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COUNS 120: Student Success
Justin Wembes · Diablo Valley College
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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ECE Field Experience 4 (NWTC)
Vicki Tanck · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 2.03: Social Justice in the Early Childhood Classroom
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Anthropology: Being Human
Susan Ruth · Central New Mexico Community College
This introductory textbook in anthropology is designed to give you an understanding of the diversity of the human experience. Students will become familiar with the four subfields of anthropology: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and biological anthropology. We will discuss the diversity of world cultures, the human fossil record, the human past, and the development and use of language.
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Wait...Why do We Do That?
Jayanti Roy and Marx Gomez-Liendo · De Anza College
Wait...Why Do We Do That? An Understanding of Sociology invites students to look at the everyday world through a sociological lens, asking why social patterns exist, who they affect, and how sociologists study them. Built around real case studies and contemporary examples, the book connects theory to lived experience in a way that feels relevant and accessible to today's students.
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How to Learn Like a Pro!
Nissila · LibreTexts
How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences, time and materials management, critical thinking and reading, note-taking, memory principles, and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues.
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Comparative Government and Politics
Dino Bozonelos · Victor Valley College
In the contents: 09: Collective Action and Social Movements · 9.01: What is collective action What are social movements · 9.03: A framework for explaining social movements
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Attenuated Democracy
David Hubert · Salt Lake Community College
In the contents: 1.04: Chapter 4- Political Science as a Social Science · 8.08: Chapter 56- Public Opinion and Political Socialization
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LibreTexts Accessibility Toolkit
LibreTexts
A guide for creating and curating accessible LibreTexts
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Persuasion, Critical Thinking, and Writing
Paula Cardwell · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
In the contents: 09: Antisocial Persuasion · 9.02: Antisocial Persuasion · 9.03: Types of Antisocial Persuasion
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Child Family Community: The Socialization of Diverse Children
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
We hope this text is a guide and resource in building awareness, knowledge and skills as a current or future educators. We also want to thank the previous authors for their contribution and allowing us a starting point to enhance the original text. The chapters are organized with learning objectives, embedded terms and definitions, critical reflection and practical application of the content and topics.
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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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Political Thought and Theory: Ideologies, Power, and Society
Robert Stockwell · De Anza College
In the contents: 05: Socialism · 5.01: The Socialist Core · 5.02: The Diversity of Socialism
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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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Education 30: Introduction to Education
Cathleen Perez · Fresno City College
In the contents: 15.07: What performance assessments can be used for elementary social studies · 15.13: What performance assessments can be used for secondary social studies
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Personality Theory in a Cultural Context
Mark D. Kelland · Lansing Community College
In the contents: 18: Social Learning Theory and Personality Development · 18.02: Albert Bandura and Social Learning Theory · 18.05: Cognitive Aspects of Social Learning Theory- The Contributions of Julian Rotter and Walter Mischel
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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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Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood
Laura Daly · Woodland Community College
In the contents: 1.04: The Goal of Social and Emotional Learning · 1.05: The Dimensions of Social Competence · 6.12: Erik Eriksons Psychosocial Theory and Emotional Development
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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Kang, Lessard, & Heston · University of Massachusett Amherst
In the contents: 1.05: Social Constructionism · 05: Historical and Contemporary Feminist Social Movements
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Creative Development in Young Child
Donna King · Irvine Valley College
Creative Development in Young Children (HD131) is an early childhood education course exploring how children's creative and artistic abilities grow. It teaches educators how to nurture divergent thinking, support symbolic representation in art, and design environments that encourage imaginative play and sensory exploration.
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Clickbait Bias and Propaganda in Information Networks
Fister et al. · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.10: How Social Media Platforms Intersect With News · 3.04: 3 Ways Facebook and Other Social Media Companies Could Clean Up Their Acts If They Wanted To