Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Internship: Music
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This resource is designed to provide support for the supervised on-the-job internship (paid or non-paid) experience in heritage music venues including regional tourist and performance venues such as The Crooked Road venues, museums featuring heritage music exhibits, recording studios, music instruction in summer and JAM camps.
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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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American Literature I
Anne Eidenmuller · Columbia Basin College
American Literature I (1650–1860) examines significant literary works of early American and Puritan literature, the Enlightenment, American Romanticism, and pre-Civil War era. The course includes primary texts (many accompanied by video/audio options), historical background, literary criticism and interpretation, and instruction on writing about literature.
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Intermediate Biblical Greek Reader - Galatians and Related Texts
Nijay K. Gupta & Jonah M. Sandford · George Fox University
This intermediate graded reader is designed to move from simpler translation work (Galatians) towards more advanced readings from the book of James, the Septuagint, and from one of the Church Fathers. In each reading lesson, the Greek text is given, followed by supplemental notes that offer help with vocabulary, challenging word forms, and syntax. Discussion questions are also included to foster group conversation and engagement.
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Empowering Learners of Spanish
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The text shares with students and educators the Empowering Learners of Spanish project from Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. This collection of activities based on Critical Pedagogies developed in the Spanish as a Heritage Language program at the University of Oregon, serves to introduce students to a range of concepts in sociolinguistics and critical inquiry into language ideologies.
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The Process of Research Writing
Steven D. Krause · Eastern Michigan University
This research writing textbook suitable for teachers and students in research oriented composition and rhetoric classes. A lot of times, instructors and students tend to separate “thinking,” “researching,” and “writing” into different categories that aren't necessarily very well connected. First you think, then you research, and then you write. The reality is though that the possibilities and process of research writing are more complicated and much richer than that.
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SPA 002: La Quinceañera
Ana Ortega Pérez, Lani Lopez Bastidas, Faith Blackhurst, Lillian Jones, Blanca Peraza · University of California, Davis
This SPA 002 textbook that is an introduction to Spanish grammar and development of all language skills in a cultural context with special emphasis on communication. These curricula were developed around a series of context-specific readers created by our graduate students and faculty; the course grammar and vocabulary were taken directly from these readers so that students could see content in context, and course activities from reading/culture workshops to writing practice were also designed.
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Basic Khmer
Vathanak Sok · Michigan State University
This online interactive theme-based open textbook is for beginner learners of the Khmer language. This book aims to provide a practical introduction to speaking, listening, and reading. By the end of this course, students will be at the B1 level of the Common Framework for Language and at the low intermediate level on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency scales.
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Animals & Ethics 101 - Thinking Critically About Animal Rights
Nathan Nobis · Morehouse College
This book provides an overview of the current debates about the nature and extent of our moral obligations to animals. Which, if any, uses of animals are morally wrong, which are morally permissible (i.e., not wrong) and why? What, if any, moral obligations do we, individually and as a society (and a global community), have towards animals and why? How should animals be treated? Why? We will explore the most influential and most developed answers to these questions.
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Peter and Wendy
J. M. Barrie · LibreTexts
"Peter and Wendy" by J. M. Barrie is a novel published in 1911, adapted from his 1904 play. It tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous boy who can fly and never grows up. He invites Wendy Darling and her brothers to the magical island of Neverland, home to mermaids, fairies, and pirates. There they encounter the Lost Boys and the menacing Captain Hook, experiencing adventures that blur the line between childhood wonder and danger.
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Competing Visions: A History of California
Robert W. Cherny, Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, & Richard Griswold del Castillo · LibreTexts
The decision to write this textbook grew out of our experience teaching California history to an increasingly diverse student population. Our classrooms contain an exciting mix of students from a myriad of ethnic, multiethnic, international, gender, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Their levels of academic readiness also differ, and nearly all are products of a visual, rather than print-oriented, culture.
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Elementary Chinese I
Wenying Zhou · Michigan State University
This textbook is designed for beginners learning Chinese as a second/foreign language and aims to introduce learners to standard Chinese pronunciation, character knowledge, basic conversational phrases, grammar and vocabulary use, and cultural knowledge. Throughout the eight chapters, learners will explore: greetings and self-introduction, hobbies, nationalities, family members and occupations, inviting friends to dinner, talking about food and beverage, and talking about classes and exams.
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Open Technical Writing An Open-Access Text for Instruction in Technical and Professional Writing
Adam Rex Pope · University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.
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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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Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus · LibreTexts
In the following pages will be found a translation of two of the Aeschylus greatest compositions, viz., the "Prometheus Chained" and the "Seven Against Thebes." The first of these dramas has been designated "The sublimest poem and simplest tragedy of antiquity," and the second, while probably an earlier work and containing much that is undramatic, presents such a splendid spectacle of true Grecian chivalry that it has been regarded as the equal of anything which the author ever attempted.
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Ventana al mundo: Curso intermedio de la lengua española - Español 104*
na Gómez de Torres · Alan Hancock College
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Abre el mundo
Annette M. Gillum · Angelina College
Abre el mundo is a beginning level Spanish textbook focused on giving students the vocabulary and grammar they need in order to complete communicative tasks. Grammar is introduced through examples and through basic explanations. Links to outside websites are provided for students who wish to access more in depth explanations in English. The language lab consists of learning logs that guide the students in crafting their own journey in learning by using what is already available online.
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Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí!
Jenny Ceciliano and Lisa Notman · Portland State University
Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí! focuses on the development of communication skills in interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes while centering student voices. Activities engage learners in real exchanges of information on topics that are relevant to adult students. In addition to language-acquisition learning outcomes, this text supports learning outcomes in diversity, equity, inclusion, cultural sustainability, and social justice.
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Material Matters
Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
Food, housing, and job insecurity are some of the issues that we face, along with others in our community. These issues happen in a backdrop of materialism, which we explore here.
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ESL 304 Intermediate High ESL
Gizelle Ponzillo · Santa Ana College
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