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Structural Mechanics
Tomasz Wierzbicki · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text covers the fundamental concepts of structural mechanics with applications to marine, civil, and mechanical structures. Topics include analysis of small deflections of beams, moderately large deflections of beams, columns, cables, and shafts; elastic and plastic buckling of columns, thin walled sections and plates; exact and approximate methods; energy methods; principle of virtual work; introduction to failure analysis of structures.
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Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity
Lumen · LibreTexts
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Python Programming
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Introduction to Python Programming provides a comprehensive foundation in programming concepts and skills, and it is aligned to the scope of most introductory courses. A wide array of scenarios, contexts, and problems reflect programming applications in many disciplines and careers. The offering is suitable for a diverse learner audience, including those pursuing computer science, business, science, social science, statistics, data science, and related areas of study and employment.
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EXPLORATIONS: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology
Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera, & Lara Braff, Eds. · LibreTexts
The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State.
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Psychology as a Biological Science
NOBA · LibreTexts
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Sound - An Interactive eBook
Kyle Forinash and Wolfgang Christian · LibreTexts
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MATH11103 Quantitative Literacy
Dana Goodwin · Arkansas State University-Beebe
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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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Introduction to Social Network Methods
Robert Hanneman & Mark Riddle · University of California, Riverside
This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks.
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From Growing to Biology: Plants
Gokhan Hacisalihoglu · Florida A&M University
Ready to find out how plants are grown and function? Take a fantastic voyage through plants. From Growing to Biology: Plants 1e brings the latest information for understanding of traditional and modern plant growing, form, and production. Topics covered in 30 chapters include concise and up-to-date ‘big picture’ infographics, student learning outcomes (SLOs), key vocabulary, assessment, as well as identification of 120 species, and more.
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World History Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
Eugene Berger et al. · Georgia Gwinnett College
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.
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Interactive Chemistry
John Moore, Jia Zhou, and Etienne Garand · University of Wisconsin
This online learning system been created specifically to support Chemistry 109 students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is more than a textbook and includes more than chemistry. We hope that it helps you learn chemistry and learn how to succeed in this and other challenging courses.
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Introduction to College-level Research
Iowa State University Library Instruction Services · LibreTexts
You will learn how scholarly information is produced, organized, and accessed; how to construct and use effective search strategies in a variety of web tools and scholarly databases; how to choose finding tools appropriate to the type of information you need; critical thinking skills in the evaluation of resources; and best practices in the ethical use of information.
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Active Calculus
Matthew Boelkins, David Austin & Steven Schlicker · Grand Valley State University
The style of the Active Calculus text requires students to be active learners — there are very few worked examples in the text, with there instead being 3-4 activities per section that engage students in connecting ideas, solving problems, and developing understanding of key calculus concepts; each section begins with motivating questions, a brief introduction, and a preview activity, all of which are designed to be read and completed prior to class; the exercises are few in number.
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Engineering Modeling and Analysis with Python
Carl Greco · Arkansas Tech University
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Astronomy 2e Openstax
Rachel Mastrapa · De Anza College
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Cognitive Psychology
Mehgan Andrade and Neil Walker · College of the Canyons
Ultimately Cognitive psychology is the scientific investigation of human cognition, that is, all our mental abilities – perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, reasoning, and understanding. It is closely related to the highly interdisciplinary cognitive science and influenced by artificial intelligence, computer science, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, biology, physics, and neuroscience. Cognitive psychology studies how people acquire and apply knowledge or information.
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Principles of Leadership
Loretta Smith · Arkansas Tech University
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Foundations of American Education: A Critical Lens
Melissa Wells and Courtney Clayton · Virtual Library of Virginia
In this survey text, readers will explore the foundations of American education through a critical lens. Topics include the teaching profession, influences on student learning, philosophical and historical foundations, structures of schools, ethical and legal issues, curriculum, classroom environment, and the path forward.
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Art History I & II
Professor Paula · Lake Tahoe Community College
This book was created specifically for Lake Tahoe Community College's Incarcerated/Detained students. This course was built to fulfill a general education requirement of Arts and Humanities. In collaboration with LibreText, this book has been made available at a low cost to the college and subsidized from the college to all students in the program.