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  Decoding the 1920s: A Reader for Advanced Learners of Russian

  Nila Friedberg

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  The materials presented in this book were developed for an advanced-level content-based Russian language course at Portland State University entitled “Russian Literature of the Twentieth Century: The 1920s.” Literature of this period is ...  Read More

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  Human Development

  Portland State University. Human Development Teaching and Learning Group

  This open textbook is designed for Human Development, a core Psychology course. This course provides a bird’s eye view of major milestones and developmental tasks during each age period, starting at conception and ending with old age.

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  OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (OERs) in WR 227 Courses

  Sarah Read, Jordana Bowen, and Henry Covey

  The "OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors: Using Open Educational Resources (OERs) in WR 227 Courses" aims to help instructors make sense of and sort the massively decentralized and varying content of existing OERs available to support technical and professional writing courses. This guide is intended as a resource for introductory technical writing course instructors to adapt an existing course to integrate OER resources, or, to build a new course ...  Read More

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  An Introduction to Number Theory

  J. J. P. Veerman

  These notes are intended for a graduate course in Number Theory. No prior familiarity with number theory is assumed.

  Chapters 1-11 represent approximately 2 trimesters of the course. Eventually we intend to publish a full year (3 trimesters) course on number theory. The current content represents a course the author taught in Fall 2020 and Winter 2021.

  It is a work in progress. If you have questions or comments, please ...  Read More

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  The Balance of Personality

  Chris Allen

  This open access textbook was developed as an upper division undergraduate textbook for theories of personality. Its intended audience are students from Portland State University enrolled in Psychology 432 Personality course. The chapters are shorter than some personality textbooks and in this particular course Psy 432 the textbook is combined with other readings including scientific articles on personality. This open access textbook may be of interest to other courses interested ...  Read More

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  Literary Form and Analysis: Instructional Materials for English 300

  Josh Epstein

  This OER packet comprises instructional materials used for ENG 300: Literary Forms and Analysis, a "gateway" course for the English major and minor at Portland State University. It includes handouts, exercises, and a sample syllabus for this course, emphasizing skills of "close reading" and formal analysis, as well as the scholarly study of genre (poetry, fiction, drama, and film). The syllabus and handouts offered in this packet represent only one ...  Read More

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  Lectures on Mathematical Computing with Python

  Jay Gopalakrishnan

  This open resource is a collection of class activities for use in undergraduate courses aimed at teaching mathematical computing, and computational thinking in general, using the python programming language. It was developed for a second-year course (MTH 271) revamped for a new undergraduate program in data science at Portland State University. The activities are designed to guide students' use of python modules effectively for scientific computation, data analysis, and visualization.

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  Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action

  Frank Granshaw

  The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it contains a collection of activities that make use of readily available on-line resources developed by research groups and public agencies. These include web-based climate models, climate data archives, interactive atlases, policy papers, and “solution” catalogs. Unlike ...  Read More

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  Community Resilience to Climate Change: Theory, Research and Practice

  Dana E. Hellman and Vivek Shandas

  This reader is an Open Educational Resource, meant to accompany a graduate or higher-level undergraduate university course in climate change resilience, adaptation, and/or planning. While the material is geared toward students in urban and regional planning, it may also be of interest to students of urban studies, public health, geography, political science, sociology, risk management, and others.

  Each section of this volume includes (1) an introductory summary, (2) a reading ...  Read More

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  Paranormal Psychology: PSY410

  Larry R. Martinez

  This OER packet contains the course materials for PSY410: Paranormal Psychology. Although often dismissed as a pseudoscience, there are many things we can learn about human beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors by studying phenomena that our current science cannot explain. The course begins with a history of real scientific studies that have been conducted to try and determine whether things like extrasensory perception, telepathy, and telekinesis are real phenomena, with a ...  Read More

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  Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation of Einstein’s Theories of Motion and Gravity

  Jack C. Straton

  Relativity Lite is designed for the General Astronomy sequence (PH 361-2U, SCI 315-6U) whose primary book glosses over Special Relativity and General Relativity while trying to explain the Cosmology that is based on those subjects. Relativity Lite translates the mathematical equations conventional relativity texts rely upon into pictures that are readily understood and contain within them the mathematical essentials. This book provides the comprehensive coverage needed to understand, in sufficient ...  Read More

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  Inferring and Explaining

  Jeffery L. Johnson

  Inferring and Explaining is a book in practical epistemology. It examines the notion of evidence and assumes that good evidence is the essence of rational thinking. Evidence is the cornerstone of the natural, social, and behavioral sciences. But it is equally central to almost all academic pursuits and, perhaps most importantly, to the basic need to live an intelligent and reflective life.

  The book further assumes that a particular model ...  Read More

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  Daily Departures: Speed Reading Passages for English Language Learners

  Regina D. Weaver

  Daily Departures: Speed Reading Passages for English Language Learners is a collection of twenty 200-225 word reading passages written primarily within the 1,000-word level of the New General Service List and designed to provide fluency support for English language learners at the Waystage level of the Common European Framework Reference.

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  EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers

  Shane Abrams

  EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class.

  Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets ...  Read More

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  Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 3

  Emiko Konomi

  This is the third book in a three book series and includes Lessons 9 - 10. Book 1 and Book 2 are also available for download.

  This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses ...  Read More

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  Transition with Purpose: Pathways from English Language to Academic Study

  Michele Miller and Anne Greenhoe

  This Open Access Textbook will guide students through their English language to academic degree studies.

  Part one of this textbook is a guide for moving from ESL study to academic study at Portland State University*. It includes the resources students will use to understand policies and processes governing their degree study and their transition to academic coursework.

  Part two focuses on how academic skills are used across various disciplines and ...  Read More

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  Sons et lettres: A Pronunciation Method for Intermediate-level French

  Stephen Walton

  Sons et lettres provides a set of classroom materials to train students to hear and produce the sounds of French and to recognize the regular spellings used to represent those sounds in print. The materials are inspired by a desire to help students feel more confident about their French pronunciation and more at home saying the many French words, familiar and unfamiliar, which they encounter in their studies, in French ...  Read More

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  Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners

  Della Jean Abrahams

  This textbook is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary and reviews basic grammar points. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of ...  Read More

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  Arabic and English Sentence Patterns: A Comparative Guide

  Cliff Breedlove

  This text explores verb time, tense, aspect, and mood through comparison of Arabic and English sentence patterns. It includes examples of the Arabic patterns from classical and popular sources so Arabic students can learn by explanation and example how to formulate cohesive and grammatically correct sentence structure.

  While this guide is intended mainly for English-speaking students studying Arabic, the charts also provide a quick reference of English sentence patterns for ...  Read More

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  Histoires d'Avenirs: Science-fiction pour le cours de français niveaux intermédiaire et avancé

  Annabelle Dolidon and Stéphanie Roulon

  Histoires d’Avenirs est un manuel basé sur neuf nouvelles de science fiction française qui s’adresse à un public d’apprenants étrangers (de niveaux intermédiaire et avancé) mais aussi à un public natif voulant approfondir ses connaissances de la science-fiction moderne - après un chapitre préliminaire qui rappelle les bases historiques du genre. Le manuel propose une approche holistique (stylistique, linguistique, et interculturelle) et sollicite une pensée critique au travers d’activités de ...  Read More

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  Beginning Japanese for Professionals: Book 2

  Emiko Konomi

  This is the second book in a three book series and includes Lessons 5 - 8. Book 1 and Book 3 are also available for download.

  This textbook is designed for beginning learners who want to learn basic Japanese for the purpose of living and working in Japan. Unlike textbooks written primarily for students, whose content largely centers on student life, this book focuses ...  Read More

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  Leyendas y Arquetipos del Romanticismo Español, Segunda Edición

  Robert Sanders

  Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and social movements. It is designed as a first anthology for intermediate Spanish students at American universities. Although brief, it includes poetry, drama in verse and short story. The works have been selected for their literary interest and the social ...  Read More

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  How to be a Successful Organic Chemist

  Alexander H. Sandtorv

  How to be a successful organic chemist is meant as an introductory text for undergraduates taking organic chemistry teaching labs. The text is a clear and practical introduction to safety, chemical handling, organic chemistry techniques, and lab reports.

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  Korean Through Folktales

  KyungAh Yoon

  Korean Through Folktales consists of four chapters and each centers on a famous Korean folktale. The lessons and values that famous folktales teach are embedded and permeated in various aspects of the Koran culture. Using folktales in the curriculum will provide an engaging way to expose students to a slice of the target culture that native Koreans are naturally exposed to at an early age. Through the selected folktales and ...  Read More

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  PDX Journeys: Studying and Living in the US, Low-Intermediate Novel and Textbook for University ESL Students

  Amber Bliss Calderón

  Each unit begins with a chapter of fiction about a teacher and students in one ESL class. Reading comprehension and reading skills exercises follow. Prefix and suffix vocabulary-focus exercises are included. Academic Word List vocabulary exercises help students build a strong foundation in both receptive and productive knowledge. The following chapters in each unit expand on unit themes through non-fiction articles focusing on academic preparation, international experiences, and cultural adjustment. ...  Read More