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Research Methods for the Social Sciences
William Pelz · Herkimer College
This text will introduce you to the fascinating and important study of the methods of inquiry in the Social Sciences. You will learn both the logic behind – and the procedures for – a wide variety of research methods, including correlational and experimental designs. If you are the curious type, and if you like to think rationally, I believe you will enjoy this course.
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Spanish Through Literature and the Arts Indigenous Perspectives on Global Issues
María Datel · Boston University
This Spanish conversation and composition textbook explores indigenous cultures throughout Latin America from a decolonial standpoint which challenges the impacts of colonization and unlearns the legacies it has left behind. We will recognize that such cultures offer insights and alternatives to resolving modern-day crises – including climate change, food sovereignty, healthcare access, and gender inequalities – while refraining from romanticizing an idealized past.
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Professional Ethics in Law Enforcement
Henry White · Prince George's Community College
This textbook on professional ethics in law enforcement explores the importance of ethical behavior, major ethical theories, and how they apply to policing. It addresses resolving ethical dilemmas, issues like use of force, gratuities, and abuse of power, and examines accountability through laws and independent investigations. It also covers challenges such as noble cause corruption, discretion, leadership, and the influence of police culture and technology on ethical decision-making.
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Chem 230: Essential Inorganic Chemistry
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Inorganic Chemistry: Chem 230
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Child and Adolescent Psychology
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
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Fluids 2: Basic Hydraulics
Jessy Haid · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This basic hydraulics textbook covers power units, connections of the circuits, basic cylinder circuits, pumps, needle valves, basic motor circuits, hydraulic schematics, pressure and cylinder force, Pascal's Law and force multiplication, fluid friction, pressure, relief valves, check valves, flow control valves, metered flow circuits, independent speed control, flow rate and cylinder speed, sequence valves, and pressure reducing valves.
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Introduction to Nutrition Science
Bisson et. al · LibreTexts
This Open Educational Resource (OER) was developed under the 2020 Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI).
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Introduction to Psychology
Jorden A. Cummings · University of Saskatchewan
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Mathematics for the Liberal Arts
Lumen Learning
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CHEM 10: Introduction to Chemistry
Parajon Puenzo · De Anza College
An Introduction to the discipline of Chemistry, including chemical laboratory techniques and methods and a survey of important chemical principles. This course emphasizes chemistry as a subject of scientific inquiry and is designed to give the student a general appreciation for chemistry as a science.
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Introduction to Control Systems
Kamran Iqbal · University of Arkansas at Little Rock
A control system manages, commands, directs, or regulates the behavior of other devices or systems using control loops. It can range from a single home heating controller using a thermostat controlling a domestic boiler to large industrial control systems which are used for controlling processes or machines. The control systems are designed via control engineering process.
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Key to the Diversity and History of Life
Alexey Shipunov · Minot State University
This book is for any biology student who wants to know the subject better. This text concentrates on the history of life, diversity of plants, protists and animals, and some other general aspects including elements of biogeography.
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CHM 312: Physical Chemistry II
Anderson Marsh · Lebanon Valley College
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Fresno City College Principles and Practices of Teaching Young Childre
Raquel Ochs · Fresno City College
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Interactive Linear Algebra
Dan Margalit & Joseph Rabinoff · Georgia Institute of Technology
The name of the textbook highlights an important theme: the synthesis between algebra and geometry. It will be very important to us to understand systems of linear equations both algebraically (writing equations for their solutions) and geometrically (drawing pictures and visualizing).
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Anthropology: Being Human
Susan Ruth · Central New Mexico Community College
This introductory textbook in anthropology is designed to give you an understanding of the diversity of the human experience. Students will become familiar with the four subfields of anthropology: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and biological anthropology. We will discuss the diversity of world cultures, the human fossil record, the human past, and the development and use of language.
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Building Strategy and Performance
Anonymous · LibreTexts
This text discusses how to deliver strategy powerfully over a sustained period of time and helps you to show your students where the levers are that they can control and how to choose what to do, when, and how much to achieve their specific goals. This book effectively outlines the dynamics of strategy, how one drives performance - past, today and into the future. It shows what causes performance to improve or deteriorate and what your students can do to change this trajectory for the better.
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SMC: MATH 339 Discrete Mathematics
Rohatgi · Saint Mary's College
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Wait...Why do We Do That?
Jayanti Roy and Marx Gomez-Liendo · De Anza College
Wait...Why Do We Do That? An Understanding of Sociology invites students to look at the everyday world through a sociological lens, asking why social patterns exist, who they affect, and how sociologists study them. Built around real case studies and contemporary examples, the book connects theory to lived experience in a way that feels relevant and accessible to today's students.
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5.14: Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1921)
Jill Bonds · Coalinga College
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