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Advanced Public Speaking
Lynn Meade · University of Arkansas
This advanced public speaking textbook is designed to encourage you as a speaker and to help you sharpen your skills. It is written to feel like you are sitting with a trusted mentor over coffee as you receive practical advice on speaking. Grow in confidence, unleash your personal power and find your unique style as you learn to take your speaking to the next level--polished and professional.
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Introduction to Global Studies
Dino Bozonelos et al. · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI)
Introduction to Global Studies is the first OER on the topic of Global Studies, and the first GLST OER funded by the ASCCC OERI. This textbook aligns with the C-ID Course Descriptor for Introduction to Global Studies in content and objectives. It is organized thematically, with ten content chapters accompanied by an At Home and Abroad section, which contextualizes the concepts presented in each chapter, and bookended with an introduction and a final chapter.
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Mentored Program Observation
Susan Eliason & Gwen Alexander · Bridgewater State University
This book is designed so students experience and reflect upon the full range of childcare delivery models, birth through kindergarten.
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FCS 324/PSYC 370 Human Development A Life Span
Norman Lorenz · Sacramento City College
In the contents: 2.3: Psychosocial Theory · 4.06: Psychosocial Development and Attachment · 4.08: Psychosocial Development
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Polimetrics 2e
Josh Franco · Cuyamaca College
Polimetrics is an open education resource that is designed as a companion to Introduction to Political Science Research Methods, 2nd Edition, or IPSRM for short. This workbook provides a tour of the Stata software, an introduction to cross-sectional, time series, and panel data, and an introduction to a variety of statistical models. I review models where the outcome is linear, binary, ordinal, categorical, and count.
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The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years (Budzyna and Buckley)
Deirdre Budzyna and Doris Buckley · Northern Essex Community College
In the contents: 2.02: Psychosocial Theory · 2.04: Social Cognitive Theory · 3.01: Social Development
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Modern Blueprint for College and Career Success 2e
Dave Dillon et al. · Grossmont College
In the contents: 4.06: The Role of Social Media on Mental Health · 06: Unit 6 - Social Development · 11: Blueprint - Oregon Edition - Unit 8- Socializing and Thriving at College
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Child Growth and Development
Paris, Ricard, Rymond, and Johnson · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 04: Social Emotional Development in Early Childhood · 4.01: Social and Emotional Milestones · 4.08: Social Understanding
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Introducing Developmental Disability Through a Disability Studies Perspective
Emily Brooks and Mariette Bates · City University of New York
In the contents: 02: Developmental Disability as a Social Construct · 3.05: Putting the Social Model of Disability into Practice
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Music and the Child
Natalie Sarrazin · College at Brockport, SUNY
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.
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An Introduction to Group Communication
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.05: Group Communication and Social Media · 3.04: Social Penetration Theory
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Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives
Peter J. S. Duncan and Elisabeth Schimpfössl · UCL Press
In the contents: 4: Between the public and the private - Socialism capitalism and street socialisation in Georgia · 5: Making it in China - The determinants of economic success in a socialist market system
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Mastering Public Relations
Anonymous · LibreTexts
Our purpose in this text is to introduce you to the concepts of strategic public relations. Our basic assumption is that you have some general knowledge of management and business terminology; we will help you to apply that to the discipline of public relations. Our text is based in current research and scholarly knowledge of the public relations discipline as well as years of experience in professional public relations practice.
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The Meaning of Love
Richard Garlikov · Troy University
This book explores the philosophical views on the meaning of love. The text explores a variety of topics used to define love, including attraction, relationship satisfaction, emotional, and ethical considerations. The author takes a rational, logical, analytic, and scrutinizing look at experiences and other forms of literature on the subject of love.
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Anthro 130: Physical Anthropology
Sarah Etheredge · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 6.11: Social Behavior and Intelligence
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Social Science Research - Principles, Methods, and Practices
Anol Bhattacherjee · University of South Florida
In the contents: 3.01: Paradigms of Social Research · 4.05: Examples of Social Science Theories
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Teaching AI Ethics
Leon Furze · LibreTexts
And yet, as much as I enjoy working with the technology, it has many flaws. I think it’s our responsibility to discuss the ethical considerations of AI with our students. AI ethics goes beyond the well-documented “algorithmic bias” that results in language models like ChatGPT producing racist and sexist output. In this article, I will explore nine ethical considerations ranging from “beginner” to “intermediate” and “advanced” levels.
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British Columbia in a Global Context
Geography Open Textbook Collective · LibreTexts
This first-year geography textbook takes a holistic approach to geography by incorporating elements of physical, human, and regional geography, as well as bringing in methods and perspectives from spatial information science. This textbook applies a fundamental geographical approach to understanding our globally changing world by looking at local processes, which are linked to larger global processes and events.
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Psychological Adjustment
Tori Kearns & Debra Lee · East Georgia State College
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Foundations of Academic Success - Words of Wisdom
Thomas C. Priester · SUNY Genesee Community College
This text introduces you to the various aspects of student and academic life on campus and prepares you to thrive as a successful college student (since there is a difference between a college student and a successful college student). Each section of is framed by self-authored, true-to-life short stories from actual State University of New York (SUNY) students, employees, and alumni. The advice they share includes a variety of techniques to help you cope with the demands of college.