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Nassau Community College CHE151 - General Chemistry I
Daniel Resch · Nassau Community College
This Textmap is designed for the two-semester general chemistry course. For many students, this course provides the foundation to a career in chemistry, while for others, this may be their only college-level science course. As such, this textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them.
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SOCI 1: Introduction to Sociology
Christina Mendoza · Chabot College
This introductory text examines how society shapes human behavior, relationships, identities, opportunities, and inequality. It introduces sociological perspectives and research methods while exploring culture, socialization, groups, institutions, and social change. Readers learn to connect personal experiences to larger social forces and to recognize how social structures influence everyday life, individual choices, and patterns of inequality in society.
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Mathematical Biology
Jeffrey R. Chasnov · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Biology, as is usually taught, requires memorizing a wide selection of facts and remembering them for exams, sometimes forgetting them soon after. For students exposed to biology in secondary school, this text may seem like a different subject. The ability to model problems using mathematics requires almost no rote memorization, but it does require a deep understanding of basic principles and a wide range of mathematical techniques.
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Administering Early Childhood Services in Nova Scotia
Barbie McCuaig and Meghan Hightower Smith · Nova Scotia Community College
Administering Early Childhood Services in Nova Scotia describes the duties and preparation of early childcare administrators. Although the book was written for use in Nova Scotia and Canada it is more broadly useable.
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Research Methods in Psychology
Jhangiani, Chiang, Cuttler, & Leighton · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: The Science of Psychology · 1.01: Prelude to the Science of Psychology · 1.03: Understanding Science
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NUTF 10: Principles of Nutrition
Shara A Sheldon · Sierra College
In the contents: 1.4: The Broad Role of Nutritional Science
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MTH 15: Applied Calculus I
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This calculus course is intended for majors in business and in certain areas of life sciences. The course covers differential calculus of algebraic, exponential, and logarithmic functions, introduction to integral calculus, and applications in business, economics, and the life and social sciences.
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California Geography
Jeremy Patrich · College of the Canyons
This textbook was designed especially for Community College students, as a resource to instill the knowledge and adventure that the discipline of geography holds for so many of us. The following units will cover a wide array of topics such as: California’s water resources, geology, weather, climate, culture, architecture, and agriculture. As you will see, the geography of California is diverse; geographically, geologically, and culturally.
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Foundations of Education
SUNY Oneonta Education Department · LibreTexts
Pre-service teachers require a strong foundation that includes an understanding of the student’s motivation for becoming a teacher, reflection on the ethics of an educator, awareness of and identification of their own philosophies of education, and an understanding of twenty-first-century skills and literacies.
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PSYC 312: Biological Psychology
Naomi Bahm · Cosumnes River College
In the contents: 02: Research Methods and Ethical Considerations of Biological Psychology and Neuroscience · 14.03: Social Neuroscience
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America - The User's Manual 4e
Benjamin R. Kantack · Lycoming College
This is a free textbook written for introductory undergraduate courses in American politics. It may also be suitable for precocious high school students, as well as for non-students who want to learn how American government works.
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Stand up, Speak out - The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
LibreTexts
Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking features two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that sets Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking apart from the other texts in this market. COMPILE DATE: 11/2024
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COMS 105: Fundamentals of Public Speaking
Tammera Stokes Rice · College of the Canyons
This text examines the principles and practices of public speaking, communication theory, and techniques for public speaking. Includes speech organization, development, research, audience analysis, reasoning, and presentation skills for the development of informative and persuasive speeches. A primary goal is to help students become better speakers through providing the most important tool in public speaking within a clear sense of organization.
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Scientific Computing
Peter Staab · Fitchburg State University
Solving problems is the essence of scientific computing. Many problems arise naturally from the sciences or mathematics and often to solve difficult problem relies on some computing resources. In a nutshell, this text is the blend of science, mathematics and computer science needed to solve problems. The intended audience for this text one who is interested in writing computer code that will solve a problem that you have.
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It’s About Them - Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Sara Kim, Douglas Marshall, June Pulliam, Victoria VanNest, and James Yeargain · LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course.
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Persuasion
Nathan Miller · Cosumnes River College
This introductory course will examine historical and contemporary approaches to persuasive messages throughout time. It will also focus on the presentation of persuasive appeals, and learning to construct, deliver, and critique persuasive messages. Students will construct and deliver ethical persuasive messages directed toward a specific audience in front of a live audience or other pedagogically appropriate medium.
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NUTRI 300: Nutrition
Jessica Coppola · Sacramento City College
In the contents: 1.03: The Broad Role of Nutritional Science
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Microeconomics 1e
Martin Medeiros · Chabot College
Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.
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Learning in the Digital Age
Tutaleni Asino at al. · Oklahoma State University
This book is designed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age.
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Shared Voices - An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Demetrios Brellas and Vanessa Martinez · Remixing Open Textbooks with an Equity Lens (ROTEL)
Shared Voices is a student-centered cultural anthropology mini textbook built with an equity lens. This text aims to be accessible, interesting, accurate, and centered on marginalized voices. This text is a starting point for any introductory anthropology course recognizing that cultural change is constant and the familiar is cousin to the weird and unusual.