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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Entering the Workforce: A How-To Course
Deborah Blakeslee · HACC
This course will help you understand the ins and outs of looking for, applying for and interviewing for a job.
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Education for a Digital World - Advice, Guidelines and Effective Practice from Around Globe
Sandy Hirtz · Insurance Corporation of British Columbia
Education for a Digital World contains a comprehensive collection of proven strategies and tools for effective online teaching, based on the principles of learning as a social process. It offers practical, contemporary guidance to support e-learning decision-making, instructional choices, as well as program and course planning, and development.
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Physics Formulas
Johan Wevers · Eindhoven University of Technology
This formulary is written at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level. It is intended to be a short reference for anyone who works with physics and often needs to look up equations.
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Virgil's Aeneid
LibreTexts
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Elementary College Geometry
Henry Africk · CUNY New York City College of Technology
This text is intended for a brief introductory course in plane geometry. It covers the topics from elementary geometry that are most likely to be required for more advanced mathematics courses. The only prerequisite is a semester of algebra. The emphasis is on applying basic geometric principles to the numerical solution of problems.
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Green Chemistry Lab Manual with a focus on building Excel skills
Jon Vander Woude · Trinity Christian College
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College Skills: Intermediate English Part 2
Christine M. Nowik · Harrisburg Area Community College
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Geology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
This survey course covers the fundamentals of geology and earth science, helping students understand how the Earth was formed and the forces shaping its continued evolution. It also introduces students to how geological resources are used in human civilization. Key topics include rock and mineral formation; weathering and soil formation; plate tectonics; Earth’s interior; crustal deformation; earthquakes and volcanoes; mass movement; hydrology; and applications of resources for human use.
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Physical Methods in Chemistry and Nano Science
Pavan M. V. Raja & Andrew R. Barron · Rice University
This book is intended as a survey of research techniques used in modern chemistry, materials science, and nano science. The topics are grouped, not be method per se, but with regard to the type of information that can be obtained.
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ADMJUS 110: Principles and Procedures of the Justice System
Larry Alvarez · College of the Canyons
The text examines due process in criminal proceedings from pre-arrest through trial and the appeal process using statutory law and state and federal constitutional law precedents. Includes an in-depth study of each primary segment of the administration of justice system.
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Fluid Physiology
Kerry Brandis · Gold Coast Hospital
The notes aim to develop understanding from introductory concepts about acids and bases, through a discussion of acid-base disorders, then to the ability to be able to interpret acid-base results in actual patients. The discussion of acid-base physiology outlined in most of this book is the "traditional" empirical approach. The concepts and explanations of this approach are still the most common way that acid-base physiology is taught and understood by many clinicians.
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First Semester Calculus (Westphal, adapted from Open Stax)
Karla Westphal · Saddleback College
This text is a first semester calculus text adapted from the OpenStax Calculus 1 text. Some of the material has been re-ordered; the primary change is that derivatives of exponential and log functions are covered earlier in chapter 3 than they were in the OpenStax text.
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Critical Thinking Through Literature
Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap · LibreTexts
This course offers instruction in analytical, critical, and argumentative writing, critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and proper documentation through the study of literary works from major genres, while developing students’ close reading skills and promoting an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of literature.
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Children with Differing Abilties in Early Childhood Education
Western Technical College; Image source: Pixabay · Children with Differing Abilties in Early Childhood Education
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Introduction to Physics
Andrew Park · apark
This textbook is intended for a one-semester introduction to physics course, requiring as little mathematics as possible. Students are expected to have taken some algebra and geometry at high-school level, but no higher level of mathematics is required (and use of algebra and geometry is minimized as much as possible, in order to emphasize the concepts of physics).
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Off the Shelf: A Digital Anthology of Classic and Contemporary Short Stories
Stephen Logan and Heather Thompson-Gillis · Columbus State Community College
This text is an online collection of short fiction created to serve as an accessible and affordable option for college-level introduction to fiction courses. The fiction included in this anthology represent a diverse selection of authors from the nineteenth century to today, and it also contains support material including an introduction, key concepts, literary terminology and literary theories.
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Second Year Russian Bridge Course
Shannon Donnally Quinn · Michigan State University
This text is an intermediate-level development resource for Russian communication skills. It builds on further presentation and discussion of original oral and written texts on aspects of Russian life and culture.
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College ESL Writers Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success
Barbara Hall and Elizabeth Wallace · Georgia State University - Perimeter College
This text is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing resource for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments.
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Inorganic Chemistry
Taro Saito · Kanagawa University
The author has tried to describe minimum chemical facts and concepts that are necessary to understand modern inorganic chemistry. The textbook describes important compounds systematically along the periodic table, and readers are expected to learn typical ones both in the molecular and solid states. This text book describes important compounds systematically along the periodic table, and readers are expected to learn typical ones both in the molecular and solid states.
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An Interactive Text for Food and Agricultural Marketing
Michael R. Thomsen · University of Arkansas
An Interactive Text for Food and Agricultural Marketing is intended to be the primary textbook for a University of Arkansas course on this subject. The course it taught at a junior level but is foundational in that it is a required course for all majors in Agricultural Business. The text assumes an understanding of college algebra and microeconomic principles that would be covered in a typical college-level introductory economic principles course.