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How to Learn Like a Pro!
Nissila · LibreTexts
How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences, time and materials management, critical thinking and reading, note-taking, memory principles, and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues.
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Comparative Government and Politics
Dino Bozonelos · Victor Valley College
In the contents: 09: Collective Action and Social Movements · 9.01: What is collective action What are social movements · 9.03: A framework for explaining social movements
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Attenuated Democracy
David Hubert · Salt Lake Community College
In the contents: 1.04: Chapter 4- Political Science as a Social Science · 8.08: Chapter 56- Public Opinion and Political Socialization
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LibreTexts Accessibility Toolkit
LibreTexts
A guide for creating and curating accessible LibreTexts
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Child Family Community: The Socialization of Diverse Children
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
We hope this text is a guide and resource in building awareness, knowledge and skills as a current or future educators. We also want to thank the previous authors for their contribution and allowing us a starting point to enhance the original text. The chapters are organized with learning objectives, embedded terms and definitions, critical reflection and practical application of the content and topics.
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College Success
Amy Baldwin et al. · OpenStax
The text is a comprehensive and contemporary resource that serves First Year Experience, Student Success, and College Transition courses. Developed with the support of hundreds of faculty and coordinators, the book addresses the evolving challenges and opportunities of today’s diverse students. Engagement, self-analysis, personal responsibility, and student support are reflected throughout the material.
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Political Thought and Theory: Ideologies, Power, and Society
Robert Stockwell · De Anza College
In the contents: 05: Socialism · 5.01: The Socialist Core · 5.02: The Diversity of Socialism
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Keys to Understanding the Middle East
Payind and McClimans · Ohio State University
This book is intended for readers who have never studied the Middle East, or experts who may wish to fill gaps in their knowledge of the region from other disciplines. Whether for establishing or deepening one's knowledge of the region, these fundamentals are important to know. The languages, cultural, religious and sectarian communities of the region, and selected turning points and influential people in history are starting points for gaining an understanding of the contexts of the region.
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Education 30: Introduction to Education
Cathleen Perez · Fresno City College
In the contents: 15.07: What performance assessments can be used for elementary social studies · 15.13: What performance assessments can be used for secondary social studies
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Personality Theory in a Cultural Context
Mark D. Kelland · Lansing Community College
In the contents: 18: Social Learning Theory and Personality Development · 18.02: Albert Bandura and Social Learning Theory · 18.05: Cognitive Aspects of Social Learning Theory- The Contributions of Julian Rotter and Walter Mischel
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Math 111: College Algebra
Highline College
This texts address applications of functions (linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic) in business and social sciences, including total cost revenue and profit; break-even analysis; supply/demand and market equilibrium; exponential growth and decay; fitting curves to data with graphing utilities; theory of matrices; graphical methods for optimization (linear programming problems); and mathematics of finance (arithmetic and geometric sequences and sums).
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Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood
Laura Daly · Woodland Community College
In the contents: 1.04: The Goal of Social and Emotional Learning · 1.05: The Dimensions of Social Competence · 6.12: Erik Eriksons Psychosocial Theory and Emotional Development
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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Kang, Lessard, & Heston · University of Massachusett Amherst
In the contents: 1.05: Social Constructionism · 05: Historical and Contemporary Feminist Social Movements
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Creative Development in Young Child
Donna King · Irvine Valley College
Creative Development in Young Children (HD131) is an early childhood education course exploring how children's creative and artistic abilities grow. It teaches educators how to nurture divergent thinking, support symbolic representation in art, and design environments that encourage imaginative play and sensory exploration.
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Criminology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
The book examines crime, criminal behavior, and the justice system's response. It covers key criminological theories, the social factors contributing to crime, and the various types of crime, such as white-collar, organized, and violent crime. It also discusses the roles of law enforcement, courts, and corrections, as well as issues like inequality and reform. The book aims to provide a broad understanding of criminology in contemporary society.
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Early Childhood Literacy Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers - Birth to Age 5
Christine Pegorraro Schull, Leslie La Croix, Sara E. Miller, Kimberly Sanders Austin, and Julie K. Kidd · Virtual Library of Virginia
This textbook, Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers – Birth to Age 5, provides a comprehensive introduction to emergent literacy development in early childhood education (ECE). It emphasizes that literacy begins well before formal reading and writing instruction and develops through children’s relationships, language experiences, play, home environments, and interactions with books and writing materials.
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Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration
LibreTexts
Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration is designed to cover theories and concepts of values, interests, skills and personality as applied to the career/life planning process and its application to labor market trends. Short/long term career/life plans will be developed. Students will develop an awareness of diversity and its relationship to psychological, sociological and physiological forces within the workplace.
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Child, Family, and Community
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives.
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ENGL LING 200 Introduction to Linguistics
Sarah Harmon · Cañada College
In the contents: 05: Other Social Dialects · 08: Social Norms
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Introduction to Public Health
Fabiane Morales · Coastline College
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