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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Contemporary Families - An Equity Lens
Elizabeth B. Pearce · Linn-Benton Community College
In the contents: 01: Social Constructions · 1.01: Social Constructions Preview Questions · 1.02: The Family- A Socially Constructed Idea
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Child Development (Cummings-Clay)
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 4.02: Social development- relationshipspersonal motives and morality · 5.04: Constructivism and Social Constructivism in the Classroom · 7.05: Psychosocial Development
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Introduction to Biological Psychology
Catherine Hall Ed. · University of Sussex
Introduction to Biological Psychology is aimed at undergraduate students. This first edition specifically targets students enrolled in Psychology at the University of Sussex, and primarily contains topics covered in the mandatory module Introduction to Biological Psychology. Future editions will continue to expand the number of topics and concepts presented.
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Beliefs: An Open Invitation to the Anthropology of Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion (remixed by Debbie Klein)
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
Welcome! This course examines religious and spiritual practices from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. We will investigate the key concepts of this course—magic, witchcraft, and religion. Anthropological themes of this course include difference, ethnography, power, language, ritual, symbolism, mythology, race, class, gender, identity, and postmodernism. You will have fun conducting fieldwork with a spiritual or religious community, people, or person of your choosing.
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Deleting Dystopia: Re-Asserting Human Priorities in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Richard A. Slaughter · Australian Foresight Institute
Deleting Dystopia confirms that the existential threats posed by the misuse of advanced digital technologies are real. But, in place of apathy and fatalism, Slaughter explores ways of understanding the threat, conceptualising solutions and identifying strategies that lead away from digital authoritarian futures towards those funded on humanly viable values and practices.
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Biological Anthropology Lab
Anthropology Department · Gavilan College
This lab manual is designed to provide exercises and resources for students taking a biological anthropology laboratory course online.
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Personal Psychology (C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal and Social Adjustment)
Personal Psychology (C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal & Social Adjustment)@Michael Miguel@Coalinga College@Personal Psychology · C-ID PSY 115 Psychology of Personal & Social Adjustment
In the contents: 2.05: The Social Self · 06: Social Psychology · 6.01: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Research and Design for Emergency Services
Peter Loebach · Arapahoe Community College
OER Textbook remixed for use in ESA 420: Research and Design for Emergency Services offered at Arapahoe Community College.
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How to be a Journalist in the 21st century
Andre Gouws and NWU students · North-West University
In the contents: 6.09: Managing Social Media
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Language in Action: An Open Invitation to Linguistic Anthropology (remixed by Debbie Klein)
Debbie Klein · Gavilan College
In the contents: 6.07: Sociolinguistic correlations - Social status
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Early Language and Literacy (NWTC)
Vicki Tanck · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This text covers foundational concepts and strategies for supporting language and literacy development in early childhood. It includes practical activities on topics such as emergent literacy, language acquisition, and effective instructional practices for young learners.
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College Success
Amy Baldwin et al. · OpenStax
The text is a comprehensive and contemporary resource that serves First Year Experience, Student Success, and College Transition courses. Developed with the support of hundreds of faculty and coordinators, the book addresses the evolving challenges and opportunities of today’s diverse students. Engagement, self-analysis, personal responsibility, and student support are reflected throughout the material.
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Criminal Justice in the Urban Community
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 09: Social Status Social Forces and Social Inequality · 16: Alternatives to the Criminal Justice System As a Solution to Social Problems
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Principles of Economics
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 34: Socialist Economies in Transition · 34.1: The Theory and Practice of Socialism · 34.2: Socialist Systems in Action
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A Guide to Technical Communications: Strategies and Applications
Lynn Hall and Leah Wahlin · The Ohio State University
A textbook focused on developing both technical and professional communication skills
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Mind, Body, World - Foundations of Cognitive Science
Michael R. W. Dawson · University of Alberta
In the contents: 01: The Cognitive Sciences- One or Many · 1.04: Cognitive Science or the Cognitive Sciences · 5.09: Robotic Moments in Social Environment
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A Theory of Literate Action - Literate Action II
Charles Bazerman · University of California, Santa Barbara
In the contents: 1.02: Symbolic Selves in Society - Vygotsky on Language and Formation of the Social Mind · 1.03: Active Social Symbolic Selves - Vygotskian Traditions · 1.04: Active Social Symbolic Selves - The Phenomenological Sociology Tradition
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Biological Psychology
Michael Hove and Steven A. Martinez · Fitchburg State University and Temple University
Biological psychology is the study of the biological bases of behavior and mental processes. It explores how biological factors like genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, and brain structures influence psychological components like thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions. This free and open textbook provides a wide ranging and up-to-date introduction to the main topics and methods of biological psychology.
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Communication Literacy: An Introduction to Communication Studies
Desiree Montenegro · Cerritos College
In this OER textbook, you will be exposed to a variety of communication processes and modes, grouped into the fields of study we investigate in academe. We use this approach in the broad field of Communication Studies because it is a means of managing the complexity and expanse of communication.
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Archaeology
Susan Ruth · Central New Mexico Community College
Archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture specifically artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts and cultural landscapes.