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Calculus for Business and Social Sciences Corequisite Workbook
Victoria Dominguez, Cristian Martinez, & Sanaa Saykali · Citrus College
This text serves as a Corequisite Workbook for an Applied Calculus course. It is vitally important for students who take this course (and its corequisite) to have a thorough and complete refresher of Algebra skills needed for Calculus. These problems may be assigned as in-class practice problems, and can be also assigned as homework, to be graded and counted toward the Applied Calculus corequisite final grade.
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Nutrition Science and Global Food Issues
Mardi Parelman · San Diego Miramar College
In the contents: 1.04: The Broad Role of Nutritional Science · 1.8.07: Of Science and Malnutrition
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Writing for Strategic Communication Industries
Jasmine Roberts · The Ohio State University
Good writing skills are important in today’s competitive work environment. This is especially the case for communication-related professions such as public relations, brand communication, journalism, and marketing.
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Marine Law and Policy for Scientists and Managers
Holly V. Campbell · Oregon State University
This open educational resource is designed for use by undergraduate and graduate ocean science, natural resource, fisheries and wildlife, and environmental policy students enrolled in a ten-week academic quarter. The purpose of this project is to provide students and non-law professionals with a freely accessible, clearly written guide to support engaging and effective learning.
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Building Soils for Better Crops - Ecological Management for Healthy Soils 4e
Fred Magdoff & Harold van Es · Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program
The 4th edition of Building Soils for Better Crops is a one-of-a-kind, practical guide to ecological soil management. It provides step-by-step information on soil-improving practices as well as in-depth background—from what soil is to the importance of organic matter. It will show you how different physical, chemical and biological factors of the soil interconnect, and how management practices impact them to make your soil healthy and resilient or unhealthy and vulnerable to degradation.
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A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies and Applications
Lynn Hall and Leah Wahlin · The Ohio State University
A textbook focused on developing both technical and professional communication skills
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COLL 175: Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum
Peter Mancini · Johnson County Community College
In this course, students identify and apply evidence-based text strategies that improve high-level comprehension of paired-course materials.
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Leadership and Adult Supervision in ECE
Laura Daly · Woodland Community College
Leadership and Adult Supervision in Early Childhood Education explores the relational and ethical work of supervising, mentoring, coaching, and leading adults in early care and education settings. Grounded in the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, the text emphasizes ethical decision-making, reflective practice, and relationship-based leadership. Designed for students and emerging leaders, it integrates theory with real-world application in adult supervision and professional practice.
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Business Math
Jean-Paul Olivier · Red River College of Applied Arts, Science, & Technology
Business math is the study of mathematics required by the field of business. Business professionals will work with taxes, gross earnings, product prices, and currency exchange; they will be offered loans, lines of credit, mortgages, leases, savings bonds, and other financial tools. This textbook covers all of these topics and how these financial tools can maximize their earnings and minimize their costs. It discusses how to execute smart monetary decisions both personally and for their business.
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Organizational Communication - Theory, Research, and Practice
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This book looks at organizational communication as a broad term that encompasses a wide array of organizational types, which we’ll explore in more detail elsewhere in this chapter. Even if you just take the average 7.5 hours per day an individual spends “working” in an organization, you will end up in an organizational environment a little over 111 days per year. If you work for 40 years, you’ll basically spend 12 of those years at work.
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Instructional Methods Strategies and Technologies to Meet the Needs of All Learners
Paula Lombardi · LibreTexts
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Strategies for Success in a Nursing Program
Lisa Harding, Alex Rockey and Joselle Merritt · Bakersfield College
This course will provide information and skills that facilitate student success in any college-level course as well as in the allied health programs. An overview of the registered Nursing program requirements and expectations are discussed. Career options, time management skills, budget management, personal values, and cultural diversity are additional topics of exploration.
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Sustainable Property Management (Hopkins)
Erin A. Hopkins · Virginia Tech
This textbook explains how ecologically sustainable concepts may be implemented throughout the property management operation functions while also considering the other spheres of sustainability. It also incorporates the theme of sustainable building practices as a human science as well as a building science by highlighting motivations and impacts to various stakeholders.
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Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Ferrier and Mays)
Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays · LibreTexts
This is the first edition of a modular open textbook designed for entrepreneurial journalism, media innovation, and related courses.
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Leadership in Early Care and Education
Tammy Marino, Maidie Rosengarden, Sally Gunyon, & Taya Noland · Southwestern Oregon Community College & Portland State University
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
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Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals
Barry Bozeman & Michael M. Crow · Arizona State University
Public Values Leadership: Striving to Achieve Democratic Ideals explores leadership focusing on collective goods (health, freedom, and security) rather than private gains using case studies and interviews. This LibreTexts has been sourced from a version held by Project Muse at Johns Hopkins University
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Administration and Management of Early Childhood Programs I
Julia Faumuina · Cerro Coso Community College
This is a remixed text of Administration 1: Programs in Early Childhood Education for use at Cerro Coso Community College, course CHDV 251. In the course, students are introduced to the administration of early childhood programs. The content covers program types, budget, management, regulations, laws, and the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
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Project Management for Instructional Designers
David Wiley · LibreTexts
Project Management for Instructional Designers is a textbook about project management tailored specifically for instructional designers, intended for use in graduate programs in educational technology. This book is based on a pre-existing openly licensed textbook which was donated to the commons by a benefactor that desires to remain anonymous, and has been collaboratively revised and remixed by faculty and students at Brigham Young University.
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SOCIODEMICS: The UNSDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship Project - The Associations Between Gender and Risk of Infectious Disease
Flora Rudacille & Gracie McDonough · College of Southern Nevada
UN SDG 5. Sociology and Epidemiology. Student-created research.
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Blueprint for Success in College - Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies (Dillon)
Dave Dillon · Grossmont College
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