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Clinical Procedures for Safer Patient Care

The checklist approach/ used in this textbook/ aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives/ a brief overview of the relevant theory/ checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process/ and a summary of key takeaways. Key terms are set in bold throughout the book and laid out again in a Glossary in the appendix. All 88 checklists are also summarized/ and hyperlinked to the original checklist/ in the appendix.
CLUE: Chemistry/ Life/ the Universe and Everything

This text is intended to provide an in-depth introduction to the key ideas in chemistry. We have designed the book to show how these ideas are developed from simple to complex systems and how they relate to each other. We consider three ideas central to an understanding of chemistry: the ...Read More
Collaborative Statistics

Collaborative Statistics was written by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean/ faculty members at De Anza Collegein Cupertino/ California. The textbook was developed over several years and has been used in regularand honors-level classroom settings and in distance learning classes. Courses using this textbook have beenarticulated by the University of California ...Read More
College Algebra

College Algebra is an introductory text for a college algebra survey course. The material is presented at a level intended to prepare students for Calculus while also giving them relevant mathematical skills that can be used in other classes. The authors describe their approach as "Functions First/" believing introducing functions ...Read More
College Algebra

College Algebra provides a comprehensive and multi-layered exploration of algebraic principles. The text is suitable for a typical introductory Algebra course/ and was developed to be used flexibly. The modular approach and the richness of content ensures that the book meets the needs of a variety of programs.College Algebraguides and ...Read More
College Algebra & Trigonometry

This College Algebra text will cover a combination of classical algebra and analytic geometry/ with an introduction to the transcendental exponential and logarithmic functions. If mathematics is the language of science/ then algebra is the grammar of that language. Like grammar/ algebra provides a structure to mathematical notation/ in addition to its uses in problem solving and its ability to change the appearance of an expression without changing the value.
College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components/ before reconstructing ...Read More
College Physics

This introductory/ algebra-based/ two-semester college physics book is grounded with real-world examples/ illustrations/ and explanations to help students grasp key/ fundamental physics concepts. This online/ fully editable and customizable title includes learning objectives/ concept questions/ links to labs and simulations/ and ample practice opportunities to solve traditional physics application problems. OpenStax College has compiled many resources for faculty and students/ from faculty-only content to interactive homework and study guides.
College Success

OpenStax College Success is a comprehensive and contemporary resource that serves First Year Experience/ Student Success/ and College Transition courses. Developed with the support of hundreds of faculty and coordinators/ the book addresses the evolving challenges and opportunities of today’s diverse students. Engagement/ self-analysis/ personal responsibility/ and student support are reflected throughout the material. College Success also includes an array of student surveys and opinion polls/ and OpenStax will regularly provide the results to adopting faculty.
College Success

Our primary goal in writing College Success is to help you succeed in college. According to Department of Education data/ 30 percent of college freshmen leave school in their first year and as many as 50 percent never graduate. College Success is designed to help change that. College Success has ...Read More
College Trigonometry

Covers chapters 10-11 of Precalculus.
Combinatorics

Combinatorics is an upper-level introductory course in enumeration/ graph theory/ and design theory.
Combinatorics Through Guided Discovery

This book is an introduction to combinatorial mathematics/ also known as combinatorics. The book focuses especially but not exclusively on the part of combinatorics that mathematicians refer to as “counting.” The book consists almost entirely of problems. Some of the problems are designed to lead you to think about a ...Read More
Communication/ Affect/ & Learning in the Classroom - 4th Edition

Communication/ Affect/ & Learning in the Classroom was original published by Virginia Richmond and Joan Gorham in 1992 and then updated a decade later by Virginia Richmond/ Jason S. Wrench/ and Joan Gorham in 2001. As we enter into the revision of the 3rd edition of the text/ the basic ...Read More
Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners

This textbook is designed for beginning-intermediate English language learners. 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 includes listening and speaking components such as dialogues/ interviews/ discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers/ as well as links to additional listening resources on the web.
Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field/ while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely/ concrete/ and real-life examples of communication concepts in action. A key feature of this book is ...Read More
Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory/ Research and Practice

This reader is an Open Educational Resource/ meant to accompany a graduate or higher-level undergraduate university course in climate change resilience/ adaptation/ and/or planning. While the material is geared toward students in urban and regional planning/ it may also be of interest to students of urban studies/ public health/ geography/ ...Read More
Compact Anthology of World Literature

A world literature class may be the first place that some students have encountered European works/ let alone non-Western texts. The emphasis in this anthology/ therefore/ is on non-Western and European works/ with only the British authors who were the most influential to European and non-Western authors (such as Shakespeare/ ...Read More
Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design: Curriculum and Instruction for Students with Developmental Disabilities/Autism Spectrum Disorders

This open textbook addresses the population of individuals with disabilities that experience complex lifelong needs across multiple areas in their lives. Drs. Sennott and Loman drafted this book (along with the help from some friends) with the hope of providing pertinent/ practical/ and current resources to future special educators who plan to serve individuals with complex disabilities.
Computer-Aided Exercises in Civil Procedure - 7th Edition

The sixth edition/ first published as an ebook/ and this seventh edition carry forward the philosophy and structure of the earlier editions. This book is not a comprehensive treatise on the subject of civil procedure/ yet it provides a mixture of expository text/ cases/ and self-testing questions in nearly all ...Read More
Computer Networking : Principles/ Protocols and Practice

This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach

Suppose you want to build a computer network/ one that has the potential to grow to global proportions and to support applications as diverse as teleconferencing/ video on demand/ electronic commerce/ distributed computing/ and digital libraries. What available technologies would serve as the underlying building blocks/ and what kind of software architecture would you design to integrate these building blocks into an effective communication service? Answering this question is the overriding goal of this book—to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.
Concept Development Studies in Chemistry

This collection of Concept Development Studies in Chemistry is presented to redirect the focus of learning. In each concept development study/ a major chemical concept is developed and refined by analysis of experimental observations and careful reasoning. Each study begins with the definition of an initial Foundation of assumed knowledge/ followed by a statement of questions which arise from the Foundation. Analysis of these questions is presented as a series of observations and logical deductions/ followed by further questions. This detailed process is followed until the conceptual development of a model provides a reasonable answer to the stated questions.
Concepts of Biology

Concepts of Biology is designed for the introductory biology course for nonmajors taught at most two- and four-year colleges. The scope/ sequence/ and level of the program are designed to match typical course syllabi in the market. Concepts of Biology includes interesting applications/ features a rich art program/ and conveys the major themes of biology. OpenStax College has compiled many resources for faculty and students/ from faculty-only content to interactive homework and study guides.
Concepts of Fitness and Wellness

This open textbook for Concepts of Fitness and Wellness at Georgia Highlands College was created through a Round Seven ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read/ this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics/ including threats to biodiversity/ environmental laws/ and protected areas management/ as well ...Read More
Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens

This openly licensed text/ created with students/ approaches contemporary families from an equity lens. It asks two questions relevant to the Difference/ Power/ and Discrimination outcomes at Linn-Benton Community College and Oregon State University: “What do families need?” and “How do society and institutions support or get in the way of families getting what they need?" Original content is licensed under CC BY/ except as otherwise noted. More specific information can be found under Licenses and Attributions at the bottom of each section.
Contract Doctrine/ Theory & Practice Volume 1

This is the first in a series of Contracts casebooks. It was originally titled "Collaborative Teaching Materials for Contracts." The first semester of law school is mostly about learning to speak a new legal language (but emphatically not “legalese”)/ to formulate and evaluate legal arguments/ to become comfortable with the ...Read More