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ENG 232: World Literature II
Sherry “Taz” Rosenthal · LibreTexts
This textbook of world literature covers the time period from 1651 to the mid-twentieth century. In the “Editor's Introductions” that precede each reading, you will find information to guide and enhance your understanding of the reading selections themselves. The introductions are based on close analysis of each of the readings presented here, and intensive scrutiny of their social and historical contexts. Readings themselves are all from openly licensed and/or Public Domain sources.
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88 Open Essays - A Reader for Students of Composition & Rhetoric
Sarah Wangler & Tina Ulrich · Northwestern Michigan College
This book is a free and open resource to composition instructors and students, full of essays that could supplement OER rhetoric and writing texts that lacked readings. All of the essays in this reader are versatile rhetorically and thematically. It is arranged alphabetically by author name. Each essay has a series of hashtags that apply to the essay in some way. You can search for essays thematically that relate to topics like education, the environment, politics, or health.
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1.2: Why Read and Write About Literature?
Heather Ringo and Athena Kashyap · City College of San Francisco
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4: Rhetorical Appeals- Logos, Pathos, and Ethos Defined
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Introduction to Theatre Textbook
Brenda Eppley · HACC
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British Literature Through History
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British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature.
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Global Women's IssuesWomen in the World Today
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We cannot solve global challenges unless women participate fully in efforts to find solutions. Female participation in the private sector is a crucial economic driver for societies worldwide. Economic security benefits every facet of a woman’s life, with positive effects on the health, education and vitality of families. Learn about women who are changing their societies for the better.
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Literacy for College Success
Donald Winter and Amee Schmidt · Delta College
This book is a compilation of four primary texts, which we significantly remixed and edited, as well as original compositions of our own. The basis for the organization and the majority of the first two chapters of this book are adapted from Fran Bozarth’s Reading & Writing for Learning.
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Modern World History
Dan Allosso and Tom Williford · Bemidji State University
This is the textbook for an undergraduate survey course taught at all the universities and most of the colleges in the Minnesota State system. Similar courses are taught at institutions around the United States and the world, so the authors have made the text available as an open educational resource that teachers and learners can read, adapt, and reuse to meet their needs. We’d like to hear from people who have found the text useful, and we’re always open to questions and suggestions.
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Group Dynamics
Dr. Carolyn Stevenson · City Colleges of Chicago
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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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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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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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Music Theory
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This text is primarily designed to serve as a textbook for a college-level music theory fundamentals course. However, it also has the flexibility to serve equally well for a typical core curriculum college-level Music Theory I or Harmony I course. Our goal is to deliver sufficient information to enable the student to be able to evaluate and analyze select music from the literature as quickly as is practical.
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FREN 1030 Intermediate French Through Film
Melissa Panek · Brooklyn College
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British Literature I - Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism
Bonnie J. Robinson & Laura Getty · University of North Georgia
This anthology follows the shift of monarchic to parliamentarian rule in Britain, and the heroic epic to the more egalitarian novel as genre. This text features: Original introductions to The Middle Ages; The Sixteenth Century: The Tudor Age; The Seventeenth Century: The Age of Revolution; and Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century.
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The Westminster Schools
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How History is Made: A Student’s Guide to Reading, Writing, and Thinking in the Discipline (Cole et al.)
Stephanie Cole, Kimberly Breuer, Scott W. Palmer, and Brandon Blakeslee · University of Texas at Arlington
Learn what it means to think like an historian! Units on “Thinking Historically,” “Reading Historically,” “Researching Historically,” and “Writing Historically” describe the essential skills of the discipline of history. “Performing Historically” offers advice on presenting research findings and describes some careers open to those with an academic training in history.
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UnRoman Romans
Siobhán McElduff · University of British Columbia
UnRoman Romans is a reader on socially stigmatized groups in ancient Rome: actors athletes, dancers, sex workers, and sexual non-conformists. This reader was created as part of a class and uses student-scholars who contributed parts of the reader as a course assignment. This book is intended for use in upper-level academic studies and contains a number of very disturbing passages.
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Information Literacy for College, Work, and Everyday Life (IVC LIB 15
Cheryl Bailey · Irvine Valley College
Beyond the Search Box: Information Literacy for College, Work, and Everyday Life guides students through the full research process, from recognizing an information need to developing a focused question, finding appropriate sources, evaluating evidence, and communicating conclusions ethically. Designed for community college students, the book explains how information is created, organized, and shared across scholarly, professional, and public settings.