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Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
John W. Wilson & Richard B. Primack · LibreTexts
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. This textbook covers a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict.
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COLL 175: Reading Strategies Across the Curriculum
Peter Mancini · Johnson County Community College
In this course, students identify and apply evidence-based text strategies that improve high-level comprehension of paired-course materials.
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Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry
Wikibook · Penn State University
Inorganic chemistry deals with the synthesis and behavior of inorganic and organometallic compounds and covers all chemical compounds except the myriad organic compounds (carbon-based compounds), which are the subjects of organic chemistry. Inorganic chemistry has applications in every aspect of the chemical industry, including catalysis, materials science, pigments, surfactants, coatings, medications, fuels, and agriculture.
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Introductory Chinese Grammar I
All Set Learning · LibreTexts
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Africana Studies 214: Hip Hop Culture and Politics
Daniel Davis · City Colleges of Chicago
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Lab Manual: Synthetic Biology Protocols
Nathan Reyna, Ruth Plymale, & Kristine Johnson · Ouachita Babtist University & University of New Hampshire
The protocols included in this lab manual are part of a Synthetic Biology undergraduate research course (CURE) designed by the authors. The lab presented in this manual is designed for a Genetics or Biotechnology class and has been used at both two-year and four-year institutions.
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Making History: World History 750 - 1750
Lindsay Bell · De Anza College
Making History: World History 750 to 1750, is designed to meet the scope and sequence of a world history course at both two-year and four-year institutions on a quarter system schedule. Suitable for both majors and non majors Making History introduces students to a global perspective of history that seeks to understand nontraditional narratives. Concepts and assessments help students think critically about the issues they encounter to broaden their perspectives.
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Electric Circuits V - References
Tony R. Kuphaldt · Bellingham Technical College
There will occasionally be situations where you find yourself needing an uncommon component or equation. Maybe you, like many others, just need a conversion chart for a resistor value or wire color codes for power distribution cables. Here you will find many references for situations such as these, ranging from DC circuit equations and unit conversions to derivatives and troubleshooting techniques.
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CCSF Nutrition Textbook: Introduction to Nutrition — Science and Everyday Application
Jonathan Siekmann · City College of San Francisco
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COMM 130 Journalism OER Textbook for HACC
Laura K. Davis · HACC
Introduces students to contemporary journalism as a major institution in American society. This text helps students become informed about media and introduces them to the major issues that occur in journalism. Students consider issues facing professional journalists. Course topics range from journalism history and media convergence to the impact that journalism has on individuals and society in a fast-changing technological world.
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Open Music Theory
Robin Wharton and Kris Shaffer eds. · Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing
This textbook is meant to support active student engagement with music in the theory classroom. That means that this text is meant to take a back seat to student music making (and breaking). It is not the center of the course. The three original authors use this textbook in the context of “inverted” or “flipped” courses, often following an inquiry-based model. As a result, most of the pages in this textbook do not read like a typical twentieth-century textbook.
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Chem 2A: Introductory Chemistry I
Julie Brown · Woodland Community College
This text provides a general background on the factual basis and principles of chemistry and includes an introduction to fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry; structure and bonding, nomenclature, chemical equations and reactions, stoichiometry, acids, bases, and chemical equilibrium, redox, gases, solutions, and nuclear chemistry.
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Essentials of Linguistics 2e
Catherine Anderson, Bronwyn Bjorkman, Derek Denis, Julianne Doner, Margaret Grant, Nathan Sanders, and Ai Taniguchi · McMaster University
This text brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), supplemented with discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings. Essentials of Linguistics is suitable for any beginning learner of linguistics.
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Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis
Jaeyong Choi · West Chester University
This text is for those interested in becoming crime analysts, focusing on learning statistics without delving too deeply into mathematics. Moreover, this book emphasizes practical applications by utilizing R for data analysis, ensuring students can develop relevant skills beyond the university. I hope that students can easily follow the instructions in this book and replicate the same outcomes using the provided data. This practical experience will demonstrate the value of statistics and R.
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Choosing and Using Sources - A Guide to Academic Resear
Cheryl Lowry · The Ohio State University
Choosing & Using Sources presents a process for academic research and writing, from formulating your research question to selecting good information and using it effectively in your research assignments. Additional chapters cover understanding types of sources, searching for information, and avoiding plagiarism. Each chapter includes self-quizzes and activities to reinforce core concepts and help you apply them.
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Yet Another Introductory Number Theory Textbook - Cryptology Emphasis
Jonathan A. Poritz · Colorado State University – Pueblo
This introductory number theory textbook has a particular emphasis on connections to cryptology. The cryptologic material arising naturally out of the ambient number theory. The main cryptologic applications — being the RSA cryptosystem, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and the ElGamal cryptosystem — come out so naturally from considerations of Euler's Theorem, primitive roots, and indices that it renders quite ironic G.H. Hardy's assertion of the purity and eternal inapplicability of number theory.
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A Miniguide to Critical Thinking
Joe Y. F. Lau · University of Hong Kong
This miniguide introduces some of the basic concepts and principles of critical thinking.
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ol. 3: An Introduction to the Universe
Neeharika Thakur · Prince George's Community College
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JPP 207 Substantive Criminal Law
matthew.mackelly · Concordia University Wisconsin
Criminal Law begins with the foundations of law and the legal system and then extensively explores criminal laws and defenses using general state principles, federal law, the Constitution, and the Model Penal Code as guidelines. Although it is neither possible nor desirable to discuss every criminal law, this textbook provides a basic yet thorough overview of the American criminal justice system.
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CHEM 113: Human Chemistry I
Pedro Muíño · Saint Francis University
This text provides a general background on the factual basis and principles of chemistry. These first year chemistry courses explore chemical phenomena and principles with emphasis on developing an understanding of chemistry and an appreciation of what chemists do. You must commit yourself to learning the basic vocabulary of chemistry. You will acquire skills in dealing with chemical phenomena and principles and in manipulating mathematical expressions that describe chemical behavior.