Zero Textbook Costs at CRC

College-Supplied Books for the ZTC Goal

Many classes are using books that are impossible or very difficult to convert to Open Educational Resources. Examples include novels, popular non-fiction, and highly specialized science atlases that included detailed images. There are also disciplines in which OER has not been fully developed and the college has opted to purchase class sets of textbooks as a stop-gap measure so discipline faculty have more time to research and create OER for their classes. The texts (including links) are listed below by Career and Academic Community. You can request books by filling out the Impossible to Convert to OER form.

Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR)

Aborists' Certification Study Guide (HORT 360)
Elements of the Nature and Properties of Soils (HORT 302 / PLTS 310)
Food & Beverage Cost Control (CAM 332)
Food & Culture (NUTR 310)
Fundamentals of Menu Planning (CAM 310)
Horse Handling and Grooming: A Step-by-Step Photographic Guide to Mastering Over 100 Horsekeeping Skills (ANSC 306)
Horse Owner's Veterinary Handbook (ANSC 305)
Math for the Professional Kitchen (CAM)
Presenting Service: The Ultimate Guide for the Food Service Professional (CAM 332)
Principles of Agribusiness Management (AGB 300)
Principles of Agricultural Economics (AGB 321)
Professional Cooking (CAM 300, 301, 310, 316)
ServSafe Coursebook (CAM 306)
So You Want to Be a Chef? Your Guide to Culinary Careers (CAM 300)
Understanding Nutrition (NUTR 340)
Veterinary Parasitology: A Reference Manual (VT 113)
Visual Food Encyclopedia (The) (CAM 303)

Arts, Media, and Entertainment (AME)

- Adults All-in-One (MUIVI 340)
- Angels in America (TA 340/350)
- Backwards and Forwards (FMS 310)
- Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches (TA 300/306)
- Book of Alternative Photographic Processes (The) (PHOTO 365/366)
- Buried Child (TA 306)
- Cantabile Voice Class (MUIVI 310/311)
- Class Voice (MUIVI 320/321)
- Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (ART 323)
- Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print (Photo 271)
- Cost of Living (TA 340, 350)
- Death of a Salesman (TA 300/303)
- Drawing: A Contemporary Approach (ART 300, 302)
- Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (TA 351)
- Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies (FMS 300)
- Essential Screenplay (3-Book Bundle): Screenplay: Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenwriter's Workbook, and Screen Writer's Problem Solver (The) (RTVF 368)
- Experimental Darkroom: Contemporary Uses of Traditional Black & White Photographic Materials (The) (Photo 310)
- Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels (Photo 320)
- Gloria (TA 350, 351)
- Hollywood Quarterly (FMS 305 / RTVF 305)
- How to Shoot Video that Doesn't Suck (RTVF 330)
- Ironbound (TA)
- Korean Approach to Actor Training (A) (TA 300/306)
- Langford's Advanced Photography: The Guide for Aspiring Photographers (Photo 312)
- Latinx Actor Training (TA 300/306)
- Light-Science & Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting (Photo 390)
- Make It in Clay: A Beginner's Guide to Ceramics (ART 402)
- Mastering Portrait Photography (PHOTO 370)
- Music in Theory and Practice V. 1 (MUFHL 400, 404)
- Music in Theory and Practice V. 2 (MUFHL 412, 414)
- Mythic Imagination and the Actor: Exercises, Inspiration, and Guidance for the 21st Century Actor (TA 300/306)
- On Directing (FMS 310)
- Photographer's Guide to Marketing & Self-Promotion (Photo 340)
- Photographer's Guide to Posing: Techniques to Flatter Everyone (The) (Photo 372)
- Photography: A Cultural History (PHOTO 420)
- Photography Careers: Finding Your True Path (PHOTO 340)
- Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach (PHOTO 350)
- Piano Lesson (The) (TA 306)
- Practical Zone System for Film and Digital Photography: Classic Tool, Universal Applications (The) (Photo 364)
- Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video (RTVF 350)
- Product Photography: Lighting, Composition, and Shooting Techniques (PHOTO 392)
- Raisin in the Sun (A) (TA 306)
- Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs (PHOTO 312)
- Sanctuary City (TA 350)
- Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach (FMS 310)
- Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers (TA 305)
- Sculpture Now (ART 372)
- Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration (PHOTO 420)
- Short Course in Photography. Digital: An Introduction to Photographic Technique (A) (Photo 302)
- Short Course in Photography: Film and Darkroom (A) (PHOTO 301)
- Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics (RTVF 306)
- Smart Phone Smart Photography: Simple Techniques for Taking Incredible Pictures with iPhone and Android (Photo 263)
- Streetcar Named Desire (A) (TA 305, 350)
- Sweat (TA 340)
- Theatre, Brief (TA 300, 302, 303)
- Training of the American Actor (TA 300/306)
- Understanding Flash Photography: How to Shoot Great Photographs Using Electronic Flash (Photo 278)
- Understanding Movies (RTVF 306)
- User's Guide to the View Camera (A) (Photo 360)
- Videojournalism: Multimedia Storytelling for Online, Broadcast and Documentary Journalists (Photo 273)
- Water by the Spoonful (TA 350)
- Writing movies: The Practical Guide for Creating Stellar Screenplays (RTVF 368)

Automotive, Construction and Design Technology (ACDT)

Architecture: Form, Space, and Order (ARCH 330)
ASE Test Prep and Study Guide (All AMT courses)
Automotive Technology: Principles, Diagnosis, and Service (AMT 300, 301, 303, 310, 314, 316, 321, 322, 324, 326, 328, 332, 340)
Becoming and Architect (ARCH 300)
Carpentry (CONST 105, 106, 107, 108)
Construction Estimating (CMT 112 (fall) / CMT 313 (spring))
Construction Law for Design Professionals, Construction Managers, and Contractors (CMT 120 (fall) / CMT 332 (spring))
Construction Scheduling (CMT 134 (fall) / CMT 339 (spring))
Design Drawing (ARCH 320)
Fund of Building Construction: Materials and Methods (CMT 310)
Heating, Cooling, Lighting: Sustainable Design Strategies Towards Net Zero Architecture (ARCH 342)
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (ARCH 310)
Photovoltaic Systems (CONST 143/145)
Professional Practice of Architectural Working Drawings (The) (ARCH 329)
Safety Technology (CMT 136)
Service Consultant: Principles of Service Management and Ownership (The) (AMT 301)
Small Engines (AMT 306)
Structural Welding Code -- Steel (All WELD courses)
Today's Technician, Automated Transmissions and Transaxles Classroom Manual and Shop Manual (AMT 330)
Today's Technician, Manual Transmissions and Transaxles Classroom Manual and Shop Manual (AMT 304)

Business and Computer Science (BCS)

Business Law Today (BUS 345)
Economics (ECON 302/304)
Essentials of Marketing (MKT 300)
Hands-on Penetration Testing with Python: Enchace your Ethical Hacking Skills to Build Automated and Intelligent Systems (CISS 321)
Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (ECON 310)
Understanding Business (BUS 300)

English and Language Studies (ELS)

50 Essays: A Portable Anthology (ENGWR 300)
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (ENGWR 300)
After Sappho (ENGLT 360)
Aiiieeeee! : An Anthology of Asian American Writers (ENGLT 334)
Anna in the Tropics (ENGWR 301)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (ENGLT 335)
Atonement (ENGWR 301)
Awakening (ENGLT 360)
Beloved (ENGWR 301/302)
Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel (ENGWR 301)
Black Boy (ENGLT 330)
Black in America (ENGWR 300/108)
Black Like Me (ENGWR 300)
Bless Me Ultima (ENGLT 335)
Bluest Eye (The) (ENGWR 301/302)
Book of Joy (ENGWR 300)
Butterfly Boy (ENGWR 300)
College Fear Factor (ENGRD 310)
Color Purple (The) (ENGLT 330)
Complications (ENGWR 300)
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (The) (ENGWR 301)
Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Tragedy (The) (ENGWR 300)
Distance Between Us (The) (ENGLT 335)
Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed (ENGWR 300)
Emma (ENGLT 360)
Fences (ENGL C1000, ENGL C1001, & ENGWR 301
Fight Club (ENGWR 300)
Fire Next Time (The) (ENGLT 330)
Five People You Meet in Heaven (The) (ENGWR 300/80)
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (ENGWR 301)
Grammar and Beyond 2 (ESLG 41)
Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America (ENGWR 300)
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (ENGLT 335)
I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir (ENGLT 334)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (ENGWR 300)
Just Mercy (ENGWR 300)
Julieta and the Diamond Enigma (ENGLT 370)
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do (ENGRD 312)
Lecture Ready 3 (ESLL 111)
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (The) (ENGLT 370)
Mistress of Spices (The) (ENGWR 301 / ENGLT 360)
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy (ENGWR 300)
Minor Feelings: An Asian Reckoning (ENGWR 300, ENGLT 334)
Montana 1948 (ENGWR 301)
Native Son (ENGLT 330)
Never Let Me Go (ENGWR 301)
New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The) (ENGWR 302)
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram (ENGWR 300)
No No Boy (ENGLT 334)
No Rules: NETFLIX and the Culture of Reinvention (ENGWR 300)
Norton Anthology of African American Literature (The), V. 1-2 (ENGLT 330)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (ENGWR 301)
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (ENGWR 300)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (ENGLT 335)
Parable of the Sower (The) (ENGLT 330)
Pedagogy of the Oppressed (ENGWR 300/80)
Poet X (The) (ENGLT 335)
Power of Habit (The) (ENGWR 110)
Quiet (ENGWR 341, ENGWR 302)
Ready Player One (ENGWR 300)
Ruby (ENGWR 301)
Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (ENGLT 335)
Song of Solomon (ENGWR 301/302)
Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be: Essays (ENGWR 300)
Station Eleven (ENGWR 301)
Studying Shakespeare on Film (ENGLT 402)
Sula (ENGWR 301/302 / ENGLT 360)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (ENGLT 330)
There, There: A Novel (ENGWR 302)
That's What They Want You to Think: Conspiracies Real, Possible, and Paranoid (ENGWR 302)
Things They Carried (The) (ENGWR 301)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : A Novel (ENGWR 301)
Under the Feet of Jesus (ENGWR 302)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories (ENGWR 301)
What Money Can't Buy (ENGWR 300)
Where the Crawdads Sing (ENGWR 302)
Zami a New Spelling of My Name (ENGWR 301)

Health and Human Services (HHS)

Brannigan's Building Construction for the Fire Service (FT 303)
Comparative Health Information Management (HIT 102)
Concepts of Chemical Dependency (HSER/SWHS 340 & HSER 342)
Culture & Clinical Care (HSER 360/ SWHS 360)
Diseases of the Human Body (AH 120)
Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured Advantage Package (EMT 115/116)
Emergency Medical Responder: Your First Response in Emergency Care - Navigate Essentials Access (EMT 109)
Ethics of Sport: Essential Readings (The) (KINES 455)
Fit to be Well (HEED 350/KINES 301)
Fire and Emergency Services Administration: Management and Leadership Practices (FT 130)
Fire Fighter Safety and Survival (FT 305)
Firefighting Strategies and Tactics (FT 190)
Fire Investigator, Principles and Practices (FT 170)
Fire Protection Systems (FT 302)
Fundamentals of Case Management Practice (HSER 360/ SWHS 360)
Group Counseling: Strategies and Skills (HSER 364)
Hazardous Materials: Awareness and Operations (FT 320)
I Never Knew I had a Choice (HSER/SWHS 302)
Introduction to Fire Protection and Emergency Services (FT 300)
Introduction to Human Services (An) (HSER 300 / SWHS 300)
Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (HSER 350/ SWHS 350)
Language of Medicine (The) (AH 311)
Nutrigenomics : How Science Works (NUTRI 303)
Principles and Practice of Sport Management (KINES 304)
Principles of Fire Behavior and Combustion (FT 304)
Principles of Fire Prevention (FT 110)
Secret of College Success (The) (HCD 310)
Sport Psychology for Coaches (KINES 416)
Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies (KINES 460)
Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention (NUTRI 303/331)

Science, Math, and Engineering (SME)

Applied Calculus for the Managerial, Life, and Social Sciences: A Brief Approach (MATH 341)
Calculus for Biology and Medicine (MATH 355/356)
Earth System History (GEOL 310)
Electric Circuits (ENGR 400)
Essentials of Oceanography (GEOL 330)
Grant's Dissector (BIOL 439)
Human Genetics - Concepts and Applications (BIOL 485/ HONOR 385)
Linear Algebra (MATH 410)
Materials Science and Engineering (ENGR 412)
Multivariable Calculus (Math 402)
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: A Systems Approach (BIOL 430/431)

Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS)

- America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation (HIST 485/HONOR 366)
- Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age (The) (ANTH 324)
- Art of Awareness (The) (ECE 326)
- Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology (ETHS 300 & 330)
- Black Prophetic Fire (HIST 321)
- California Indians and their Environment: An Introduction (ANTH 332)
- Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture (HIST 344)
- Chinese Exclusion Act and Angel Island (The) (HIST 311)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 1-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 2-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 3-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 4-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 6-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 7-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 8-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- CUNY forum of Asian American and Asian Studies: Volume 9-1 (ETHS 300 & 330)
- Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion' (ANTH 324)
- Designs for Living and Learning (ECE 320)
- Developing Mentoring and Coaching Relationships in Early Care and Education: A Reflective Approach (ECE 424)
- Discovering Psychology (PSYC 399)
- Driven Out: The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans (HIST 344)
- English Learners in American Classrooms 101 Questions, 101 Answers (ECE 307)
- Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Settings (ECE 321)
- Farewell to Manzanar (HIST 344)
- Force and Freedom (HIST 320)
- Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (ECE 307)
- Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology (ANTH 324)
- Fundamentals of Case Management Practice (SWHS/HSER 360)
- Fundamental Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (POLS 382)
- Holocene Settlement of the Egyptian Sahara: Volume 1: The Archaeology of Nabta Playa (ANTH 324)
- IBM SPSS Companion to Political Analysis (An) (POLS 382)
- Infant and Toddler Development and Responsive Program Planning: A Relationship-Based Approach (ECE 330)
- Intentional Teacher (The) (ECE 320)
- Introduction to Human Services (An) (HSER/SWHS 300)
- Inventors of Ideas (POLS 320)
- Invitation to World Religions (PHIL 352)
- Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions (SWHS/HSER 350)
- La Gente: Struggles for Empowerment and Community in Self Determination in Sacramento (ETHNS 340)
- Language of Art: Inquiry-Based Studio Practices in Early Childhood Settings (ECE 361 and ECE 365)
- Leading Anti-Bias Early Childhood Programs: A Guide to Change, for Change (ECE 420 and 422)
- Little Manila is in the Heart: The making of the Filipina/o American community in Stockton, California (HIST 344)
- Limits of Power : the End of American Exceptionalism (The) (HIST 485/HONOR 366)
- Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (HUM 300)
- Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, and the Civil Right Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A Brief History with Documents (HIST 321)
- Moral Classrooms, Moral Children: Creating a Constructivist Atmosphere in Early Education (ECE 321)
- Mountain Movers: Student Activism & the Emergence of Asian American Studies (ETHNS 300 & 330)
- Murder State: California's Native American Genocide (HIST 344)
- Obstacle is the Way (The) (COMM 301)
- Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph (The) (COMM 301)
- Overlook Martial Arts Reader: Classic Writings on Philosophy and Technique (The) (HONOR 364/PHIL 485)
- Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary (HIST 321)
- People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (ANTH 324)
- Persuasive Messages: The Process of Influence (COMM 315)
- Philosophy and the Martial Arts (HONOR 364/PHIL 485)
- Political Campaign Communication: Principles and Practices (COMM 480/HONOR 340)
- Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (The) (ETHNS 300)
- Principles of Psychology (PSYCH 300)
- Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (HONOR 364/PHIL 485)
- Rockin' the Boat: Flashbacks of the 1970s Asian Movement (ETHNS 300 & 330)
- Sentences that Create Us (ETHNS 300, 320)
- Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties (ETHNS 330)
- Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (ECON 310)
- Teaching & Learning with Infants & Toddlers (ECE 331)
- Teaching STEM in the Early Years: Activities for Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (ECE 342)
- Through Women's Eyes (HIST 331)
- Torn from the Nest (HIST 370)
- Unscripted Classroom (ECE 321)
- Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America (HIST 321)
- World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways Through Time (ANTH 324)
- World Prehistory: A Brief Introduction (ANTH 324)

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