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Communities in Crisis: Student Voices on Climate Change book cover

Communities in Crisis: Student Voices on Climate Change

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Author(s): Timothy Bralower, April Millet

Editor(s): Halina Dingo

Subject(s): Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning, Climate change

Publisher: College of Earth and Mineral Science, The Pennsylvania State University

Last updated: 23/03/2023

Communities in Crisis–Student Voices on Climate Change addresses the specific threats of climate change on communities ranging from villages to large megalopolis. The threats encompass heatwaves and droughts, ocean acidification and harmful algal blooms. The project is written and edited by students at Penn State. The goal is to compile the magnitude of the climate change crisis on communities across the globe, as well as the breadth of the issues we face. Beyond looking at the current threats and forecasts, the students consider the solutions for the problems. Communities in Crisis is an ongoing project with new entries added each semester, and, over time it will chronicle the changing threats that climate change poses to populations around the world.

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Drugs, Health & Behavior

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Author(s): Jacqueline Schwab, Denise Salters

Subject(s): Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

Publisher: Affordable Course Transformation: The Pennsylvania State University 

Last updated: 20/03/2023

The Holocaust:  Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience book cover

The Holocaust:  Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience

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Author(s): Michael Polgar, Suki John

Editor(s): Michael Polgar, Suki John

Subject(s): The Holocaust, Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Publisher: Penn State University

Last updated: 20/03/2023

International and multidisciplinary authors share a free online textbook for Holocaust educators and students. Chapters consider the Holocaust and genocide from many perspectives, including the Arts and Humanities.

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Entrepreneurship Law: Company Creation

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Subject(s): Law

Publisher: Affordable Course Transformation: Pennsylvania State University

Last updated: 19/03/2023

Students survey the legal issues confronted by entrepreneurs and develop the practical skills to effectively and ethically represent them during the start-up phase. Students study how to interview, counsel, plan, draft, and negotiate, by critiquing relevant readings and putting this to use in the context of client interactions and classroom simulations. Students also will draft relevant blog posts, client correspondence and memoranda typical of those that surface in small business and entrepreneur representation.

ACT@PSU Quick Start Guide book cover

ACT@PSU Quick Start Guide

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Subject(s): Open learning, distance education

Publisher: Affordable Course Transformation: The Pennsylvania State University

Last updated: 14/03/2023

Begin creating accessible OER quickly with this guide to Pressbooks' most-used features.
Techniques of Calculus 1 book cover

Techniques of Calculus 1

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Author(s): Larry Musolino

Subject(s): Calculus and mathematical analysis, Mathematics

Publisher: Affordable Course Transformation: The Pennsylvania State University 

Last updated: 28/02/2023

Psychology book cover

Psychology

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Subject(s): Psychology

Publisher: Affordable Course Transformation: The Pennsylvania State University

Last updated: 24/02/2023

Math 220, Matrices book cover

Math 220, Matrices

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Publisher: Affordable Course Transformation: The Pennsylvania State University

Last updated: 13/02/2023

Introduction to the U.S. Criminal Justice System book cover

Introduction to the U.S. Criminal Justice System

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Subject(s): Legal aspects of criminology

Institution(s): The Pennsylvania State University

Publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources

Last updated: 13/02/2023

This book provides an overview of the criminal justice system and its primary components in the United States. Students will gain familiarity with the workings of, and relationship between, the police, courts, and both institutional and community corrections; it also spends significant time discussing the history of crime (and criminology) at the local, state, and national levels. While this book aims to give students a solid understanding of basic legal concepts and vocabulary, it will also take a socio-historical perspective that relates the evolution of US criminal justice to the contemporary structure of American society. Finally, this book is designed to support a primary research project that explores the relationship between individuals’ experiences of criminal victimization, attitudes toward firearms, and confidence in the police.

College Success book cover

College Success

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Subject(s): Education

Last updated: 13/02/2023

College Success is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.