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Leggiamo 1
Rossella Pescatori · El Camino Community College
Leggi-AMO is an Italian textbook directed to students with no knowledge of Italian and it is designed for classes taught in American Community Colleges.
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Math 10: Elementary Statistics
Max Sklar · Mission College
Students study probability, descriptive and inferential statistics including probability distribution, hypothesis testing, linear regression and applications.
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Sound Reasoning
Anthony Brandt & Robert McClure · LibreTexts
The text offers a new approach to music appreciation for adults, focusing on style-independent concepts. While the course concentrates primarily on Western classical and modern music, the concepts that are introduced apply to music of any style or era. The goal of “Sound Reasoning” is to equip you with questions that you may ask of any piece of music, thereby creating a richer and more comprehensive understanding of music both familiar and unfamiliar.
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College Success
Amy Baldwin et al. · OpenStax
The text is a comprehensive and contemporary resource that serves First Year Experience, Student Success, and College Transition courses. Developed with the support of hundreds of faculty and coordinators, the book addresses the evolving challenges and opportunities of today’s diverse students. Engagement, self-analysis, personal responsibility, and student support are reflected throughout the material.
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Chem 10 - Chemistry for Allied Health Majors
Todd Clements · Mt. San Antonio College
This textbook is intended for the first semester of a two-semester general, organic, and biochemistry course. It covers the general chemistry portion and introduces some of the organic chemistry portion, but does not cover biochemistry.
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Statics
JuEun Lee · California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt
Welcome to Statics by Prof. J. Lee. This book supports students in mastering force analysis and equilibrium in 2D and 3D. Topics include: 1) Fundamentals – Forces, moments, and equilibrium; 2) Vector Analysis – Force representation in 2D/3D; 3) Applications – Real-world problem solving. Video lectures are available at youtube.com/@MECHProfLee.
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English Literature II
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
The English Literature II textbook explores British literature from the late 17th century to the present, focusing on significant authors, texts, and historical contexts. It covers major literary movements such as Romanticism, Victorian literature, and Modernism, along with key themes like industrialization, colonialism, and social change. The text provides analysis of poetry, prose, and drama, fostering critical thinking and understanding of the evolution of English literature.
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Political Thought and Theory: Ideologies, Power, and Society
Robert Stockwell · De Anza College
This textbook is the product of the Political Science Department at De Anza College. It is designed to provide the basis for a quarter-long introductory course in Political Thought and Theory for an undergraduate, community college student audience. Fully cognizant of the Eurocentric nature of the discipline, we focus on major belief systems and/or ideologies in the belief that it will enable students to evaluate and critically engage the full breadth of mainstream political theory.
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Keys to Understanding the Middle East
Payind and McClimans · Ohio State University
This book is intended for readers who have never studied the Middle East, or experts who may wish to fill gaps in their knowledge of the region from other disciplines. Whether for establishing or deepening one's knowledge of the region, these fundamentals are important to know. The languages, cultural, religious and sectarian communities of the region, and selected turning points and influential people in history are starting points for gaining an understanding of the contexts of the region.
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Math 15E - Concurrent Support for Quantitative Reasoning
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Topics from intermediate algebra and geometry are covered to build a foundation for college-level quantitative reasoning. Strategic reading, critical thinking and problem solving are incorporated to build the strategies needed to solve contextualized problems. Topics in the area of study skills and metacognition are also included to support students in a college level math course.
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Education 30: Introduction to Education
Cathleen Perez · Fresno City College
This book is the newest iteration of a project that began way back in the Fall of 2006. This book was written, read, and studied by Undergraduate college students enrolled in their first education course. We hope you enjoy the new content and the creative ways in which that content is presented.
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Personality Theory in a Cultural Context
Mark D. Kelland · Lansing Community College
When you first think of personality, what comes to mind? When we refer to certain people as being “personalities,” we usually mean they are famous, people like movie stars or your favorite band. When we describe a person as having “lots of personality,” we usually mean they are outgoing and fun-loving, the kind of person we like to spend time with. But does this tell us anything about personality itself?
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An Introduction to Matlab and Mathcad
Troy Siemers · Virginia Military Institute
This textbook, or really a “coursebook” for a college freshman-level class, has been updated for Spring 2014 and provides an introduction to programming and problem solving using both Matlab and Mathcad. We provide a balanced selection of introductory exercises and real-world problems (i.e. no “contrived” problems). We include many examples and screenshots to guide the reader. We assume no prior knowledge of Matlab or Mathcad.
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Map: Introductory Chemistry (Corwin)
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An introductory chemistry Libretexts Textmap organized around the textbook Introductory Chemistry: Concepts & Critical Thinking by Charles Corwin.
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Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering I
Jonathan Verret, Rosie Qiao, and Rana A. Barghout · The University of British Columbia Vancouver
The goal of this textbook is to introduce you to the foundational topics of chemical engineering. This textbook will give you a good basic understanding of a number of chemical engineering concepts, which you can take with you as you progress in your engineering degree and career.
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Agile Project Management
Guharaman Janakiraman · De Anza College
Theoretical frameworks are only as valuable as your ability to execute them in the real world. I wrote this book to bridge the gap between academic methodology and practical, ground level execution.
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Math 111: College Algebra
Highline College
This texts address applications of functions (linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic) in business and social sciences, including total cost revenue and profit; break-even analysis; supply/demand and market equilibrium; exponential growth and decay; fitting curves to data with graphing utilities; theory of matrices; graphical methods for optimization (linear programming problems); and mathematics of finance (arithmetic and geometric sequences and sums).
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Manufacturing Processes 4-5
Virasak · LibreTexts
This textbook provides an introduction to the important area of manufacturing processes and explains the hows, whys, and whens of various machining operations, set-ups, and procedures. Throughout this text, you will learn how machine tools operate, and when to use one particular machine instead of another. It is organized for students who plan to enter the manufacturing technology field and for those who wish to develop the skills essential for advancement in this occupational cluster.
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Web Site Design
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