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Open access is when academic research is made freely available online for anyone to read and re-use. [4] As with open access journals, there are different business models for funding open-access books, including publication charges, institutional support, library publishing, and consortium models. [5]
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The concepts of open access and open source support the idea of open textbooks, digital textbooks that are free (gratis) and easy to distribute, modify and update (libre). Schools, teachers or professors may design their own open textbooks by gathering open access scholarly articles or other open access resources into one text or one curriculum.
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Modern books are typically in codex format, composed of many pages that are bound together and protected by a cover; they were preceded by several earlier formats, including the scroll and the tablet.
Anti-environmentalism and free-market environmentalism: ISBN 978-1-890132-12-5: God is Red: A Native View of Religion: Vine Deloria Jr. 1973: Environmental degradation; anthropocentrism: ISBN 978-0-448-02168-3: The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans: Mark Lynas: 2011: Various themes: ISBN 9781426208911
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need is a 2021 book by Bill Gates.In it, Gates presents what he learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address global warming and recommends technological strategies to tackle it.
The front cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine in 2006 for a portfolio of powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.. When the photograph was taken, he said he insisted on having a three-hour period to set up his equipment, adding that he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning fast as possible for the [subject]."