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Human Physiology for Allied Health Professionals
Simantini Karve · Skyline College
Physiology is the scientific study of the normal function in living systems with a focus on how organisms, organ systems, organs, cells, and biomolecules carry out the chemical or physical functions in a living system.
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Mind, Body, World - Foundations of Cognitive Science
Michael R. W. Dawson · University of Alberta
Perhaps owing to the field's origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, and embodied cognitive science.
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Introduction to Health 1e
Kelly Falcone · Palomar College
The Introduction to Health OER Textbook provides a broad overview of information pertaining to human health and opportunities for improving health and wellness throughout life. The intended goal of the book is to equip the learners with important information needed to better understand their own health and how their daily choices may impact both their quantity and quality of life. Although this is a "health" textbook, it could actually be called a "life" textbook.
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Color Theory and Composition
Lauren Champlin · Rio Hondo College
Color is a language with the unique ability to communicate both meanings and direct sensations. Picture a row of flags: color information of striped bands is used to distinguish country affiliation. Now, on the other hand, imagine standing in front of a Rothko painting: entering fields of red and orange raises your heart rate slightly, makes you feel warm, excited, complex emotions. We are immersed in the language of color. From rainbows to stop signs to paint, color can function as code, sensa
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A Guide to the Gothic
Jeanette A Laredo · Tarrant County College (Trinity River)
A Guide to the Gothic is an openly licensed, online textbook that presents a comprehensive examination of the genre. In addition to critical essays exploring major periods, tropes and trends of the Gothic tradition, A Guide to the Gothic includes selections from more than 200 years of Gothic works that are in the public domain. Intended for instructors of Gothic literature seeking a collaborative resource to educate and inspire the next generation of Gothic scholars.
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Measurement
CK-12 Foundation · LibreTexts
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Do You Want to Major in Music?
Jill Wilson and Natalie Steele Royston · Iowa State University
This volume is written by two collegiate music teacher educators who have met with numerous prospective music students and answered thousands of questions. They have seen students enter institutions as excited music majors only to be blindsided by the demands of the program of study. Throughout the book, the authors share advice collected from music majors, music education majors, current music teachers, and music teacher educators.
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CHEM 361: Inorganic Chemistry
Lori Ann Watson · Earlham College
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
The second in a two-volume set, A Theory of Literate Action draws on work from the social sciences—and in particular sociocultural psychology, phenomenological sociology, and the pragmatic tradition of social science—to "reconceive rhetoric fundamentally around the problems of written communication rather than around rhetoric's founding concerns of high stakes, agonistic, oral public persuasion".
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Biological Psychology
Michael Hove and Steven A. Martinez · Fitchburg State University and Temple University
Biological psychology is the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. It explores how biological factors like genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures influence psychological components like thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions. This free and open textbook provides a wide ranging and up-to-date introduction to the main topics and methods of biological psychology.
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Lifetime Fitness and Wellness
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
This book is an introductory text designed to help individuals understand and achieve physical fitness and wellness. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle for long-term well-being, focusing on physical activity, nutrition, and mental health.
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Physiology Labs at Home
Mark Kelly · Irvine Valley College
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Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy
Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School · Ryerson University
Digital accessibility skills are in high demand, as the world becomes more aware of barriers in digital content that prevent some people from participating in a digital society. These are essential skills for web developers, and essential knowledge for organizations that want to ensure their web content is reaching the broadest audience possible.
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael Nielson · Y Combinator Research
Neural networks are one of the most beautiful programming paradigms ever invented. In the conventional approach to programming, we tell the computer what to do, breaking big problems up into many small, precisely defined tasks that the computer can easily perform. By contrast, in a neural network we don't tell the computer how to solve our problem. Instead, it learns from observational data, figuring out its own solution to the problem at hand.
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HES 170: Introduction to Nutrition
Shauna Schultz · Feather River College
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Pay for Play: How the Music Industry Works, Where the Money Goes, and Why
Larry Wayte · University of Oregon
The history of music is closely linked to the history of copyright law. This book explores how the law shaped music and the music industry. From church and court patronage in pre-19th Century Europe, to the effects of social media on music, this book explores the abiding influence of the law on music.
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Chem 121 OER Textbook
Morgan Stock, Sidnee-Marie Dunn, Travis Knowles, Alaka Pradhan, Priyanka Thakral · South Puget Sound Community College
Introductory Chemistry for Allied Health: This OER text was created by the faculty of South Puget Sound Community College, Exceptional Faculty Grant 2022.
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A Spiral Workbook for Discrete Mathematics
Harris Kwong · State University of New York at Fredonia
In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying "smoothly", the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers, graphs, and statements in logic – do not vary smoothly in this way, but have distinct, separated values.
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Beginning Korean Activity Book I
Sang-Seok Yoon, Joung-A Park & Jeehae Yoo · University of Iowa
The Korean Activity Book 1 is designed to provide various useful materials for practicing Korean. This book is ideal for learners at the Novice Low to Novice High levels who want to practice writing and pronouncing hangeul, communicate in Korean by creating sentences using basic grammar and vocabulary, and understand and create simple conversations that are useful in everyday conversations.
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Atlas of Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
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The Atlas of Comparative Anatomy began as a class project at SUNY Oneonta in 2017 because of the lack of a comprehensive freely-accessible photographic atlas. The majority of entries in this atlas were produced by students including dissection, photography, and identification. It is a work in progress, but we hope that students of anatomy find this a useful tool for studying anatomy outside of the lab.