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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Willkommen: Deutsch für alle
Claudia Kost & Crystal Sawatzky · University of Alberta
Willkommen: Deutsch für alle is an innovative first-year German language e-textbook for learning German at the college/university level. It features a task-based, communicative approach which provides students with opportunities to communicate in German in a variety of contexts and situations. Through a wide range of activities, students develop and practice their language skills which they showcase at the end of each chapter by accomplishing a specific task.
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MTH 226: Calculus III
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Chem 124L: Lab Manual
Staff · UC Davis
This course introduces you to the methods of synthesis, purification and characterization of main group and transition metal inorganic and organometallic compounds. In addition, homogeneous catalysis and the synthesis and properties of a silver nanowire are studied.
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FNDH 413: Science of Food
Brian Lindshield and Lizz Daniels · Kansas State University
This course provides students with an understanding of the science principles underlying the preparation of food. The course combines theory and hands-on laboratory experiences.
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ECON21003 Principles of Macroeconomics
Kayla Sapkota · Arkansas State University-Beebe
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TRDS 160: CAD for Industry
Amaninder Singh Gill and Meredith Ann Tummeti · Centralia College
This book has been written to help the novice CAD user gain a grasp of designing using a modern parametric CAD software package. The hope of this activity-based book is to create a self-explanatory resource to get started with using Autodesk Fusion 360. The video tutorials accompanying this text allow for the novice designer to learn this package at any location at their own pace.
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Find Your Voice! Speaking in a Democracy
J. Scott Andrews · Colorado Mesa University
Disability Justice, Environmental Justice, LGBTQ Rights, Mass Shootings, Religious Freedom, Mental Health Care, Political Polarization, Foreign Relations—these are this generation of college students’ problems to solve. The public speaking classroom is still the "real world" where social justice is pursued and change is made, and this particular course helps students show, argue, motivate, and honor as modes of speaking in a democracy, ways to "do" democracy.
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Introduction to Matrix Algebra
Autar Kaw · University of South Florida
This book is an extended primer for undergraduate Matrix Algebra. The book is either to be used as a refresher material for students who have already taken a course in Matrix Algebra or as a just-in-time tool if the burden of teaching Matrix Algebra has been distributed to several courses.
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Geological Structures - A Practical Introduction
John Waldron & Morgan Snyder · University of Alberta
This manual is about structures that occur within the Earth’s crust. Structures are the features that allow geologists to figure out how parts of the Earth have changed position, orientation, size and shape over time. This work requires careful observation and measurements of features at the surface of the Earth, and deductions about what’s below the surface.
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MC : Physics 213 - Modern Physics
Charles Collett · Muhlenberg College
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Inquiry and Evidence: A Foundation in Information Literacy and Research Writing (IVC)
Brandee Idleman · Irvine Valley College
Textbook for a three unit ENGL C1001/Honors at Irvine Valley College.
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First-Semester Abstract Algebra: A Structural Approach
Jessica K. Sklar · Pacific Lutheran University
This text is specifically designed to suit a single-semester introductory abstract course, rather than to be a comprehensive reference source.
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Microbiology Laboratory Student Manual
Angelo Kolokithas · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This Microbiology lab manual provides instructions for conducting the following labs: Safety, Culture Handling, Microscopes, and Streak Technique; Examining Throat Cultures and Gram Staining; Tiny Earth Introduction and Planning; Soil Collection Field Work; Plating Soil Samples; Bacterial Culture Conditions; The Master Plate & Antibiotic Screening; Broad-Spectrum Screening; Colony PCR; Gel Electrophoresis and Sequencing Prep; Glycerol Stocks; Classic vs Modern Biochemical Tests; and Kirby-Bauer
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LACC Writing Handbook
Greta Enszer · Los Angles City College
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Child Growth and Development
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond and Johnson · College of the Canyons
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Health Case Studies
Rees, Kruger, and Morrison · British Columbia Institute of Technology
Health Case Studies is composed of eight separate health case studies. Each case study includes the patient narrative or story that models the best practice (at the time of publishing) in healthcare settings. Associated with each case is a set of specific learning objectives to support learning and facilitate educational strategies and evaluation.
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Open Neuroscience Initiative
Austin Lim · DePaul University
This project began as a means to overcoming the financial burden that face undergraduate neuroscience students when buying textbooks. By compiling and writing a completely free-to-access textbook that covers the foundations of a typical college introduction to neuroscience course, students would have one less obstacle to overcome in their educational career, allowing them to focus their valuable time and attention on learning rather than finances.
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The Anti-Textbook of Writing
Sybil Priebe · North Dakota State College of Science
Since writing is subjective, the rules aren’t always black and white. What can we do, if writing is subjective and doesn’t have PERFECT rules then? We just practice the genres we know. We give it our best shot. We just practice.
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Physical Science for Educators (CID: PHYS 14)
Evans, Ford, Henry, Kumari, Mona, Wakim · Coalinga College
Physical Science for Educators is designed to prepare students to teach chemistry and physics at the K – 12 grade levels with emphasis on meeting CA Public School Standards. This course is part of the natural science series for students planning to transfer to a four-year liberal studies program. Topics include physical and chemical properties of matter, motion, energy, electricity, light, atomic structure and bonding, and chemical reactions.
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GEOG 11003 Introduction to Geography
Chester Cornell · Arkansas State University-Beebe
This introductory geography text provides a foundation for exploring population, culture, migration, religion, regional geography, political systems, economic activities, and environmental issues that shape our world.