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Treatment of Addictions, Individual and Group
Master Textbook · Whatcom Community College
This text has been developed as a resource for students in the Chemical Dependency Professional Alternative Training courses at Whatcom Community College. It hosts a variety of learning resources, such as articles, links to websites, webinars, videos, and infographics. This text covers evidenced based approaches and systems of care in individual and group addiction treatment along with systems of care, historical models, healthy system recovery, and new peer supports.
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NUTR10: Principles of Nutrition
Williams · Woodland Community College
In the contents: 1.4: The Broad Role of Nutritional Science
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COLL 175: Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum
Peter Mancini · Johnson County Community College
In this course, students identify and apply evidence-based text strategies that improve high-level comprehension of paired-course materials.
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COMM 130 Journalism OER Textbook for HACC
Laura K. Davis · HACC
Introduces students to contemporary journalism as a major institution in American society. This text helps students become informed about media and introduces them to the major issues that occur in journalism. Students consider issues facing professional journalists. Course topics range from journalism history and media convergence to the impact that journalism has on individuals and society in a fast-changing technological world.
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Essentials of Linguistics 2e
Catherine Anderson, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Nathan Sanders, and Ai Taniguchi · McMaster University
In the contents: 01: Human Language and Language Science · 1.05: Doing harm with language science · 1.06: Doing good with language science
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Applied Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Jeffrey R. Chasnov · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
These lecture notes are for a mathematics course offered to second-year engineering students. Material from our usual courses on linear algebra and differential equations have been combined into a single course (essentially, two half-semester courses) at the request of our Engineering School. I have tried my best to select the most essential and interesting topics from both courses, and to show how knowledge of linear algebra can improve students’ understanding of differential equations.
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COMS 100: Process of Communication
Tammera Stokes Rice · College of the Canyons
This text examines the range of theoretical approaches to the field of communication studies which provide an overview of communication contexts such as interpersonal, small group, gender, intercultural, mass media, and organizational communication.
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Database Design 2e
Adrienne Watt · British Columbia Institute of Technology
This second edition of Database Design book covers the concepts used in database systems and the database design process.
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A CURE for everyone: A guide to implementing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences
Jonathan J.-M. Calède · The Ohio State University
In this book, I undertake a review of the literature on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) and present original data from a survey of instructors at the Ohio State University. The main goal of this publication is to be a practical guide for teachers wishing to develop and implements this type of High-Impact Practice in their course.
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Children, Families, Schools, and Communities
Joan Giovannini · Holyoke Community College
Children, Families, Schools, and Communities is an introductory text in the field of Child and Family Studies. It provides a lens for understanding the evolving definition of “family”. It promotes strategies for culturally sustaining and deeply collaborative relationships.
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Psychology of Gender, Jeanne Taylor, LMFT
Jeanne Taylor, · Citrus College
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Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Social Life
Vera Kennedy · West Hills College Lemoore
The book is supported by discussion of relevant theory and research in cultural sociology. Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life has stressed learner-centered teaching with the instructor taking on the role of a facilitator of learning. As such, it is expected the instructor will serve as the mediator between the content of this book and learners’ understanding of material on multiple and higher levels.
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Social Problems (GRCC Edition)
Emily Pain · Grand Rapids Community College
This textbook, which draws heavily from Social Problems: Continuity and Change and from Inequality and Interdependence: Social Problems and Social Justice examines contemporary and historical social problems such as those related to poverty, education, health, drugs, and other areas. We invite students to imagine equitable solutions, to take action yourself, and to co-create a more just world.
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Music in Early Childhood
Janine T. McGrath · Seminole State College
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Overweight Bodies, Real and Imagined
Sarah Gilleman · Holyoke Community College
This compilation gathers OER sources on body weight, nutrition, and movement, and it also problematizes the cultural meaning of these readings. Roughly, this anthology is divided into two parts--informational and theoretical--in depicting how medical research and journalism influence and are influenced by social stereotypes, constructed ideas about bodies, food, and individual choices within social systems.
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Introductory Chemistry (Petersen)
Anne Petersen · Introductory Chemistry (Petersen)
This text is designed as an introduction to the experimental science of chemistry. Using mathematical word problems and chemical terms, students will have an overview of inorganic chemistry. This course is suited for those who have no high school chemistry experience. This course serves as preparation for General Chemistry or the first course of a two-semester sequence that satisfies the requirements of allied health programs (e.g. nursing or dental hygiene) that require one year of chemistry.
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PSYC 40: Lifespan Development
Michelle Pilati · Foothill College
The psychology of human development includes cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development throughout the life span. Comprehensive presentation of the issues, forces, and outcomes that make us who we are. Topics in childhood and adolescence, emphasize child development including all stages from conception, through childhood, adolescence, adult issues, later life and gerontology, cover all life span stages and important topics.
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Ecology and Environment: BIOL 124 at Hawaii Community College
Pamela Y. Scheffler · Hawaii Community College
In the contents: 01: Environmental Science · 1.02: The Process of Science · 1.S: Environmental Science (Summary)
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Principles of Managerial Economics
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
Managerial Economics is a link between two disciplines, which are management and economics. The management discipline focuses on a number of principles that aid the decision-making process of organizations. On the other hand, economics is related to the optimum allocation of limited resources for attaining the set objectives of organizations.
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Leadership and Adult Supervision in ECE
Laura Daly · Woodland Community College
Leadership and Adult Supervision in Early Childhood Education explores the relational and ethical work of supervising, mentoring, coaching, and leading adults in early care and education settings. Grounded in the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, the text emphasizes ethical decision-making, reflective practice, and relationship-based leadership. Designed for students and emerging leaders, it integrates theory with real-world application in adult supervision and professional practice.