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The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000).

This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline

BIS 2B is part of the UC Davis Biological Sciences lower division core sequence and is designed to provide a foundation for study of modern biology for a broad range of majors. BIS 2B explores the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape biological diversity and acquaints you with the physical challenges of the environment. This course complements how BIS 2A treats the fundamental molecular, cellular, developmental, physiological, and genetic building blocks of living organisms, and the origins of life itself and how BIS 2C considers the diversity of life on earth that is the outcome of several billion years of continuous evolution and ecology.

Specifically, this course covers the processes by which organisms have evolved over the 3.5+ billion years of the existence of life on Earth (evolution) and the present-day processes by which those species interact with each other and the environment to create the habitats, patterns of distribution and abundance of species we see around us (ecology). As you will certainly see throughout the quarter, evolution and ecology are fundamentally linked: evolutionary history shapes a species’ ecology, and present-day ecology can influence future evolutionary trajectories. This is why they are studied together in this course.

Welcome to the Open Educational Resource (OER) laboratory manual that will take you on an exciting journey through scientific exploration’s fundamental principles and techniques. This book will delve into the captivating realm of scientific inquiry, where observation, experimentation, and analysis pave the way for groundbreaking discoveries.

Biology I Cellular Processes Laboratory Manual will provide our undergraduate biology students with an engaging and meaningful laboratory experience that nurtures a sense of discovery and encourages more significant interest in biological science as a core subject, a field of study, or a career. The laboratory manual reinforces critical core concepts of biology and engages students to solve problems through scientific investigation by learning to ask and answer questions through observations and conducting experiments.

The content of the lab was adopted from a previous lab manual titled “Biological Science Lab Manual” coauthored with Ms. Amanda Gehring in 2017.

Many thanks to Ms. Amanda Gehring, Prabha Usman, Biology Department of Hillsborough Community College Brandon Campus and Center for Innovative Teaching and Technology for providing valuable input on what it takes to make a Biology lab manual a success.

Concepts of Biology is designed for the typical introductory biology course for nonmajors, covering standard scope and sequence requirements. The text includes interesting applications and conveys the major themes of biology, with content that is meaningful and easy to understand. The book is designed to demonstrate biology concepts and to promote scientific literacy.

Principles of Biology – An Introduction to Biological Concepts has been modified from several OpenStax textbooks including Concepts of Biology, Biology 2E, Microbiology and Anatomy and Physiology. These textbooks have been cited and attributed below. Each textbook can be accessed for free in its original form by clicking on the links included with each book citation.

Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of reading and studying literature, even earlier literature. It shows students, some of whom will themselves become teachers, that literature actually has something to say to them. Furthermore, it shows that literature is meant to be enjoyed, that, as the Roman poet Horace (and his Renaissance disciple Sir Philip Sidney) said, the functions of literature are to teach and to delight. The book will also be useful to teachers who want to convey their passion for literature to their students. After an introductory chapter that offers advice on how to read (and teach) literature, the book consists of a series of chapters that examine individual literary works ranging from The Iliad to Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. These chapters can not substitute for reading the actual works. Rather they are intended to help students read those works. They are attempts to demystify the act of reading and to show that these works, whether they are nearly three thousand or less than two hundred years old, still have important things to say to contemporary readers.

This collection is not a “course.” It is a collection of materials designed to assist instructors in teaching and presenting the concepts of Introduction to Literature. Instructors are urged to pick and choose the items that will add to their lesson plans; then instructors can make these items available to students through the LMS, in-class presentations, or even as hand-outs. The material can be used in conjunction with other items instructors find or prepare, or the material can be used as a sole source for the class. This collection is designed to be helpful for programs or regions that choose not to require students to purchase an actual textbook. Literature anthologies are usually large, cumbersome, and expensive—and most of the literature in the bought anthology cannot be covered in a one semester class. This collection is low cost and easy to access.

Authoring America: A Survey of American Literature from Its Beginnings to 2020 is a five-volume, completely-open anthology that features full text by over 100 authors. From Native American tales of origins to the latest poem read at a presidential inauguration, the selections represent the diverse voices in American literature. This anthology charts the development of the literary production in the United States, highlighting the writers who influenced and authored American letters.

Student work included - links to some authors' works may be external