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• History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective

  Author(s): Erik Ringmar, Ibn Haldun University

  Updated: Jan 30, 2020

  Description: This textbook pioneers a new approach to the study of international relations by historicizing the material traditionally taught in international relations courses and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates, and issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part focuses on the international systems that traditionally existed in Europe, East Asia, pre-Columbian Central and South America, Africa, and Polynesia. The second part discusses the ways in which these internati...[more]

• Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners

  Author(s): Della Jean Abrahams, Portland State University

  Updated: Jan 30, 2020

  Description: This textbook is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary and reviews basic grammar points. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of record...[more]

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• Intermediate General and Applied Science Course

  Author(s): Christine Miller, Thompson Rivers University, Danielle Collins (Editor)

  Updated: Jan 30, 2020

  Description: This course package is designed as an introduction to General and Applied Science. It satisfies the learning outcomes for British Columbia ABE Intermediate General and Applied Science, which is considered an equivalent to BC Science 10. This resource includes powerpoints, class notes, and laboratory manuals for each of three three modules: Chemistry, Biology, and Physics. Throughout these modules, students explore the scientific method, take part in peer discussions, try out their problem solvi...[more]

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• Human Nutrition

  Author(s): University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program

  Updated: Jan 29, 2020

  Description: This open textbook was developed as an introductory nutrition resource to reflect the diverse dietary patterns of people in Hawai‘’i and the greater Pacific. It serves as an introduction to nutrition for undergraduate students and is the OER textbook for the FSHN 185 The Science of Human Nutrition course at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. The book covers basic concepts in human nutrition, key information about essential nutrients, basic nutritional assessment, and nutrition across the lifes...[more]

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• Physical Geology - 2nd Edition

  Author(s): Steven Earle, Thompson Rivers University

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departm...[more]

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• EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers

  Author(s): Shane Abrams, Portland State University

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets...[more]

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• Organizational Behavior (OpenStax)

  Author(s): J. Stewart Black, David S. Bright, Donald G. Gardner, Eva Hartmann, et al.

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking, managing change, using tools/technology, and responsible management; furthermore, the unique chapter on Social Media and Communication contextualizes the importance...[more]

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• Physical Geology

  Author(s): Steven Earle, Thompson Rivers University

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: THIS BOOK WILL BE ARCHIVED ON October 1, 2020, AS IT HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW EDITION. Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological hi...[more]

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• Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know

  Author(s): Susan E. Lowey, The College at Brockport, SUNY

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student. Recent studies show that only one in four nurses feel confident in caring for dying patients and their families and less than 2% of overall content in nursing textbooks is related to end-of-life care, despite the tremendous growth in palliative and end-of-life care programs across the country. The purpose of this textb...[more]

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• Strategies for Academic Success

  Author(s): Liv Marken, University of Saskatchewan

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: Strategies for Academic Success accompanies the first-year University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science online course by the same name. However, the information it contains will apply to post-secondary institutions all over. The textbook has a reader-friendly format arranged to help you develop the essential skills and provide the information you need to succeed in university.

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