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• Bookshare Web Reader - A customized reading tool for Bookshare members offering all the features of DAISY with a single click of the "Read Now" link.
• DAISY (Digital Accessible Information System) - A digital book file format. DAISY books from Bookshare are DAISY 3.0 text files that work with just about every type of access technology that reads text. Books that contain images will have the download option of ‘DAISY Text with Images’.
• BRF (Braille Refreshable Format) - Digital Braille for use with refreshable Braille devices and Braille embossers.
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• DAISY Audio - Similar to the DAISY option above; however, this option uses MP3 files created with our text-to-speech engine that utilizes Ivonas Kendra voice. This format will work with Daisy Audio compatible players such as Victor Reader Stream and Read2Go.
• EPUB - A standard e-book format that can be read on many tools, such as iBooks, Readium or others.
• Word - Accessible Word output, which can be unzipped and opened in any tool that allows .docx files

From School to Work

From School to Work helps students make smooth transitions from their classrooms to meaningful jobs. The text emphasizes the skills students need to succeed in school, at work, and on their own.

Parents and Their Children

With a new design and almost 200 new photos, Parents and Their Children has a fresh look that will catch your students' attention! The content has been thoroughly revised to reflect fast-paced changes in today's world. Parenting is one of the most serious responsibilities a person can have. Use this text to help your students learn what this role demands and what it has to offer.-- New end-of-chapter feature called "Thinking Critically".-- New chapter on decisions facing parents-to-be that includes choices about childbirth preparation, delivery, baby supplies, and child care.-- Increased content on conception, pregnancy, prenatal development and care, as well as crises that can affect the family's well-being.-- Updated information on meeting children's special medical and educational needs.-- Added emphasis on how community resources, technology, diversity, and changes in the family affect parents' roles.

Drafting & Design: Engineering Drawing Using Manual and CAD Techniques

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Modern Residential Wiring

Modern Residential Wiring provides essential information about the tools, materials, equipment, and processes encountered in the electrical trade. The 2008 edition of this comprehensive textbook includes the latest information on installation and repair techniques, as well as recentdevelopments in wiring systems, personal protection equipment, and computer wiring. References to the 2008 National Electrical CodeRG are made throughout this text to reinforce the importance of installing residential wiring in a safe and professional manner. Apprentices, vocational students, andanyone interested in electrical wiring will find Modern Residential Wiring a valuable aid in learning how electrical systems are designed, installed, and maintained. Experienced electricians who want to review basic wiring techniques or study the recent developments in the electrical field will alsofind this book helpful. Based on the 2008 National Electrical CodeRG.

Electricity & Electronics

Textbook on the fundamentals for technical school students. No bibliography.

Computer Service and Repair: A Guide to Upgrading, Configuring, Troubleshooting, and Networking Personal Computers

Teaches the practices and principles needed to pass the A+ Certification Exams, as well as to build, upgrade, and troubleshoot your PC.

Working with Young Children

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Video: Digital Communication & Production

Comprehensive textbook designed as a complete introductory course in video-the 21st centruy hybrid of television and film techniques that is the future of all media production.

Modern Carpentry: Essential Skills for the Building Trades

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Foundations of Physics, Investigations

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Foundations of Physics

NIMAC-sourced textbook

History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond, Interactive Student Notebook

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Geography Alive! Regions and People, Mapping Lab Lesson Guide with Lesson Masters: Latin America

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Geography Alive! Regions and People, Mapping Lab Lesson Guide with Lesson Masters: Canada and the United States

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Geography Alive! Regions and People, Interactive Student Notebook

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Geography Alive! Regions and People, Student Edition

NIMAC-sourced textbook

History Alive! The United States Through Industrialism

NIMAC-sourced textbook

History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond

NIMAC-sourced textbook

History Alive! The Ancient World

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Foundations of Restaurant Management & Culinary Arts (Level #2)

Foundations of Restaurant Management & Culinary Arts, Level 1

NIMAC-sourced textbook

A Guide to Microsoft Office 2007 for Information and Communications Technologies

NIMAC-sourced textbook

Right On Reader 2

A systematic language arts curriculum for middle and high school studentsResearch has shown Teaching to Standards: English Language Arts to be highly effective in teaching skills that align to grade-level standards.

Right On Reader 1

Right On Readers - provides 16 popular works of literature commonly used in the general education classroom, adapted with simplified text, repeated storylines, and symbol supports. The adapted literature includes fiction and nonfiction stories, poetry, theatrical scripts, and research endeavors.

Algebra 2: Learning in Context

NIMAC-sourced textbook