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Introduction to Historical Geology
Kelly Ruppert, Tor Lacy, and Emily Haddad · Coastline College, Cerritos College, and East Los Angeles College
Introduction to Historical Geology covers an overview of the basic principles of geology including plate tectonics, minerals, igneous rocks, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks, sedimentology, geologic structures, geologic time, and evolution. After the foundations of geology are covered, the principles covered are used to explain Earth's geologic and evolutionary history through the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic eons.
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Instruction in Functional Assessment
Marcie Desrochers and Moira Fallon · The College at Brockport, State University of New York
Instruction in Functional Assessment introduces learners to functional assessment (FA), which includes a variety of assessment approaches (indirect, observational, and experimental) for identifying the cause of an individual’s challenging behavior for the purpose of designing effective treatments. FA is mandated by federal law and is a recognized empirically based approach to treatment of individuals with challenging behaviors.
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ECON 1030: Principles of Macroeconomics
William Knight · Prince George's Community College
This text address the first semester of university-parallel sequence. Introduction to economic macroanalysis, emphasizing gross national product, national income, consumption, investment, taxation, government spending, and monetary and fiscal policies.
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Teaching Crowds - Learning and Social Media
Jon Dron and Terry Anderson · Athabasca University
In Teaching Crowds, Dron and Anderson introduce a new model for understanding and exploiting the pedagogical potential of Web-based technologies, one that rests on connections — on networks and collectives — rather than on separations. Recognizing that online learning both demands and affords new models of teaching and learning, the authors show how learners can engage with social media platforms to create an unbounded field of emergent connections.
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Assessment of Students
Deborah Bowles · Prince George's Community College
This text provides an introduction to tests and measurements in an educational setting. Students will construct the knowledge and understanding needed for selecting, administering, diagnosing, evaluating and reporting results of standardized and informal techniques of measurement. This course will review definitions, concepts, and current issues in measurement.
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Contemporary Families - An Equity Lens
Elizabeth B. Pearce · Linn-Benton Community College
This openly licensed text, created with students, approaches contemporary families from an equity lens. It asks two questions relevant to the Difference, Power, and Discrimination outcomes at Linn-Benton Community College and Oregon State University: “What do families need?” and “How do society and institutions support or get in the way of families getting what they need?
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Child Development (Cummings-Clay)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
Early childhood development is a complex and fascinating journey that encompasses various aspects of growth, from prenatal stages to early adulthood. In this book, we explore the intricate processes that shape children’s physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development. By examining the core principles, theories, and current research, this text provides a comprehensive framework to understand how children evolve over time and the factors that influence their development.
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Acoustics
Wikipedia · LibreTexts
Acoustics is the science that studies sound, in particular its production, transmission, and effects. The science of acoustics has many applications which are dependent upon the nature of the sound that is to be produced, transmitted or controlled. In the case of a desirable sound, such as music, the main application of acoustics is to make the music sound as good as possible.
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Building Soils for Better Crops - Ecological Management for Healthy Soils 4e
Fred Magdoff & Harold van Es · Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program
The 4th edition of Building Soils for Better Crops is a one-of-a-kind, practical guide to ecological soil management. It provides step-by-step information on soil-improving practices as well as in-depth background—from what soil is to the importance of organic matter. It will show you how different physical, chemical and biological factors of the soil interconnect, and how management practices impact them to make your soil healthy and resilient or unhealthy and vulnerable to degradation.
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Introduction to Biological Psychology
Catherine Hall Ed. · University of Sussex
Introduction to Biological Psychology is aimed at undergraduate students. This first edition specifically targets students enrolled in Psychology at the University of Sussex, and primarily contains topics covered in the mandatory module Introduction to Biological Psychology. Future editions will continue to expand the number of topics and concepts presented.
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CLUE: Chemistry, Life, the Universe, and Everything
Melanie M. Cooper and Michael W. Klymkowsky · Michigan State University and UC Bolder
We developed much of the material in this new curriculum using research on how people learn and our own work on how to improve understanding and problem solving in college-level science classes. In previous studies we have found that our methods, which include dramatic reorganization and reduction of materials covered, increase student interactions and activity and lead to equal or better performance on standardized exams, greater conceptual understanding, and improved problem-solving skills.
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Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (remixed by Debbie Klein)
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
Welcome! This course examines religious and spiritual practices from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. We will investigate the key concepts of this course—magic, witchcraft, and religion. Anthropological themes of this course include difference, ethnography, power, language, ritual, symbolism, mythology, race, class, gender, identity, and postmodernism. You will have fun conducting fieldwork with a spiritual or religious community, people, or person of your choosing.
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Essentials of Oceanography
Eliza Richardson · Pennsylvania State University
This text introduces knowledge and broadens understanding of the oceans and their role in climate, coastal processes, and life within the fluid Earth. Students will gain insight into the physical and chemical processes that determine properties of the ocean and govern interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, groundwater, and the fluid/solid Earth. Topics will reinforce fundamental scientific principles.
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Elementary Number Theory
Mike Barrus & W. Edwin Clark · University of Rhode Island
The great Carl Friedrich Gauss once wrote, "Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic the queen of mathematics." What Gauss called arithmetic, we now call number theory. This text is an extensive update of an original manuscript by Professor W. Edwin Clark (now Emeritus) of the University of South Florida, written in 2002 and made freely available on his website. It is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course and for self study.
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Deleting Dystopia: Re-Asserting Human Priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Richard A. Slaughter · Australian Foresight Institute
Deleting Dystopia confirms that the existential threats posed by the misuse of advanced digital technologies are real. But, in place of apathy and fatalism, Slaughter explores ways of understanding the threat, conceptualising solutions and identifying strategies that lead away from digital authoritarian futures towards those funded on humanly viable values and practices.
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Biological Anthropology Lab
Anthropology Department · Gavilan College
This lab manual is designed to provide exercises and resources for students taking a biological anthropology laboratory course online.
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Personal Psychology (C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal and Social Adjustment)
Personal Psychology (C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal & Social Adjustment)@Michael Miguel@Coalinga College@Personal Psychology · C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal & Social Adjustment
This book explores the psychology of personalities- the theoretical models that have defined the self, aspects that are considered parts of a self, and how you can use these concepts in your life.
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Research and Design for Emergency Services
Peter Loebach · Arapahoe Community College
In the contents: 01: Science and Scientific Research · 1.01: Science · 2.04: The practice of science versus the uses of science
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How to be a Journalist in the 21st century
Andre Gouws and NWU students · North-West University
This textbook is an introduction to journalism, in the African and South African context, written for digital natives. The textbook is unique in the sense that students and the lecturer wrote it together, it is therefore a resource that focuses on learning through the eyes of students in Africa and the things they would like to learn to become journalists.
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Language in Action: An Open Invitation to Linguistic Anthropology (remixed by Debbie Klein)
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
Welcome! This course explores the central role of language and communication in social life. We will explore the foundational relationship between language and culture by examining anthropological approaches to the study of language. We will learn how language both reflects and creates thought, culture, and power relations. We will investigate these questions: What is language? In what ways do we use it? Why does language matter?