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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius (trans. George Long) — The Roman emperor's personal reflections on Stoic philosophy, ethics, and self-discipline.

History

World History Volume 1, to 1500

OpenStax (Ann Kordas et al.) — The first volume of an inclusive global history from human origins through 1500 CE.

History

World History Volume 2, from 1400

OpenStax (Ann Kordas et al.) — The second volume of a globally inclusive world history, covering the early modern period to the present.

Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy

OpenStax (Nathan Smith et al.) — An accessible survey of the main branches of philosophy: logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy.

Philosophy

The Republic

Plato (trans. Benjamin Jowett) — Plato's classical dialogue on justice, the ideal state, and the philosopher-king.

Principles of Management

OpenStax (Bright, Cortes et al.) — A comprehensive introduction to management theory and practice covering planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in modern organizations.

Introduction to Business

OpenStax (Gitman, McDaniel et al.) — A foundational text on how businesses operate, including entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, marketing, and global business environments.

Teaching in a Digital Age

A. W. (Tony) Bates — A guide for designing teaching and learning for a digital age, covering pedagogical approaches, media selection, and quality online course design.

Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology

Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology

Richard E. West (Ed.) — A survey of the field's history, theories, and current issues in learning sciences and instructional design.

Instructional Methods, Strategies and Technologies to Meet the Needs of All Learners

Instructional Methods, Strategies and Technologies to Meet the Needs of All Learners

Paula Lombardi — Practical strategies for differentiating instruction and using technology to support inclusive classrooms.

Foundations of Education

Ryan Schey (Ed.) — An open resource introducing the philosophical, historical, and sociological foundations of American education.

Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents

David L. Poole and Alan K. Mackworth — A modern, principled introduction to AI focusing on intelligent agents, reasoning, planning, learning, and decision-making.

Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto — The canonical textbook on reinforcement learning, covering Markov decision processes, temporal-difference learning, policy gradients, and deep RL.

Dive into Deep Learning

Aston Zhang, Zachary C. Lipton, Mu Li, Alexander J. Smola — An interactive open-source book covering deep learning theory and practice with runnable code in PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Michael Nielsen — A clear, mathematically grounded introduction to neural networks, backpropagation, and deep learning fundamentals.

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville — A comprehensive graduate-level textbook covering the mathematical background and modern techniques of deep learning.

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman — The classic MIT text introducing fundamental principles of computation through Scheme, abstraction, and metalinguistic programming.

Think Python (2nd Edition)

Allen B. Downey — A concise introduction to computer science and programming using Python, aimed at beginners.

Composing Programs

John DeNero — A free online textbook adapted from SICP for the University of California, Berkeley CS 61A course.

Open Data Structures (in Java/C++/Python)

Open Data Structures (in Java/C++/Python)

Pat Morin — A rigorous textbook on data structures and algorithms with implementations in multiple languages.

Algorithms

Jeff Erickson — A modern, freely available textbook on algorithms design and analysis used at the University of Illinois.

Crafting Interpreters

Robert Nystrom — A hands-on guide to designing and implementing programming languages, covering tree-walking and bytecode interpreters.

Python Data Science Handbook

Jake VanderPlas — Essential tools for working with data in Python: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and machine learning with Scikit-Learn.

R for Data Science (2nd Edition)

Hadley Wickham, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Garrett Grolemund — Learn how to do data science with R using the tidyverse, including import, tidy, transform, visualize, and model.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning

Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani — An accessible textbook on statistical learning methods with applications in R and Python.

The Elements of Statistical Learning

Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman — The definitive graduate-level reference on statistical learning, data mining, inference, and prediction.

Information Technology

Computer Networks: A Systems Approach

Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie — A comprehensive open-source textbook on computer networking principles and Internet architecture.

Information Technology

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

Remzi H. and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau — A widely adopted free textbook on operating systems built around virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.

Information Technology

Database Design (2nd Edition)

Adrienne Watt and Nelson Eng — An open textbook covering relational database design, normalization, SQL, and transaction management.

English Language

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr. — A classic concise guide to English usage, grammar, and principles of clear writing.

English Language

English Composition I

Lumen Learning (Ed.) — An open course-in-a-book covering the writing process, rhetoric, research, and argumentation in academic English.

English Language

About Writing: A Guide

Robin Jeffrey — A student-friendly open guide to the writing process, style, grammar, and mechanics for college English.

Linguistics

Essentials of Linguistics (2nd Edition)

Catherine Anderson et al. — A comprehensive open introduction to linguistics covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics.

Analyzing Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

Linguistics

Analyzing Meaning: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics

Paul R. Kroeger — A textbook for undergraduate students introducing formal and lexical semantics along with pragmatics.

Analyzing Syntax through Texts: An Introduction

Linguistics

Analyzing Syntax through Texts: An Introduction

Amanda Payne and Jeffrey Heinz — A hands-on introduction to syntactic analysis using naturally occurring English text.

Empirical Modelling of Translation and Interpreting

Translation Studies

Empirical Modelling of Translation and Interpreting

Hansen-Schirra, Czulo and Hofmann (Eds.) — An open-access volume on empirical, corpus-based, and cognitive approaches to translation and interpreting research.

Translation, Interpreting, Cognition: The way out of the box

Translation Studies

Translation, Interpreting, Cognition: The way out of the box

Tra&Co Group (Eds.) — A collection exploring cognitive processes in translation and interpreting under new methodological paradigms.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen — A landmark novel of manners exploring issues of marriage, class, and morality in early 19th-century England.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle — A collection of twelve short stories featuring the celebrated consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Herman Melville — An epic American novel narrating Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for the white whale, Moby Dick.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley — A foundational work of gothic and science fiction exploring the moral consequences of scientific ambition.

Academic Writing

Writing for Success

Scott McLean — A modular writing textbook that introduces students to writing effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

Academic Writing

The Word on College Reading and Writing

Carol Burnell, Jaime Wood, Monique Babin, Susan Pesznecker, Nicole Rosevear — An interactive open textbook that guides students through academic reading, writing, and research at the college level.

Academic Writing

Writing Guide with Handbook

OpenStax (Michelle Bachelor Robinson et al.) — An open, culturally responsive composition textbook with a full handbook for grammar, style, and mechanics.

Research Methods

Research Methods in Psychology (2nd Canadian Edition)

Rajiv S. Jhangiani, I-Chant A. Chiang, and Paul C. Price — A comprehensive introduction to research methods, measurement, ethics, and statistical reasoning for behavioral sciences.

Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Research Methods

Principles of Sociological Inquiry: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Amy Blackstone — A concise introduction to social research design, ethics, sampling, and mixed methods.

Research Methods

Scientific Research in Education

National Research Council (Shavelson and Towne, Eds.) — A foundational report on the principles of scientific inquiry as applied to education research.

Law

Business Law and the Legal Environment

Don Mayer, Daniel M. Warner, George J. Siedel, Jethro K. Lieberman — A comprehensive open textbook covering the legal environment of business, contracts, torts, and regulation in the United States.

Law

Criminal Law

Lisa M. Storm — An accessible open textbook on U.S. criminal law: elements of crimes, defenses, and criminal procedure basics.

Introduction to the American Legal System

Law

Introduction to the American Legal System

Adam Lamparello and Charles E. MacLean — An open resource providing an overview of the U.S. legal system, sources of law, and the roles of courts.

The Holy Qur'an (English Translation by M. H. Shakir)

Islamic Studies

The Holy Qur'an (English Translation by M. H. Shakir)

M. H. Shakir (Translator) — A public-domain English translation of the Qur'an widely used for study and reference.

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

Islamic Studies

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

Ibn Khaldun (trans. Franz Rosenthal) — A groundbreaking 14th-century work of historiography and social science by the Andalusi-Maghrebi historian Ibn Khaldun.

Islamic Studies

The Life of Mahomet

Washington Irving — A classic 19th-century biography of the Prophet Muhammad drawing on early Arabic sources.

Psychology

Psychology 2e

OpenStax (Rose M. Spielman et al.) — A comprehensive introduction to psychology covering biological bases, cognition, development, personality, and social behavior.

Psychology

Introduction to Psychology

Charles Stangor — An openly licensed introductory psychology textbook emphasizing empiricism and critical thinking.

Psychology

Discover Psychology 2.0: A Brief Introductory Text

Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener (Eds.) — A modular, research-driven introductory text drawing on the Noba Project's library of expert-authored modules.

Economics

Principles of Economics 3e

OpenStax (Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro) — A rigorous open textbook covering both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles with real-world applications.

Economics

Principles of Macroeconomics 3e

OpenStax (Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro) — A dedicated macroeconomics text covering national income, growth, monetary and fiscal policy, and international economics.

Economics

Principles of Microeconomics 3e

OpenStax (Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro) — A focused microeconomics text covering markets, elasticity, production, market structures, and factor markets.

Calculus Volume 1

OpenStax (Gilbert Strang and Edwin Herman) — The first volume of a rigorous three-part calculus sequence, covering limits, derivatives, and integration.

History

U.S. History

OpenStax (P. Scott Corbett et al.) — A comprehensive open textbook covering United States history from pre-Columbian era to the 21st century.

Introductory Statistics 2e

OpenStax (Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean) — An accessible introduction to statistics with an emphasis on real data and interpretation.

A First Course in Linear Algebra

Robert A. Beezer — An open textbook on linear algebra suitable for undergraduate mathematics and engineering students.

Health Sciences

Anatomy and Physiology 2e

OpenStax (J. Gordon Betts et al.) — A comprehensive introduction to human anatomy and physiology for students in nursing, allied health, and biology.

Health Sciences

Microbiology

OpenStax (Nina Parker et al.) — A comprehensive microbiology textbook for students in health science and biology programs.

Health Sciences

Nursing Pharmacology

Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Eds.) — An open nursing pharmacology textbook developed at Chippewa Valley Technical College with drug classes, mechanisms, and nursing considerations.

Engineering

Engineering Statics: Open and Interactive

Daniel W. Baker and William Haynes — An interactive open textbook on engineering statics with embedded diagrams and worked examples.

Engineering

Introduction to Chemical Engineering Processes

Wikibooks Contributors — An open textbook covering fundamental chemical engineering topics: mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, and process design.

Engineering

Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I

Don H. Johnson — A foundational text on signals, systems, and communications for electrical engineering undergraduates.

Environmental Studies

Environmental Biology

Matthew R. Fisher (Ed.) — An open textbook exploring core concepts in ecology, biodiversity, and human impacts on the environment.

Principles of Marketing

OpenStax (Tanner, Raymond) — An open textbook on marketing strategy, consumer behavior, branding, pricing, and integrated marketing communications.

Organizational Behavior

OpenStax (Black, Bright et al.) — Explores individual, group, and organizational-level behavior including motivation, leadership, culture, and change management.

Entrepreneurship

OpenStax (Shivers-Blackwell et al.) — Covers opportunity recognition, business modeling, funding, and launching new ventures in a global economy.

Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial Accounting

Principles of Accounting, Volume 1: Financial Accounting

OpenStax (Franklin, Graybeal, Cooper) — A rigorous introduction to financial accounting principles, the accounting cycle, and financial statement preparation and analysis.

Think Stats (2nd Edition)

Allen B. Downey — Exploratory data analysis and probability in Python, teaching statistical concepts through code.

College Algebra 2e

OpenStax (Jay Abramson) — A thorough open textbook on college-level algebra, functions, and modeling.

Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

Environmental Studies

Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

Tom Theis and Jonathan Tomkin (Eds.) — A multidisciplinary open textbook on sustainability spanning science, engineering, economics, and policy.

Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth

Environmental Studies

Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — A rigorous evaluation of proposals to intentionally intervene in the climate system by reflecting sunlight.

FGU Launches Its Official Institutional Website

Announcements

Jul 20, 2026

FGU Launches Its Official Institutional Website

Florida Global University unveils its official website to communicate program information, institutional details, and verification services with clarity and transparency.

FGU Training Center Publishes Its Program Overview

Programs

Jul 18, 2026

FGU Training Center Publishes Its Program Overview

The FGU Training Center outlines its professional development portfolio across leadership, education, and technology tracks.

FGU Translation Unit Expands Its Service Catalogue

Services

Jul 15, 2026

FGU Translation Unit Expands Its Service Catalogue

Certified document translation and academic language services are now available through the FGU Translation Unit.

Global Center for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers

Centers

Jul 11, 2026

Global Center for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers

FGU's specialized center advances the teaching of Arabic worldwide through structured curricula and qualified instructors.

Research

Jul 7, 2026

A Renewed Focus on Applied Research and Innovation

FGU strengthens its applied research agenda across engineering, artificial intelligence, and social sciences.