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    Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

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    Contributors: Theis and Tomkin

    Publisher: OpenStax CNX

    License: CC BY

    With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.

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    Read more about The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat

    The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I: Fall, Flow, and Heat

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    Contributor: Schiller

    Publisher: Motion Mountain

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life.

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    Read more about The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity

    The Adventure of Physics - Vol. II: Relativity

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    Contributor: Schiller

    Publisher: Motion Mountain

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and empty space move leads to many adven- tures. This volume presents the best of them in the domains of relativity and cosmology. In the study of motion – physics – special and general relativity form two important building blocks.

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    Read more about The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains

    The Adventure of Physics - Vol. III: Light, Charges, and Brains

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    Contributor: Schiller

    Publisher: Motion Mountain

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the adventures one encounters when exploring everything electric. The story ranges from the weighing of electric current to the use of magnetic fields to heal bone fractures and up to the understanding of the human brain.

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    Read more about The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change

    The Adventure of Physics - Vol. IV: The Quantum of Change

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    Contributor: Schiller

    Publisher: Motion Mountain

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and space move? The answer leads to many adventures; this volume presents those due to the discovery that there is a smallest change value in nature. This smallest change value, the quantum of action, leads to what is called quantum physics. In the structure of modern physics, quantum physics covers three points; this volume covers the introduction to the point in the lower right: the foundations of quantum theory.

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    Read more about The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars

    The Adventure of Physics - Vol. V: Motion Inside Matter - Pleasure, Technology, and Stars

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    Contributor: Schiller

    Publisher: Motion Mountain

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how bodies, images and empty space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best adventures about the motion inside people, inside animals, and inside any other type of matter – from the largest stars to the smallest nuclei.

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    Read more about The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification

    The Adventure of Physics - Vol. VI: The Strand Model - A Speculation on Unification

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    Contributor: Schiller

    Publisher: Motion Mountain

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    This book is written for anybody who is intensely curious about nature and motion. Have you ever asked: Why do people, animals, things, images and empty space move? The answer leads to many adventures, and this book presents one of the best of them: the search for a precise, unified and final description of all motion.

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    Read more about Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science

    Mind, Body, World: Foundations of Cognitive Science

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    Contributor: Dawson

    Publisher: Athabasca University Press

    License: CC BY-NC-ND

    Cognitive science arose in the 1950s when it became apparent that a number of disciplines, including psychology, computer science, linguistics, and philosophy, were fragmenting. Perhaps owing to the field's immediate origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, and embodied cognitive science.

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    Read more about Natural Resources Biometrics

    Natural Resources Biometrics

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    Contributor: Kiernan

    Publisher: Open SUNY

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    Natural Resources Biometrics begins with a review of descriptive statistics, estimation, and hypothesis testing. The following chapters cover one- and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), including multiple comparison methods and interaction assessment, with a strong emphasis on application and interpretation. Simple and multiple linear regressions in a natural resource setting are covered in the next chapters, focusing on correlation, model fitting, residual analysis, and confidence and prediction intervals. The final chapters cover growth and yield models, volume and biomass equations, site index curves, competition indices, importance values, and measures of species diversity, association, and community similarity.

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    Read more about Psychology as a Social Science

    Psychology as a Social Science

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    Contributors: Bissau-Diener and Diener

    Publisher: Noba

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    This textbook provides standard introduction to psychology course content with a specific emphasis on social aspects of psychology. This includes expanded content related to social cognition, aggression, attraction and similar topics. This book can be modified: feel free to add or remove modules to better suit your specific needs.Please note that the publisher requires you to login to access and download the textbooks.

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