#Free textbooks

[inkichan]

いろどり · irodori - Japanese for life in Japan

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IRODORI is a useful website made by The Japan Foundation. It is a series of 3 textbooks, with audios and materials completely free, focusing on developing skills useful for life in Japan.

Whether you are planning to come to Japan in the future and want to learn what you should be able to do before you arrive, or whether you are already living in Japan and wish to check your Japanese ability and increase the number of things you can do, we sincerely hope that this textbook will help you achieve your goals. - "what is irodori" website page.

The textbooks are super organized, divided in: starter (A1), elementary 1 and elementary 2. Finishing elementary 2 means having an A2 level [At A2 level, you can hold short, basic everyday conversations on familiar topics.]

I recommend styling your learning method with the goal you have in mind. You can understand more about it reading the post I made.

Hope it was helpful! Let me know and let's share resources~

またね～@inkichan

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Okay, genuinely ? Tumblr is the like best app/website literally ever. The way I'm constantly discovering new media and free resources on here is crazy. I mean just the other day i discovered the magnus archives podcast and I've been obsessed ever since. I deadass finished like a whole season in less than a week.

Not to mention the pdfs, articles, poetry, language learning resources, book recommendations AND TEXTBOOK LINKS ??!! ALL FOR FREE !!!

Yeah just wanted to say Tumblr is the superior app idc.

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Masterlist of Free PDF Versions of Textbooks Used in Undergrad SNHU Courses in 2025 C-1 (Jan - Mar)

Literally NONE of the Accounting books are available on libgen, they all have isbns that start with the same numbers, so I think they're made for the school or something. The single Advertising course also didn't have a PDF available.

This list could also be helpful if you just want to learn stuff

NOTE: I only included textbooks that have access codes if it was stated that you won't need the access code ANYWAY

ATH (anthropology)

only one course has an available pdf ATH-205 - In The Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology

BIO (Biology)

BIO-205 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Essentials of Human Anatomy & Physiology 13th Edition

NOTE: These are not the only textbook you need for this class, I couldn't get the other one

CHE (IDK what this is)

CHE-329

The Aging Networks: A Guide to Policy, Programs, and Services

Publication Manual Of The American Psychological Association

CHE-460

Health Communication: Strategies and Skills for a New Era

Publication Manual Of The American Psychological Association

CJ (Criminal Justice)

CJ-303

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Without Conscious: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

CJ-308

Cybercrime Investigations: a Comprehensive Resource for Everyone

CJ-315

Victimology and Victim Assistance: Advocacy, Intervention, and Restoration

CJ-331

Community and Problem-Oriented Policing: Effectively Addressing Crime and Disorder

CJ-350

Deception Counterdeception and Counterintelligence

NOTE: This is not the only textbook you need for this class, I couldn't find the other one

CJ-405Private Security Today

CJ-408

Strategic Security Management-A Risk Assessment Guide for Decision Makers, Second Edition

COM (Communications)

COM-230

Graphic Design Solutions

COM-325McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook

NOTE: This is not the only book you need for this course, I couldn't find the other one

COM-329

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology

COM-330The Only Business Writing Book You’ll Ever Need

NOTE: This is not the only book you need for this course, I couldn't find the other one

CS (Computer Science)

CS-319Interaction Design

CYB (Cyber Security)

CYB-200Fundamentals of Information Systems Security

CYB-240

Internet and Web Application Security

NOTE: This is not the only resource you need for this course. The other one is a program thingy

CYB-260Legal and Privacy Issues in Information Security

CYB-310

Hands-On Ethical Hacking and Network Defense (MindTap Course List)

NOTE: This is not the only resource you need for this course. The other one is a program thingy

CYB-400

Auditing IT Infrastructures for Compliance

NOTE: This is not the only resource you need for this course. The other one is a program thingy

CYB-420CISSP Official Study Guide

DAT (IDK what this is, but I think it's computer stuff)

DAT-430

Dashboard book

ECO (Economics)

ECO-322

International Economics

ENG (English)

ENG-226 (I'm taking this class rn, highly recommend. The book is good for any writer)

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing: Second Edition

ENG-328

Ordinary genius: a guide for the poet within

ENG-329 (I took this course last term. The book I couldn't find is really not necessary, and is in general a bad book. Very ablest. You will, however, need the book I did find, and I recommend it even for people not taking the class. Lots of good short stories.)

100 years of the best American short stories

ENG-341You can't make this stuff up : the complete guide to writing creative nonfiction--from memoir to literary journalism and everything in between

ENG-347

Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

NOTE: This i snot the only book you need for this course, I couldn't find the other one

ENG-350

Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction

ENG-351Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction

ENG-359 Crafting Novels & Short Stories: Everything You Need to Know to Write Great Fiction

ENV (Environmental Science)

ENV-101

Essential Environment 6th Edition The Science Behind the Stories

ENV-220

Fieldwork Ready: An introductory Guide to Field Research for Agriculture, Environment, and Soil Scientists

NOTE: You will also need lab stuff

ENV-250

A Pocket Style Manual 9th Edition

ENV-319

The Environmental Case: Translating Values Into Policy

Salzman and Thompson's Environmental Law and Policy

FAS (Fine Arts)

FAS-235Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic Classroom in a Book (2023 Release)

FAS-342 History of Modern Art

ALRIGHTY I'm tired, I will probably add ore later though! Good luck!

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ah yes, my favourite part of the semester,,,, scouring the internet for free PDFs of whatever textbooks i need for uni 😍

[biglittlesplashes]

If anyone knows how to find Introduction to Law and the Legal System, 12th Edition by Frank Schubert for free I will be so happy

[books-tears]

Okay girliiees.. Where is the thread that had free websites for downloading textbooks?

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Textbooks' PDFs and eBooks available for cheap.

Biology for the AP Course

Authors: James Morris, Domenic Castignetti, John Lepri, Rick Relyea Formats: ePub, PDF Publisher: W. H. Freeman; 1st edition Publication Date: 2022 Language: English

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idk if this is happening to anyone else but i thought id ask

i keep trying to use zlibrary to get my textbooks but every time i try to download a file it redirects me to youtube or other stuff that wants me to unblock notifications and a bunch of shit.

basically i keep getting suspicious links that don’t lead where they say they will. zlib has been really reliable in the past so idk what’s going on. has this been a problem for anybody else?

(also for reference i have a chromebook. i don’t know if that’s relevant but i thought id put it out there)

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DOES ANY ONE HERE HAVE AN ONLINE VERSON OF GARDNER’S ART THROUGH HISTORY: WESTERN PERSPECTIVE (V2)

I DO N O T WANT TO PAY $50 FOR THAT

[ineedfandomnow]

Well can anyone help me find the european renaissance by peter burke because I'm unable to borrow on the internet archive and websites like open library or world cat don't work where I live

[catkllr-pussylvr]

OR use your school’s VPN to access those journals. Look into the digital resources they offer. I promise you’re paying for more than you’re using. Take advantage of it.

Beware!

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PDF is Available

Water Planet: The Culture, Politics, Economics and Sustainability of Water on Earth

Editor: Camille Gaskin-Reyes Format: PDF Publication Date: 2016 Language: English Print Length: 472 pages

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some more:

University of Alberta

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/admissions-programs/online-courses/index.html

University of Toronto

https://ocw.utoronto.ca/open-resources/

https://www.edx.org/school/university-torontox

University of British Columbia

https://www.edx.org/school/ubcx

open access textbooks

https://openstax.org/

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

[authorsleepy-girl]

Hello fellow Maze Runner fans. Today I offer you my headcanon on how exactly the Flare works.

What we are told (pulled from the Maze Runner Wiki on Fandom.com):

"The virus eats away the brain, turning anyone who was in contact with the virus into savage beings. The mutation rapidly increased the mortality rate of uninfected humans." 

"Symptoms (mood swings, paranoia, poor balance, headaches that get worse as time goes on, irrational anger, and aggression *) gradually worsen as the virus rapidly infects the cerebral cortex, resulting in suffering from dementia, temporarily memory-loss, and Alzheimer's-like symptoms. The rapid decaying of the brain causes psychotic mental disorders to appear from the infected, stripping the victim of their humanity, and turning them into a demented, cannibalistic, zombie-like lunatic."

"An extremely active brain, especially if by stress, will quicken the rate at which the virus does its damage."

*In the films, the symptoms differ from the novels. The Flare starts with swelling blood vessels and angiitis-like symptoms, and necrosis of the infected skin area. If an individual is infected but retains most of their intelligence, some will have strange vine-like bones protruding from their bodies which is the result of mutation growing from the virus.

That is all we are given, a general description, symptoms, and an addendum. I wanted to know how exactly the Flare works in the body. What does the virus do inside? How does it interact with the immune system, the nervous system, etc.? I couldn't find anything so I took my textbooks and notes from my Human Physiology classes and my Psychology classes and tried to figure at least some of it out. And so I now present:

How I think the Flare works specifically (WARNING: some pseudoscience at work here):

The virus presents itself as a low level threat that enters via injury (injection, bite or scratch to begin spreading) and when the wound heals it traps the pathogens inside.

The pathogens will then begin an incubation period within the infected and seep into the white blood cells and attach itself to the nuclei.

 When the cells divide and double, so does the Flare.

On the outside the infected will start behaving “off”, they will present with mood swings, paranoia, affected balance, headaches, irrational anger, increased aggression (This period lasts about 2-4 months however high levels of stress will make things worse)

After a few months of dividing and multiplying within the infected the Flared white blood cells will start attacking red blood cells and nerve endings (This is why Cranks and other Infected don’t feel pain as strongly). The virus will also attack Glial Cells, which are the cells that mediate immune responses, support the nervous system, insulates neurons, and lines neurons up to communicate.

On the outside black veins may start to appear originating from the initial infection site (Like in the movies)

Once the Glial cells are affected, the Myelin Sheaths of the brain start to shrink (now braincells start to fry), and the brain starts to flip its excitatory and inhibitory responses to ideas and stimuli (whereas normally you wouldn’t attack your loved ones, under the Flare you would). The affected area is mostly the cerebral cortex.

This results in dementia, mild amnesia, and Alzheimer-like symptoms. The outside of the body may also show signs of necrosis near or on the initial infected area

Eventually the affected area will rot/fry away and the infected will be a true “Crank” that’s beyond the “Gone”