Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Digital Journalism for Communities
Michael Humphrey · Johnson County Community College
A look at the core concepts and practice of journalism and how journalism is changing in today's digital world.
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Mastering Open Ed: Licensing, Accessibility, Creation, and Publishing OER
eCampus Onterio · LibreTexts
Mastering Open Ed, by eCampusOntario, is an essential guide for educators looking to adopt and create Open Educational Resources (OER). It provides insights into open licensing, sourcing quality OER, and using tools like Pressbooks and H5P to create engaging, accessible content. This Pressbook empowers educators to overcome financial barriers in education, contributing to a more accessible, equitable educational landscape.
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SOC 002 Social Issues and Problems
Boundless (now LumenLearning) · Boundless
This text address the analysis of selected social problems, including race relations, urban decay, suburban sprawl, crime, population problems, environment, and changes in the familial, economic and political institutions.
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College Success
Cengage Learning · LibreTexts
Students first discover what they want from their education, then build a plan to get there. This content takes students through the steps to successfully navigate their journey in higher education. Topics include planning for success, choosing a career path, setting and attaining goals, understanding financial management, developing critical thinking skills, making healthy choices, using effective communication, managing time, developing learning strategies, developing meaningful relationships.
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Psychology of Language
Dinesh Ramoo · Thompson Rivers University
In this textbook, students are introduced to the fundamental principles of linguistics and psycholinguistics. Students will explore theories and models of language development, comprehension and production as well as bilingualism and reading. All of these topics are approached from a Canadian perspective and include ideas from indigenous cultures and languages of Canada.
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Strategies for Success in a Nursing Program
Lisa Harding, Alex Rockey and Joselle Merritt · Bakersfield College
This course will provide information and skills that facilitate student success in any college-level course as well as in the allied health programs. An overview of the registered Nursing program requirements and expectations are discussed. Career options, time management skills, budget management, personal values, and cultural diversity are additional topics of exploration.
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The Story of Earth - An Observational Guide
Daniel Hauptvogel and Virginia Sisson · University of Houston
Our goal in creating the material for this lab manual was to focus heavily on students making observations of geologic data, whether rocks, minerals, fossils, maps, graphs, and other things. We want students to look at things and wonder why, how, and when. The exercises and examples used in this book are scattered throughout the world. We wanted to make sure that one region of the world was not the sole focus of this work.
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Eloquent JavaScript
Marijn Haverbeke · LibreTexts
This is a book about JavaScript, programming, and the wonders of the digital. JavaScript lies at the heart of almost every modern web application, from social apps like Twitter to browser-based game frameworks like Phaser and Babylon. Though simple for beginners to pick up and play with, JavaScript is a flexible, complex language that you can use to build full-scale applications.
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Interpersonal Communication
Kelsey Paiz · Diablo Valley College
This text covers verbal and nonverbal skills, active listening, self-concept, and conflict resolution. It meets general education requirements and transfers to CSU and UC systems for communication studies.
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Archaeology: It's More Than Digging In The Dirt
Crystal Scheib · HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
This textbook will help you better understand archaeology and how it acquires knowledge about humans based solely on the material culture of the people being studied. You’ll learn how archaeologists do fieldwork and analyze human behaviors and patterns. Additionally, you’ll see how archaeologists use multiple types of data and evidence to draw conclusions about how humans have lived and adapted to the environment.
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Introduction to Genetics
Natasha Ramroop Singh · Thompson Rivers University
Genetics, otherwise known as the Science of Heredity, is the study of biological information, and how this information is stored, replicated, transmitted and used by subsequent generations. The study of genetics can be sub-divided into three main areas: Transmission Genetics, Molecular Genetics, and Population Genetics. In this Introductory text, the focus is on Transmission or Classical Genetics, which deals with the basic principles of heredity and the mechanisms by which traits are passed fro
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An Introduction to Computer Networks
Peter Lars Dordal · Loyola University of Chicago
This text is a free and open general-purpose computer-networking textbook, complete with diagrams and exercises.It covers the LAN, internetworking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing, real-time traffic, network management, security and the ns simulator.
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Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research
Emily Willard, Emma Macdonald-Scott, and Jake Lally · University of Washington
Our hope is that this guide to citing personal experience and interviews meets our goal of supporting students to produce their own knowledge, as well as honoring the academic value of their lived experience and the experiences of their families and communities. Through the use of a set of guidelines we created for students to cite personal experience and interviews, we found students self-reported increase in engagement and success in academic assignments.
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PLSC 261: Introduction to Political Theory
Vicki Hsueh and Shirin Deylami · Western Washington University
The following readings have been curated especially for PLSC 261: Introduction to Political Theory. They reflect the broad and complicated debates in Western political thought from Ancient Athens to our contemporary moment.
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Sustainable Property Management (Hopkins)
Erin A. Hopkins · Virginia Tech
This textbook explains how ecologically sustainable concepts may be implemented throughout the property management operation functions while also considering the other spheres of sustainability. It also incorporates the theme of sustainable building practices as a human science as well as a building science by highlighting motivations and impacts to various stakeholders.
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International Relations: Politics, Power, and Global Connections
Robert Stockwell · De Anza College
This textbook is the product of the Political Science Department at De Anza College. It is designed to provide the basis for a quarter-long introductory course in International Relations for an undergraduate, community college student audience.
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Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
Deborah P. Amory et al. · Milne Publishing
Designed for an introductory course, this textbook takes a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of LGBTQ+ issues that helps students grasp core concepts through a variety of different perspectives.
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An Introduction to Psychological Statistics
Garett Foster · University of Missouri St. Lousi
We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just randomness.
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Our Lives - An Ethnic Studies Primer
Guadalupe Capozzi, Silas Cha, & Daryl Johnson · CC ECHO
This book is an introduction or primer to ethnic studies and is not a complete or comprehensive review of the literature. We identified and included major concepts, theories, perspectives, and voices in ethnic studies with research from anthropology, history, political science, psychology, and sociology to offer an inclusive approach for critical inquiry.
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Culture and Psychology
L. D. Worthy, Trisha Lavigne, & Fernando Romero · Glendale Community College
Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements.