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National Academies of Sciences — A concise standard reference on research ethics: data handling, authorship, peer review, conflicts of interest, and misconduct.
National Academies of Sciences — An authoritative report on what reproducibility and replicability mean in practice and how researchers can strengthen the reliability of results.
National Academies of Sciences — A roadmap for open research practices covering data sharing, open publishing, incentives, and institutional infrastructure.
National Academies of Sciences — An examination of the institutional factors that shape research integrity and practical approaches to assessing and improving it.
Higgins, Thomas et al. — The definitive methodological guide to planning, conducting, and reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
OpenStax — A modern statistics text emphasising data literacy, inference, and interpretation for research in the social and health sciences.
Diez, Cetinkaya-Rundel, Barr — A clear, data-driven statistics textbook widely adopted for research methods courses, with real datasets and worked inference examples.
Grinstead & Snell — A classic open-access probability textbook underpinning statistical inference and quantitative research design.
Allen B. Downey — An applied introduction to statistics and exploratory data analysis using Python, aimed at researchers working with real datasets.
Institute of Medicine — Methodological standards for evidence synthesis: protocol development, search strategy, bias assessment, and reporting.
National Academies of Sciences — Evidence on how research findings are understood and used, and how scholars can communicate results accurately to wider audiences.
Anol Bhattacherjee — A widely used open textbook on the research process: theory building, research design, sampling, measurement, and qualitative and quantitative analysis.
Amy Blackstone — An accessible introduction to research ethics, paradigms, sampling, and both qualitative and quantitative data collection strategies.
Steven D. Krause — A step-by-step guide to academic research writing: developing questions, evaluating sources, annotated bibliographies, and the research essay.
Safiur Rahman al-Mubarakpuri — An award-winning English biography of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), tracing his life, mission and the early Muslim community with documented historical sources.
Mohammad Hashim Kamali — A standard English reference on usul al-fiqh: the Qur'an and Sunnah as sources of law, ijma', qiyas, ijtihad, maslahah, and the rules of legal interpretation.
Salih al-Fawzan — A concise two-volume English manual of practical fiqh covering purification, prayer, zakah, fasting, hajj, transactions and family rulings.
Ibn al-Salah al-Shahrazuri (trans. E. Dickinson) — The classical foundation text of hadith methodology in English translation, defining authentic, good and weak reports and the terminology of narrator criticism.
Ismail ibn Kathir — The most widely used classical Qur'anic exegesis in English, explaining verses through the Qur'an itself, prophetic tradition and the reports of the early generations.
Imam Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (trans. M. Khadduri) — The earliest surviving work of legal theory in Islam, establishing the methodology of deriving rulings from revelation and analogy.
Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips — A historical study in English of how Islamic legal schools developed, their methodologies, differences, and the etiquette of scholarly disagreement.
Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi — A thematically organised collection of authentic prophetic traditions on ethics, worship, manners and social conduct, fully translated into English.
Imam Muhammad ibn Isma'il al-Bukhari — The foremost authenticated compendium of prophetic traditions, searchable in English with chapter structure and reference numbering.
Imam Malik ibn Anas — One of the earliest works of hadith and law, presenting the practice of Madinah alongside prophetic reports, in English translation.
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali — Al-Ghazali's monumental synthesis of law, theology, ethics and spirituality, available in English translation across its four quarters.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani — A practical English introduction to Shari'ah-compliant financial contracts including murabahah, ijarah, salam, istisna' and sukuk.
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — A foundational English text on Islamic creed, examining the meaning of monotheism through Qur'anic verses and prophetic narrations.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali — A widely circulated English rendering of the Qur'an with explanatory notes on language, context and themes.
Sayyid Sabiq — A comparative English manual of Islamic law grounded directly in evidence from the Qur'an and Sunnah rather than a single school.
Mohammad Hashim Kamali — An accessible English study of the higher objectives of Islamic law and their role in contemporary legal reasoning and public policy.
Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi — Forty concise prophetic traditions considered pillars of Islamic teaching, with the full Arabic text and English translation.
OpenStax (Clark, Douglas, Choi) — A full introductory biology course covering cell structure, genetics, evolution, ecology and human biology with scientific illustrations.
OpenStax (Flowers, Theopold, Langley) — A general chemistry text covering atomic structure, bonding, thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium and electrochemistry.
OpenStax (Ling, Sanny, Moebs) — Calculus-based mechanics, waves and thermodynamics for science and engineering students, with worked problems.
OpenStax (Fraknoi, Morrison, Wolff) — An introductory survey of the solar system, stars, galaxies and cosmology written for non-specialist readers.
OpenStax (Strang, Herman) — Techniques of integration, sequences and series, parametric equations and differential equations.
Deisenroth, Faisal and Ong — The linear algebra, calculus, probability and optimisation needed to understand modern machine learning methods.
Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin — The leading text on natural language processing, from classical linguistics to transformers and large language models.
Blum, Hopcroft and Kannan — The mathematical foundations of modern data analysis: high-dimensional geometry, random graphs, SVD and clustering.
OpenStax (Wilkins et al.) — A first programming course in Python covering data types, control flow, functions, files and object-oriented design.
Al Sweigart — A practical guide to using Python for everyday automation of documents, spreadsheets, web data and email.
Olivier Bonaventure — An open textbook explaining the internet protocol stack, routing, transport and application-layer protocols.
OpenStax (Dahlquist, Knight) — Time value of money, valuation, capital budgeting, risk and return, capital structure and financial planning.
OpenStax (Byars, Stanberry) — Ethical reasoning, corporate social responsibility, governance, and professional conduct in global business.
OpenStax — Contracts, torts, corporate structures, employment and intellectual property for business students.
Open Textbook Library — Sources of international law, treaties, state responsibility, human rights and dispute settlement.
OpenStax (Conerly, Holmes, Tamang) — Culture, socialisation, social stratification, institutions, media and social change from a sociological perspective.
OpenStax (Hardy, Hulme et al.) — Political theory, institutions, comparative politics and international relations in a single introductory volume.
Price, Jhangiani and Chiang — Research design, measurement, experimental and non-experimental methods, ethics and data interpretation.
Open Textbook Library — Interviewing, ethnography, coding and thematic analysis for qualitative inquiry in applied fields.
Open Textbook Library — Sentence structure, tense, agreement, punctuation and clarity for learners writing in academic English.
Open Textbook Library — Instructional design models, learning theories and the effective use of technology in teaching practice.
Open Textbook Library — Circuits, signals, digital logic and computing fundamentals for first-year engineering students.
Open Textbook Library — Forces, moments, equilibrium, trusses, friction and centroids with engineering problem-solving methods.
Open Textbook Library — Ecosystems, biodiversity, energy, climate change and sustainable resource management.
Open RN Project — Core nursing skills, patient safety, assessment, documentation and evidence-based clinical practice.
Callahan, Leonard and Powell — Macronutrients, micronutrients, energy balance, dietary guidelines and nutrition across the lifespan.
Open Textbook Library — Epidemiology, health systems, communicable and non-communicable disease, and global health policy.
OpenStax (Bright, Cortes et al.) — A comprehensive introduction to management theory and practice covering planning, organizing, leading, and controlling in modern organizations.
OpenStax (Gitman, McDaniel et al.) — A foundational text on how businesses operate, including entrepreneurship, ethics, finance, marketing, and global business environments.
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.
Richard E. West (Ed.) — A survey of the field's history, theories, and current issues in learning sciences and instructional design.
Paula Lombardi — Practical strategies for differentiating instruction and using technology to support inclusive classrooms.
Ryan Schey (Ed.) — An open resource introducing the philosophical, historical, and sociological foundations of American education.
David L. Poole and Alan K. Mackworth — A modern, principled introduction to AI focusing on intelligent agents, reasoning, planning, learning, and decision-making.
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.
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.
Michael Nielsen — A clear, mathematically grounded introduction to neural networks, backpropagation, and deep learning fundamentals.
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville — A comprehensive graduate-level textbook covering the mathematical background and modern techniques of deep learning.
Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman — The classic MIT text introducing fundamental principles of computation through Scheme, abstraction, and metalinguistic programming.
Allen B. Downey — A concise introduction to computer science and programming using Python, aimed at beginners.
John DeNero — A free online textbook adapted from SICP for the University of California, Berkeley CS 61A course.
Pat Morin — A rigorous textbook on data structures and algorithms with implementations in multiple languages.
Jeff Erickson — A modern, freely available textbook on algorithms design and analysis used at the University of Illinois.
Robert Nystrom — A hands-on guide to designing and implementing programming languages, covering tree-walking and bytecode interpreters.
Jake VanderPlas — Essential tools for working with data in Python: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and machine learning with Scikit-Learn.
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.
Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani — An accessible textbook on statistical learning methods with applications in R and Python.
Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman — The definitive graduate-level reference on statistical learning, data mining, inference, and prediction.
Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie — A comprehensive open-source textbook on computer networking principles and Internet architecture.
Remzi H. and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau — A widely adopted free textbook on operating systems built around virtualization, concurrency, and persistence.
Adrienne Watt and Nelson Eng — An open textbook covering relational database design, normalization, SQL, and transaction management.
William Strunk Jr. — A classic concise guide to English usage, grammar, and principles of clear writing.
Lumen Learning (Ed.) — An open course-in-a-book covering the writing process, rhetoric, research, and argumentation in academic English.
Robin Jeffrey — A student-friendly open guide to the writing process, style, grammar, and mechanics for college English.
Catherine Anderson et al. — A comprehensive open introduction to linguistics covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and sociolinguistics.
Paul R. Kroeger — A textbook for undergraduate students introducing formal and lexical semantics along with pragmatics.
Amanda Payne and Jeffrey Heinz — A hands-on introduction to syntactic analysis using naturally occurring English text.
Hansen-Schirra, Czulo and Hofmann (Eds.) — An open-access volume on empirical, corpus-based, and cognitive approaches to translation and interpreting research.
Tra&Co Group (Eds.) — A collection exploring cognitive processes in translation and interpreting under new methodological paradigms.
Jane Austen — A landmark novel of manners exploring issues of marriage, class, and morality in early 19th-century England.
Arthur Conan Doyle — A collection of twelve short stories featuring the celebrated consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.
Herman Melville — An epic American novel narrating Captain Ahab's obsessive quest for the white whale, Moby Dick.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley — A foundational work of gothic and science fiction exploring the moral consequences of scientific ambition.
Scott McLean — A modular writing textbook that introduces students to writing effective sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
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.
OpenStax (Michelle Bachelor Robinson et al.) — An open, culturally responsive composition textbook with a full handbook for grammar, style, and mechanics.
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.
Amy Blackstone — A concise introduction to social research design, ethics, sampling, and mixed methods.
National Research Council (Shavelson and Towne, Eds.) — A foundational report on the principles of scientific inquiry as applied to education research.
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.
Lisa M. Storm — An accessible open textbook on U.S. criminal law: elements of crimes, defenses, and criminal procedure basics.
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.
M. H. Shakir (Translator) — A public-domain English translation of the Qur'an widely used for study and reference.
Ibn Khaldun (trans. Franz Rosenthal) — A groundbreaking 14th-century work of historiography and social science by the Andalusi-Maghrebi historian Ibn Khaldun.
Washington Irving — A classic 19th-century biography of the Prophet Muhammad drawing on early Arabic sources.
OpenStax (Rose M. Spielman et al.) — A comprehensive introduction to psychology covering biological bases, cognition, development, personality, and social behavior.
Charles Stangor — An openly licensed introductory psychology textbook emphasizing empiricism and critical thinking.
Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener (Eds.) — A modular, research-driven introductory text drawing on the Noba Project's library of expert-authored modules.
OpenStax (Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro) — A rigorous open textbook covering both microeconomic and macroeconomic principles with real-world applications.
OpenStax (Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro) — A dedicated macroeconomics text covering national income, growth, monetary and fiscal policy, and international economics.
OpenStax (Steven A. Greenlaw and David Shapiro) — A focused microeconomics text covering markets, elasticity, production, market structures, and factor markets.
OpenStax (Gilbert Strang and Edwin Herman) — The first volume of a rigorous three-part calculus sequence, covering limits, derivatives, and integration.
OpenStax (P. Scott Corbett et al.) — A comprehensive open textbook covering United States history from pre-Columbian era to the 21st century.
OpenStax (Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean) — An accessible introduction to statistics with an emphasis on real data and interpretation.
Robert A. Beezer — An open textbook on linear algebra suitable for undergraduate mathematics and engineering students.
OpenStax (J. Gordon Betts et al.) — A comprehensive introduction to human anatomy and physiology for students in nursing, allied health, and biology.
OpenStax (Nina Parker et al.) — A comprehensive microbiology textbook for students in health science and biology programs.
Kimberly Ernstmeyer and Elizabeth Christman (Eds.) — An open nursing pharmacology textbook developed at Chippewa Valley Technical College with drug classes, mechanisms, and nursing considerations.
Daniel W. Baker and William Haynes — An interactive open textbook on engineering statics with embedded diagrams and worked examples.
Wikibooks Contributors — An open textbook covering fundamental chemical engineering topics: mass and energy balances, thermodynamics, and process design.
Don H. Johnson — A foundational text on signals, systems, and communications for electrical engineering undergraduates.
Matthew R. Fisher (Ed.) — An open textbook exploring core concepts in ecology, biodiversity, and human impacts on the environment.
OpenStax (Tanner, Raymond) — An open textbook on marketing strategy, consumer behavior, branding, pricing, and integrated marketing communications.
OpenStax (Black, Bright et al.) — Explores individual, group, and organizational-level behavior including motivation, leadership, culture, and change management.
OpenStax (Shivers-Blackwell et al.) — Covers opportunity recognition, business modeling, funding, and launching new ventures in a global economy.
OpenStax (Franklin, Graybeal, Cooper) — A rigorous introduction to financial accounting principles, the accounting cycle, and financial statement preparation and analysis.
Allen B. Downey — Exploratory data analysis and probability in Python, teaching statistical concepts through code.
OpenStax (Jay Abramson) — A thorough open textbook on college-level algebra, functions, and modeling.
Tom Theis and Jonathan Tomkin (Eds.) — A multidisciplinary open textbook on sustainability spanning science, engineering, economics, and policy.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — A rigorous evaluation of proposals to intentionally intervene in the climate system by reflecting sunlight.
OpenStax (Ann Kordas et al.) — The first volume of an inclusive global history from human origins through 1500 CE.
OpenStax (Ann Kordas et al.) — The second volume of a globally inclusive world history, covering the early modern period to the present.
OpenStax (Nathan Smith et al.) — An accessible survey of the main branches of philosophy: logic, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy.
Plato (trans. Benjamin Jowett) — Plato's classical dialogue on justice, the ideal state, and the philosopher-king.
Marcus Aurelius (trans. George Long) — The Roman emperor's personal reflections on Stoic philosophy, ethics, and self-discipline.
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FacultyA researcher and specialist in sustainable energy engineering and electrical smart grids, bridging academic knowledge and practical expertise in carbon footprint assessment and energy management.
PartnershipsFlorida Global University extends its congratulations to Al-Qantar Consulting for its strategic partnership with Imam Al-Hadi College in Sudan, accredited by the Sudanese Ministry of Higher Education.
PartnershipsFGU signs a strategic cooperation agreement with E-Zikr Institute – Egypt to advance education, knowledge exchange, and international cooperation.
Florida Global University proudly announces the signing of a strategic partnership and cooperation agreement with Afro-Asian University in the Republic of Sudan.
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The FGU Training Center outlines its professional development portfolio across leadership, education, and technology tracks.
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FGU's specialized center advances the teaching of Arabic worldwide through structured curricula and qualified instructors.
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