get a feel for what a career in Management Information Systems (MIS) would be like. Our students report that they learn more about information systems from their internships than from their IS courses. Consequently, we designed a course that looks very much like an internship—an introduction to the field followed by a substantial project.
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Business English for Success
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text starts with a solid foundation in written communication with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments. Our students are sometimes learning English as they enter a business program and benefit from the attention to the basics. At the same time this text often articulates as a course-equivalent for English or fulfills a writing requirement for a degree program.
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BUS 310: Business Communications (Buch)
LibreTexts
This text focuses on the concepts, strategies, and principles of effective communication in business situations. Tools to communicate effectively in a fast-paced technological, global marketplace are emphasized. The course provides opportunities to create, edit, evaluate, and critique business documents and reports. A formal research paper using analytical skills, graphics, and the ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations is required.
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The Parallel Entrepreneur
Ryan Buckley · Diablo Valley College
Building a product on the internet is relatively easy these days. It’s the making money part that’s hard. I wrote this book to help you become parallel entrepreneurs faster than I did, and to encourage you to do so while you have the safety net of a day job. In writing this book, I interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs who have done it more successfully than I have. These entrepreneurs have at least two income streams generating $10,000 per month, and they’ve developed their companies both solo an
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Nursing Management and Professional Concepts
Ernstmeyer & Christman (Eds.) · OpenRN
This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidence-based practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care.
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Electronic Commerce - The Strategic Perspective
Richard T. Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, George M. Zinkhan · LibreTexts
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.