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Career and Life Planning
Graciela Martinez and Elizabeth Shaker · College of the Canyons
We are excited you have decided to take time to invest in your future. Career and life planning is a lifetime process and this text is designed to equip you with the tools necessary to navigate each step of the way. This text is divided into six units to guide you through the career exploration and planning process. The purpose of this text is to help you gain a better understanding of yourself, the world of work, and where you fit best. We hope you enjoy the process. Let’s get started!
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Human Biology
Gabor Gyurkovics · Community College of Vermont
Human biology is an interdisciplinary area of study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields such as genetics, evolution, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, nutrition, population genetics and sociocultural influences; it is closely related to physical anthropology.
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English 102: Arguments and Research Skills
Professor Ukaisha Al-Amin · City Colleges of Chicago
English 102: Arguments and Research Skills at the City Colleges of Chicago is a transfer-level composition course that focuses on advanced academic writing, critical thinking, and research methodologies. Students learn to identify controversial topics, evaluate source credibility, synthesize evidence, and formulate compelling argumentative essays.
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Thinking Rhetorically: Writing for Professional and Public Audiences
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Classical Greek: Philosophy Reader
Edward Haven · Los Medanos College
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Employee Recruitment and Retention
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This text applies the skills and tools necessary to hire and retain qualified employees. Legal issues, testing, screening, interviewing, selecting and negotiating techniques will be demonstrated and assessed for each learner.
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Career Development
author · Monica D Galvan
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Open Technical Communication
Tiffani Reardon, Tammy Powell, Jonathan Arnett, Monique Logan, & Cassie Race · Kennesaw State University
Open Technical Communication is a freely accessible online textbook for technical communication, technical writing, workplace writing, and other related courses.
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Math 113 - Finite Math for Society
Doug Baldwin · SUNY Geneseo
An introduction to two mathematical tools — linear equations (and inequalities) and probability — with significant uses outside mathematics and the physical sciences.
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American YAWP 2nd Edition
Evn Ash · Indian Creek School
The content of the new second edition of the open-access history of the United States, The American Yawp. Edited by Joseph Locke and Ben Wright.
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Yo puedo: para empezar
Elizabeth Silvaggio-Adams and Ma. Del Rocío Vallejo-Alegre · SUNY Geneseo
We sought to create materials that take a new approach to learning a second language based upon the skills that we deem most useful and that will enable our students to confidently express themselves in Spanish. The text is designed for beginning Spanish language students. The pedagogical approach incorporates the flipped classroom methodology.
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BIO 403: Microbiology (Neely)
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An Introduction to Geology (Johnson, Affolter, Inkenbrandt, and Mosher)
Yoshie Hagiwara · California State University Los Angeles
This text is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to Geology at no or very nominal cost. It contains both written and graphic text material, intra-text links to other internal material which may aid in understanding topics and concepts, intra-text links to the appendices and glossary for tables and definitions of words, and extra-text links to videos and web material that clarifies and augments topics and concepts.
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BIO 50: Anatomy and Physiology (Zingg)
Barbara Zingg · Las Positas College
This textbook is designed for an introductory, college-level Human Anatomy and Physiology course. It serves students pursuing allied health programs and those completing a general education science requirement. Written for students with little prior biology background, it also provides foundational preparation for more advanced coursework, including the pre-nursing anatomy and physiology sequence.
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Intro to Biotechnology
Andre Walther · Cedar Crest College
This curated book pulls together open source materials to support an introductory course in Biotechnology. The book will begin with an introduction to the nature of science with foundational instruction in chemistry and biology to support the later chapters that cover different applications in biotechnology.
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Fundamentals of Transportation
David Levinson et al. · Wikibook
This text is aimed at undergraduate civil engineering students, though the material may provide a useful review for practitioners and graduate students in transportation. Often this is the first engineering course students take, which requires a switch in thinking from simply solving given problems to formulating the problem mathematically before solving it, i.e. from straight-forward calculation often found in undergraduate Calculus to vaguer word problems more reflective of the real world.
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Math 1: College Algebra
Mindy Carr · Mission College
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Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society (Reddy-Best, Elder and Hassall)
Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Abbey K Elder, and Lesya Hassall · Iowa State University
This book introduces topics about identity, dress, and the body. Through the content, readers explore how individuals and communities use dress as a way to communicate (i.e. “negotiate” in fashion studies) their various identities. There is heightened attention to social justice, power, privilege, and oppression. That is, the content focuses on the experiences of historically marginalized communities and the ways they navigate dress and dressing their bodies in different contexts.
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Introduction to Professional Communications
Melissa Ashman · Kwantlen Polytechnic University
No matter your field, having professional communication skills is essential to success in today's workplace. This book covers key business communications topics that will help you in your career, including intercultural communication, team work, professional writing, audience analysis and adapting messages, document formatting, oral communication, and more.
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Ancient Philosophy Reader
Noah Levin · Golden West College
The term “history” is used in the context of Philosophy courses primarily means that a historical approach will be used to structure the course and guide examination, as opposed to, for example, a course structured around topical examinations. This book is primarily ordered in chronological or “historical” order first and is then topically organized within that historical context.