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• Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals

  Author(s): Graphic Communications Open Textbook Collective, British Columbia Institute of Technology

  Updated: Jul 30, 2019

  Description: This textbook -- written by a group of select experts with a focus on different aspects of the design process, from creation to production -- addresses the many steps of creating and then producing physical, printed, or other imaged products that people interact with on a daily basis. It covers the concept that, while most modern graphic design is created on computers using design software, the ideas and concepts don’t stay on the computer. The ideas need to be completed in the computer softwa...[more]

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• English Literature: Victorians and Moderns

  Author(s): Dr. James Sexton, Camosun College

  Updated: Jul 30, 2019

  Description: English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also provides a series of guided research casebooks which make available numerous published essays from open access books and journals, as well as several reprinted critical essays from established learned journals such as English Studies in Canada and the Aldous Hux...[more]

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• Meat Cutting and Processing for Food Service

  Author(s): go2HR, The BC Cook Articulation Committee

  Updated: Jul 23, 2019

  Description: This book is intended to give students a basic understanding of the various types of meat and poultry used in the food service industry, and of how the terminology used by retail, wholesale, and food service customers varies. Meat cutting for restaurants and hotels differs slightly from meat cutting for retail. Restaurants and hotels sometimes use names of cuts on menus that are common in the kitchen vernacular or in other jurisdictions like Europe or the United States, while retail meat cutter...[more]

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• Ethics in Law Enforcement

  Author(s): Steve McCartney, Justice Institute of British Columbia, Rick Parent, Simon Fraser University

  Updated: Jul 23, 2019

  Description: In this book, you will examine the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement. This book will also familiarize you with the basic history, principles, and theories of ethics. These concepts will then be applied to the major components of the criminal justice system: policing, the courts, and corrections. Discussion will focus on personal values, individual responsibility, decision making, discretion, and the structure of accountability. Specific topics covered will include core ...[more]

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• Mastering Strategic Management - 1st Canadian Edition

  Author(s): Janice Edwards, COTR, David Try, Coast Mountain College, Dave Ketchen, Auburn University, Jeremy Short, University of Oklahoma

  Updated: Jul 22, 2019

  Description: Mastering Strategic Management is designed to enhance student engagement in three innovative ways. The first is through visual adaptations of the key content in the book. It is well documented that many of today’s students are visual learners. To meet students’ wants and needs (and thereby create a much better teaching experience for professors), Mastering Strategic Management contains multiple graphic concept pages in ever section of every chapter of the book. Think of graphic concept pages as...[more]

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• Understanding Ingredients for the Canadian Baker

  Author(s): The BC Cook Articulation Committee, go2HR

  Updated: Jul 17, 2019

  Description: This book is intended to give students a basic understanding of the various types and uses of ingredients used in the baking industry, and how certain ingredients, in particular grains and flours are produced, graded and processed in Canada. Understanding Ingredients for the Canadian Baker is one of a series of Culinary Arts books developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s food service and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Coo...[more]

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• Organizational Behavior (University of Minnesota)

  Author(s): Author removed at request of original publisher, Adaptation by the University of Minnesota

  Updated: Jul 17, 2019

  Description: This book is not be about giving students all the answers to every situation they may encounter when they start their first job or as they continue up the career ladder. Instead, this book gives students the vocabulary, framework, and critical thinking skills necessary to diagnose situations, ask tough questions, evaluate the answers received, and to act in an effective and ethical manner regardless of situational characteristics. Often, students taking organizational behavior (OB) either do n...[more]

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• Introduction to Community Psychology

  Author(s): Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O'Brien, Kaitlyn N. Ramian

  Updated: Jul 17, 2019

  Description: This textbook tells the story of community psychologists, who view social problems as being due to the unequal distribution of resources, which causes poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and crime. In addition, because no condition or disease has ever been eliminated by just dealing with those with the problem, community psychologists focus their work on prevention. Finally, community psychology shifts the power dynamics so that community members are equal members of the team, as they provide ...[more]

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• Résumer, Synthétiser, Argumenter

  Author(s): Sylvie Clamageran, Henriette Gezundhajt

  Updated: Jul 17, 2019

  Description: Le manuel Résumer, synthétiser, argumenter s’adresse aux étudiants de français langue seconde de niveau avancé (3e ou 4e année universitaire, essentiellement). Comme son titre l’indique, le manuel couvre l’écriture de résumés et de synthèses (cinq chapitres) et de textes argumentatifs (cinq chapitres). Les dix chapitres permettent de couvrir facilement un cours de six crédits; on peut également se servir du manuel pour un cours de trois crédits axé sur le résumé et la synthèse ou sur l’écrit a...[more]

• Cree: Language of the Plains / nēhiyawēwin: paskwāwi-pīkiskwēwin

  Author(s): Jean L. Okimāsis, University of Regina

  Updated: Jul 17, 2019

  Description: Cree: Language of the Plains is a comprehensive educational resource, offering a broad range of learning materials that is easily accessible to Cree language learners. This collection includes an updated and redesigned Cree language textbook, Cree language audio labs, and a Cree language workbook.

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