tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/8?page=7Open Textbook Library - Natural Sciences Textbooks2022-05-27T15:45:20Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png11752022-05-27T15:45:20Z2024-01-22T14:52:31ZArcade Expression Crash Course with COVID-19 data<img alt="Read more about Arcade Expression Crash Course with COVID-19 data" title="textbook cover placeholder image" class="cover fallback " width="247" height="326" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" />Written for ArcGIS Pro 2.511712022-05-27T15:36:52Z2024-01-22T14:52:31ZFood Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement<img alt="Read more about Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement" title="Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzY4NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--15b2ec98b532a2cf02161203f0774a0474a68b2d/cover-683x1024.jpeg" />Food Studies aims to help readers understand and address numerous issues within food, food culture, and food systems. These subjects transcend disciplinary boundaries and call attention to how matter, meaning, and movement produce complex and dynamic food-human realities. Chapters range from sovereignty to breastfeeding, financialization to food porn, pollination to fair trade. Embedded throughout, art, poetry, illustration, and audiovisual works offer moments to reflect on and synthesize the text-based entries. Through reading, classroom discussion, and engaging with the extensive pedagogical tools, learners and teachers alike may acquire a new sense of things foodish—along with a new sense of their own place and role within food systems themselves.11742022-05-26T23:05:54Z2024-01-22T14:52:31ZConservation techniques<img alt="Read more about Conservation techniques" title="Conservation techniques cover image" class="cover " width="155" height="200" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzY5MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--64eddd87e7f911c5c6bdb021a833345e3a42780b/991031694279304646.jpeg" />This book fosters the recognition of options for making progress toward increased environmental conservation through an understanding of the underlying science and practice of a variety of conservation techniques. Today, there are expected benefits from integrated science and practice, and many people are promoting this as the way forward to improve our environment. Over time, trends emerge regarding the best way to conserve the environment, but so far an outstanding solution has not emerged. Each conservation technique has its foundational concepts, limitations, and implementation issues. Reviewing a collection of techniques provides a basis for considering which approach will be best for any specific environmental challenge. This book should advance the recognition of the challenges managing the environment, techniques that can be used to address the challenges, and the ways they might help foster the integration of science and the practice of ecological conservation. This book is intended for students and management professionals who might benefit from a vision and guiding path that leads toward achieving ecological conservation for the long-term. This book is unique in the Open Educational Resources (OER) space as it seeks to present a range of conservation techniques with differing science concepts and applications.11632022-05-02T15:16:15Z2024-01-22T14:52:31ZGeology Online Lab Activities: An Open Educational Resource for Community College Students and Instructors<img alt="Read more about Geology Online Lab Activities: An Open Educational Resource for Community College Students and Instructors" title="Geology Online Lab Activities: An Open Educational Resource for Community College Students and Instructors cover image" class="cover " width="609" height="755" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzU5NywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--45e64698b4382bb0416f5afcdaca004c7b4c6216/Capture.JPG" />The online geology lab for community college students was developed by Dr. Rondi Davies, a faculty member at Queensborough Community College, City University New York, during two years of forced online synchronous learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This open educational resource collects many of Dr. Davies’ favorite open-access materials and supplements them with her own work within a single, cohesive laboratory manual intended for two-year, non-major college students from the New York area.11612022-05-02T14:31:40Z2024-01-22T14:52:31ZFizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 3<img alt="Read more about Fizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 3" title="Fizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 3 cover image" class="cover " width="595" height="689" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzU5NSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--fef4cde05120a7fac5f38a7601b47d7bd1d57f90/43123.JPG" />Fizyka dla szkół wyższych. Tom 3 dopasowana jest pod względem zakresu i układu treści do typowych kursów wprowadzających z fizyki ogólnej opartych na analizie matematycznej. Podręcznik kładzie nacisk na powiązania między teorią a praktycznymi zastosowaniami, wyjaśniając zagadnienia fizyczne w ciekawy i zrozumiały sposób, lecz z zachowaniem niezbędnego rygoru matematycznego. Liczne, dobrze dobrane przykłady pokazują, jak podejść do zadania, jak wykorzystać wzory i wreszcie jak sprawdzić i uogólnić wynik.11602022-05-02T14:03:20Z2024-01-22T14:52:31ZFizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 2<img alt="Read more about Fizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 2" title="Fizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 2 cover image" class="cover " width="593" height="818" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzU5NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--da3ca6e58e62ca97ca87168265808b1f2e55ae89/Capture2.JPG" />Fizyka dla szkół wyższych. Tom 2 dopasowana jest pod względem zakresu i układu treści do typowych kursów wprowadzających z fizyki ogólnej opartych na analizie matematycznej. Podręcznik kładzie nacisk na powiązania między teorią a praktycznymi zastosowaniami, wyjaśniając zagadnienia fizyczne w ciekawy i zrozumiały sposób, lecz z zachowaniem niezbędnego rygoru matematycznego. Liczne, dobrze dobrane przykłady pokazują, jak podejść do zadania, jak wykorzystać wzory i wreszcie jak sprawdzić i uogólnić wynik.11592022-05-02T13:46:50Z2024-01-23T17:29:33ZFizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 1<img alt="Read more about Fizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 1" title="Fizyka dla szkół wyższych Tom 1 cover image" class="cover " width="392" height="557" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzU5MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--76ab18ae7a9f07bb0a378010809a2c27e4cbfec1/Capture1.JPG" />Fizyka dla szkół wyższych. Tom 1 dopasowana jest pod względem zakresu i układu treści do typowych kursów wprowadzających z fizyki ogólnej opartych na analizie matematycznej. Podręcznik kładzie nacisk na powiązania między teorią a praktycznymi zastosowaniami, wyjaśniając zagadnienia fizyczne w ciekawy i zrozumiały sposób, lecz z zachowaniem niezbędnego rygoru matematycznego. Liczne, dobrze dobrane przykłady pokazują, jak podejść do zadania, jak wykorzystać wzory i wreszcie jak sprawdzić i uogólnić wynik.11452022-03-11T05:08:05Z2024-01-22T14:52:30ZBotany in Hawaiʻi<img alt="Read more about Botany in Hawaiʻi" title="Botany in Hawaiʻi cover image" class="cover " width="543" height="667" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzQ1MSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0b24b6d2c689e391da8c5b6615c178d7bd430f00/Capture1.JPG" />"Botany in Hawai‘i" discusses introductory topics of Botany through examples of the native and introduced plants found in Hawai‘i. It includes anatomy and physiology of seeds, roots, leaves, stems, fruits and flowers and covers the main plant groups from nonvascular to flowering plants. This book provides a visual reference to botanical concepts and terminology for beginners.11372022-02-19T18:46:08Z2024-01-22T14:52:30ZThe Story of Earth: An Observational Guide<img alt="Read more about The Story of Earth: An Observational Guide" title="The Story of Earth: An Observational Guide cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzM5NiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--4ab8ac26bc01a881f933962ebaf2399127539ec7/Cover-DH-v5-ebook-683x1024.jpg" />Our goal in creating the material for this lab manual was to focus heavily on students making observations of geologic data, whether rocks, minerals, fossils, maps, graphs, and other things. We want students to look at things and wonder why, how, and when. The exercises and examples used in this book are scattered throughout the world. We wanted to make sure that one region of the world was not the sole focus of this work.11242022-01-17T18:07:40Z2024-01-22T14:52:29ZSurveying and Mapping<img alt="Read more about Surveying and Mapping" title="Surveying and Mapping cover image" class="cover " width="300" height="370" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzMwMiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7833f4d00301b6eefe9292b67e90434ad0ddeac3/submission_46_63_coverImage_en_US_t.png" />This book provides an introduction, at academic level, into the field of surveying and mapping. The book has been compiled based on hand-outs and readers written for the third-year course Surveying and Mapping, in the bachelor program Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology. This book covers a wide range of measurement techniques, from land surveying, GPS/GNSS and remote sensing to the associated data processing, the underlying coordinate reference systems, as well as the analysis and visualization of the acquired geospatial information.
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