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Nobody Wants a Boring Speech: Connect and Make It Matter
Joel Sakakihara, Russell Hong, and David A. Hamilton · De Anza College
Public speaking is a skill that grows with practice, preparation, and purpose. This accessible guide helps students develop their voice, connect with audiences, and communicate ideas confidently and ethically—in the classroom, workplace, community, and beyond.
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Oceans of Data
Tasha Gownaris · Gettysburg College
This introductory oceanography book explores the oceans as interconnected geological, chemical, physical, and biological systems. Topics include plate tectonics, ocean sediments, seawater properties, climate and circulation, carbon cycling, ocean acidification, El Niño, and marine productivity, showing how ocean processes shape Earth’s climate, ecosystems, and environment.
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Stand Up, Speak Out 3e
Jason Wrench, Anne Goding, Danette Ifert Johnson, and Bernardo Alexander Attias · Milne Library Publishing
Public speaking in the twenty-first century is both an art and a science that has developed over millennia. In a world bombarded by information, the ability to communicate ideas clearly and confidently is more essential than ever. Stand Up, Speak Out guides students through the speechmaking process, from audience analysis to the final presentation.
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Polymer Chemistry
David Whisnant · Wofford College
Polymers are giant molecules (also called macromolecules) that are essential to our existence. They are important chemicals in our bodies (proteins, DNA), in plants (starch, cellulose), and in our everyday lives (fibers, plastics). Polymers are made by transforming small molecules (monomers) into molecules with very large molecular weights. Although the chemical properties of polymers are similar to those of analogous small molecules, their physical properties are quite different.
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Communicating with Purpose
Alexandra Briggs · Northampton Community College
How did humans develop the ability to communicate? What purpose does communication serve in our lives? Is it possible not to communicate? Answers to these historical, anthropological, and social-scientific questions provide part of the diversity of knowledge that makes up the field of communication studies. As a student of communication, you will learn that there is much more to the field than public speaking.
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Molecular Therapeutics
Elvin D. de Araujo, Bilal Saqib, Jeffrey W. Keillor, and Patrick T. Gunning · eCampus Onterio
This resource seeks to provide a comprehensive introduction into topics in basic life sciences blended with pharmaceutical chemistry by providing an overview of the different drugs that are available on the market and their mechanism-of-action. This includes clinical drugs used in blood clotting, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, and neuropathic pain. Each episode highlights a specific class of drugs, the underlying physiology of the disease it treats, the fundamental chemistry principles behind the dru
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Child Growth and Development
Paris, Ricardo, Rymond and Johnson · College of the Canyons
This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.
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Developmental Psychology Childhood-Adolescence (IVC Psyc/HD 7)
Hartrisha Kaur Uchida · Irvine Valley College
This course presents a study of the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial processes of human development from conception through adolescence. It introduces the theories, research, and applications that constitute the field of child development both typical and atypical, examining both traditional approaches and recent innovations. Topics address the physical, motor, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social areas of development.
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Early Childhood Literacy
Alice Hale · Chabot College
Introduction to the language and literacy development domain in the California Preschool Learning Foundations and Frameworks including the strands of listening and speaking, reading, and writing. Provides practical considerations for implementing the curriculum frameworks developed for this domain.
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Understanding Sound
David Abbott · Buffalo State College
The overarching goal of this book is to introduce non-scientists to the basic science of sound. The hope is that readers become more inquisitive, careful and informed listeners to the world around them. Along the way, you might develop an appreciation of the perspectives of science and learn (or relearn) some basic math and/or physics.
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Introduction to Narrative Journalism
Benjamin Wielechowski · University of Michigan-Dearborn
This textbook was created for beginning narrative journalists exploring the craft. It is inspired by the Narrative Journalism course at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and it is intended to be used as a guide and handbook. It is structured around the five elements of fiction, and provides both instruction and student examples of various narrative journalism projects.
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Research Methods in Psychology
Carrie Cuttler et al. · Washington State University
In the contents: 01: The Science of Psychology · 01.0: Prelude to the Science of Psychology · 01.2: Understanding Science
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Afrofuturism Across the African Diaspora: Empowering Black Students Through Literature
Patricia France and Hajra Ismail Yacooboli · College of Marin
In the contents: 3.03: Poetry- Human Interaction Imagery Science
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COM 1090: Interpersonal Communication - Among Family, Friends and at Work
Joel Whitaker · Prince George's Community College
Study the fundamentals of communication and the arts to prepare for a future career or four-year program.
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The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets
Andrew Barkley · Kansas State University
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets is written for applied intermediate microeconomics courses.
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Introduction to Philosophy - Philosophy of Religion
Branson et al. · Rebus Publishing
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion introduces some of the major traditional arguments for and against the existence of God, as well as some less well-known, but thought-provoking arguments for the existence of God, and one of the most important new challenges to religious belief from the Cognitive Science of Religion.
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Engineering: An Introduction for High School
Dale Baker, Ed.D., Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Ph.D., Stephen Krause, Darryl Morrell, Chell Roberts, & Janel White-Taylor · CK-12
In the contents: 05: Connecting Science and Mathematics to Engineering · 5.01: About Connecting Science and Mathematics to Engineering · 5.02: Case History- How Math Science and Engineering Led to the First Pocket Radio
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ECE: Field Experience 1
Autumn Gill · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This textbook for the early childhood education field experience introduces the WMELS and the teaching cycle. It explores developmentally appropriate practice, play and assessment, applying the teaching cycle, developing learning experiences, caregiving routines, individualized support, licensing requirements, ethics and professional responsibilities, professional communication and interpersonal skills, diversity and inclusion practices, and behavior strategies.
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GEL 109: Sediments and Strata (Sumner)
Dawn Sumner · University of California, Davis
My goal for Sediments and Strata is to help you develop the tools that will allow you to observe the important characteristics of sedimentary rocks, understand the processes that produced them, interpret their depositional environments, and recognize the insights they can provide on diverse fields in geology such as tectonics, environmental geology, economic resources, evolution, climate change, etc.
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New Media Futures
Daniel Faltesek & Daniel Adams · Oregon State University
This book is intended for use in a large introductory class in new media in a program that covers the “full-stack” including critical/cultural studies, media management, diffusion of innovation, and synthetic media production. The first half of this basic sequence covered new media and democracy, finance, intellectual property law, basic games, and transmedia. The second half of the sequence covers many topics related to aesthetics, design, technology, and methodology.