Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Introduction to Digital Media
Gabrielle Brixey · Coalinga College
Introduction to Digital Media" provides a comprehensive overview of essential digital media skills, covering topics such as Photoshop, illustration, Adobe InDesign, and layout. The book also explores interactive design, time-based media, 3D fundamentals, and current digital media tools and trends, offering insights into career opportunities in this dynamic field.
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Introduction to Art Concepts
Lumen · LibreTexts
The Introduction to Art Concepts provides a foundational exploration of art, emphasizing its cultural, historical, and social contexts. It covers key themes such as the principles of design, elements of art, various media, and the diverse roles art plays in society. The book introduces major movements and styles, encouraging critical thinking about how art reflects and influences human experiences.
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Spanish for Heritage Speakers
Margarita Casas · Linn-Benton Community College
Los siguientes materiales han sido escritos para usarlos en cursos de hablantes de herencia del español. Las primeras 3 unidades fueron creadas como OER y las comparto a continuación, esperando que les sean de utilidad.
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Write or Left
Sybil Priebe · North Dakota State College of Science
In this book, we'll go over some of the general principles of writing practices as well as advice and tips on how to write creatively, but mainly, you’ll be introduced to as many genres and categories as possible. We won’t get bogged down in doing the writing process “perfectly” or creating “perfect literature.” The goal is to learn about as many genres as possible, practice writing in those genres, and get feedback.
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The Bible and Music Author
James F. McGrath · Butler University
James F. McGrath’s The Bible and Music offers what no previous textbook on the subject has before. It provides an overview of the intersection of the Bible and music, from ancient Israelite music and the musical notation in ancient Hebrew manuscripts to the reception of the Bible in classical, rock, hip hop, country, and other genres, alongside embedded videos allowing readers to listen as they read. This textbook does all that and more and, as an open textbook, it costs nothing.
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ENG 231: World Literature I
Brendan Shapiro · College of Southern Nevada
This textbook of world literature covers the time period from earliest texts to c1651. In the “Professor’s Introductions” that precede each reading, you will find information to guide and enhance your understanding of the reading selections themselves. The introductions are based on close analysis of each of the readings presented here, and intensive scrutiny of their social and historical contexts. Readings themselves are all from openly licensed and/or Public Domain sources.
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Modern Philosophy
Walter Ott and Alex Dunn · University of Virginia
This is a textbook (or better, a workbook) in modern philosophy. It combines readings from primary sources with two pedagogical tools. Paragraphs in italics introduce figures and texts. Numbered study questions (also in italics) ask students to reconstruct an argument or position from the text, or draw connections among the readings.
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Listening to The World
Antoni Pizà · City College of New York
Listen to the world. Explore music from around the globe. Acquaint yourself with a variety of international music styles and traditions. Investigate issues in popular music from both a social perspective (such as race, religion, language, economics, gender, diaspora, and politics), as well as an intrinsically musical position (beat, pitch, meter, rhythm, form, timbre, texture).
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Fundamental Methods of Logic
Matthew Knachel · University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Fundamental Methods of Logic is suitable for a one-semester introduction to logic/critical reasoning course. It covers a variety of topics at an introductory level. Chapter One introduces basic notions, such as arguments and explanations, validity and soundness, deductive and inductive reasoning; it also covers basic analytical techniques, such as distinguishing premises from conclusions and diagramming arguments.
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Spanish 1B
Sara Jacome-Thompson · Evergreen Valley College
Spanish 1B is the second of two courses designed to develop the basic ability to understand, speak, read, and write in Spanish. Its content also includes the cultural aspects of Spain and Latin America. This is a 5-unit, letter grade-only course, and the continuation of Spanish 1A.
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2.34: New Historicism
Jill Bonds · Coalinga College
This page examines the relationship between history and literature, contrasting early linear views with New Historicism's perspective of dynamic cultural interplay. It highlights examples like Yeats's "Easter, 1916" and Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to showcase literature as both a reflection of and response to historical contexts.
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Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · Open Educational Resources Initiative
This text 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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Writing and Literature - Composition as Inquiry, Learning, Thinking, and Communication
Tanya Long Bennett · University of North Georgia
Writing and Literature builds a new conversation covering various genres of literature and writing. Students learn the various writing styles appropriate for analyzing, addressing, and critiquing these genres including poetry, novels, dramas, and research writing. The text and its pairing of helpful visual aids throughout emphasizes the importance of critical reading and analysis in producing a successful composition.
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The Death of Ivan Ilich
Gary R. Jahn · University of Minnesota
The Russian text of "The Death of Ivan Ilich" is presented for study in various formats: accompanied by an English translation; fully glossed, with explanatory and interpetive annotations; and supplemented by introductory remarks and an extensive bibliography.
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Methods of Discovery - Online Writing Guide
Pavel Zemliansky · Oslo Metropolitan University
Methods of Discovery by Pavel Zemliansky is an online writing guide that presents research writing as a rhetorical process. It teaches research across multiple genres, covers both scholarly and non-academic sources, includes multimedia and online resources, offers flexible activities for different courses and audiences.
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Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
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3.2: Anderson, Karen "Six Short Essays" (2017)
Jill Bonds · Coalinga College
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SmartHistory of Art I - Prehistoric Art
SmartHistory · LibreTexts
Humans make art. We do this for many reasons and with whatever technologies are available to us. But what can we really know about their creators and what the images originally meant? The Paleolithic period covers - c. 10,000 B.C.E. The Neolithic from c. 10,0000 B.C.E. - 2000 B.C.E. This book has 54 pages when printed
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Grammar Essentials
Excelsior Online Writing Lab · Excelsior College
We speak of this as usage. There are far more usage rules than grammar rules, and they are far more difficult to master. Many of them you just have to learn; and, after you learn them, you have to use them over and over and over in order to incorporate them into your language.