A Collection of Free, Accessible Textbooks
http://GitHub.com/JamalMazrui/
I love books and regularly buy commercial books from Audible, Kindle,
and other sources. Like others, I also appreciate finding value for
free. A movement called open educational resources (OER) has been
encouraging teachers at all levels to create and release learning
materials that anyone can use. My web searches in this area identified
many college-level textbooks on a broad range of subjects.
I seek to add value by curating these search results into an organized
collection of quality books that are easy to download from a single web
page. This collection of about 300 books addresses the following
subjects among others:
* Physical sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology,
and physics.
* Social studies such as anthropology, business, economics,
government, history, psychology, and sociology.
* Methodological areas such as accessibility, accounting,
communications, mathematics, programming, and statistics.
The collection tries to maximize accessibility to readers who use
assistive technology or mobile devices, choosing reflowable EPUB over
fixed-page PDF, when a book was found in both formats. From either
format, I also produced HTML and plain text versions by automated means,
so learners can pick the option that works best with their reading
system. Each file is clearly named by the title of its book content,
without extraneous words or codes. All .htm versions and all .txt
versions may be downloaded together in the archive files named
AccTextbooks_htm.zip and AccTextbooks_txt.zip, respectively.
If you have a Git client, you can clone the whole repository via the
following URL (the web address of the repository):
http://GitHub.com/JamalMazrui/
Happy reading!
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