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Language Connections with the Past: A History of the English Language

David Johnson

Language Connections with the Past: A History of the English Language is a textbook covering the major events and time periods in the history of the English language. The text begins with a general overview of linguistic concepts and terminology. Then the text traces the history of the English language from its Indo-European roots to the Early Modern English Period. The text also includes samples of literature from the different periods. Eight video lectures accompany the textbook. Many of the lectures are read by voice actors in various English dialects to engage students and to illustrate features of various English dialects.
Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook

Rielle Navitski and Leslie Marsh

Latinx Media, an open-access textbook, delves into the vibrant phenomenon of film, television, and digital media by and about the Latinx community, introducing readers to the core concepts in each of these media studies fields. Featuring thematic chapters by both distinguished and emerging scholars, the book uses media as a lens to illuminate the diversity and complexity of the US Latinx community in the past and present, examining questions of national origin, race/color, gender, and sexuality. It also includes profiles of prominent Latinx creatives that can be used as models for classroom assignments, plus a roundtable discussion featuring four scholars of Latinx media.
Lecciones de Español

Dennis Miller, Rosario Vickery, and Courtney DuBois

This open textbook for Spanish courses was created as a result of a Round 17 Transformation Grant.
Liberte: French 1001: 2nd Edition

Valerie Hastings and Mariana Stone

Revised 2018: Addition of audio, video, and written activities.

This open textbook for Elementary French I is a web-based remix of the open-source Liberte by Gretchen Angelo. The original text can be downloaded in .pdf format and is freely avalaible under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) from http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/.
Liberte: French 1002: 2nd Edition

Valerie Hastings and Mariana Stone

Revised 2018: Addition of audio, video, and written activities.

This open textbook for Elementary French II is a web-based remix of the open-source Liberte by Gretchen Angelo. The original text can be downloaded in .pdf format and is freely avalaible under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) from http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/.
Medical Histology Open Textbook

Juan Ramiro Diaz, Georgios Kallifatidis, Karen Wiles, Christina Wilson, and Soma Mukhopadhyay

This Open Textbook for Medical Histology was created under an Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include; The Microscope; Endocrine System; Cardiovascular System: Blood, Blood Vessels, and The Heart; Lymphatic System; Respiratory System; Digestive System: Organs of the Alimentary Canal and Accessory Organs of Digestion; Urinary System; Meiosis and Gametogenesis; Male Reproductive System; and the Female Reproductive System.
Microbiology for Allied Health Students

Molly Smith and Sara Selby

This open textbook is a remix of Openstax Microbiology, CC-BY 4.0, and created through an Affordable Learning Georgia Round Six Textbook Transformation Grant.

The textbook has the following supplemental materials within this repository:

This is a collection of instructional materials for the following open textbook and lab manual:
- Microbiology for Allied Health Students Lab Manual
- Microbiology for Allied Health Students Instructional Materials
Authors' Description:

Microbiology for Allied Health Students is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements for the single semester Microbiology course for non-majors and allied health students. The book presents the core concepts of microbiology with a focus on applications for careers in allied health. The pedagogical features of Microbiology for Allied Health Students make the material interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the career-application focus and scientific rigor inherent in the subject matter.

The scope and sequence of Microbiology for Allied Health Students has been developed and vetted with input from numerous instructors at institutions across the U.S. It is designed to meet the needs of most microbiology courses allied health students.

With these objectives in mind, the content of this textbook has been arranged in a logical progression from fundamental to more advanced concepts. The opening chapters present an overview of the discipline, with individual chapters focusing on cellular biology as well as each of the different types of microorganisms and the various means by which we can control and combat microbial growth. The focus turns to microbial pathogenicity, emphasizing how interactions between microbes and the human immune system contribute to human health and disease. The last several chapters of the text provide a survey of medical microbiology, presenting the characteristics of microbial diseases organized by body system.

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Microbiology for Allied Health Students: Lab Manual

Molly Smith and Sara Selby

This open lab manual is a remix of Openstax Microbiology, CC-BY 4.0, and created through an Affordable Learning Georgia Round Six Textbook Transformation Grant.

The lab manual was made to be used with the remixed textbook Microbiology for Allied Health Students, and the textbook has a set of Instructional Materials.

Authors' Description:

This lab manual was created to support a microbiology course for allied health students.

The first section of the manual was adapted from the OpenStax Microbiology textbook, of which a remixed version, Microbiology for Allied Health Students, is used as the text for the course.

The next section, staining methods, encompasses three essential staining procedures used in any microbiology lab.

The manual concludes with descriptions of the major biochemical tests students must perform in order to identify an unknown microorganism. While many traditional lab manuals are lengthy and comprehensive, descriptions of the labs in this manual are kept minimal to encourage students to further research the procedures and results on their own.

The appendix includes a safety contract that each student must sign and submit to the instructor at the beginning of the semester.

This manual was created in partial fulfillment of a grant from the University System of Georgia’s Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation initiative. Special thanks go to Sara Selby for editing and photography.

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Microeconomics for Business

Constantin Ogloblin, John Brown, John King, and William Levernier

This web-based open textbook and course for Microeconomics for Business was created under a Round Eight ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. The text is a remix including newly-created textbook chapters and chapters from OpenStax Principles of Microeconomics.

Original chapters are also available for download in the repository.

Topics include:
- Introduction to Economics
- Demand and Supply in Competitive Markets
- Elasticity of Demand and Supply
- Markets and Government
- Consumer Choice
- Production, Costs, and Profit
- Firms' Decisions under Perfect Competition
- Monopoly, Rent Seeking, and Antitrust Policies
- Firms' Decisions under Monopolistic Competition
- Market Concentration, Oligopoly, and Firms' Strategic Interaction
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Music Appreciation (Georgia Gwinnett College)

Todd Mueller, Elizabeth Whittenburg Ozment, Irina Escalante-Chernova, Marc Gilley, Catherine Kilroe-Smith, and Rachael Fischer

This Music Appreciation textbook was created under an ALG Round Five Textbook Transformation Grant. The original copy was presented in five modules, which are provided as separate files.

Authors' Description:

"The author of this text has intentionally kept it general in nature in order to create a platform for those who want to expand content into more in depth studies of the mentioned concepts and traditions. I believe that appreciation of any subject comes from open-minded exposure to that topic. With the arts this generally must happen at a moment when the message and meaning of the work resonates naturally with the appreciator.

Each instructor of music appreciation brings a unique expertise in differing genres. I encourage you to utilize this text along with musical examples of your choice. The music appreciation specific goals (found in the syllabus) vary between individual classes as the instructors see fit. These goals will be achieved by those who have competently met all of the requirements of the course. For the course that this text accompanies the goals for each student are:
- To gain basic exposure to the elements of music and their treatment in music
- To learn historical and cultural signifiers in a diverse body of music • To approach listening to music actively/analytically and to reflect on the experience
- To understand the factors that contribute to musical style in their own music and music presented in the course
- To gain knowledge about differing musical aesthetics and trends
- To become more knowledgeable and sensitive to varied human expression through music
If we endeavor together to reach these course goals the successful student will be able to:
- Describe elements of music that s/he hears, employing correct musical terminology
- Place music into an appropriate historical and cultural context
- Listen critically and discuss a wide variety of musical styles
- Analyze the stylistic features of a diverse group of musical styles
- Identify nationalistic tendencies in musical expression
- Identify musical diversity and aspects of our global society"
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Nursing Research Adoption

Mary Estelle Bester and Helen Taggart

This open course for Nursing Research was created under an Affordable Materials Grant. It is an introductory course for undergraduate nursing students to learn how to use research findings to improve nursing practice through applying the principles of evidence-based practice.
Open Anthology of Early World Literature in English Translation

Susan Hrach and Japheth Koech

Authors' Description:

A collection of free and open primary texts in digital formats for the study of early world literature in English translation. Multiple English translations are provided for comparison and study, as well as open secondary and supplemental resources.

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OpenEDUC: Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Diversity

Deanna Cozart, Brian Dotts, James Gurney, Tanya Walker, Amy Ingalls, and James Castle

This open textbook was created under a Round Two ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Included are open-source reading materials, learning objectives, suggested readings and resources, and activities organized into content modules for undergraduate Foundations of Education courses. The specific course included here is EDUC 2120: Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Diversity.

Authors' Description:

"The fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching children from diverse backgrounds. Examination of the nature and function of culture, development of individual and group cultural identity, definitions and implications of diversity, and the influences of culture on learning, development, and pedagogy. This course has a required field experience component."
OpenEDUC: Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education

Deanna Cozart, Brian Dotts, James Gurney, Tanya Walker, Amy Ingalls, and James Castle

This open textbook was created under a Round Two ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Included are open-source reading materials, learning objectives, suggested readings and resources, and activities organized into content modules for undergraduate Foundations of Education courses. The specific course included here is EDUC 2110: Investigating Critical and Contemporary Issues in Education.
Open Technical Communication

Tiffani Tijerina, Tamara Powell, Jonathan Arnett, Monique Logan, Cassandra Race, Lance Linimon, and James Monroe

Open Technical Communication is a freely available, open sourced technical communication textbook developed under a Round 13 Textbook Transformation Grant and updated through several follow-up grants in later rounds of grants offered by Affordable Learning Georgia. It is a remix of the open-sourced Online Technical Communication textbook by David McMurrey, and it has been known under its original title, Sexy Technical Communication as well as it's current title: Open Technical Communication.

The resources attached to this textbook are collaboratively created by the original group of authors as well as a collection of technical communication faculty and student assistants at Kennesaw State University.

This textbook is available as a print version through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing at-cost with no profits to the authors.

The previous version of this text, titled Sexy Technical Communication in its 2nd edition, is available at https://sexytechcom.com.

Previous Authors' Description:

"Sexy technical writing…we’ve got to be kidding, right? But no, we aren’t. Good technical writing is powerful and clear and gets the job done. It brings people together and solves problems. Good technical writing purrs and hums like that BMW you plan to be driving someday.What’s not sexy about that? On the other hand, poor technical writing skills may lead to a lifetime of asking people if they want fries with that…or worse, selling vacuum cleaners door to door. There’s no need to ask what’s not sexy about that!

WE – your textbook authors – are a team of dedicated writers, tech writing teachers, designers, artists and professionals who are absolutely passionate about technical writing. That’s why we decided to create a text for you that we all loved, a text that would be free and always available to you. Now, that’s sexy."

This open textbook was revised under an ALG Round Eleven Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials Creation and Revision.

2nd Edition Notes:

"Looking at the text, the reader will notice a much smoother look to the textbook. We converted all chapters to the latest version of SoftChalk and resolved all accessibility issues. We have also worked to create consistent chapter objectives and consistent page breaks throughout chapters, which will help instructors with course planning and help students keep track of where they are in a chapter."
Physical Therapy Applications for Individuals with Neurologic Dysfunction

Charlotte Chatto and Jeff Mastromonico

This textbook for the Integration for Practice: Neuromuscular course is a multimedia PDF with videos embedded. The videos make the file size of the PDF almost 600MB, which is a large download but preserves offline use of videos.

Topics include interventions and assessment for patients with Guillain-Barre and spinal cord injury, respiratory assessment and interventions, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation.

NOTE: Because this is a video-integrated PDF, your web browser's preview functions will not work with this file. If your browser opens the file instead of downloading it, please right-click the "Download" button to download the PDF properly.
Precalculus for Team-Based Inquiry Learning: 2024 Edition

Katherine Pinzon, Tonya DeGeorge, and Abigail Noble

This Open Textbook for Precalculus, organized for Team-Based Inquiry Learning (TBIL), was created under an Affordable Materials Grant. Topics include equations, inequalities, and applications; basic functions; linear functions; and polynomial and rational functions.
Principles of Biology II Lab Manual

Susan Burran and David DesRochers

This lab manual was created for BIOL 1108, Principles of Biology II, through an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Copies of this lab manual by chapter are also available at http://libguides.daltonstate.edu/PrinciplesofBiology/labmanual.

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Principles of Biology II Lab Manual (Georgia Highlands College)

Mark Knauss

This laboratory manual for Principles of Biology II with ancillary materials was created and revised under a Round Thirteen Mini-Grant. Topics include evolution, bacteria, protists, plants, fungi, sponges and jellyfish, flatworms and nematodes, mollusks and annelids, arthropods and echinoderms, chordates and mammals, and mammalian anatomy. The lab manual is separated by chapters, as are the PowerPoint slides and lab quizzes.
Principles of Biology II Laboratory Manual

Joshua Lee Clark, Kelly Clark, Jennifer M. Hatchel, C. Tate Holbrook, Traesha Robertson, and David Stasek

This lab manual for Principles of Biology II Laboratory was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics include scientific reasoning, natural selection, phylogenetics, microscopy, microbial diversity, protists, plant evolution and ecology, fungal diversity and ecology, animal diversity, comparative vertebrate anatomy, and animal behavior.
Principles of Biology I Lab Manual

Susan Burran and David DesRochers

This lab manual was created for BIOL 1107, Principles of Biology I, through an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Copies of this lab manual by chapter are also available at http://libguides.daltonstate.edu/PrinciplesofBiology/labmanual.

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Principles of Biology I Laboratory Manual

Jennifer Hatchel, Joshua Clark, Kelly Clark, Deanna Helphrey, C. Tate Holbrook, Holly Nance, Traesha Robertson, and David Stasek

This lab manual for Principles of Biology I Laboratory was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics include the scientific method, measurements, pH and biological buffers, macromolecules, microscopy and the cell, enzymes, photosynthesis and cellular respiration, cell division, and Mendelian inheritance.
Principles of Chemistry I (GSU Perimeter)

Antara Dutta, Maher Atteya, Ahmed Baosman, Mary Ann Cullen, Jeremy Speed-Schwartz, Maher Atteya, Candice McCloskey-Campbell, and Shalini Jain

This open textbook was developed under a Round 18 Transformation Grant.
Principles of Chemistry II Lab Manual

Christopher Wozny, Rebecca Brosky, Eric Crisp, and Amanda Smith

This lab manual for Principles of Chemistry II was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include spectrophotometry, gas, chemical synthesis, titration, temperatures and reactions, solubility, and Le Chatelier's Principle. Please note that these labs start with class 2; class 1 is focused on local lab safety and sign-in procedures.
Principles of Chemistry I Lab Manual

Christopher Wozny, Rebecca Brosky, Eric Crisp, and Amanda Smith

This lab manual for Principles of Chemistry I was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include density, atomic mass, iron and copper reactions, calorimetry, atomic spectra, and chromatography. Please note that these labs start with class 2; class 1 is focused on local lab safety and sign-in procedures.