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MPC CHEM 30B Organic and Biological Chemistry for Health Sciences

Jessica Baum · Monterey Peninsula College

This is the second semester of a two-course sequence designed for students entering baccalaureate programs in nursing, dental hygiene, home economics, or physical education. It offers an in-depth study of principles of organic and biological chemistry related to the health science field, including organic nomenclature, structures, properties, and reactions as well as biomolecules, metabolism, and physiological chemistry.

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Natural Resources Sustainability: An introductory synthesis

Christopher Lant · Utah Education Network Digital Press with Pressbooks · 2023

This text has evolved from 20 semesters teaching the undergraduate courses Geography, People, and the Environment and Environment and Society. It is designed for freshmen through junior-level courses at community, junior and four-year colleges and universities in the United States. Focused upon the dilemma of environmental sustainability, geography and the emergent field of ecological economics are emphasized in a trans-disciplinary framework. It provides—in a one semester or one quarter undergraduate course that requires no prerequisites—a fundamental background in the essentials students need to deal with natural resource and environmental issues as an informed citizen while building a foundation for further study.

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Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions

Veerabhadran Ramanathan; Roger Aines; Max Auffhammer · eScholarship · 2019

Climate change is an urgent problem. Because it is causing new weather extremes and fatal catastrophes, climate change is better termed climate disruption. Bending the curve to flatten the upward trajectory of pollution emissions responsible for climate disruption is essential in order to protect billions of people from this global threat. Education is a key part of the solution. This textbook book lays out ten solutions that together can bend the curve of climate warming below dangerous levels. These solutions fall into six categories: science, societal transformation, governance, economics, technology, and ecosystem management. Four themes emerge from the book: * There is still time to bend the curve. The time to act was yesterday, but if proper actions are taken now, there is still time to avoid disastrous changes. We have to pull on three levers: The carbon lever to achieve zero net emissions of carbon dioxide before 2050; the short-lived climate pollutants lever to drastically reduce concentrations of other major climate pollutants; and the atmospheric carbon extraction lever to remove massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. * Bending the curve will require interdisciplinary solutions. Climate change requires integrating approaches from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, so this textbook—unlike most on climate change solutions—does just that, with chapters written by experts in climate science, social justice, economics, environmental policy, political science, energy technologies, ecology, and religion. Bending the curve also requires preservation and restoration of ecological systems. * Bending the curve requires a radical shift in attitude. This shift requires change in behavior, change in our attitudes towards each other, and change in our attitude towards nature. Climate justice has to be an integral part of the solution. * Technology, market mechanism and policy need to be a part of the solution. New market mechanisms an

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Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

Tom Theis; Jonathan Tomkin · OpenStax CNX · 2015

With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field. This text is designed to introduce the reader to the essential concepts of sustainability. This subject is of vital importance seeking as it does to uncover the principles of the long-term welfare of all the peoples of the planet but is only peripherally served by existing college textbooks. The content is intended to be useful for both a broad-based introductory class on sustainability and as a useful supplement to specialist courses which wish to review the sustainability dimensions of their areas of study. By covering a wide range of topics with a uniformity of style, and by including glossaries, review questions, case studies, and links to further resources, the text has sufficient range to perform as the core resource for a semester course. Students who cover the material in the book will be conversant in the language and concepts of sustainability, and will be equipped for further study in sustainable planning, policy, economics, climate, ecology, infrastructure, and more. Furthermore, the modular design allows individual chapters and sections to be easily appropriated without the purchase of a whole new text. This allows educators to easily bring sustainability concepts, references, and case studies into their area of study. This appropriation works particularly well as the text is free downloadable to anyone who wishes to use it. Furthermore, readers are encouraged to work with the text. Provided there is attribution to the source, use

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Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (Robeyns)

Ingrid Robeyns · Utrecht University

In the contents: 4.10: Can the capability approach change welfare economics

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Marriage, Intimate Relationships and Families

Ron Hammond, Paul Cheney, and Bill Pelz · LibreTexts

In the contents: 1.11: Family Resources and Economics

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$Calculus - Early Transcendentals$

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Calculus - Early Transcendentals

LibreTexts · LibreTexts

In the contents: 8.04: Applications to Economics and Biology

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Sociology of the Family

Ron J. Hammond · Utah Valley University

In the contents: 1.11: Family Resources and Economics

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$MAT 1350: Precalculus Part I$

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MAT 1350: Precalculus Part I

Jay Abramson · Prince George's Community College

Algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the rules for manipulating these symbols. It is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics. Elementary algebra is generally considered to be essential for any study of mathematics, science, or engineering, as well as such applications as medicine and economics. Elementary algebra differs from arithmetic in the use of abstractions, such as using letters to stand for numbers that are either unknown or allowed to take on many values.

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$Preparation for College Mathematics$

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Preparation for College Mathematics

Lydia de Wolf · Siena College

This text has been written for students preparing for the quantitative courses taken by math and science majors, and to a lesser degree, business or economics courses. The text covers basic arithmetic through to basic trigonometry, and sections should be selected for coverage according to need and priority.

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$Street-Fighting Mathematics$