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This study guide is designed to accompany the Introduction to Psychology – Ist Canadian Edition open text by Jennifer Walinga and Charles Stangor (https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8390d51e-0efe-493c-881c-cf86852a612f&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Psychology). For each chapter it summarizes the learning objectives and presents multiple-choice, true-false and fill-in-the-blank tests of the material covered. It provides links to resources to enable students to deepen their understanding of key topics and to explore related issues. Finally, it offers suggestions for hands-on activities relevant to each chapter.

Due to the high price barrier, about half of Organic Chemistry students at KPU do not have access to the textbook. This has become a serious issue that significantly affects the learning outcomes for the course. The creation of this open textbook is intended to provide a solution to this problem and help students get success in this course.

The book contains ten chapters, with the contents cover from the basic concepts on chemical bonding, functional group, to stereochemistry, spectroscopy for structure determination (IR and NMR) and organic reactions (nucleophilic substitution, elimination, radical substitution of alkanes, addition and oxidation reactions of alkenes, preparation and reactions of alkynes).

Organic Chemistry is a challenging subject for lots students. To help readers understand the concepts more easily, simple and concise languages are intentionally applied in the book. The featured shaded textbox areas are included frequently in the book, where readers can find useful learning tips, reminder of common errors, comparison between similar concepts. To help readers develop the problem-solving skills, a small section labelled as “strategy” is usually given for the examples in the book. Readers are encouraged to try solving the problems by themselves with helpful hints provided in the “strategy”, and then compare their work with the detailed solutions provided afterwards.

The essays in this casebook have been chosen to introduce students and general readers to the critical commentary that Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping has inspired since it was first published almost forty years ago, and to provide a wide variety of contexts for reading this rich and challenging novel.

This book outlines best principles for working with Indigenous print and oral sources in academic research. Topics include evaluating Indigenous print sources for credibility and authenticity, finding Indigenous authors, and respectfully working with Elders.

This is a collection of template pages that you can import into your own Pressbooks OER project as a starting point for creating the front and back matter for your project.

Although this open education resource (OER) is written with the needs and abilities of first-year undergraduate criminology students in mind, it is designed to be flexible. As a whole, the OER is amply broad to serve as the main textbook for an introductory course, yet each chapter is deep enough to be useful as a supplement for subject-area courses; authors use plain and accessible language as much as possible, but introduce more advanced, technical concepts where appropriate; the text gives due attention to the historical “canon” of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the practical methods of responding to broken rules and of mending relationships.

Special thanks to Leah Ballantyne, LLB LLM, a Cree lawyer from the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, who provided expert Indigenous consultation/editing for this textbook.

This book has two purposes. First, it provides KPU instructors with practical resources that they can use to ensure the success of International students in their classroom. To this end, Part One, Foster Belonging, includes ways that International students can be more fully included in classroom culture. Part Two, Instructional Strategies, contains more detailed pedagogical approaches to achieve this inclusion. The second purpose is to provide International students a forum to share their experiences of being an International student at KPU. To this end, the book contains a series of short video clips in which International students speak to what they want Instructors to know about their experiences as International students. These videos are interspersed throughout Parts One and Two, and can be found grouped together as a playlist in the Appendix.

This text is designed for a university level introductory Canadian tax course, providing an overview of Canadian tax law and covering topics such as tax legislation, liability, key tax concepts, calculations, residency, filing, employment, student tax issues, business income, capital gains, GST, and other deductions. It is designed to be a comprehensive resource for both students and teachers, offering clear and concise explanations to make complex tax concepts accessible. This book aims to support learning and teaching needs by providing a solid foundation in Canadian tax law.

This text is designed for a university level intermediate Canadian tax course, covering a wide range of topics, including tax legislation, liability, different tax systems, business structures, capital gains, business and property income, capital cost allowance, personal tax issues, corporate taxable income, and tax payable. It also delves into corporate taxation of passive and investment income, owner-manager remuneration, and the purchase and sale of a business.