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Mapping, Society, and Technology
Steven Manson · University of Minnesota
This book is about how to read, use, and create maps. Our exploration of maps will be informed by a contextual understanding of how maps reflect the relationship between society and technology, and how mapping is an essential form of scientific and artistic inquiry. We will also explore how mapping is used to address a variety of societal issues, such as land use planning and political gerrymandering to selling yogurt.
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Introducing Developmental Disability Through a Disability Studies Perspective
Emily Brooks and Mariette Bates · City University of New York
Welcome! We hope our open educational resource will help you to explore and understand developmental disability from a different lens.
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Numerical Methods
Jeffrey R. Chasnov · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
These notes, taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with two lecture hours per week, are primarily for non-mathematics majors and were required by several engineering departments.
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Music and the Child
Natalie Sarrazin · College at Brockport, SUNY
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.
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An Introduction to Group Communication
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This text offers a practical introduction to the theory and practice of group communication. Through a clear and concise approach to group decision-making and dynamics in teams and leadership, students are presented with the tools needed to create plans, find solutions to problems, produce goods or deliver services, and evaluate their performance through self and peer assessments.
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Culinary Foundations
Randy Cheramie and William R. Thibodeaux · Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University
Culinary arts, in which ‘culinary’ means "related to cooking", are the ‘arts’ of preparation, cooking, and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. People working in this field – especially in establishments such as restaurants – are called "chefs" or "cooks". Expert chefs are required to have knowledge of food science, nutrition and diet and are responsible for preparing meals that are as pleasing to the eye as they are to the palate.
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Human Reproduction: A Clinical Approach
Hala Bastawros · Iowa State University
This book is designed to provide a deep understanding of the biological and biomedical aspects of human reproduction, covering a both basic reproductive biology and clinical applications.
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Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives
Peter J. S. Duncan and Elisabeth Schimpfössl · UCL Press
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of capitalism. This triumphal dominance was barely challenged until the 2008 financial crisis threw the Western world into a state of turmoil.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Harold Abelson, Gerald Sussman & Julie Sussman · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The material in this book has been the basis of MIT's entry-level computer science subject and emphasizes several new themes. The most important of these is the central role played by different approaches to dealing with time in computational models: objects with state, concurrent programming, functional programming, lazy evaluation, and nondeterministic programming. We have included new sections on concurrency and nondeterminism, and we have tried to integrate this theme throughout the book.
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Mastering Public Relations
Anonymous · LibreTexts
Our purpose in this text is to introduce you to the concepts of strategic public relations. Our basic assumption is that you have some general knowledge of management and business terminology; we will help you to apply that to the discipline of public relations. Our text is based in current research and scholarly knowledge of the public relations discipline as well as years of experience in professional public relations practice.
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The Meaning of Love
Richard Garlikov · Troy University
This book explores the philosophical views on the meaning of love. The text explores a variety of topics used to define love, including attraction, relationship satisfaction, emotional, and ethical considerations. The author takes a rational, logical, analytic, and scrutinizing look at experiences and other forms of literature on the subject of love.
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Anthro 130: Physical Anthropology
Sarah Etheredge · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 1.2: The Process of Science · 1.4: Types of Science
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Data Structures
Wikipedia · LibreTexts
This book is about the creation and analysis of efficient data structures. To understand the material in this book you should be comfortable enough in a programming language to be capable of working with and writing your own variables, arithmetic expressions, if-else conditions, loops, subroutines (also known as functions), pointers (also known as references or object handles), structures (also known as records or classes), simple input and output, and simple recursion.
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Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew, Editors · WAC Clearinghouse
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses.
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Teaching AI Ethics
Leon Furze · LibreTexts
And yet, as much as I enjoy working with the technology, it has many flaws. I think it’s our responsibility to discuss the ethical considerations of AI with our students. AI ethics goes beyond the well-documented “algorithmic bias” that results in language models like ChatGPT producing racist and sexist output. In this article, I will explore nine ethical considerations ranging from “beginner” to “intermediate” and “advanced” levels.
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British Columbia in a Global Context
Geography Open Textbook Collective · LibreTexts
This first-year geography textbook takes a holistic approach to geography by incorporating elements of physical, human, and regional geography, as well as bringing in methods and perspectives from spatial information science. This textbook applies a fundamental geographical approach to understanding our globally changing world by looking at local processes, which are linked to larger global processes and events.
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Investigations in Weather and Climate
Neel Desai and Alicia Mullens · De Anza College
This lab manual offers a hands-on introduction to core concepts in weather and climate, built around meteorological diagrams, datasets, and weather maps. Designed to work entirely independently, it lets students explore both provided and self-sourced weather data, gaining practical experience with the tools used to investigate weather.
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Psychological Adjustment
Tori Kearns & Debra Lee · East Georgia State College
LibreTexts
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Foundations of Academic Success - Words of Wisdom
Thomas C. Priester · SUNY Genesee Community College
This text introduces you to the various aspects of student and academic life on campus and prepares you to thrive as a successful college student (since there is a difference between a college student and a successful college student). Each section of is framed by self-authored, true-to-life short stories from actual State University of New York (SUNY) students, employees, and alumni. The advice they share includes a variety of techniques to help you cope with the demands of college.
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Contemporary Families in the US: An Equity Lens 2e
Elizabeth B. Pearce · Linn-Benton Community College
This text provides students with a foundational understanding of the changing experiences and needs of contemporary families in the United States. It emphasizes the multi-directional influence of social structure as well as the impacts of difference, power, and oppression. Using an intersectional lens and placing the diversity of families at its core, the text prepares students with a range of majors and career paths.