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Choosing and Using Sources - A Guide to Academic Resear
Cheryl Lowry · The Ohio State University
Choosing & Using Sources presents a process for academic research and writing, from formulating your research question to selecting good information and using it effectively in your research assignments. Additional chapters cover understanding types of sources, searching for information, and avoiding plagiarism. Each chapter includes self-quizzes and activities to reinforce core concepts and help you apply them.
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Instructor Guide: How to Use This Textbook
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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https://math.libretexts.org/Workbench/Calculus_2_OER
Leonard Lamp · Irvine Valley College
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Humanities 107: Readings, Media, Lessons and Assignments
J. F. Lindsay · City Colleges of Chicago
A collection of readings, activities, and assessments on a broad variety of topics within the media studies discipline, with an eye towards media literacy, social justice, and political advocacy.
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Drawing - An Introduction to Studio Drawing
Michael Leonard · University of the Pacific
This publication is intended to support a foundational level, hands-on introductory course in drawing with an emphasis upon skill-building and the visual and conceptual possibilities of art through drawing. A variety of projects and materials will be used to investigate the medium’s history, traditional approaches, and expressive possibilities. It presents the main concepts, processes, and stylistic approaches of drawing as a means of artistic expression as well as develops aesthetic judgment.
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PHY SCI 101: General Course Physical Science
Likwan Cheng · City Colleges of Chicago
This in-house, live textbook for "PHY SCI 101: General Course Physical Science" initially comprises chapter readings selected from two LibreTexts textbooks (OpenGeology, Introduction to Ocean Sciences), chapter investigation activities with a local focus on Chicago and Illinois, and chapter general questions at the level of the course's traditional exit exam. (Title page image: "Gypsum Flowers" by James St. John.)
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Quantway Core
Carnegie Math Pathways · WestEd
Quantway Core provides a one-term introductory quantitative reasoning course solution that builds algebraic and quantitative skills and reasoning. It is designed to replace the developmental sequence and can also be used to fulfill high school and technical college program math requirements.
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PHSC-1: Physical Science Survey
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This textbook was developed to serve as a laboratory textbook for students majoring in Education enrolled in Introduction to Physical Science. The course provides a balanced introduction to the fundamental concepts of experiments in both physics and chemistry, giving students a broad understanding of the physical world.
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Combinatorics Through Guided Discovery
Kenneth P. Bogart · Dartmouth University
This book is an introduction to combinatorial mathematics, also known as combinatorics. The book focuses especially but not exclusively on the part of combinatorics that mathematicians refer to as “counting.” The book consists almost entirely of problems. Some of the problems are designed to lead you to think about a concept, others are designed to help you figure out a concept and state a theorem about it, while still others ask you to prove the theorem.
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Basic Lab Skills
Kari Christenson · Western Technical College
This is the course text for Basic Lab Skills, a first year, first term course for Medical Laboratory Technician students.
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MNGT 481: Strategic Management
Precha Thavikulwat · Towson University
This text aims to develop strategic thinking skills that integrate and build on the concepts and practices from functional business courses. Students will practice in-depth analysis of industries and competitors, and work to understand how managers must develop and implement strategies that generate sustainable value for all stakeholders by positioning the organization successfully in its competitive environment.
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Bis 2A: Introductory Biology - Spring 2025 (Singer and Namekawa)
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The Science of Psychology
Michael Miguel · Coalinga College
"'Volunteer Duty' Psychology Testing" by Tim Sheerman-Chase is licensed under CC BY 2.0. This book is a variation on Psychology Research Methods. It reorders discussions of types of experiments, limits on experiments, and mathematical tools used to determine results of experiments.
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Crystallography in a Nutshell
Martín Martínez Ripoll & Félix Hernández Cano · Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
Structural knowledge obtained by Crystallography allows us to produce materials with predesigned properties, from catalyst for a chemical reaction of industrial interest, up to toothpaste, vitro ceramic plates, extremely hard materials for surgery use, or certain aircraft components, just to give some examples of small, or medium sized atomic or molecular materials.
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Art History - Prehistoric through Gothic
Michael Leonard · University of the Pacific
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Social Media for Public Relations
Mark Poepsel & Sarah VanSlette · Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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Principles of Nutrition and Weight Management (Remix)
Wesley Meeteer · Concord University
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Art Appreciation
Lumen · LibreTexts
This text investigates how quality is determined and created by artists in order to evaluate and appreciate art on a deeper level. This course emphasizes why each topic contributes to valuing a piece of art and provides the necessary knowledge to do so. Students are first introduced to the elements and principles of art and the importance of artists’ context and perspective. The text then covers different periods in art history, different techniques in art, and how to research and evaluate art.
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University of the Pacific
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Introduction to Historical Geology
Chris Johnson, Callan Bentley, Karla Panchuk, et al. · Maricopa Open Digital Press
Historical geology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. Historical geology examines the vastness of geologic time, measured in billions of years, and investigates changes in the Earth, gradual and sudden, over this deep time. It focuses on geological processes, such as plate tectonics, that have changed the Earth's surface and subsurface over time and the use of methods to tell the sequence of these events.