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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).
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Making Games with Python and Pygame
Al Sweigart · LibreTexts
In the contents: 2.06: Starting Python · 4.17: The “Start Game” Animation · 4.38: The "Start Game" Animation
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Open Educational Resources for Teaching and Learning
AJ Barse and Justina Brown · Western Washington University
The goal of this OER is to help participants get started creating OERs using the LibreTexts ebook platform. This OER will also act as a resource, and a primer, to the teaching and learning attributes behind OERs and Creative Commons content...
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Mindfulness for Lawyers
Justine Dunlap · University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Lawyer and law student distress have been a not-so-well-kept secret for decades. Fortunately, law schools have begun to address this problem, rather than viewing it as a necessary or even honorable rite of passage. For instance, law schools have incorporated wellness opportunities. They have also de-emphasized the use and misuse of alcohol as a lubricant to help students ignore the stress and distress.
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Working in the Food Service Industry
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
In the contents: 4.04: Working as a Part of a Team
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BIS 2B: Introduction to Biology - Ecology & Evolution
Laci M. Gerhart-Barley · University of California, Davis
In the contents: 2.05: Earth's Geologic History and Biodiversity · 3.01: Earth's Energy Budget
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A Cognitive Perspective on Emotion
Mark Pettinelli · Northeastern University
Some things in life cause people to feel, these are called emotional reactions. Some things in life cause people to think, these are sometimes called logical or intellectual reactions. Thus life is divided between things that make you feel and things that make you think. The question is, if someone is feeling, does that mean that they are thinking less? It probably does. If part of your brain is being occupied by feeling, then it makes sense that you have less capacity for thought.
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Food Safety Sanitation and Personal Hygiene
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills.
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MATH 241: Calculus 3
Justin Wyss-Gallifent · University of Maryland
In the contents: 3.04: Partial Derivatives
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Voces que cruzan fronteras: nuestra comunidad y la identidad multilingüe II
Nancy Domínguez-Fret and Megan Tzeitel Marshall · Northern Illinois University
Part Two of this textbook builds on the content, themes, and language development introduced in Part One. It draws on the stories and histories of the Latinx community in the Chicago area to engage students in further exploring language and identity while continuing to build on and expand their existing language skills. Its goal is to strengthen and support students’ linguistic and sociocultural connections to Spanish-speaking communities. Part Two can be used as a continuation of Part One or as
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An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Leo Moser · University of Alberta
In the contents: 1.01: Compositions and Partitions
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Solano Community College: Introduction to Criminal Justice
Alison S. Burke, David Carter, Brian Fedorek, Tiffany Morey, Lore Rutz-Burri, & Shanell Sanchez · Southern Oregon University
This course introduces students to the characteristics of the criminal justice system in the United States. Focus is placed on examining crime measurement, theoretical explanations of crime, responses to crime, components of the system, and current challenges to the system. The course examines the evolution of the principles and approaches utilized by the justice system and the evolving forces which have shaped those principals and approaches.
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Beginning Drawing
Laura Kramer · Palo Verde College
In the contents: 1.05: Themes of Art · 3.03: Exploring the Nuances of Line in Art- Line Quality Direction and Characteristics · 04: The Art Critique
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Nutrition for Nurses
Openstax · LibreTexts
Nutrition for Nurses is structured to support the flexible integration of nutrition content across both system-based and nursing competency-based curricula. It can be used whether nutrition is taught as a standalone course or part of another nursing course. The text emphasizes evidence-based practice and holistic assessment to facilitate the integration of nutritional awareness for pre-licensure nursing students in the provision of client-centered care.
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Basic Kitchen and Food Service Management
BC Cook Articulation Committee · BC Campus
Basic Kitchen and Food Service Management is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills.
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Intermediate Drawing: Techniques and Content
Melissa Delaney · Coalinga College
In the contents: 1.07: Essential Techniques for Artistic Composition · 02: The Art Critique · 2.03: The Process of Evaluating Art
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Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments
Ndjido A. Kane, Daniel Foncéka, and Timothy J. Dalton · Kansas State University
This book focuses on three important elements in the development of cereal and legume crops in semi-arid West Africa. The first section illustrates the socioeconomic factors that affect the food system for these crops with an overview of crop production and consumption in the region. The second section addresses the state of the art of phenotyping and the modeling of crop adaptation to dryland farming systems. The third section investigates the genetic diversity and improvement of dryland crops.
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Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy (Wargo)
Donald T. Wargo · Temple University
Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy is designed to help soon-to-be college graduates start their "real lives" with a better understanding of how to analyze the financial decisions that they will soon have to make. Written in an easy-to-read, conversational style, this textbook will help students learn how to make decisions on saving and investing for retirement, buying a car, buying a home, as well as how to safely navigate the use of debit and credit cards.
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Humanities: Prehistory to the 15th Century
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 1.03: Paleolithic Cave Art and Venus Figurines · 8.04: Art Architecture and Military and Technological Developments
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Project Management
Adrienne Watt · BCCampus Open Textbooks
People have been undertaking projects since the earliest days of organized human activity. The hunting parties of our prehistoric ancestors were projects. Large complex projects such as the pyramids and the Great Wall of China were also projects. We use the term “project” frequently in our daily conversations. This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control, and closeout that all projects share.