Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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At The Center
Cathy Thwing and student writers at Pima Community College · LibreTexts
Global issues affect us locally, and local issues affect us individually. This section explores our experience with local/global issues.
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Persuasion and Critical Thinking
Kelsey Paiz · Diablo Valley College
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Organizational Communication - Theory, Research, and Practice
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This book looks at organizational communication as a broad term that encompasses a wide array of organizational types, which we’ll explore in more detail elsewhere in this chapter. Even if you just take the average 7.5 hours per day an individual spends “working” in an organization, you will end up in an organizational environment a little over 111 days per year. If you work for 40 years, you’ll basically spend 12 of those years at work.
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University Physics III: Optics & Modern Physics
OpenStax · LibreTexts
University Physics is designed for the two- or three-semester calculus-based physics course. This volume explores optics and modern physics, beginning with how light behaves through reflection, refraction, interference, and diffraction. It then moves into relativity and quantum mechanics, introducing photons, matter waves, and atomic structure. The text also covers condensed matter, nuclear physics, and cosmology, linking theory to technologies like lasers, semiconductors, and medical imaging.
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Placing the History of College Writing - Stories from the Incomplete Archive
Nathan Shepley · University of Houston
In Placing the History of College Writing, Nathan Shepley argues that pre-1950s composition history, if analyzed with the right conceptual tools, can pluralize and clarify our understanding of the relationship between the writing of college students and the writing's physical, social, and discursive surroundings. Even if the immediate outcome of student writing is to generate academic credit, Shepley shows, the writing does more complex rhetorical work.
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ARTH 300: Art Appreciation
Katie Ligmond · Cosumnes River College
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Multivariable Calculus Text (Supplement to Open Stax Text)
Karla Westphal · Saddleback College
This is a supplement to OpenStax Calculus V3. It is meant to substitute for section 4.2, limits of functions of more than 1 variable, placing less emphasis on using the definition directly and more on techniques like substitution, changing coordinate systems, and paths.
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Lab manual : Protein Biomanufacturing and Biochemistry (Biot274 IVC)
Victor Pham · Irvine Valley College
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2021 Norfolk State University MoSI
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Chemical Engineering Separations: A Handbook for Students
Monica Lamm and Laura Jarboe · Iowa State University
Chemical Engineering Separations: A Handbook for Students is intended for use by undergraduate students who are taking a course in chemical engineering separations. The handbook assumes that students have taken one or two semesters of chemical engineering thermodynamics, one semester of heat and mass transfer, and one semester of computational methods for chemical engineering.
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Exploring Intercultural Communication
Tom Grothe · Butte College
Intercultural communication is the study and practice of communication across cultural contexts. It applies equally to domestic cultural differences such as ethnicity and gender and to international differences such as those associated with nationality or world region. Intercultural communication focuses on the recognition and respect of cultural differences, seeks the goal of mutual adaptation, and supports the development of intercultural sensitivity.
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American Environmental History
Dan Allosso · Bemidji State University
For too long the environment has been considered little more than a neutral background to history. This text surveys findings of the new field of Environmental History about how the environment of the Americas influenced the actions of people here and how people affected their environments, from prehistory to the present.
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LIBR 318: Library Research and Information Literacy
Kari Wergeland · Sacramento City College
This course provides students with the information competency skills necessary for research and information evaluation. Students will delve into the academic research process as well as gain insight into the vast world of information. The skills acquired in this course are applicable to academic research, on-the-job research, and lifelong learning.
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Organic Chemistry
Wade Textmap · LibreTexts
Welcome to organic chemistry! This text has been written for students. It emphasizes the practical details and skills needed to master this challenging subject. Learning organic chemistry is brain yoga! Our brains become strong and flexible with practice.
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Business Law
Terri Brown · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This textbook introduces the foundations of American law, covering its origins, legal systems, and key principles. Topics include civil and criminal law, contracts, business structures, employment, property, and intellectual property. It also addresses consumer protection, securities regulation, and the role of courts in resolving disputes and upholding justice.
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Building a Medical Terminology Foundation (Carter and Rutherford)
LibreTexts
Building a Medical Terminology Foundation is an OER that focuses on breaking down medical terms into their word parts, pronouncing medical terms, and learning the meaning of medical terms within the context of introductory anatomy and physiology. This resource is targeted for health office administration and health services students in the first year of their college programs.
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Psych-222: Multicultural Psychology
Jennifer Ounjian · Contra Costa College
This course will provide students with a broad general understanding of many of the common topics in social psychology, such as relationships between social behavior and good attitudes, self-concept, mass communication, and group process. In addition, culture and ethnicity issues will be integrated into each topical area. Specific comparisons of the social experience of racial and ethnic groups in the United States of America will provide the foundation for lectures and discussions.
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Critical Thinking in Academic Research
Cindy Gruwell and Robin Ewing · University of West Florida
Critical Thinking in Academic Research will introduce students to the techniques and principles of critical thinking. However, a commitment to lifelong learning is required for critical thinking, it takes more than a single course or reading a book. In order for students to develop their own arguments, they need to find supporting evidence. This text provides guidance on developing research questions and finding resources to answer the questions.
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Physics 122: General Physics II
Charles Collett · Muhlenberg College
This text topics coveres electrostatics, dc circuits, magnetism and electromagnetic induction, wave optics, ray optics.
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Java, Java, Java - Object-Oriented Programming
Ralph Morelli & Ralph Wade · Trinity College
We have designed this third edition of Java, Java, Java to be suitable for a typical Introduction to Computer Science (CS1) course or for a slightly more advanced Java as a Second Language course. This edition retains the “objects first” approach to programming and problem solving that was characteristic of the first two editions. Throughout the text we emphasize careful coverage of Java language features, introductory programming concepts, and object-oriented design principles.