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NSCC Open Textbook Catalogue

This catalogue contains NSCC Open Textbook Titles that have been authored or adapted at NSCC and Open Textbooks being used by NSCC instructors.

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NSCC Academic Biology 1050 book cover

NSCC Academic Biology 1050

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Charles Molnar, Jane Gair, Samantha Fowler, Rebecca Roush, James Wise

Subject(s): Biology, life sciences

Publisher: Nova Scotia Community College

Last updated: 04/05/2025

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Lifespan Development

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Lumen Learning

Subject(s): Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 03/05/2025

Download FREE digital formats or read online.
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood.
The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.
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Environmental Science

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Bill Freedman

Subject(s): Biology, life sciences, The environment

Publisher: Nova Scotia Community College

Last updated: 03/05/2025

This textbook is intended to provide the core elements of a curriculum for teaching environmental science at the introductory level in Canadian colleges and universities.
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NSCC Project Management

CC BY (Attribution)   English (Canada)

Author(s): Adrienne Watt

Subject(s): Project management

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 03/05/2025

This book covers the basics of project management.
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Fundamentals of Business Mathematics

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): OER Lab

Subject(s): Business mathematics and systems

Last updated: 03/05/2025

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Human Resource Management

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): [Author removed at request of original publisher]

Subject(s): Personnel and human resources management, Economics, Finance, Business and Management

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 03/05/2025

Human Resource Management teaches HRM strategies and theories that any manager—not just those in HR—needs to know about recruiting, selecting, training, and compensating people.
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UN Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Deborah Baker, Christine Crefton, Urooj Nizami, Jamie Witman, Josie Milliken, Rajiv Jhangiani, Robin DeRosa, Michael Mills, Carla Ghanem

Editor(s): Deborah Baker, Urooj Nizami, Christine Crefton

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 02/05/2025

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship Toolkit is meant as a resource for both instructors and institutions. Within this resource, readers will find examples of a wide variety of openly-licensed renewable assignments that can be assigned and applied to a variety of subject areas and disciplines. Of course, each assignment speaks directly to at least one UN SDG. Beyond that, this resource also serves as a guide for institutions who wish to adopt and adapt this program by bringing it to their home institution.

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Understanding the Whole Child

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Jennifer Paris, Antoinette Ricardo, Dawn Rymond, Alexa Johnson

Subject(s): Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Human growth and development, Early childhood care and education

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 02/05/2025

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Semiconductor Devices: Theory and Application Lab Manual

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): James Fiore, NSCC

Subject(s): Aerospace and aviation technology, Electronics engineering

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 30/04/2025

The lab manual for Semiconductor Devices: Theory and Application.
The NSCC editions are condensed versions of James Fiore's open textbook and lab manual.
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Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): The BC Cook Articulation Committee

Subject(s): Food and beverage safety

Publisher: BCcampus

Last updated: 30/04/2025

Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills.

Other books in the series include:

  • Basic Kitchen and Food Service Management
  • Working in the Food Service Industry
  • Workplace Safety in the Food Service Industry
  • Meat Cutting and Processing
  • Human Resources in the Food Service and Hospitality Industry
  • Nutrition and Labelling for the Canadian Baker
  • Understanding Ingredients for the Canadian Baker
  • Modern Pastry and Plated Dessert Techniques

The series has been developed collaboratively with participation from public and private post-secondary institutions.