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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Environmental Science
Bill Freedman · Dalhousie University
In the contents: 01: Part I- Ecosystems and Humans · 02: Part II- The Biosphere: Characteristics and Dynamics · 03: Part III- The Human Population
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Introduction to Physical Oceanography
Robert H. Stewart · Texas A & M University
In the contents: 3.5: Sea Floor Charts and Data Sets · 4.1: The Earth in Space
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Fundamentals of Biology Lab Manual
Karen Marks and Valeria Hochman Adler · College Coalinga
In the contents: 4.05: The Artificial Cell
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Foundations of General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry: An Integrated Approach
Burçak Artun, Gorkem Ermut, and Semere Bairu · De Anza College
This textbook serves a one-quarter general chemistry course for students in allied health and related careers. It walks through the essentials, including measurement, atomic structure and the periodic table, bonding, reactions, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, and acids and bases. Its aim is to build a practical grasp of chemistry that prepares students for organic and biological chemistry down the road.
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International Relations: Politics, Power, and Global Connections
Robert Stockwell · De Anza College
This textbook is the product of the Political Science Department at De Anza College. It is designed to provide the basis for a quarter-long introductory course in International Relations for an undergraduate, community college student audience.
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Statistical Thermodynamics
Gunnar Jeschke · ETH Zürich
In the contents: 4.02: The Relation of State Functions to the Partition Function · 06: Partition Functions of Gases · 6.02: Translational Partition Function
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Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Diversity
Deanna Cozart et al. · University of Georgia
The fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching children from diverse backgrounds. Examination of the nature and function of culture, development of individual and group cultural identity, definitions and implications of diversity, and the influences of culture on learning, development, and pedagogy. This course has a required field experience component.
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Infant and Toddler Education and Care
Susan Eliason · Bridgewater State University
This dynamic electronic text supports the Bridgewater State University (BSU) course, ECPK 324, which is an introduction to the field of infant and toddler childcare. Through reading the materials in the book and by participating in activities you can expect to explore research-based child learning and development; developmentally appropriate activities using a strength-based approach; quality caregiving routines; and environmental influences on growth and development.
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Foundations in Statistical Reasoning
Peter Kaslik · Pierce College Fort Steilacoom
This book starts by presenting an overview of the statistical thought process. By the end of chapter 2, students are already familiar with concepts such as hypotheses, level of significance, p-values, errors. Normally these topics are not introduced until after a discussion of probability and sampling distributions. My approach to probability and sampling distributions is also very different.
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Introductory Probability
Charles Grinstead & J. Laurie Snell · Dartmouth & Swarthmore Universities
This text is designed for an introductory probability course taken by sophomores, juniors, and seniors in mathematics, the physical and social sciences, engineering, and computer science. It presents a thorough treatment of probability ideas and techniques necessary for a firm understanding of the subject. The text can be used in a variety of course lengths, levels, and areas of emphasis.
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Cognitive Psychology
Mehgan Andrade and Neil Walker · College of the Canyons
Ultimately Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of human cognition, that is, all our mental abilities – perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, reasoning, and understanding. It is closely related to the highly interdisciplinary cognitive science and influenced by artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics, and neuroscience. Cognitive psychology studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information.
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Democracy in Brief
United States Department of State · LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.09: Political Parties Interest Groups NGOs
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Introduction to Physical Geology
Deborah Shulman · Chabot College
In the contents: 02: Introduction to Geology and Earth Systems · 2.02: Why Study Earth · 2.04: We Study Earth Using the Scientific Method
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Foundations of Addiction Studies
Jason Florin & Julie Trytek · College of DuPage via College of DuPage Digital Press
In this book, we want to bring to life the core concepts at the heart of addiction. You may have friends or family members struggling with an addiction, or you yourself may have problems with addiction. You might be interested in working to help people in recovery, or you are simply curious to know more about this issue. Whatever the case, this book will introduce key terminology and research help you define, discuss, diagnose, and deal with this problem.
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Principles of Scientific Communication
Amanda Bongers and Donal Macartney · Queen's University
Science communication is the practice of informing, educating, raising awareness of science-related topics, and increasing the sense of wonder about scientific discoveries and arguments. Science communicators and audiences are ambiguously defined and the expertise and level of science knowledge varies with each group.
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Environmental Geology
Steven Earle · Thompson Rivers University
In the contents: 01: Earth System Science and Environmental Geology · 1.01: The Earth in Space · 1.02: Earth System Science
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Introductory Physics: Building Models to Describe Our World
Ryan D. Martin, Emma Neary, Joshua Rinaldo, and Olivia Woodman · Queen's University
In the contents: 11.02: Rotational dynamics for a single particle · 22.01: The Biot-Savart Law
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Succeeding at Your Internship
Christopher J. Mruk & John C. Moor · Bowling Green State University
In the contents: 1.03: Getting Started at the Site
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Bioinorganic Chemistry
Ivano Bertini, Harry B. Gray, Stephen J. Lippard, and Joan Selverstone Valentine · LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.11: Molecular Aspects of Calcium Ion-Regulated Intracellular Processes (Part 1) · 3.12: Molecular Aspects of Calcium Ion-regulated Intracellular Processes (Part 2) · 6.06: Long-range Electron Transfer in Proteins (Part 1)
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Modern Geometry
Wayne Bishop · California State University, Los Angeles
The standard approach is to develop more results of advanced Euclidean geometry first and to eventually back up and go into hyperbolic geometry. In order to get where we need to get, we will not formally develop some of the advanced Euclidean results that are logically needed because we would never get to the "modern" part of the course’s name. We will come back and develop, or at least introduce conceptually, some of these when we need them late in the course.