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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.
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2.7: Cohesion and Transition Words
Gabriel Winer and Elizabeth Wadell · Berkeley City College and Laney College
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Understanding Music - Past and Present
Clark, Heflin, Kluball, & Kramer · University System of Georgia
Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.
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World Religions I
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
World religions is a category used in the study of religion to demarcate the four—and in some cases more—largest and most internationally widespread religious movements. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism are always included in the list, being known as the "Big Four". Some scholars also include other world religions, such as Judaism, Sikhism, Taoism, the Baháʼí Faith, Jainism, Confucianism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism, in the category.
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World History Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
Eugene Berger et al. · Georgia Gwinnett College
This text offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia.
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Introduction to College-level Research
Iowa State University Library Instruction Services · LibreTexts
You will learn how scholarly information is produced, organized, and accessed; how to construct and use effective search strategies in a variety of web tools and scholarly databases; how to choose finding tools appropriate to the type of information you need; critical thinking skills in the evaluation of resources; and best practices in the ethical use of information.
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Art History I & II
Professor Paula · Lake Tahoe Community College
This book was created specifically for Lake Tahoe Community College's Incarcerated/Detained students. This course was built to fulfill a general education requirement of Arts and Humanities. In collaboration with LibreText, this book has been made available at a low cost to the college and subsidized from the college to all students in the program.
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Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
This chapter offers instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing, critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and proper documentation through the study of literary works from major genres, while developing students’ close reading skills and promoting an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of literature.
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Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche
Jessalynn Bird · Saint Mary's College Notre Dame
The famous tale of Cupid and Psyche from Apuleius's The Golden Ass, translated and edited by John Shinners, with notes and illustrations by Brittany Blagburn and Jessalynn Bird.
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Grammar Essentials
Excelsior Online Writing Lab · LibreTexts
The Grammar Essentials area of the Excelsior OWL will provide you with a thorough overview of punctuation, grammar and usage, and some of the most common errors students in the United States struggle with. And, by using a little humor, we hope that this introduction into grammar and punctuation (using zombies, memes, and funny stories) will be a little less painful than when you were in junior high and had to do things like memorize prepositions or diagram sentences.
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Voices of Resistance: Gender, Identity, and Power in Women's Literature
Helen Doss · City Colleges of Chicago
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Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
Matthew Van Cleave · Lansing Community College
This is an introductory textbook in logic and critical thinking. The goal of the textbook is to provide the reader with a set of tools and skills that will enable them to identify and evaluate arguments. The book is intended for an introductory course that covers both formal and informal logic. As such, it is not a formal logic textbook, but is closer to what one would find marketed as a“critical thinking textbook.”
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Puertas y Puentes: An Intermediate I Spanish Course (Edition 2.5)
Kim Armstrong · Franklin & Marshall College
Puertas y puentes uses a communicative approach to continue students' journeys as learners of Spanish and Hispanic Culture. With five main chapters and an ancillary chapter with additional activities, each chapter focuses on a different country and theme with complementing vocabulary and grammatical structures.
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Introduction to Arabic II
Hanaa Alkassas · ASCCC
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How to Write an Academic Paper: A Guidebook 1e
Ben Jameson · Chabot College
This guidebook should act as a companion for students seeking support writing their academic papers. It covers a process for planning and developing "argumentative" style essays. It can also help teachers give guidance to students when assigning essays. This book was written by Professor Ben Jameson of Chabot and Los Medanos Colleges. He has been teaching English since 2019. In this guidebook, he did his best to walk the reader through the same process he demonstrates in his college comp. class.
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The Roadrunner’s Guide to English
Jenny Crisp · Dalton University
This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.
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Thematic Reading Anthology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This anthology is a curated collection of openly licensed primary texts, organized thematically, designed to be used as a reader in English composition courses. Includes personal essays, literature, video and audio files, Web writings, and long-form journalism, along with customizable assignments and instructor resources. This anthology was initially curated using materials from a variety of open sources.