Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Technical Sketching
Justin Lemke · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This text provides an introduction to blueprints, technical sketches, and various type of drawings.
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Truck Driving
Christopher Chaney · Coalinga College
This book provides supplemental material to the California Commercial Driver's Handbook. It is written to support Coalinga College's Truck Driving Certificate program.
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Water 140: Water Distribution Operator I
Mike Alvord · College of the Canyons
This textbook introduces basic concepts and processes of drinking water distribution systems, including a general background of drinking water sources, regulations, water system design, and various distribution system appurtenances. Assists in the preparation of the State of California Water Resources Control Board Certification Exams for Grades I and II.
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Project Management - A Practicum
Sukhjit Singh · De Anza College
The book immerses students in the real work of leading a project, not just the theory behind it. Centered on C-Bay Inc., a fictional but realistic organization, the book follows a project through its full lifecycle, teaching students to navigate ambiguity and make defensible calls through authentic documents and decisions. Built on Problem-Based Learning, it gives students a practical, working understanding of what project leadership actually demands.
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CJT 2900-Capstone Seminar in Criminal Justice
Henry White · Prince George's Community College
This course is the culmination of the criminal justice student’s academic experience. It serves to synthesize the knowledge gained from courses taken within the criminal justice curriculum and better prepare the graduate to continue on to upper-level studies in the discipline, or for entry-level career positions in the criminal justice field.
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Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement (Szanto, Battista and Knezevic)
David Szanto, Amanda Di Battista, and Irena Knezevic · LibreTexts
Food Studies aims to help readers understand and address numerous issues within food, food culture, and food systems. These subjects transcend disciplinary boundaries and call attention to how matter, meaning, and movement produce complex and dynamic food-human realities. Chapters range from sovereignty to breastfeeding, financialization to food porn, pollination to fair trade.
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Water 161: Wastewater Treatment and Disposal II
Nick Steffen · College of the Canyons
This text examines advanced topics in conventional wastewater treatment processes including alternative secondary treatment methods, tertiary treatment, disinfection and dechlorination, solids handling, water recycling, and industrial waste management. Assists in preparation for Grade 2 Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Certificate examination given by the State of California Water Resources Control Board.
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Building Information - Representation and Management Principles and Foundations for the Digital Era
Alexander Koutamanis · Delft University of Technology
The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analogue building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM. It also considers the matching representation of AECO processes in terms of tasks.
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Efficacious Technology Management: A Guide for School Leaders
Gary Ackerman · Greenfield Community College
This text supports, enables, and facilitates students as they are become full participants in the computer and network-rich communication landscape of society. Differences between how IT is provided and managed in other organizations compared to educational organizations can pose challenges for school leaders and the IT professional they hire from other industries.
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Tractor Operations
Peter Maokosy · Coalinga College
Coalinga College’s Tractor Operations (AG14) is a 3-unit course covering the design, selection, maintenance, and safe operation of agricultural and construction tractors. The course features 36 hours of lecture and 54 hours of laboratory, often utilizing hands-on training for wheel and track-type equipment, including crawlers and backhoes.
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Workplace Safety in the Foodservice Industry
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
Workplace Safety in the Foodservice Industry is one of a series of Culinary Arts books developed to support the training of students and apprentices in BC’s foodservice and hospitality industry.
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Water 131: Advanced Water Mathematics
Mike Alvord · College of the Canyons
This text examines advanced study of mathematical principles related to pump hydraulics: horsepower, flow rates, pump curves, chemical dosages, detention time, filtration and backwash rates, CT calculations and various utility management analyses related to budget preparations, water rate structures, and demand design forecasting. Focuses on mathematical computations within the expected range of knowledge on the State of California Water Resources Control Board exams.
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Troubleshooting Motors and Controls
Ken Dickson-Self · Linn-Benton Community College
This text is designed to teach students about induction motors and the methods used to control and troubleshoot them.
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Human Resources in the Food Service and Hospitality Industry
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
Human Resources in the Food Services and Hospitality Industry is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills.
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Modern Pastry and Plated Dessert Techniques
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
Modern Pastry and Plated Dessert Techniques 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. Although created with the Professional Cook and Baker programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and there for can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in food service skills.
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Fundamentals of American Criminal Justice
Lisa C. Bowman-Bowen & Jamie O'Reilly · Coastal Bend College
Fundamentals of American Criminal Justice (LibreTexts OER) introduces crime, deviance, and lawmaking (interactionist, consensus, conflict). It overviews policing, courts, and corrections, plus due process vs. crime control, case flow, media influence, victims, and crime types. It explains measuring crime (dark figure, UCR/NIBRS, NCVS, self-reports), criminal law and punishment, policy and evidence-based practice, criminological theory, community corrections, and juvenile justice.
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Fire Behavior for Entry Level Firefighters
Robert Smith · Western Technical College
Fire Behavior for Entry Level Firefighters provides a practical introduction to the basic scientific concepts that influence fire behavior. Unlike many existing textbooks which are written for experienced firefighters, the material is written to be appropriate for entry level fire protection students and focuses on key principles, essential concepts, and current research which influence firefighting tactics and safety.
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Criminal Investigations
George Cartwright · Madera Community College
Welcome to Criminal Investigations at Madera Community College. This textbook was designed especially for Madera Community College Criminology students. It will examine the criminal investigation process. It will address the techniques, procedures, and ethical issues involved in investigating crime, as well as interview and interrogation techniques, case documentation, and court preparation.
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Blueprint Reading for WELD 65
Liisa Pine · Chabot College
Theory and practical application of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and their alloys using GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) and GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding) processes, correct identification of materials, AWS (American Welding Society) codes and standards, introduction to blueprint reading, and proper and safe use of welding equipment and hazardous material regulations.
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Information Systems for Business 2e
Pham & Desai-Naik · Evergreen Valley College
This book is designed for a semester Information System introductory course for a general audience or CID-BUS140. Chapters 1 to 6 discuss what an information system (IS) is and its components; Chapters 7 to 10 discuss how people use IS for personal and professional development, how businesses use IS to create and sustain competitive advantages, and how IS is built; Chapters 11 to 13 discuss IS's role in globalization, the ethical and legal implications, and emerging trends of the future.