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    Canadian History: Pre-Confederation

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    Contributor: Belshaw

    Publisher: BCcampus

    License: CC BY

    Canadian History: Pre-Confederation is a survey text that introduces undergraduate students to important themes in North American history to 1867. It provides room for Aboriginal and European agendas and narratives, explores the connections between the territory that coalesces into the shape of modern Canada and the larger continent and world in which it operates, and engages with emergent issues in the field. The material is pursued in a largely chronological manner to the early 19th century, at which point social, economic, and political change are dissected. Canadian History: Pre-Confederation provides, as well, a reconnaissance of historical methodology and debates in the field, exercises for students, Key Terms and a Glossary, and section-by-section Key Points. Although this text can be modified, expanded, reduced, and reorganized to suit the needs of the instructor, it is organized so as to support learning, to broaden (and sometimes provoke) debate, and to engage students in thinking like historians. Written and reviewed by subject experts drawn from colleges and universities, this is the first open textbook on the topic of Canadian history.

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    Read more about Mastering Strategic Management - 1st Canadian Edition

    Mastering Strategic Management - 1st Canadian Edition

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    Contributors: Edwards, Ketchen, and Short

    Publisher: BCcampus

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    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 almost like info-graphics for key concepts in each section. This feature sets Mastering Strategic Management apart from any strategic management book on the market today. The second way the authors capture student interest through their textbook is by using a real-world company as the running example in each chapter. For example, Chapter 1 in Mastering Strategic Management utilizes Blackberry to harness the conceptual coverage of the chapter in a running, corporate, application to which students will relate. The third inventive way Mastering Strategic Management holds the attention of strategic management students is through the “strategy at the movies” feature in each chapter that links course concepts with a popular motion picture.

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    Read more about Research Methods in Psychology - 2nd Canadian Edition

    Research Methods in Psychology - 2nd Canadian Edition

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    Contributors: Jhangiani and Chiang

    Publisher: BCcampus

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    The present adaptation constitutes the second Canadian edition and was co-authored by Rajiv S. Jhangiani (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) and I-Chant A. Chiang (Quest University Canada) and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Revisions include the following:

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    Read more about Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets - 1st Canadian Edition

    Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets - 1st Canadian Edition

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    Contributors: Mahbobi and Tiemann

    Publisher: BCcampus

    License: CC BY

    Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets – 1st Canadian Edition is an adaptation of Thomas K. Tiemann's book, Introductory Business Statistics. This new edition still contains the basic ideas behind statistics, such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, and sampling distributions as well as information on descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics. New topics include the chi-square test and categorical variables, null and alternative hypotheses for the test of independence, simple linear regression model, least squares method, coefficient of determination, confidence interval for the average of the dependent variable, and prediction interval for a specific value of the dependent variable.

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    Read more about Animals & Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights

    Animals & Ethics 101: Thinking Critically About Animal Rights

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    Contributor: Nobis

    Publisher: Open Philosophy Press

    License: CC BY-SA

    This book provides an overview of the current debates about the nature and extent of our moral obligations to animals. Which, if any, uses of animals are morally wrong, which are morally permissible (i.e., not wrong) and why? What, if any, moral obligations do we, individually and as a society (and a global community), have towards animals and why? How should animals be treated? Why?

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    Read more about Understanding Music: Past and Present

    Understanding Music: Past and Present

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    Contributors: Clark, Heflin, Kluball, and Kramer

    Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

    License: CC BY-SA

    Understanding Music: Past and Present is an open Music Appreciation textbook co-authored by music faculty across Georgia. The text covers the fundamentals of music and the physics of sound, an exploration of music from the Middle Ages to the present day, and a final chapter on popular music in the United States.

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    Read more about Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

    Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present

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    Contributors: Berke, Bleil, and Cofer

    Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

    License: CC BY-SA

    Writing the Nation: A Concise Guide to American Literature 1865 to Present is a text that surveys key literary movements and the American authors associated with the movement. Topics include late romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and modern literature.

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    Read more about World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650

    World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650

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    Contributors: Getty and Kwon

    Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

    License: CC BY-SA

    This peer-reviewedWorld Literature Ianthology includes introductory text and images before each series of readings. Sections of the text are divided bytimeperiod in three parts: the Ancient World, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, and then divided into chapters by location.

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    Read more about Compact Anthology of World Literature

    Compact Anthology of World Literature

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    Contributors: Getty and Kwon

    Publisher: University of North Georgia Press

    License: CC BY-SA

    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, whose works have influenced authors around the world to the present day). In a world literature class, there is no way that a student can be equally familiar with all of the societies, contexts, time periods, cultures, religions, and languages that they will encounter; even though the works presented here are translated, students will face issues such as unfamiliar names and parts of the story (such as puns) that may not translate well or at all. Since these stories are rooted in their cultures and time periods, it is necessary to know the basic context of each work to understand the expectations of the original audience.

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    Read more about Exploring Public Speaking - 4th Edition

    Exploring Public Speaking - 4th Edition

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    Contributors: Barton and Tucker

    Publisher: University System of Georgia

    License: CC BY-NC-SA

    In Exploring Public Speaking, especially in its second through fourth editions, we have attempted to create a usable, zero-cost textbook for basic public speaking courses or courses that include basic public speaking skills as one of their primary learning outcomes. The free, open nature of the text means that instructors are able to use all or part of it, and add their own materials.

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