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On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Carl Rogers and Peter D. Kramer M.D.

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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

John Elder Robison

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The Anatomy Coloring Book

Wynn Kapit and Lawrence M. Elson

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Beckmann and Ling's Obstetrics and Gynecology

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On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

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Neuroscience: Fundamentals for Rehabilitation, 5e

Laurie Lundy-Ekman PhD PT

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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Joseph Henrich

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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal

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Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time)

Claude M. Steele

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Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything

Viktor E. Frankl and Daniel Goleman

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Healing With Whole Foods: Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition (3rd Edition)

Paul Pitchford

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Calculate with Confidence

Deborah C. Morris RN BSN MA LNC

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Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual Therapists and Movement Professionals

Thomas W. Myers

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Understanding By Design

Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

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Interpersonal Process in Therapy: An Integrative Model

Edward Teyber and Faith Teyber

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HarryHirschonAug 13, 2018

The OP is talking about teaching community college mathematics. That's not introductory university mathematics; if you are lucky it's Pythagoras' Theorem and quadratic equations. The purpose of community college is to provide the students with a degree certificate that they can use for another degree.

My current institution's nursing school has a set text called "Calculate with Confidence", which teaches the kids to calculate concentrations, unit conversions, measurement uncertainty and similar things. Someone might say that these are essential skills in nursing, and they are, but the incoming students are supposed to have learned these things from their college science courses, from their degree that got them admitted into nursing school. Yet here it is again because all previous education didn't take.

60 % of incoming students at my institution must take remedial math, up from 50 % a few years ago.

That's community college. If you think that's cynical or exaggerated you are insufficiently cynical.

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