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UnRoman Romans
Siobhán McElduff · University of British Columbia
UnRoman Romans is a reader on socially stigmatized groups in ancient Rome: actors athletes, dancers, sex workers, and sexual non-conformists. This reader was created as part of a class and uses student-scholars who contributed parts of the reader as a course assignment. This book is intended for use in upper-level academic studies and contains a number of very disturbing passages.
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Overweight Bodies, Real and Imagined
Sarah Gilleman · Holyoke Community College
This compilation gathers OER sources on body weight, nutrition, and movement, and it also problematizes the cultural meaning of these readings. Roughly, this anthology is divided into two parts--informational and theoretical--in depicting how medical research and journalism influence and are influenced by social stereotypes, constructed ideas about bodies, food, and individual choices within social systems.
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Introduction to Food Production and Service
Beth Egan · Pennsylvania State University
This book has been prepared for students studying hospitality management in the School of Hospitality Management at The Pennsylvania State University. Thanks to content contributions from Kimberly Cooper, Beth Mincemoyer Egan, Mitchell Lawson, Jean Pierre Ranjeva, George Ruth, and the TLT – Open Educational Resources staff.
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Elementary Algebra
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
Traditionally, the study of algebra is separated into a two parts, elementary algebra and intermediate algebra. This textbook, Elementary Algebra, is the first part, written in a clear and concise manner, making no assumption of prior algebra experience. It carefully guides students from the basics to the more advanced techniques required to be successful in the next course.
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Introduction to Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Jayme Renfro · University of Northern Iowa
This book is meant to be a practical guide to he major parts of strategic planning in a way that is intended to be clear, useful, and grounded in how organizations actually work. It does not assume that there is a perfect formula for planning or that any plan can remove uncertainty. No organization can predict the future cleanly. The point is not to produce certainty. The point is to help organizations think more clearly, act more intentionally, and adapt with more purpose.
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A Guide to Good Reasoning: Cultivating Intellectual Virtues
David Carl Wilson · Webster University
A Guide to Good Reasoning shows with both wit and philosophical care how students can become good at everyday reasoning. It starts with attitude—with alertness to judgmental heuristics and with the cultivation of intellectual virtues and develops a system for skillfully clarifying and evaluating arguments, according to four standards—whether the premises fit the world, whether the conclusion fits the premises, whether the argument fits the conversation, and whether it is possible to tell.
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Fruits, Vegetables, and Farinaceous Products
William R. Thibodeaux & Marcelle Bienvenu · Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University
In the contents: 10.03: Measurement and conversion charts
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Music Appreciation
Mueller et al. · Georgia Gwinnett College
The author of this text has intentionally kept it general in nature in order to create a platform for those who want to expand content into more in depth studies of the mentioned concepts and traditions. I believe that appreciation of any subject comes from open-minded exposure to that topic. With the arts this generally must happen at a moment when the message and meaning of the work resonates naturally with the appreciator.
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Art 104: Introduction To Art
Staff · Southwestern College
This text provides a general introduction to visual arts that includes the study of theory, terminology, themes, design principles, media, techniques, interpretation, and evaluation of works of art across time and diverse cultures. Introduces skills needed for analysis of historical art context including defining and differentiating functions and methodologies of art history and art criticism.
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Workplace Safety for US Workers
Kimberly Mosley · Long Beach City College
In the contents: 1.03: OSHA Subparts
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Actors and the Art of Performance
Susanne Valerie Granzer · University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Translated from the German by Laura Radosh with Alice Lagaay.
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Introduction to Humanities 2e
Lori-Beth Larsen · Central Lakes College
In the contents: 1.09: The Arts · 1.12: Visual Arts · 1.13: Culinary Arts
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Business Math
Jean-Paul Olivier · Red River College of Applied Arts, Science, & Technology
Business math is the study of mathematics required by the field of business. Business professionals will work with taxes, gross earnings, product prices, and currency exchange; they will be offered loans, lines of credit, mortgages, leases, savings bonds, and other financial tools. This textbook covers all of these topics and how these financial tools can maximize their earnings and minimize their costs. It discusses how to execute smart monetary decisions both personally and for their business.
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Electric Circuits I Direct Current
Tony R. Kuphaldt · Bellingham Technical College
Modern life could not exist if it were not for electricity and electronics. The history of electricity starts more than two thousand years ago, with the Greek philosopher Thales being the earliest known researcher into electricity. But it was Alessandro Volta who created the most common DC power source, the battery (for this invention the unit Volt was named after him). Direct current (also known as DC) is the flow of charged particles in one unchanging direction (most commonly found as electron
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Introduction to Humanities
Lori-Beth Larsen · Central Lakes College
In the contents: 1.07: The Arts · 1.09: Performing Arts · 1.10: Visual Arts
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Building a Medical Terminology Foundation (Carter and Rutherford)
LibreTexts
In the contents: 1.01: Identifying Word Parts in Medical Terms
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Principles of Computer System Design
Jerome H. Saltzer & M. Frans Kaashoek · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction is published in two parts. Part I, containing chapters 1-6, is a traditional printed textbook published by Morgan Kaufman, an imprint of Elsevier. Part II, containing chapters 7-11, is available here as an open educational resource.
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Understanding Ingredients for the Canadian Baker
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
This book is intended to give students a basic understanding of the various types and uses of ingredients used in the baking industry, and how certain ingredients, in particular grains and flours are produced, graded and processed in Canada. Understanding Ingredients for the Canadian Baker is one of a series of Culinary Arts books developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s food service and hospitality industry.
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Phys1140: Introductory Physics II: Part 1
Elizabeth McCormak · Bowdoin College
Welcome students! Physics 1140 will be using a selection of open electronic resources (OER) to support your learning in this course. The Bowdoin Physics Department has collected sections of the OpenStax University Physics OER textbook and arranged them in parts 1 and 2 according to the material we will discuss. Part 1 provides information, sample problems, and online simulations for the first half of the course. Part 2 provides the same for the remainder of the course.
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Introduction to Art - Design, Context, and Meaning
Sachant et al. · University System of Georgia
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the world of Art. Authored by four USG faculty members with advance degrees in the arts, this textbooks offers up-to-date original scholarship. It includes over 400 high-quality images illustrating the history of art, its technical applications, and its many uses. Combining the best elements of both a traditional textbook and a reader, it introduces such issues in art as its meaning and purpose; its meaning and purpose; its structure, material, an