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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Reading, Writing, Research, and Reasoning: An Advanced ESL Text
Gabriel Winer & Elizabeth Wadell · Berkeley City College & Laney College
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Intro to Programming with Programming Fundamentals and Python for Everyone
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Jason Foster and Bob Barnetson · Athabasca University
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities they live in. This textbook provides workers with an introduction to effective injury prevention. The book pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS).
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Combinatorics
Joy Morris · University of Lethbridge
Combinatorics is an upper-level introductory course in enumeration, graph theory, and design theory. The text focuses on combinations and arrangements of discrete structures. There are five major branches of combinatorics that we will touch on in this course: enumeration, graph theory, Ramsey Theory, design theory, and coding theory. We will focus on enumeration, graph theory, and design theory, but will briefly introduce the other two topics.
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Six Steps To Job Search Success
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This book is a practical discussion of six actionable steps that students can take to land a job regardless of the market. Whether the estimate is 25% unemployment or single-digit unemployment, that number doesn't apply to any one student. For any individual, the unemployment rate is 0% or 100%. One either has a job or doesn't. When any one person is looking for a job and there is 10% unemployment, that person just wants to be one of the nine people that has a job.
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Making Games with Python and Pygame
Al Sweigart · LibreTexts
This book will teach you how to make graphical computer games in the Python programming language using the Pygame library.This book assumes you know a little bit about Python or programming in general. If you don’t know how to program, you can learn by downloading the free book "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" from http://inventwithpython.com. Or you can jump right into this book and mostly pick it up along the way. This book is for the intermediate programmer who has learned what va
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COMM10: Survey of Human Communication
De Anza College
A textbook that merges chapters from Communication in the Real World and Public Speaking Project to create a Fundamentals of Oral Communication book [CID:COMM115 and CID:COMM180] for use by De Anza College. This course meets the Oral Communication GE requirement.
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General Chemistry Lab Manual Chem 1A Experiments
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This lab manual is designed to support the first semester of general chemistry. The experiments include Fun with Dimensional Analysis, Density of a Sucrose Solution, Percent Composition, Stoichiometry, Limiting Reactants, Reactions and Solubility, Titration of a Carbonated Beverage, Molar Mass of a Volatile Liquid, Calorimetry, Hess’s Law, Molecular Geometry, and a Lab Final.
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OCLUE: Organic Chemistry, Life, the Universe, and Everything
Melanie M. Cooper & Michael W. Klymkowsky · LibreTexts
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon and carbon-containing compounds. Since the core structural, catalytic, information storage, and retrieval systems of organisms are carbon-based macromolecules, organic chemistry is of direct relevance to the life sciences. Just as importantly, the properties of carbon make possible an amazing range of molecules with unique properties, from small molecules to complex plastics and even more complex biomolecules.
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OpenStax Biology 2e for Norco College
teresa friedrich finnern · Norco College
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SmartHistory of Art XIc - Latin America 1500 to 1900
Smarthistory · Smarthistory
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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers
Jennifer Moorhouse · Hartnell College
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Introduction to Engineering Drawing and Design
Edoarda Corradi Dell’Acqua and Jamshid Mohammadi · Illinois Institute of Technology
Introduction to Engineering Drawing & Design is organized into four modules: Module A introduces the foundations of technical drawing, including line types, units and scale, drawing tools, and geometric constructions; Modules B and C cover parallel projections; Module D focuses on fabrication/3D printing, with an appendix for instructors. This resource includes lecture notes, images, videos, exercises, interactive elements, and AR visualizations.
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U.S. History
American YAWP · LibreTexts
The American Yawp is a collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for general readers and college-level history courses. Over three hundred academic historians—scholars and experienced college-level instructors—have come together and freely volunteered their expertise to help democratize the American past for twenty-first century readers.
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Open Educational Resources for Teaching and Learning
AJ Barse and Justina Brown · Western Washington University
The goal of this OER is to help participants get started creating OERs using the LibreTexts ebook platform. This OER will also act as a resource, and a primer, to the teaching and learning attributes behind OERs and Creative Commons content...
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Criminal Procedure: A Free Law School Casebook 2e
Anne M Alexander and Ben Trachtenberg · University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law
This Casebook is designed for the “investigations” criminal procedure class commonly taught at American law schools. It focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Fourth Amendment topics include definitions of “search” and “seizure,” probable cause, warrants, exceptions to the warrant requirement (e.g., plain view, consent, automobiles), stop & frisk, and arrests.
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Introduction to Communication and Media Studies
J.J. Sylvia IV · Fitchburg State University
This textbook examines communication and media studies, covering key communication theories and illustrating how to develop information and media literacy through critical thinking and rhetorical analysis. It also discusses the historical evolution and impact of mass media until the present day.
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Mindfulness for Lawyers
Justine Dunlap · University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lawyer and law student distress have been a not-so-well-kept secret for decades. Fortunately, law schools have begun to address this problem, rather than viewing it as a necessary or even honorable rite of passage. For instance, law schools have incorporated wellness opportunities. They have also de-emphasized the use and misuse of alcohol as a lubricant to help students ignore the stress and distress.
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ENG 231: World Literature I
Brendan Shapiro · College of Southern Nevada
This textbook of world literature covers the time period from earliest texts to c1651. In the “Professor’s Introductions” that precede each reading, you will find information to guide and enhance your understanding of the reading selections themselves. The introductions are based on close analysis of each of the readings presented here, and intensive scrutiny of their social and historical contexts. Readings themselves are all from openly licensed and/or Public Domain sources.
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Modern Philosophy
Walter Ott and Alex Dunn · University of Virginia
This is a textbook (or better, a workbook) in modern philosophy. It combines readings from primary sources with two pedagogical tools. Paragraphs in italics introduce figures and texts. Numbered study questions (also in italics) ask students to reconstruct an argument or position from the text, or draw connections among the readings.