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Art 323: Color Theory Course Pack
Andi Adkins Pogue · Cosumnes River College
This course covers studio problems in the use and understanding of color and its application to works of art, interior design and graphics, basics of color theory, and color interchange. It also includes image and composition as related to the use of color both functionally and creatively. Field trips may be required. This course pack includes assignments suitable for a college-level color theory course.
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Português para principiantes
Severino J. Albuquerque, Mary H. Schil, & Claude E. Leroy · UW-Madison
Português para principiantes is a time-tested text which can be used in conjunction with a variety of approaches to the teaching of beginning Portuguese. This media-rich text is designed to provide learners with a solid grammatical basis for using Brazilian Portuguese as well as regular opportunities to practice and improve their ability to read, speak, and understand the Portuguese language as it is used in contemporary Brazil.
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Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind
Salazar et al. · LibreTexts
Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind surveys the central themes in philosophy of mind and places them in a historical and contemporary context intended to engage first-time readers in the field. It focuses on debates about the status and character of the mind and its seemingly subjective nature in an apparently more objective world.
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D'accordo! - Intermediate Italian
Cinzia Blum and Lucia Gemmani · Iowa State University
D’accordo! is an intermediate Italian textbook authored by the Italian faculty of The University of Iowa. A no-cost, user-friendly e-textbook, which may be fully integrated with educational platforms, D’Accordo! will support students’ acquisition of the grammar and vocabulary necessary for meaningful communication, enhance students’ familiarity with Italian culture through a variety of cultural artifacts, and, for majors and minors, create a bridge to upper-level courses.
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Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach
Philip S. Peek · Bowling Green State University
The text is built on three pillars: memory, analysis, and logic. Readers memorize the top 250 most frequently occurring ancient Greek words, the essential word endings, the eight parts of speech, and the grammatical concepts they will most frequently encounter when reading authentic ancient texts. Analysis and logic exercises enable the translation and parsing of genuine ancient Greek sentences, with compelling reading selections offering starting points for contemplation, debate, and reflection
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Information Literacy - Basic Research Skills
Carol M. Withers with Bruce Johnson & Nathan Martin · San Diego City College Library
This text address developing transferable skills in students, which allows them to take what they learn here and apply it to any information need in any environment: academia, careers, life-long learning, bar bets, or what have you. It is not an attempt to be a comprehensive book on information literacy, but rather a brief overview.
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REL-103: World Religions
Rising Scholar Program · Lake Tahoe Community College
This course is an intensive analysis of religions as cultural systems. The origin, history, and interpretation of religious ideas in the major religions of the Eastern and Western worlds will be discussed, emphasizing the contributions each has made to the cultural development of humankind. Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Taoism, Confucianism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam will be studied. Please return to the Lake Tahoe Community College Rising Scholar Program if found.
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Avant-Première: Advanced French Through Films
Caren Barnezet Parrish and Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy · Chabot College and Santa Monica College
This text is designed for the fourth semester of French. This advanced level course is a study of the French language and French-speaking cultures, with emphasis on the development of communicative skills and basic structures. The course combines in-class instruction and practice with self-paced study in the Language Laboratory.
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Introduction to Art
Laura Kramer · Palo Verde College
Introduction to Art provides a comprehensive global survey of artistic expression from the earliest evidence of human creativity to the diverse and technology-driven practices of the twenty-first century. The text begins by introducing the fundamental concepts of art appreciation, exploring what art is, the role of the artist, methods of art historical analysis, visual literacy, and the essential elements and principles of design that allow viewers to interpret and evaluate works of art.
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The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories
Jarlath Killeen · Trinity College Dublin
This book provides a robustly theorized and thoroughly historicized account of the ‘beginnings' of Irish gothic fiction, maps the theoretical terrain covered by other critics, and puts forward a new history of the emergence of the genre in Ireland. The main argument the book makes is that the Irish gothic should be read in the context of the split in Irish Anglican public opinion that opened in the 1750s, and seen as a fictional instrument of Anglican opinion in a changing political landscape.
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Cicero's Philippic
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French 2A/2B: Intermediate/Advanced French (Book 1)
Caren Barnezet Parrish and Aurélie Chevant-Aksoy · Chabot College and Santa Monica College
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Art History: Renaissance to Modern
Laura Kramer · Palo Verde College
This art history textbook surveys global art from the Renaissance to the modern era, exploring how culture, politics, religion, technology, and social change influenced artistic expression. It examines major movements, artists, and works across painting, sculpture, architecture, and new media while emphasizing visual analysis and the global connections that shaped the evolution of art history.
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HIS-1200: The American Yawp (Revised Edition)
David Bates · Concordia University Chicago
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English 96: Academic Reading and Diverse Thinking
Ayana Rhodes · City Colleges of Chicago
Two modules on academic reading and diverse thinking skills as well as an annotation exercise.
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Music on the Move
Danielle Fosler-Lussier · The Ohio State University
Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music's travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music.
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Legal Writing Manual
Jean Mangan et al. · University System of Georgia
This text provides an overview of first-year legal writing topics and provides checkpoints during your writing process. On the other hand, this manual does not answer every question on every legal writing concept; it is certainly not a spell book that will make you instantly awesome at legal writing. Writing as a skill is a lifelong development process. Everyone can be an effective legal writer. Put in the time to study the concepts and then to practice using those concepts in your writing.
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Cicero's Against Verres
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The Centrality of Style
Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri · LibreTexts
InThe Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field.
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FRNC 1A: Beginning French
Caren Barnezet Parrish · Chabot College
This text is designed for the first semester of French. This elementary level course is a study of the French language and French-speaking cultures, with emphasis on the development of communicative skills and basic structures. Course combines in-class instruction and practice with self-paced study in the Language Laboratory. This beginning-level course is for students with no previous coursework in French.