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Personality Theory in a Cultural Context
Mark D. Kelland · Lansing Community College
When you first think of personality, what comes to mind? When we refer to certain people as being “personalities,” we usually mean they are famous, people like movie stars or your favorite band. When we describe a person as having “lots of personality,” we usually mean they are outgoing and fun-loving, the kind of person we like to spend time with. But does this tell us anything about personality itself?
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An Introduction to Matlab and Mathcad
Troy Siemers · Virginia Military Institute
This textbook, or really a “coursebook” for a college freshman-level class, has been updated for Spring 2014 and provides an introduction to programming and problem solving using both Matlab and Mathcad. We provide a balanced selection of introductory exercises and real-world problems (i.e. no “contrived” problems). We include many examples and screenshots to guide the reader. We assume no prior knowledge of Matlab or Mathcad.
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Math 111: College Algebra
Highline College
This texts address applications of functions (linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic) in business and social sciences, including total cost revenue and profit; break-even analysis; supply/demand and market equilibrium; exponential growth and decay; fitting curves to data with graphing utilities; theory of matrices; graphical methods for optimization (linear programming problems); and mathematics of finance (arithmetic and geometric sequences and sums).
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Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood
Laura Daly · Woodland Community College
In the contents: 2.07: Harry Harlow and the Science of Comfort and Contact
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Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Kang, Lessard, & Heston · University of Massachusett Amherst
This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements.
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Creative Development in Young Child
Donna King · Irvine Valley College
Creative Development in Young Children (HD131) is an early childhood education course exploring how children's creative and artistic abilities grow. It teaches educators how to nurture divergent thinking, support symbolic representation in art, and design environments that encourage imaginative play and sensory exploration.
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CHEM 145: FA22 Van Bramer
Scott Van Bramer · Widener University
This is the first semester of a two-semester introductory chemistry sequence for science, engineering, and pre-med programs. Topics include elements, atomic structure, molecular structure, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, thermochemistry, gases, liquids, and solids.
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Clickbait Bias and Propaganda in Information Networks
Fister et al. · LibreTexts
Based on Mike Caulfield's Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, this is a short handbook for understanding and evaluating information in a networked environment that bombards us with misinformation, opinion, news, satire, memes, and all the feels.
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UTSC First-Year Chemistry Version 2
Marco Zimmer-De Iuliis · University of Toronto
This book has been written to accompany first-year chemistry courses at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). It includes end-of-chapter problems with full solutions. It also includes tenured faculty member's biography and highlights their research as it relates to the content of the chapter. You will also find biographies of under-represented chemists and their contributions to the chemical sciences. The content authored and curated by faculty, graduate and undergraduate students.
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3.4: Maturity
Michael Rygel and Page Quinton · SUNY Potsdam
Textural maturity refers the the size and shape of grains and the nature of interstitial materials. Compositional maturity refers to the composition of framework grains. A complex set of processes influences these characteristics
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Criminology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
The book examines crime, criminal behavior, and the justice system's response. It covers key criminological theories, the social factors contributing to crime, and the various types of crime, such as white-collar, organized, and violent crime. It also discusses the roles of law enforcement, courts, and corrections, as well as issues like inequality and reform. The book aims to provide a broad understanding of criminology in contemporary society.
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Early Childhood Literacy Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers - Birth to Age 5
Christine Pegorraro Schull, Leslie La Croix, Sara E. Miller, Kimberly Sanders Austin, and Julie K. Kidd · Virtual Library of Virginia
This textbook, Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers – Birth to Age 5, provides a comprehensive introduction to emergent literacy development in early childhood education (ECE). It emphasizes that literacy begins well before formal reading and writing instruction and develops through children’s relationships, language experiences, play, home environments, and interactions with books and writing materials.
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Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration
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Career/Life Planning and Personal Exploration is designed to cover theories and concepts of values, interests, skills and personality as applied to the career/life planning process and its application to labor market trends. Short/long term career/life plans will be developed. Students will develop an awareness of diversity and its relationship to psychological, sociological and physiological forces within the workplace.
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Child, Family, and Community
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives.
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Chem 4B Lab: General Chemistry for Majors II
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Chemistry is an experimental science. Thus, it is important that students of chemistry do experiments in the laboratory to more fully understand that the theories they study in lecture and in their textbook are developed from critical evaluation of experimental data. The laboratory can also aid the student in the study of science by clearly illustrating the principles and concepts involved.
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ENGL LING 200 Introduction to Linguistics
Sarah Harmon · Cañada College
The origin, development, acquisition, and evolution of spoken and written languages are studied in this course. Topics include phonetics/phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
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Introduction to Public Health
Fabiane Morales · Coastline College
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Critical Disability: Power, Identity, and Systems Change
Dora Raymaker · Portland State University
Despite how common disability is, people with disabilities remain both systemically and systematically disempowered, devalued, and marginalized. Critical disability offers tools to perceive the mechanisms behind these inequities. Once exposed, it is possible to understand them them. Once understood, it is possible to change them.
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Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments - Graduate Student Perspectives
Barbara Brown et al. · University of Calgary
This book is the result of a co-design project in a class in the Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary. The course, and the resulting book, focus primarily on the safe and ethical use of technology in digital learning environments. The course was organized according to four topics based on Farrow’s (2016) Framework for the Ethics of Open Education.
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AP Comparative Government and Politics
Nina Sprouse · Mizzou Academy
Comparative politics study other countries, citizens, and political units, and analyzes the similarities and differences between those groups. This textbook, Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics, has been edited for clarity. In addition, relevant images have been included. This version will be used for the AP Comparative Government and Politics course offered at Mizzou Academy.