This updated edition of the Personal Finance textbook modernizes a well-established open educational resource first created by Rachel S. Siegel, CFA, and Carol Yacht. While maintaining the core structure and foundational topics of the original, this new version reflects over a decade of economic, technological, and social change. The revised content incorporates up-to-date information on topics such …

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7 modules for use in ASL 2 courses, covering negation, modal verbs, scheduling activities, making plans, errands, activities, travel, opinions, skills, sports and wellness, classifiers and MM, agreeing with conditions, food, making requests, describing the work place, money, shopping in a store. Developed by San Diego City College (led by Melanie Nakaji), this collection of …

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Authored by Prof. Emanuela Quaglia, with major contributions from talented DAA students, this book is designed for anyone starting their photography journey. It covers all the essential concepts and skills taught in an introductory course — from understanding your camera and mastering composition, to working with light, exploring creative techniques, and building confidence as a photographer. …

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This textbook has been created specifically for today’s California Community College public speaking students and includes carefully curated content from a variety of public speaking textbooks found in the LibreTexts Social Science Library. This textbook was formatted to meet the California State requirements for speech courses through the Common Course Numbering (CCN) template for COMM …

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August 6-8, 2025 Cal OER will focus on OER efforts and impact, broadly defined, across the state of California and especially across the state’s three public higher education systems, the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California. The theme for the 2025 conference is Beyond the Horizon: Challenges and Opportunities in …

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Salón de clase, Intermediate Spanish for Education Professionals is a comprehensive intermediate Spanish open access textbook with reading, listening, speaking, and writing practice for students who have an interest and/or intend to pursue a career in the field of Education (teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, support staff members, paraprofessionals, among others). This Open Education …

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