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It’s About Them - Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Sara Kim, Douglas Marshall, June Pulliam, Victoria VanNest, and James Yeargain · LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course.
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Persuasion
Nathan Miller · Cosumnes River College
This introductory course will examine historical and contemporary approaches to persuasive messages throughout time. It will also focus on the presentation of persuasive appeals, and learning to construct, deliver, and critique persuasive messages. Students will construct and deliver ethical persuasive messages directed toward a specific audience in front of a live audience or other pedagogically appropriate medium.
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Learning in the Digital Age
Tutaleni Asino at al. · Oklahoma State University
This book is designed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age.
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Shared Voices - An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Demetrios Brellas and Vanessa Martinez · Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens (ROTEL)
Shared Voices is a student-centered cultural anthropology mini textbook built with an equity lens. This text aims to be accessible, interesting, accurate, and centered on marginalized voices. This text is a starting point for any introductory anthropology course recognizing that cultural change is constant and the familiar is cousin to the weird and unusual.
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Soils: A Practical Guide for Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Valerie Dantoin · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This textbook is for farmers and gardeners who want to understand and improve soil. It approaches soil from a practical viewpoint on how to conserve, improve, and build it. It covers the physical/structural characteristics, soil chemistry, soil organic matter, carbon, and nutrient flows/cycles, soil sampling/testing, both organic and conventional fertilizers, living soil biology, compost, livestock/manure’s role on the farm, and farm-scale and garden-size solutions to soil problems.
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Immigrant and Refugee Families
Ballard, Wieling, and Solheim · University of Minnesota and University of Georgia
Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences offers an interdisciplinary perspective on immigrant and refugee families' challenges and resilience across multiple domains, including economic, political, health, and human rights.This text uses a family systems lens to discuss challenges and strengths of immigrant and refugee families in the United States.
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Governing with Integrity: Ethical Reasoning for Public Service
Tabitha Raber · Taft College
Governing with Integrity equips current and aspiring public servants with a practical, values-driven framework for ethical decision-making across the micro (individual), meso (organizational), and macro (societal) levels. The book includes ten chapters with key terms, check-for-learning activities, and adaptable teaching supports.
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Key Elements of Green Chemistry
Lucian Lucia · North Carolina State University
Green chemistry, in addition to being a science, it is also a philosophy and nearly a religion. Attendance at American Chemical Society Green Chemistry & Engineering Conferences will instill such an ideal into any attendant because of the nearly universal appeal and possibilities in this novel approach to radicalizing the business of doing science and engineering.
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Introduction to Communication
Keith Green, Ruth Fairchild, Bev Knudsen, & Darcy Lease-Gubrud · Ridgewater College
This text covers the basic concepts of communication as they might be taught in a hybrid introductory communication course. The text is kept lean, so faculty could adapt and supplement according to their own preferences. The text also made it flexible by using a structure of modules with sections within them, so faculty could select the parts and the order they want.
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Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology 1e
Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González · Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
The first peer-reviewed open access textbook for cultural anthropology courses. Produced by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges and available free of charge for use in any setting.
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Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Children
Cindy Stephens, Gina Peterson, Sharon Eyrich, & Jennifer Paris · College of the Canyons
If you are reading this, you’re likely interested in learning more about becoming an early childhood professional. Perhaps you’re just curious and want to know a little bit more about young children. Maybe you want to make up your mind after finding out a little bit more about what is involved. In either case, your interest and curiosity are two key characteristics that will make this a positive growth experience for you.
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Investigations in Climate Change
Neel Desai and Alicia Mullens · De Anza College
Built on the belief that learning works best hands-on, this Meteorology Laboratory Manual gives students a practical way to explore climate change through real principles, concepts, and historical data. Its flexible mix of multiple-choice and short-answer questions works equally well in person or remote, with each investigation taking about 2 to 3 hours, ideal for a standard one-unit lab course, and point values instructors can easily adjust to fit their own needs.
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Never Gonna Change? - An Examination of the 1901 Alabama Constitution
N. Alexander Aguado et al. · Never Gonna Change?
In stark contrast to the U.S. Constitution, which has become a more democratic document since 1865, Alabama’s 1901 Constitution was designed in response to the nation’s broader democratic aspirations. Though the Alabama Constitution was recompiled in 2022, its spirit continues. Never Gonna Change examines the legacy of the 1901 Constitution and its effects on public policy, people, political culture, and democracy.
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Essentials of Linguistics
Catherine Anderson · McMaster University
Có trong mục lục: 1.01: Linguistics is Science
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Oceanography
Hill et al. · University of California, Davis
Có trong mục lục: 1.4: Modern Ocean Science
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The Role of Equity and Diversity in Early Childhood Educatio
Miachelle Andrade · Rio Hondo College
This text is designed for students interested in working in children's programs and educational settings, and addresses the similarities, variety, and multiplicity found within programs and educational settings for young children, school age children, and adolescents. Topics covered include family values, culture, race, gender, social class, sexual preference, language, and abilities.
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The Dynamic Earth
W. Jacquelyne Kious & Robert I. Tilling · U.S. Geological Survey
This booklet gives a brief introduction to the concept of plate tectonics and complements the visual and written information in This Dynamic Planet, a map published in 1994 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Smithsonian Institution. The booklet highlights some of the people and discoveries that advanced the development of the theory and traces its progress since its proposal. Although the general idea of plate tectonics is now widely accepted, many aspects still continue to confound an
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Principios y prácticas de enseñanza de niños pequeños (Stephens et al.)
Cindy Stephens, Gina Peterson, Sharon Eyrich, and Jennifer Paris · College of the Canyons
Si estás leyendo esto, probablemente te interese aprender más sobre cómo convertirte en un profesional de la primera infancia. Quizás solo tengas curiosidad y quieras saber un poco más sobre los niños pequeños. Tal vez quieras decidirse después de enterarte un poco más de lo que implica. En cualquier caso, tu interés y curiosidad son dos características clave que harán de esta una experiencia de crecimiento positiva para ti.
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Health, Safety, and Nutrition
Jennifer Paris · College of the Canyons
This textbook serves as a comprehensive resource for promoting the health, safety, and nutritional well-being of young children within early childhood education settings. It provides practical strategies and theoretical foundations to guide educators, caregivers, and administrators in fostering environments where children thrive.
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COMS 120: Small Group Communication
Kerry Osborne · College of the Canyons
This Small Group Communication text dives into the explanation of theoretical concepts of communication and assessment. It examines how each concept is utilized within various communication contexts and how these concepts, theories and ideas are used each day and with each interaction that we have.