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• BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Reader 1

  Author(s): Shantel Ivits, Vancouver Community College

  Updated: Mar 30, 2020

  Description: This reader contains nine original stories about healing, discovery, survival, relationships, justice, and connections to the land explored through the lens of the plant world. These stories, written specifically for adults, are designed to accompany the BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 1. This level 1 reader, one of a series of six readers, is roughly equivalent to beginner to grade 1.5 in the K-12 system. Font size and line spacing can be adjusted in the online view,...[more]

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• BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 1

  Author(s): Shantel Ivits, Vancouver Community College

  Updated: Mar 30, 2020

  Description: This course pack is designed to meet the learning outcomes for Adult Literacy Fundamental English Level 1 (roughly equivalent to beginner to grade 1.5 in the K-12 system). Every of the nine chapters includes a level-appropriate, high-interest reading of approximately 100 words. The readings are freely available in a separate reader with convenient links to the readings in each chapter of this course pack. The online version of this course pack also contains audio recordings of each story in the...[more]

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• Vital Sign Measurement Across the Lifespan - 1st Canadian Edition

  Author(s): Jennifer L. Lapum, Margaret Verkuyl, Wendy Garcia, Oona St-Amant, Andy Tan, Ryerson University

  Updated: Mar 23, 2020

  Description: The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.

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• Calculus: Volume 3 (OpenStax)

  Author(s): Gilbert Strang, Edwin “Jed” Herman

  Updated: Mar 13, 2020

  Description: Calculus is designed for the typical two- or three-semester general calculus course, incorporating innovative features to enhance student learning. The book guides students through the core concepts of calculus and helps them understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. Due to the comprehensive nature of the material, we are offering the book in three volumes for flexibility and efficiency. Volume 3 covers parametric equations and polar coordinates, vectors, fun...[more]

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• Principles of Marketing

  Author(s): University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing

  Updated: Mar 9, 2020

  Description: Principles of Marketing teaches the experience and process of actually doing marketing—not just the vocabulary. It carries five dominant themes throughout in order to expose students to marketing in today’s environment: Service dominant logic, sustainability, ethics and social responsibility, global coverage, and metrics. NOTE: This book was updated on January 20, 2017. Any reviews posted before this date are based on the older edition of this textbook.

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• Astronomy (OpenStax)

  Author(s): Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney C. Wolff

  Updated: Mar 9, 2020

  Description: Astronomy is written in clear non-technical language, with the occasional touch of humor and a wide range of clarifying illustrations. It has many analogies drawn from everyday life to help non-science majors appreciate, on their own terms, what our modern exploration of the universe is revealing. Astronomy was written, updated, and reviewed by a broad range of astronomers and astronomy educators in a strong community effort. Astronomy has information and images from the New Horizons exploratio...[more]

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• Delftse Foundations of Computation

  Author(s): Stefan Hugtenburg, TU Delft, Neil Yorke-Smith, TU Delft

  Updated: Mar 6, 2020

  Description: Delftse Foundations of Computation is a textbook for an introductory course in theoretical computer science. It includes topics from propositional and predicate logic, proof techniques, set theory and the theory of computation, along with practical applications to computer science. It has no prerequisites other than a general familiarity with computer programming.

• Introduction to Oceanography

  Author(s): Paul Webb, Roger Williams University

  Updated: Mar 6, 2020

  Description: Introduction to Oceanography is a textbook appropriate to an introductory-level university course in oceanography. The book covers the fundamental geological, chemical, physical and biological processes in the ocean, with an emphasis on the North Atlantic region.

• History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective

  Author(s): Erik Ringmar, Ibn Haldun University

  Updated: Mar 6, 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]

• Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective

  Author(s): Bill Freedman, Dalhousie University

  Updated: Mar 5, 2020

  Description: This textbook is intended to provide the core elements of a curriculum for teaching environmental science at the introductory level in Canadian colleges and universities. This book is suitable for students beginning a program in environmental science, environmental studies, or sustainability. It is also appropriate for arts students who require a science elective, and for science students who require a non-major elective. This book was written from the ground-up to provide Canadian information ...[more]

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