Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Career Exploration and Life Planning (COUN 151)
Jorge Huinquez · Rio Hondo College
This book is a remix of Career and Life Planning by Martinez and Shaker, 2019 with added information about Maslow's hierarchy from College Success by OpenStax (Section 12.3)
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Maternal-Newborn Nursing
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Maternal-Newborn Nursing introduces students to the concepts and skills related to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, newborn care, reproductive health, and social determinants related to those topics. Written and thoroughly reviewed by experienced nurse educators, the material focuses on patient safety, mental health, and inclusive care, and offers robust real-world scenarios and situational patient education experiences to apply concepts to practice.
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LIS 105: Information Literacy Basics
Sara Klein · City Colleges of Chicago
This text is written to help students gain the information literacy skills that enable them to find, retrieve, gather, analyze, and use information from a variety of print and electronic sources so they can prosper as students, citizens and life-long learners.
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Math 140: Calculus 1
Debbie Gaydos · Penn State University, Greater Allegheny
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Inclusion and Accessibility
Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
In so many ways, our facilities, organizations, and communities present structural and systemic obstacles to inclusion and access. The projects in this section explore these obstacles.
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Linux - The Penguin Marches On
Patrick McClanahan · San Joaquin Delta College
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Elementary Chinese II
Wenying Zhou · Michigan State University
This open textbook is designed for those who are learning Chinese as a second/foreign language in their second semester. It has six chapters, covering topics including describing school life, shopping in stores and online, transportation means, reporting weather and climates, ordering foods, and asking and giving directions.
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Principles of Managerial Accounting
Christine Jonick · University of North Georgia
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The College Success Rulebook: Practical Advice for College and Beyond
Nathan Nobis · Morehouse College
The College Success Rulebook: Practical Advice for College and Beyond offers straightforward, practical advice for becoming a more successful and independent college student. The goa is to develop habits of excellence: habits that can help you learn difficult things, think independently, do good work, and prepare for life beyond college.
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Nurturing Truth
Lisa Heise · Western Technical College
Stories, especially true stories, are meant to be shared. Margaret Atwood said that storytelling is “built into the human plan.” Nurturing Truth is an introduction to the art and science of true storytelling with guidance on rendering your writing unforgettable as you grow toward greater clarity, authenticity, and artistry. This text offers an exploration of the genre and its many forms along with solid advice and examples from renowned voices, past and present. Next comes guidance on the proces
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Precalculus
Jay Abramson · OpenStax
This precalculus textmap is intended for college-level Precalculus students and is a comprehensive book that covers more ground than an instructor could likely cover in a typical one- or two-semester course; but instructors should find, almost without fail, that the topics they wish to include in their syllabus are covered in the text.
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Math 141: Precalculus I (old edition)
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This text prepares students for the calculus sequence. Real-valued functions, including techniques for graphing polynomial, rational, piecewise, exponential, and logarithmic functions. The text also includes circles, basic function properties, nonlinear inequalities, and complex numbers.
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CEEG 445: Environmental Engineering Chemistry (Fall 2020)
Kevin Gilmore · Bucknell University
This text addresses the principles of aquatic chemistry and applications with emphasis on acid-base reactions, metal speciation and solubility, and oxidation-reduction reactions in water.
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Spiral Physics: Algebra Based
Paul D'Alessandris · Monroe Community College
Spiral Physics is a research based introductory physics curriculum developed at Monroe Community College that integrates text and workbook activities in a modular fashion, and arranges topics so that students receive repeated exposure to concepts with increased complexity. It makes use of alternative problem types, including goal-less problem statements, ranking tasks, and critical analysis tasks. It restricts the equation set available for student use.
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Spiral Modern Physics
Paul D'Alessandris · Monroe Community College
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Marine Law and Policy for Scientists and Managers
Holly V. Campbell · Oregon State University
This open educational resource is designed for use by undergraduate and graduate ocean science, natural resource, fisheries and wildlife, and environmental policy students enrolled in a ten-week academic quarter. The purpose of this project is to provide students and non-law professionals with a freely accessible, clearly written guide to support engaging and effective learning.
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Laboratory Manual - The Science of Sound
James M. Fiore · Mohawk Valley Community College
The goal of this work is to support the lab portion of a general college physics course that focuses on sound, acoustics and audio. It covers a variety of topics including speed of sound, resonance, loudness, basic electricity (in association with loudspeakers and microphones) and the human voice.
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FILM 12: Screenwriting and Visual Storytelling
Daniel Yi · Chabot College
This text on Screenwriting and visual storytelling is focused on crafting narrative films, teaching students how to develop, write, and format scripts for visual media. The text covers character development, plot structure, and visual storytelling techniques, often culminating in a completed short film script.
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Another Photography Book
Thomas Payne · LibreTexts
This course introduces black and white film photography and offers students a working knowledge of the basics of traditional darkroom photography, including history, theory and practice. The technical aspects of photography along with the historical and contemporary role of photography in visual expression, including contributions from diverse cultures and backgrounds will be explored.
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Open Data Structures - An Introduction
Pat Morin · Carleton University
Offered as an introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms, Open Data Structures covers the implementation and analysis of data structures for sequences (lists), queues, priority queues, unordered dictionaries, ordered dictionaries, and graphs. Focusing on a mathematically rigorous approach that is fast, practical, and efficient, Morin clearly and briskly presents instruction along with source code.