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Brass Techniques and Pedagogy
Brian N. Weidner · Butler University
This text is intended to serve as a guide for the band music educator. The text is written with the non-brass playing music education student in mind and focuses on developing beginning levels of brass technique alongside a more expansive understanding of brass fundamentals and pedagogy. While a basic level of technical proficiency will be developed throughout this text, the ability to teach beginning to intermediate brass players effectively with sound pedagogy is its primary purpose.
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PSYCH 26: Culture and Community Psychology
Kimberly R. King · Laney College
Welcome to Culture and Community Psychology. This textbook is about culture influences on human behavior and mental processes, including the examination of the diversity on human thought, feelings, and behavior, and the underlying reasons for such diversity. The text takes an interdisciplinary social science approach to understanding culture, with an emphasis on psychology. Culture is viewed broadly, including ethnicity and race, economic class, gender, sexual orientation and religion.
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Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles-1
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
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2020 UC Davis Medical School MoSI
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Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach [Remixed]
Priscilla Sandoval · Chabot College
This text is a remix of "Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach." It is an introductory level text with an intersectional focus for lower-division race and ethnicity courses.
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Chem 2A: Introduction to General Chemistry
Divan Fard · Shasta College
Introduction to General Chemistry (Chem 2A) is an open educational resource designed to provide students with a strong foundation in fundamental chemical principles, quantitative problem-solving, and real-world applications. Covering essential topics such as atomic structure, chemical bonding, reactions, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, acids, and nuclear chemistry, this resource supports student success through clear, accessible instruction.
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Introduction to Health
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Risk Management for Enterprises and Individuals
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This book is intended for the Risk Management and Insurance. Risk management will be a major focal point of business and societal decision—making in the 21st century. A separate focused field of study, it draws on core knowledge bases from law, engineering, finance, economics, medicine, psychology, accounting, mathematics, statistics and other fields to create a holistic decision-making framework that is sustainable and value-enhancing.
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Arban Expansion Pack Trumpet
Matt Stock · University of Oklahoma
First published circa 1859 Jean-Baptiste Arban’s Grande méthode complète pour cornet à pistons et de saxhorn is an integral part of the practice routines of trumpeters around the globe. The First Studies, which stress an even tone and attack in the middle register are among the most frequently assigned exercises in our studies. This book expands on Arban’s work by presenting these exercises in tonal patterns that we frequently encounter in music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Introduction to Psychology
Michelle Pilati · Foothill College
Introduction to Psychology utilizes the dual theme of behavior and empiricism to make psychology relevant to introductory students. This book aims to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level.
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Linear Systems
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Introduction to Paralegal Studies and Ethics
June McLaughlin · Irvine Valley College
This book is used to teach LGL 101 a 2 unit class at Irvine Valley College that explores paralegal profession!
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Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Problem Solving Approach
Markus Zahn · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text is an introductory treatment on the junior level for a two-semester electrical engineering course starting from the Coulomb-Lorentz force law on a point charge. The theory is extended by the continuous superposition of solutions from previously developed simpler problems leading to the general integral and differential field laws. Often the same problem is solved by different methods so that the advantages and limitations of each approach becomes clear.
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CHEM 100: General Chemistry (O'Connor)
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Wellness for the Helping Professions
Tina Decker & Emily Pacholski · Trinity Christian College
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EXPLORATIONS: An Invitation to Biological Anthropology (Scheib)
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This textbook focuses on the discipline of biological anthropology, which explores who we are from biological, evolutionary, and adaptive perspectives. Topics discussed include evolutionary theory, molecular biology and genetics, the forces of evolution, nonhuman primates, the fossil record, the hominin species and the emergence of Homo sapiens as well as human biological variation and the concept of race, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, and human biology and health both past and present.
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PLUMA 2: Historias en Español
Pilar Hernández · MiraCosta College
PLUMA is a narrative-based language learning program for the first three levels of college Spanish. This program is organically aligned with ACTFL, featuring Can-Do Statements as an organizing principle and as a springboard from which the learner can direct and personalize their learning. It is grounded in narrative-based teaching and learning that evolves from people’s lived experiences and fragments of the history and culture of their countries of origin.
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The Psychology of Women - An Inclusive Approach
Rochelle Burnaford · Diablo Valley College
This is an introduction to the psychology of women and gender, written for community college students. The book moves from the categories of sex and gender themselves outward to the institutions that benefit from them, and to the consequences of a binary sex and gender system. Trans and nonbinary experience is analyzed inside every chapter. And race, class, and sexuality are pulled through each topic as part of the analysis to highlight intersectionality.
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Essential Graduate Physics - Statistical Mechanics
Konstantin K. Likharev · Stony Brook University
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Friendly Introduction to Mathematical Logic
Christopher Leary & Lars Kristiansen · SUNY Geneseo & University of Oslo
At the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and philosophy, mathematical logic examines the power and limitations of formal mathematical thinking. In this expansion of Leary’s user-friendly 1st edition, readers with no previous study in the field are introduced to the basics of model theory, proof theory, and computability theory. The text is designed to be used either in an upper division undergraduate classroom, or for self study.