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Open Neuroscience Initiative
Austin Lim
Published: 2021The Open Neuroscience Initiative is a free-to-use textbook
This project began as a means to overcoming the financial burden that face undergraduate neuroscience students when buying textbooks. By compiling and writing a completely free-to-access textbook that covers the foundations of a typical college introduction to neuroscience course, students would have one less obstacle to overcome in their educational career, allowing them to focus their valuable time and attention on learning rather than finances. To make this project a reality, I began with a humble tweet in May 2019 that managed to gain a tiny bit of traction among the neuroscience Twitter-sphere. A handful of retweets and comments later, several experts who shared my ideology for open educational resources contacted me directly, looking for ways to be involved in the project. Ultimately, almost half of the contributing authors or content expert editors were recruited through Twitter, while the other half were personal connections I had made through my time as a neuroscientist. My choice to distribute this text freely over the internet was deliberate. We have been living in a digital era where most (if not all) of us have completely unfettered access to the entirety of the world’s knowledge using a desktop, laptop, or cell phone. Why shouldn’t a formal neuroscience education be any different? My hope for this project is to share my passion of neuroscience with the world. Additionally, widespread adoption of open educational resources like this means increased access and decreased inequity across the realm of higher education, opening the doors for a more inclusive and diverse future.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Introduction to Community Psychology: Becoming an Agent of Change
Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O'Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian
Published: 2019Introduction to Community Psychology: Becoming an Agent of Change tells the story of community psychologists, who view social problems as being due to the unequal distribution of resources, which causes poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and crime. In addition, because no condition or disease has ever been eliminated by just dealing with those with the problem, community psychologists focus their work on prevention. Finally, community psychology shifts the power dynamics so that community members are equal members of the team, as they provide unique points of view about barriers that need to be overcome in working toward social justice. In a sense, this eld has many similarities with community organizing, but it’s different in that community psychologists have both research and action skills to evaluate whether or not our interventions actually work.
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Introduction to Community Psychology by Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O'Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian (Editors) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua: Opposition and Accommodation 1979-1993
Rose J. Spalding
Published: 1994By tracing the complex relationship between the Sandinista government and the Nicaraguan business elite, this book examines the shifting mix of alliances and oppositions that shaped the Sandinista revolution. Rose Spalding takes issue with models of the business sector that assume a high degree of class cohesion. Drawing on carefully structured interviews with ninety-one private-sector leaders at the end of the Sandinista era, Spalding documents responses to the Sandinista government that range from extreme ideological hostility to enthusiastic support. To explain this variation, Spalding explores such factors as the prerevolutionary social and economic characteristics of the elite, their organizational networks, and their experiences with expropriation and government subsidies. She is one of the first scholars to look at the ways in which these groups have evolved in the postrevolutionary era under the Chamorro government. In addition, Spalding provides a valuable analysis of four other cases of attempted structural change, thereby drawing broader, cross-national comparisons and developing theoretical insights about the political character of the 'bourgeoisie.'
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Bureaucratic opposition : challenging abuses at the workplace
Deena Weinstein
Published: 1979DePaul University Library notes: Includes index. DePaul University Faculty Publication, Sociology Department
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Roles of Man : an Introduction to the Social Sciences
Deena Weinstein and Michael A. Weinstein
Published: 1972DePaul University Library notes: DePaul University Faculty Publication, Sociology Department
