Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Successful College Composition (Crowther, et al.)
Gina Hogan · Citrus College
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Elementary Number Theory
Mike Barrus & W. Edwin Clark · University of Rhode Island
The great Carl Friedrich Gauss once wrote, "Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic the queen of mathematics." What Gauss called arithmetic, we now call number theory. This text is an extensive update of an original manuscript by Professor W. Edwin Clark (now Emeritus) of the University of South Florida, written in 2002 and made freely available on his website. It is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course and for self study.
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Music - Its Language, History, and Culture
Douglas Cohen · CUNY Brooklyn College
This text is designed to introduce students to works representative of a variety of music traditions including the repertoires of Western Europe from the Middle Ages through the present; of the United States, including art music, jazz, folk, rock, musical theater; and from at least two non-Western world areas (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Indian subcontinent).
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Engineering Success: A Seminar for First-Year Student
JuEun Lee · California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Welcome to Prof. Lee's Engineering Success: A Seminar for First-Year Students, an Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook tailored to support engineering students as they embark on their academic journey. This book is designed to equip first-year engineering students with essential skills, strategies, and insights that will set the foundation for a successful undergraduate experience and a rewarding career. Video lectures are available at youtube.com/@MECHProfLee.
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Anatomical Illustrations (Most, Tran, Seweryn, and Graham)
Corrina Most, Katherine Tran, Olivia Seweryn, and Graham Hagan · Iowa State University
These anatomical illustrations were created by Biological and Pre-Medical Illustration (BPMI) students that had previously attended the course, BIOL351: Comparative Chordate Anatomy. The students worked closely with the lab instructor to develop detailed anatomical illustrations of the specimens studied in the lab, which allowed the students to showcase their work. The images were then incorporated in the lab handbook for the course and made more widely available as open educational resources.
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Deleting Dystopia: Re-Asserting Human Priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Richard A. Slaughter · Australian Foresight Institute
Deleting Dystopia confirms that the existential threats posed by the misuse of advanced digital technologies are real. But, in place of apathy and fatalism, Slaughter explores ways of understanding the threat, conceptualising solutions and identifying strategies that lead away from digital authoritarian futures towards those funded on humanly viable values and practices.
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Music Appreciation
Elliot Jones · Santa Ana College
Welcome to Music Appreciation. I think you’ve made a smart choice to spend some weeks studying some of the greatest music ever written. Consider for a moment how quickly a hit pop song passes from fashionable to forgotten. Those of us that have been out of high school or college more years than we care to remember have certainly had the experience of hearing a favorite anthem of our youth and thinking, “Oh yeah, that song! I’d forgotten that one.”
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Investment Fundamentals for College Students
Sarah Maokosy · Reedley College
Investment Fundamentals for College Students is an introductory Open Educational Resource designed to provide students with a clear and practical understanding of investing principles. This text introduces the foundational concepts of risk and return, asset allocation, diversification, financial markets, securities, and long term wealth building strategies. The book emphasizes analytical thinking and informed decision making, helping students evaluate investment opportunities.
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Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry
Andy Wells · Chabot College
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Mental Health is a Verb
Jake Bush and Jill Van Der Like · University of West Florida
MENTAL HEALTH IS A VERB is an Open Education Resource that addresses mental health nursing care. A principal focus of a mental health nursing is to provide care to patients with a psychiatric disorder, mental health issue, or behavioral problems. The text reviews the foundations of mental health, psychopharmacology, and the most common mental health diagnoses.
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Biological Anthropology Lab
Anthropology Department · Gavilan College
This lab manual is designed to provide exercises and resources for students taking a biological anthropology laboratory course online.
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Steps to Success Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice
Kristen A. Munger · SUNY Oswego
This text introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children's literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis.
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Individual Finance
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In addition to providing sources of practical information, this should introduce you to a way of thinking about your personal financial decisions. This should lead you to thinking harder and farther about the larger and longer consequences of your decisions. Many of the more practical aspects of personal finance will change over time, as practices, technologies, intermediaries, customs, and laws change, but a fundamental awareness of ways to think well about solving financial questions.
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Managerial Accounting
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This text work within the confines of today's students' lives while delivering a modern look at managerial accounting and was written around three major themes: Ready, Reinforcement and Relevance. This book is aimed squarely at the new learning styles evident with today's students and addresses accounting industry changes as well.
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American Government
OpenStax · LibreTexts
American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject.
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Calculus-Based Physics
Jeffrey W. Schnick · Saint Anselm College
Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.
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AUCHE 250: Organic Chemistry I
Brian Rempel · Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta
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Personal Psychology (C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal and Social Adjustment)
Personal Psychology (C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal & Social Adjustment)@Michael Miguel@Coalinga College@Personal Psychology · C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal & Social Adjustment
This book explores the psychology of personalities- the theoretical models that have defined the self, aspects that are considered parts of a self, and how you can use these concepts in your life.
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CISC 302: Computer Familiarization
Marjorie Duffy · Cosumnes River College
This test provides general knowledge on how computers work, computer terminology and the impact of computers on society and the work environment. Beginning level hands-on instruction using an operating system, word processing software, spreadsheet software, database software, email and the Internet are emphasized.
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CHEM 2000: General Chemistry for Engineers - F21
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