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CS11 - Informations Systems
LibreTexts
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Oregon Institute of Technology: CHE 201 General Chemistry I
Addie Clark · Oregon Institute of Technology
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Successful College Composition
Kathryn Crowther et al. · Georgia Perimeter College
This text is a transformation of Writing for Success under a grant from Affordable Learning Georgia to Georgia Perimeter College (GPC) in 2015. Section 1.3 was authored by Rebecca Weaver. This text is a revision of a prior adaptation of Writing for Success led by Rosemary Cox in GPC’s Department of English, titled Successful College Writing for GPC Students (2014, 2015).
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COUN 7: Blueprint for Success in College and Career
Dave Dillion · Grossmont College
This text is designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy. An exploration of the sociological, physiological, psychological, and intellectual factors that impact student’s academic and personal success over a lifetime.
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Chem 371: P-Chem 2 to Folow Combined Biophysical and P-Chem 1
Jonathan Gutow · University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
This compilation is aimed at second semester physical chemistry students who's first semester was a combined biophysical and physical chemistry course. It does expect students have enough math background to use concepts from multivariable calculus and calculus based physics.
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The Tongue and Quill
US Air Force · LibreTexts
Military members and civilian employees of the Department of the Air Force must communicate clearly and effectively to carry out our missions. Although we live in an era of rapid personal and mass communication that was barely imagined just a few years ago, our Air Force still requires face-to-face briefings, background papers, and staff packages to keep the mission moving forward. This handbook provides the information to ensure clear communications-written or spoken.
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Organic Chemistry - A "Carbonyl Early" Approach
Kirk McMichael · Washington State University
This is the textbook for a one semester organic chemistry "survey" course . You will be learning and applying the principles which govern the structure of organic compound and relating your understanding of structure to the reactions--the changes in structure--which happen when specific portions of organic compounds interact with other chemical substances. We will spend the first several weeks of the semester looking at a group of organic compounds which share a common structural element--the ca
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Introductory Statistics
El Camino College
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Diversity and Difference in Communication
The Open University · The Open University
Interpersonal communication in health and social care services is by its nature diverse. As a consequence, achieving good or effective communication whether between service providers and service users, or among those working in a service means taking account of diversity, rather than assuming that every interaction will be the same. This text explores the ways in which difference and diversity impact on the nature of communication in health and social care services.
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Construction Guide for LibreTexts 2e
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This construction guide will help you get started with the LibreTexts platform and provide faculty with the basic skills to start building customized textbooks for their course needs.
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Principles of Soil Science Exercise Manual
Mark W. Bowen · University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
This exercise manual was designed for use in an upper-level undergraduate soils course. The manual consists of ten hands-on or experiment-type exercises and fourteen take-home fact-finding and critical thinking exercises. The take-home exercises can be used to complement the hands-on exercises, or they can be used independently.
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Critical Thinking
Andrew Gurevich · Mt Hood Community College
Using a combination of the newest findings in hemispheric science, neuropsychology, and brain development, along with the long-established rhetorical algorithms for analyzing the structure of arguments, this course explores the boundaries of critical and creative thinking in pursuit of developing a clearer and more robust model for the construction and deconstruction of various forms of argument.
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Comparative Culture and Society 2e
Danshiro Velasco · LibreTexts
This textbook contains fifteen short units that give students opportunities to discuss, debate, present, and write about global topics and issues. Most units are paired with one country, so that each topic can be viewed from that cultural perspective, which can then be compared to students’ own cultural perspectives and experience. This textbook integrates such fields as intercultural communication, psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as elements from the field of English-as-a-Secon
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Online Technical Writing
David McMurrey · Austin Community College
The Online Technical Writing textbook offers a comprehensive guide to the essential skills and practices in technical writing. It covers various types of documents, including business correspondence, reports, proposals, user guides, and technical manuals, along with their design and formatting principles.
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British Literature II - Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Bonnie J. Robinson · University of North Georgia
British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond features 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now.
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CHN101: Elementary Mandarin I
Carl Polley · Kapi'olani Community College
This OER textbook can be used for self-study, as part of an online course, or as a traditional college course. This text is used for the course CHN101: Elementary Mandarin I, taught at Kapi'olani Community College in Honolulu, Hawai'i.
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University Physics I - Classical Mechanics
Julio Gea-Banacloche · University of Arkansas
This is a textbook for the first semester of University Physics for scientists and engineers. It covers classical mechanics, and a brief introduction to thermodynamics. The presentation and approach are similar to Mazur’s “The Principles and Practice of Physics,” in that conservation laws are introduced before forces, and one-dimensional systems thoroughly covered before moving to two dimensions.
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BIOL 22: Animal Biology
Amy Fetters · College of the Sequoias
This customized open textbook was compiled and organized by Amy Fetters for BIOL 22: Animal Biology at College of the Sequoias. It uses selected and reorganized content from the openly licensed OpenStax Biology 2e and Concepts of Biology textbooks. Topics include cellular processes, genetics, animal development, evolution, classification, animal diversity, ecology, and conservation, selected to align with the course content and learning outcomes.
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Equipping the Musical Ear
Sierra College · Lauren C. Sharkey
Equipping the Musical Ear is designed to be used in conjunction with beginning music theory courses. This text explores the different areas of focus for standard ear training or aural skills courses (sight singing, rhythmic dictation and performance, melodic dictation, intervals, and harmonic dictation), but in an open educational text and workbook format.
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Fast Fourier Transforms
C. Sidney Burrus · Rice University
This book focuses on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), discrete convolution, and, particularly, the fast algorithms to calculate them. These topics have been at the center of digital signal processing since its beginning, and new results in hardware, theory and applications continue to keep them important and exciting.