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Astronomy 10: The Solar System (Workbook)
Andrew Totah-McCarty · Chabot College
This is a student-led astronomy workbook that is designed for an introductory, college-level astronomy class that focuses on the solar system and planetary science. Celestial observation concepts are included but stars, galaxies, and cosmology are not. The activities are designed to be completed in groups prior to any formal lecture or introduction of material. Lecture summaries (not included) can review, synthesize, and expand on these ideas.
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Mapping, Society, and Technology
Steven Manson · University of Minnesota
This book is about how to read, use, and create maps. Our exploration of maps will be informed by a contextual understanding of how maps reflect the relationship between society and technology, and how mapping is an essential form of scientific and artistic inquiry. We will also explore how mapping is used to address a variety of societal issues, such as land use planning and political gerrymandering to selling yogurt.
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Music and the Child
Natalie Sarrazin · College at Brockport, SUNY
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement.
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Fundamentals, Function, and Form
Andre Mount & Lee Rothfarb · The State University of New York at Potsdam
This text provides readers with a comprehensive study of the theory and analysis of tonal Western art music. Author Andre Mount begins by building a strong foundation in the understanding of rhythm, meter, and pitch as well as the notational conventions associated with each. From there, he guides the reader through an exploration of polyphony—the simultaneous sounding of multiple independent melodies—and an increasingly rich array of different sonorites that grow out of this practice.
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Physics 9HC: Introduction to Waves, Physical Optics, and Quantum Theory
Tom Weideman · University of California, Davis
In the contents: Particle Mess · 6.1: Particle-in-a-Box Part 1 · 6.2: Particle-in-a-Box Part 2
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Culinary Foundations
Randy Cheramie and William R. Thibodeaux · Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University
In the contents: 11.02: Measurement and Conversion Charts
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Beginning Chemistry
Ball · LibreTexts
This is an introductory chemistry text aimed for a single semester or quarter beginning experience to the field. This text surveys some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give student enough knowledge to appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life and, if necessary, prepare student for additional instruction in chemistry.
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Beginning Chemistry
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This textmap is an introductory chemistry text aimed for a single semester or quarter beginning experience to the field. The textmaps survey some of the basic topics of chemistry. This survey should give student enough knowledge to appreciate the impact of chemistry in everyday life and, if necessary, prepare student for additional instruction in chemistry.
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Biophysical Chemistry
Serge L. Smirnov and James McCarty · Western Washington University
We wrote this text to serve as the primary source for a series of Biophysical Chemistry courses that we regularly teach as faculty members of the Chemistry Department at Western Washington University, which serve the needs of undergraduate Biochemistry program. The present text is based on the assumption of what WWU Biochemistry majors know and do not know at the time they enter their final year of study toward Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry.
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HKIN 110: Human Anatomy I for Kinesiology
Colin Wallace · Okanagan College
In the contents: 2.07: Cartilage · 2.7A: Structure Type and Location of Cartilage · 2.7B: Cartilage Growth
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Introductory Physics: Building Models to Describe Our World
Ryan D. Martin, Emma Neary, Joshua Rinaldo, and Olivia Woodman · Queen's University
In the contents: 11.02: Rotational dynamics for a single particle · 22.01: The Biot-Savart Law
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Introduction to Nutrition (2e)
Department of Nutrition · Metropolitan State University of Denver
In the contents: 5.05: Understanding Blood Cholesterol and Heart Disease
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Writing Spaces - Web Writing Style Guide
Matt Barton, James Kalmbach, & Charles Lowe et al. · LibreTexts
The Writing Spaces Web Writing Style Guide was created as a crowdsourcing project of Collaborvention 2011: A Computers and Writing Unconference. College writing teachers from around the web joined together to create this guide. The advice within it is based on contemporary theories and best practices. While the text was originally written for students in undergraduate writing classes, it can also be a suitable resource for other writers interested in learning more about writing for the web.
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Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care
Doyle and McCutcheon · British Columbia Institute of Technology
The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways.
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Teaching AI Ethics
Leon Furze · LibreTexts
And yet, as much as I enjoy working with the technology, it has many flaws. I think it’s our responsibility to discuss the ethical considerations of AI with our students. AI ethics goes beyond the well-documented “algorithmic bias” that results in language models like ChatGPT producing racist and sexist output. In this article, I will explore nine ethical considerations ranging from “beginner” to “intermediate” and “advanced” levels.
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Principles of Strategic Management
Precha Thavikulwat · Towson University
In the contents: 4.2: Presentation-Participation Assignment
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Calculus II: Integral Calculus
Doli Bambhania, Neelam R. Shukla & Danny Tran · De Anza College
In the contents: 3.01: Integration by Parts · 3.04: Partial Fractions
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Tutorials of Visual Graphic Communication Programs for Interior Design
Yongyeon Cho · Iowa State University
In the contents: 01: Part One. AutoCAD · 02: Part Two. Revit · 03: Part Three. Enscape
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Numerically Solving Ordinary Differential Equations
Stuart Brorson · Northeastern University
The booklet covers basic Euler solvers, Runge-Kutta, and linear multistep methods and discusses explicit vs. implicit methods. It discusses stability and the stability domains of some of the methods and talks about adaptive methods and the concept of stiffness and concluding with a chapter on symplectic methods and why they are important. Beyond the solver algorithms, the book includes many example ODEs and shows their solutions using the methods discussed. Matlab programs accompany the text.
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Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces
Jason Foster and Bob Barnetson · Athabasca University
Workplace injuries happen every day and can profoundly affect workers, their families, and the communities they live in. This textbook provides workers with an introduction to effective injury prevention. The book pays particular attention to how issues of precarious employment, gender, and ill health can be better handled in Canadian occupational health and safety (OHS).