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The Psychology of Gender
Alexis Bridley, Kristy McRaney, and Lee Daffin · Washington State University
The Psychology of Gender textbook studies issues related to the psychology of gender across 13 modules. Our discussion begins by explaining what gender is in relation to sex, moves to how the construct is studied, and then applies the lenses of social, developmental, cognitive, physiological, health, clinical, and industrial/organizational psychology as well as education and human sexuality.
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Ultrafast Optics
Franz X. Kaertner · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text covered issues regarding ultrafast optics including: Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses (nano-, pico-, femto-, attosecond pulses); Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes: Optical solitons, Pulse compression; Laser principles: Single- and multi-mode laser dynamics, Q-switching, Active and passive mode-locking; Pulse characterization: Autocorrelation, FROG, SPIDER; Noise in mode-locked lasers and its limitations in measurements; Laser amplifiers and other
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Smart Arguments: Critical Thinking and Writing for College
Angelina Misaghi · Santa Monica College
This book is designed for English C1001, the critical thinking and writing course at Santa Monica College. It is built from Anna Mill's How Arguments Work, with additional materials added to new chapters such as essay prompts, sample essays, peer review forms, and other handouts.
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PHI-104: Critical Thinking
Rising Scholar Program · Lake Tahoe Community College
This course examines the methods and principles used for distinguishing cogent reasoning from faulty reasoning. Topics include deductive and inductive reasoning, common fallacies, language, and impediments to cogent reasoning. Emphasis will be on developing abilities to analyze, construct, and evaluate arguments that are relevant to everyday life experiences. Please return to the Lake Tahoe Community College Rising Scholar Program if found.
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Law of Commercial Transactions
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers.
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Geophysical Flows
Anne Willem Omta · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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ACCT 311: Managerial Accounting
Jennifer Black · Folsom Laek College
This is the study of how managers use accounting information in decision-making, planning, directing operations, and controlling. The text focuses on cost terms and concepts, cost behavior, cost structure, and cost-volume-profit analysis. It includes issues relating to cost systems, cost control, profit planning, ethics, segment reporting, and performance analysis in manufacturing and service environments.
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Western Art from 18th to Mid-20th Century
Katherine Taylor · Whatcom Community College
Historical developments in Western art from 18th century to the mid-20th century. Focus on European and American art.
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ESL Academic Writing
Pince George's Community College
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Hawaii Community College MA82X textbook
Jesna Nissam · Hawaii Community College
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Intercultural Communication
Shannon Ahrndt · University of Missouri-St. Louis
Intercultural Communication examines culture as a variable in interpersonal and collective communication. It explores the opportunities and problems arising from similarities and differences in communication patterns, processes, and codes among various cultural groups. It explores cultural universals, social categorization, stereotyping and discrimination, with a focus on topics including race, ethnicity, social class, religion, gender and sexuality as they relate to communication.
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LIBR 318: Library Research and Information Literacy
Shelly Buchanan-Cello · Sacramento City College
This text provides students with the information literacy skills necessary to conduct research. Students will learn about the research process, including developing search strategies, finding relevant sources, and critically evaluating information. The skills acquired in this course are applicable to academic research, on-the-job research, and lifelong learning.
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CHEM1111-General Inorganic Chemistry I Lab Manual-Online Section
Manjusha Saraswathiamma · Minnesota State Community and Technical College
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Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology 2e
Nina Brown, Thomas McIlwraith, and Laura Tubelle de González · Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
This novel textbook on the essential topics in cultural anthropology is an edited volume with each chapter written by a different author that has written from their experiences working as an anthropologist and that personal touch makes for an accessible introduction to cultural anthropology. Our approach to cultural anthropology is holistic. We see the interconnectedness of cultural practices and we emphasize the comparison of cultures and the ways of life of different peoples.
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Chemistry for Changing Times (Hill and McCreary)
LibreTexts
This textbook meets the requirements of CID - CHEM 106B presenting the fundamentals of chemistry as applied to contemporary environmental topics concerning the atmosphere, water, solids, and green chemistry as well as nutrition and health.
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MTH 36: Trigonometry
Antonio Gonzalez · Chabot College
This text covers plane trigonometry. Includes circular and right triangle trigonometric functions; trigonometric equations, graphs and identities; triangle solutions. Polar coordinates.
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Introductory Quantum Mechanics
Richard Fitzpatrick · University of Texas at Austin
This book is intendedas an introductory course on non-relativistic quantum mechanics. Readers need to be reasonably familiar with Newtonian dynamics, elementary classical electromagnetism and special relativity, the physics and mathematics of waves (including the representation of waves via complex functions), basic probability theory, ordinary and partial differential equations, linear algebra, vector algebra, and Fourier series and transforms.
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Ajna Rivera · University of the Pacific
The fields of Development and Evolution cannot be truly separated. When we study Developmental Biology we are mostly looking at a fine-tuned mechanical and genetic process that has been selected on for eons. Not only can evolution select on the final product - a working, fertile adult - but also can act at each developmental stage. It is easy to see how evolution acts through natural selection on adults, but how can it act on development itself?
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Introductory Differential Equations
Vinh Kha Nguyen, Neelam R. Shukla & Fatemeh Yarahmadi · De Anza College
Topics in the course include methods of solving ordinary differential equations and selected applications.
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Fundamentals of American Criminal Justice
Lisa C. Bowman-Bowen & Jamie O'Reilly · Coastal Bend College
Fundamentals of American Criminal Justice (LibreTexts OER) introduces crime, deviance, and lawmaking (interactionist, consensus, conflict). It overviews policing, courts, and corrections, plus due process vs. crime control, case flow, media influence, victims, and crime types. It explains measuring crime (dark figure, UCR/NIBRS, NCVS, self-reports), criminal law and punishment, policy and evidence-based practice, criminological theory, community corrections, and juvenile justice.