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Image one: Need data or statistics? - United States Census Bureau: Data on population, economy, education, employment, and more. - www.census.gov

Image two: Need data or statistics? - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data and statistics on alcohol use; deaths and mortality; healthy aging; life expectancy; and more. - www.cdc.gov/datastatistics

Image three: Need data or statistics? - F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting: Data and statistics on crime in the United States; law enforcement officers killed and assaulted; hate crime statistics; cargo theft; and human trafficking. - www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr

08/30/2023
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Resources: Streaming Video

Streaming video database 1: Academic Video Online: Comprehensive streaming video database that provides over 68,000 video titles covering subject areas such as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.

Streaming video database 2: Kanopy: Stream classic cinema, indie films, and documentaries. 

08/29/2023
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Image one: E-book titled Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide (2020) - synopsis: Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide is the most practical and reader-friendly guide to understanding all basic physics concepts and terms. The expert authors take a flexible and interactive approach to physics based on new research-based methods about how people most effectively comprehend new material. The book takes complex concepts and breaks them down into practical, easy to digest terms.

Image two: E-book titled Chemistry: A Self-Teaching Guide (2020) - synopsis: Chemistry is a fundamental science that touches all other sciences, including biology, physics, electronics, environmental studies, astronomy, and more. This book is a great resource as a refresher or used in parallel with a college chemistry course. This book uses an interactive, self-teaching method including frequent questions and study problems, increasing both the speed of learning and retention. Monitor your progress with self-tests, and master chemistry quickly. This revised Third Edition provides a fresh, step-by-step approach to learning that requires no prerequisites, lets you work at your own pace, and reinforces what you learn, ensuring lifelong mastery.

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Streaming video database 1: Psychotherapy.net - Allows users to watch master therapists conducting psychotherapy sessions and over 300 training videos featuring leading practitioners in the field.

Streaming video database 2: Behavioral and Mental Health Online - Features applied training materials that help today's counseling students, faculty, and practitioners put theory into practice. The award-winning resources in the database offer more than 2,000 hours of training videos, conference sessions, and footage of actual therapy sessions.

08/27/2023
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Image one: E-book titled E-book titled Your Undergraduate Degree in Psychology: From College to Career (2013) - synopsis: Drawing on current research data, applied theory, and both academic and workplace experiences, this book will help stimulate self-reflection and improve decision making as students approach their careers. The text covers key topics in the college-to-career transition, including career planning and development, identifying and transferring marketable skills, building and sustaining strong networks, understanding what employers want and don’t want, coping with personal life changes, becoming a valued employee, and more.

Image two: E-book titled Expanding Your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities (2018) - synopsis: Expanding your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities has been designed for students or professionals who would like to use and improve their English in areas such as history, art history, literature, film and media, and language, at an upper-intermediate or advanced level. This book integrates practice of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) and has been written from a holistic and humanistic approach.

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Image one: Resources - HeinOnline contains more than 173 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and governmental documents in a fully searchable, image-based format. 

Image two: Resources - Scopus is a comprehensive abstract and citation database that allows users to find relevant and trusted research, identify experts, and access reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools. 

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Image one: E-book titled The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer: From Surviving to Thriving (2017) - synopsis: The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer is a comprehensive guide, designed to make college transfer between four-year schools as successful as possible. Chapters outline the steps to take from the moment a student finds him/herself considering college transfer to the first semester at his/her next college. The book contains vignettes (based on real student stories) and excerpts from interviews with transfer students, parents, and higher education professionals.

Image two: E-book titled Successful Dissertations: The Complete Guide for Education, Childhood, and Early Childhood Studies Students (2018) - synopsis: Whether looking for guidance on the whole process, needing help with conducting a literature review or interpreting your quantitative and qualitative data, this accessible and empowering guide will take you through the dissertation process and provide all the information you need to make the most of your research project.

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Image one: Resources - EBSCO EDS provides users with a streamlined search of multiple databases through a single search box.

Image two: Resources - ProQuest Central is a periodical resource that includes major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world. 

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Image one: E-book titled The Craft of Research (2016) - synopsis: With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique.

Image two: E-book titled The Student's Guide to Research Ethics (2020) - synopsis: This reader-friendly book examines the ethical issues and questions that occur in university and professional research and will help both beginning and experienced researchers to identify ethical issues when they are conducting research. The book thoroughly examines the broader ethical issues that arise throughout research, from the design stage through to data collection and analysis.

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Image one: Resources - WorldCat.org is the world's largest network of library content and services that lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.

Image two: Resources - A TexShare Card allows you to borrow items from participating libraries throughout the state of Texas. TexShare cards eligible for currently enrolled UNT Dallas students and UNT Dallas faculty and staff. TexShare cards issued at the library front desk (Student Center - 3rd floor). Please have your ID ready. 

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Image two: E-book titled Check It Off!: Pave Your Way through College to Career (2016) - synopsis: Author Vera Teller, a college lecturer of first-year seminars, shows readers what they need to do in college to prepare themselves to seek employment and obtain a career once graduated. Check It Off! provides a checklist of activities for each year of college to prepare the student for a career and to help him or her answer the three most important questions: 1. What do I like to do? 2. What do I want to do? 3. What does the world need?

Image three: E-book titled The Secrets of College Success (2019) - synopsis: The over 800 tips in this book will show you how to: pick courses and choose a major; manage your time and develop college-level study skills; get good grades and manage the “core” requirements; get motivated and avoid stress; interact effectively with your professor; prepare for a productive career.

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