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Open Educational Resources (OER) published at the University of Oregon. Our Pressbooks repository with up to date web versions of the textbooks in this collection can be found at https://opentext.uoregon.edu/
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Item Open Access Science and Culture: Readings for Writers(2023-09-21) Rust, Stephen; Wilde, JenéeScience and Culture is a resource intended for college and secondary students to engage with scientific concepts, facts, and history as they relate to society in the United States and globally. The multimodality, diversity of voices, and range of topics should appeal to anyone interested in exploring these particular knowledge debates across natural and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. The themes in this volume have been cultivated to engage readers not merely as receptors of information but as active participants in this ongoing process of knowledge building. The most up to date and interactive version of this book can be found at https://opentext.uoregon.edu/science-and-culture/ (clickable link above).Item Open Access The Politics of Sports(Open Oregon, 2019) Carroll, Anna; Wakefield, EleanorThis Open Educational Resource is a collection of texts and materials that team together students’ familiarity with sports and critical inquiry skills. The Politics of Sports has the potential to capture the interest of college students in order to excite them to begin a research journey with a sense of authority and investment in a topic that is at once familiar and complex enough to yield a wide range of inquiry. The most up to date and interactive version of this book can be found at https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/politicsofsports/ (see clickable link above).Item Open Access The Culture of Science(Open Oregon, 2019) Rust, Stephen; Wilde, JenéeThis casebook opens up modes of inquiry into Western knowledge foundations, asking students to embrace epistemological uncertainty as a productive means of developing critical thinking skills. Each chapter includes an introduction and a reading list with links and a brief description. The most up to date, interactive and readable version of this text can be found at https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/cultureofscience/ (see clickable link above).