Global Texts

We maintain the chapters for all books in open document format with extensive use of style sheets so that we can quickly then convert them into different media or formats. These books have been internationalized and converted to the Global Text Project standard format. If you download one of these books, please complete the linked form.

Basic Political Concepts  by Paul deLespinasse

This short text introduces the basic ideas of political science.

Business Processes and Information Technology by Ulric J. Gelinas, Steve G. Sutton, and Jane Fedorowicz (3Mb). This book is in the conversion process, and we have released this version based on the Word files while we undertake conversion. A scanned version (28Mb) is also available.

Educational Psychology  by Kelvin Seifert and Rosemary Sutton (2Mb)

This books lays the foundation for prospective teachers to learn about various teaching methodologies and covers material typically found in many teacher training programs.

Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective (2nd edition, release 1) (Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Saurabh Gupta of the University of North Florida)

The application of  strategic thinking to electronic commerce.

Information Systems (1st edition, release 6)

An introductory text for Information Systems.

• Release notes
• Green IS (chapter)

Scanned books

These editions have been scanned and converted to text using Optical Character Recognition. We are in the process of converting them into the Global Text Project standard format. When this is complete, a new edition will be posted to this page.

Business Processes and Information Technology by Ulric J. Gelinas, Steve G. Sutton, and Jane Fedorowicz (28Mb). A smaller version (3Mb) based on the Word files is available.

Core Concepts of Marketing by John Burnett (14Mb) 

This text introduces students to the marketing strategies and tools that practitioners use to market their products.

Diseases of Children in the Subtropics and Tropics by Paget Stanfield et al. (28Mb)

A review of the diseases of children encountered in the tropics, together with their diagnosis and treatment.

For more low cost and free healthcare educational materials, see Ghets and TALC.

Global Business Strategy: A Systems Approach by Asterios G. Kefalas (18Mb) 

A systems approach to understand globalization and managing a global organization.

Information Technology and the Networked Economy by Patrick  McKeown (18Mb)

An introductory text by a prolific author on Information Systems.

Information Technology for Management by Henry C. Lucas, Jr. (17Mb)

The 7th edition of an MBA text.

Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations by Geoff Walsham (2Mb)

The book introduces the interpretive approach to understanding
information systems and then discusses relevant theory. 

The New Software Engineering by Sue Conger (47Mb) (by chapter)

Blends theory and project management skills with systems design and analysis methodologies so students can learn how to become successful software engineers.

Other open texts

As well as promoting the development of new textbooks, Global Text is a portal for existing books and other educational resources that have been contributed and are freely available. The plan is to move some of these books, with the permission of the authors, into the Global Text library as resources become available.

Computing

An introduction to programming and programming concepts, using VB.NET

A complete, modular course geared to undergrads who will not be making a career as programmers, but will have to write small scripts and also communicate effectively with programmers. Contributed by Larry Press (California State University, Dominguez Hills).

Discovering information systems by Jean-Paul Van Belle, Jane Nash, and Mike Eccles (University of Cape Town) (released under the creative commons by-nc-nd license)

History of Programming Languages by Dennie Van Tassel (Gavilan College)

Information Systems: A managers guide to harnessing technology by John Gallaugher (Boston College)

Network applications, technology and implications

This resource consists of 235 modules: Network applications (26 modules), Introduction to Web development (48), Image processing (15), Audio processing and VOIP (17), TCP/IP network technology (45), Wireless networking technology, theory and applications (48), Home, organizational, mobile and backbone connectivity (29), and History (7). Contributed by Larry Press (California State University, Dominguez Hills).

Office XP for business by Jean-Paul Van Belle (University of Cape Town) (released under the creative commons by-nc-nd license)

• Quick Start to Windows XP: quick overview of basic MS-Windows XP functions
• Quick Start to Word 2002: quick overview of basic Word functions
• Quick Start to Word 97: quick overview of basic Word functions
• Quick Start to Excel 2002: introduction to Excel
• Using Excel 2002: advanced business use of Excel

Principles of Digital Communication and Coding by Andrew J. Viterbi and Jim K. Omura

Wireless Networking for the Developing World (available in Arabic, English, Portuguese, and Spanish)

XML - Managing Data Exchange by Richard T. Watson et al. (This is the book that spawned the Global Text Project. It was initially written by a class a University of Georgia and revised by another class)

 Education

Education for an Information Age by Bernard John Poole (University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown), Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain (Least Tern), and Lorrie Jackson (Lausanne Collegiate School)

Social & Cultural Foundations of American Education by Dwight W. Allen, Patrick M. O'Shea, and Peter Baker

Health

Physical Health Hazards by Paul Héroux (McGill University)
The materials for the course are in PHH6.zip (720 Mb). PHHVid6.zip (1 Gb) contains video material that illustrates the course, but it is not absolutely essential. For students who have a slow Internet connection or who wish a permanent and portable archive of the material, a DVD containing the material in both files above can be obtained ($5 , $15 by mail) by contacting Paul Héroux.

Principles of Toxicology by Paul Héroux (McGill University)

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine edited by John J. Sciarra (Northwestern University)

Humanities

Principles Of Orchestration by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and augmented by Garritan Interactive. The original Principles of Orchestration was published about a hundred years ago in Russian. Garritan has taken the original English translation, and incorporated multimedia. As the English translation is in the public domain, it could become the foundation for a Global Text.

Natural sciences

A First Course in Linear Algebra by Robert A. Beezer (University of Puget Sound)

An Introduction to Energy Sources by B Viswanathan (Director, National Centre for Catlysis Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) 

An Introduction to Formal Logic by P.D. Magnus (University of Albany, SUNY)

An Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Matthias Tomczak (Flinders University of South Australia)

Calculus by Gilbert Strang (MIT)

Classical Mechanics by Jeremy Heyl (University of British Columbia)

Computational and algorithmic linear algebra and n-dimensional geometry by Katta Murty (University of Michigan)

Frontiers in Chemistry by B Viswanathan (Director, National Centre for Catlysis Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) 

Introduction to Physical Oceanography by Robert R. Stewart (Texas A&M University)
Also available in pdf.

Linear Complementarity, Linear and Nonlinear Programming by Katta Murty (University of Michigan)

Nanomaterials — A Sojourn by B Viswanathan (Director, National Centre for Catlysis Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) 

Oceanography in the 21st Centure: Our Ocean Planet by Robert R. Stewart (Texas A&M University)

Optimization Models for Decision Making: Volume 1 by Katta Murty (University of Michigan)

Regional Oceanography: An Introduction by MatthiasTomczak (Flinders University of South Australia) & J. Stuart Godfrey (CSIRO)

Synthetic Strategies Chemistry by B Viswanathan (Director, National Centre for Catlysis Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) 

Social Sciences

Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food by George E. Kent (University of Hawai'i)

Introduction to Economic Analysis by R. Preston McAfee (California Institute of Technology)

Introduction to Text Linguistics by Robert de Beaugrande (Univerza na Primorskem in Koper, Slovenia)

New Introduction to the Study of Text and Discourse by Robert de Beaugrande (Univerza na Primorskem in Koper, Slovenia)

 The Metaconstitutional Manifesto: A Bourgeois Vision of the Classless Society by Paul deLespinasse

Thinking About Politics: American Government in Associational Perspective by Paul deLespinasse

Wrong Turn: A Sympathetic Critique of the Civil Rights Movement by Paul deLespinasse

Books in preparation

• Business Fundamentals (Don McCubbrey)
• Digital Logic (James D. Feher)
• Internet Technology (Craig Piercy)
• Project Management (Mark Huber)
• Integrated marketing and communications (Anders Gronstedt and Clarke Caywood)
• Computer Architecture and Operating Systems (Lynn Heinrichs) (proposal in doc and odt format)
• Statistics 
• Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology (Michael Orey)
• The World Almanac of Educational Technologies (Michael Orey)
• The Foundations of Instructional Technology (Michael Barbour and Michael Orey)
• Bioentrepreneurship (Arlen Myers)
• Algorithms and Data Structures with Applications to Graphics and Geometry (Jurg Nievergelt and Klaus Hinrichs)