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Philosophy of Religion
Philip A. Pecorino · Queensborough Community College
Philosophy is a human endeavor that has changed the course of history. We are all what we are, in part, because of the ideas of philosophers. There are not too many people who believe this. There are not that many people who think very much of Philosophy at all. Yet Philosophy has and does impact the lives of just about every thinking person on the planet. In fact, the very way in which we think is partly the result of the ideas which philosophers have produced over the ages and in all cultures.
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Comunidades (Drickey)
Kirsten Drickey · Western Washington University
Junto con el estudio de la gramática y la cultura, vamos a estudiar los sonidos de español para mejorar la pronunciación y la percepción del idioma. Durante este curso vamos a estudiar cómo se pronuncian los sonidos de español como nativo hablante. Para lograr esta meta, vamos a estudiar los sonidos de español, los de inglés y vamos a practicar la pronunciación y percepción de español con actividades en que escuchan y crean audios.
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Listening and Speaking for Beginning English Language Learners
Maria Antonini de Pino et al. · Evergreen Valley College
Listening & Speaking for Beginning English Language Learners is an integrated skills English as a Second Language (ESL) book that is intended for students at the high-beginning level. The book emphasizes listening and speaking skills and contains interactive and communicative exercises. It is designed to help students improve their listening, speaking, and pronunciation skills. It also helps students strengthen their grammar knowledge and widen their vocabulary at the high beginning level.
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Thinking Critically About Abortion
Nathan Nobis & Kristina Grob · Morehouse College & University of South Carolina Sumter
This book introduces readers to the many arguments and controversies concerning abortion. While it argues for ethical and legal positions on the issues, it focuses on how to think about the issues, not just what to think about them. It is an ideal resource to improve your understanding of what people think, why they think that and whether their (and your) arguments are good or bad, and why. It's ideal for classroom use, discussion groups, organizational learning, and personal reading.
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Beginning Your English 102 Research
Holly Morrison · City College of Chicago
This text introduces methods of research and writing of investigative papers.
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Art History: Prehistoric - Middle Ages
Laura Kramer · Palo Verde College
Art History: Prehistory to the Middle Ages offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of art from humanity's earliest creative expressions through the close of the medieval period, emphasizing the cultural, historical, religious, and social contexts that shaped artistic production across the ancient world.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Storytelling: How to Craft Compelling Narratives
James Thibeault · Bentley University
This OER guide will teach you the basics of creative writing as well as provide various short stories that showcase particular creative writing elements.
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People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated-Skills Module for English Learners
Sara Ferguson · Grossmont Community College
This module has materials to learn and practice all of the necessary language skills at the intermediate level in college. It is recommended for the first few weeks of a semester, since it covers fundamental sentence grammar and basic email communication etiquette. Academic language skills you will practice include reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical analysis.
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7.3: Sophocles' Antigone (441 BC)
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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BCC FL108 OER
Amanda Hadley and Kelsey Harper · Butler County Community College
This course will enable the student to demonstrate cultural and communicative competence at the novice-high level in Spanish in the presentational (writing and speaking), interpersonal (writing and speaking), and interpretative (listening and reading) modes of communication. The student will develop a critical awareness of differences and similarities between the home culture(s) and the target language culture(s).
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Naming the Unnameable - An Approach to Poetry for New Generations
Michelle Bonczek Evory · Western Michigan University
Michelle Bonczek Evory's text offers practical advice and strategies for developing a writing process that is centered on play and supported by an understanding of America's rich literary traditions. With consideration to the psychology of invention, Evory provides students with exercises aimed to make writing in its early stages a form of play that gives way to more enriching insights through revision and embracing the writing of poetry as both a love of language.
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Ovid's Metamorphoses
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Reading and Writing Successfully in College
Patricia Lynne · Framingham State University
This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
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Book: Art Appreciation (Error-Incomplete-Lumen)
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Western Civilization - A Concise History II
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College
Volume II addresses the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. This text covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
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The Discipline of Organizing
Robert J. Glushko · University of California at Berkeley
Every Organizing System involves a collection of resources, a choice of properties or principles used to describe and arrange resources, and ways of supporting interactions with resources. By comparing and contrasting how these activities take place in different contexts and domains, we can identify patterns of organizing. We can create a discipline of organizing in a disciplined way.
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Instructor Guide: Tarea Libre-First-Year Spanish
Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, Sarah Harmon & Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros · OERI
This is an instructor guide to Tarea Libre - a comprehensive and accessible Open Educational Resources question bank of 1,400 interactive activities created in LibreStudio and ADAPT for first-year Spanish courses for California Community Colleges.
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Philosophy Readings
Cathy Hagman and Glen Nesse · Whatcom Community College
Introduction to the problems, history and nature of philosophy with reading and discussion of selected writings from the Pre-Socrates to the present, focusing on traditional Western philosophical issues.
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A Dam Good Argument
Liz Delf, Rob Drummond, and Kristy Kelly · Oregon State University
Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer–from evidence to structure to tone–impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.
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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.