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Career and Life Planning
Graciela Martinez and Elizabeth Shaker · College of the Canyons
We are excited you have decided to take time to invest in your future. Career and life planning is a lifetime process and this text is designed to equip you with the tools necessary to navigate each step of the way. This text is divided into six units to guide you through the career exploration and planning process. The purpose of this text is to help you gain a better understanding of yourself, the world of work, and where you fit best. We hope you enjoy the process. Let’s get started!
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Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society (Reddy-Best, Elder and Hassall)
Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Abbey K Elder, and Lesya Hassall · Iowa State University
In the contents: 1.03: Identity Social Justice and Dress · 1.04: Social Science Theories
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Case Studies in Community Psychology Practice - A Global Lens (Palmer, Rogers, Viola and Engel)
Geraldine L. Palmer, Todd L. Rogers, Judah Viola, and Maronica Engel · LibreTexts
This textbook displays this work in a dynamic case study format that will ignite students' desire and passion to study and become future community psychologists or those whose heart beats with the beloved community. You can find community psychologists and allies partnering with communities to change racist policies, end health disparities, create alternate settings for youth, foster community-based models to heal trauma, evaluate programs, and much more!
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Analyzing Meaning - An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics
Paul Kroeger · Dallas International University
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters are organized into six units: (1) Foundational concepts; (2) Word meanings; (3) Implicature (including indirect speech acts); (4) Compositional semantics; (5) Modals, conditionals, and causation; (6) Tense & aspect.
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Gendered Lives: Global Issues
Nadine T. Fernandez and Katie Nelson Eds. · LibreTexts
Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North.
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ED 201: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Education
Melanie A. Leave · North Central Michigan College
In the contents: 3.06: Issues of Social Justice in the Early Childhood Classroom · 8.03: Gender as a Social Justice Issue
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Cultural Anthropology
Wikibook · LibreTexts
In the contents: 11: Social Stratification Power and Conflict · 11.1: Social Networks · 11.2: Social Groups
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The History of Our Tribe - Hominini
Barbara Welker · SUNY Geneseo
In the contents: 1.04: Primate Social Organization
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Building Democracy for All
Robert W. Maloy & Torrey Trust · University of Massachusetts
In the contents: 7.04: Digital News and Social Media · 8.1.01: Democracy in Social Media Policies and Community Standards · 8.2.01: Declarations of Independence on Social Media
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Inferring and Explaining
Jeffery L. Johnson · Portland State University
Inferring and Explaining is a book in practical epistemology. It examines the notion of evidence and assumes that good evidence is the essence of rational thinking. Evidence is the cornerstone of the natural, social, and behavioral sciences. But it is equally central to almost all academic pursuits and, perhaps most importantly, to the basic need to live an intelligent and reflective life.
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Introduction to Children with Exceptionalities
Dana Rethwisch · Palo Verde Community College
This book introduces learners to the many facets of special education. Readers are invited to explore a variety of disabilities that may qualify a child for individualized support services. Readers will learn about cognitive, physical, sensory, emotional, and developmental differences, along with the laws and instructional strategies that guide educational practice. Readers will also be invited to identify with the children presented in various scenarios.
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Intermediate Microeconomics with Excel
Humberto Barreto · DePauw University
This book is based on the idea that there is a particular framework used by economists to interpret observed reality. This framework has been called the economic way of thinking, the economic approach, and the method of economics. This book is different from the many other books that attempt to teach microeconomics by making student learn by doing, not by reading.
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Educational Psychology
Kelvin Seifert & Rosemary Sutton · Global Text Project
In the contents: 3.05: Social Development- Relationships Personal Motives and Morality
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Always Developing
Anne Baird · University of Windsor
In the contents: 2.02: Psychosocial Theory · 4.07: Psychosocial Development in Young Adulthood · 5.07: Psychosocial Development in Middle Adulthood
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Exploring Public Speaking 3e
Kris Barton and Barbara G. Tucker · Florida State University and University of Georgia
The text addresses all the material that an introductory public speaking course involves. This includes the value of public speaking, overcoming public speaking anxiety, listening and audience analysis; plagiarism and ethics; invention and thesis development; research; organization; introductions, conclusions, and transitions; supporting material; delivery; visual aids; language choices; informative speaking; persuasive speaking; logic and fallacies; and special occasion speeches.
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Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Diversity
Deanna Cozart et al. · University of Georgia
The fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching children from diverse backgrounds. Examination of the nature and function of culture, development of individual and group cultural identity, definitions and implications of diversity, and the influences of culture on learning, development, and pedagogy. This course has a required field experience component.
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Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach
Steven M. Graves · California State University, Northridge
Introduction to Human Geography: A Disciplinary Approach is a free eText designed for students enrolled in survey courses in Human/Cultural Geography or US Geography. Geography is a discipline that allows those who use it to ask questions, solve problems and communicate solutions about a wide range of issues. This text introduces readers to geography as discipline as it is used to better understand a variety of topics commonly of interest to geographers.
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Global Femicide: Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from Our Midst
Brenda Anderson, Shauneen Pete, Wendee Kubik, and Mary Rucklos-Hampton · University of Regina
This book underscores the common, interlocking effects of racism and sexism on Indigenous women. Family members, scholars and researchers, artists, activists and policy-makers provide their decade-long perspectives, providing testimony and evidence that sexualized and racialized violence is not only a product of historic colonization but continues to manifest in entrenched systems of colonization and global femicide. The analysis and the heart of all the authors is generously shared.
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SWHS 300: Introduction to Social Work/Human Services (Bradshaw)
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In the contents: 1.01: Introduction to Social Work · 1.03: Video- Legacies of Social Change · 4.3.01: How do social workers know what to do
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Blueprint for Success in College - Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies (Dillon)
Dave Dillon · Grossmont College
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