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• Textbooks

  
  Kevin Stilley Dot Com — Authority: 146
  (A note for my SWBTS students:)  You have been asking what textbooks I will be using next semester. Hopefully, this advance notice will allow you to shop for the best prices. You will find below a list of the textbooks for the three sections I am teaching. CHURCH AND EMPIRES (sections 1203a and 1203b) A Short ...
  5 hours ago

• Save Money on Textbooks: Buy Used

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 158
  This semester is drawing to a close, and that means that we will soon see another semester — and another round of buying textbooks. How well I remember those days! The good news is that we now have a number of options beyond buying new (and likely being gouged) from the bookstore. Here are some great places you can ...
  8 hours ago

• History Flashback: 1961, Part II

  
  Preservation in Pink — Authority: 123
  By Ken Loyd In my blog post of October 30 , I shared some quotes from my 1961 3rd grade history book, Our America . I only got halfway through the book, so today I’ll continue. Be sure to read between the lines ! On “carpetbaggers” after the Civil War: “To make matters worse, dishonest men ...
  18 hours ago

• Why make it difficult to help save lives?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  This morning I gave a talk at continuing medical education meeting being held here in Boston for physicians, nurse practitioners and nurses. More than 5000 people are participating in the three day meeting which includes lectures and workshops of different sizes. After the session in which I gave my talk had finished, ...
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• Why Marketing Your Business Is So Important

  
  !0for Blog — Authority: 131
  Multi-Level Marketing and the Direct Sales industry are not generally considered to be a part of the Advertising Industry, but why not? Yes, the specific concentration is in sales and networking, but isn’t the success of both strictly dependent on the ability for a Direct Sales company to market itself? In your ...
  2 days ago

• Texas Baptist Standard rediscovers the Texas textbook fight?

  
  BaptistPlanet — Authority: 515
  The BStd Headline: Texas textbook battles have national impactWhich we and others have endlessly explained. And?“What we teach in the public schools matters,” [Charles Haynes, senior scholar at the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C.] told a group at Northaven United Methodist Church in Dallas during the ...
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• Let’s make this a bad year for Don McLeroy

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 148
  Don McLeroy is a wee bit concerned about losing one of his allies on the SBOE. State Board of Education former Chair (and current member) Don McLeroy wasn’t too concerned about losing Democratic swing-vote Rick Agosto. At least not at first. “The big impact will be if I depart,” McLeroy said over the ...
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• Carbonic acid captured

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 166
  Scientists from Germany and Israel have caught a fleeting glimpse of carbonic acid, the simple yet elusive molecule that plays a key role in nature, from regulating the pH of blood to mediating crucial events in the global carbon cycle. And it appears that the acid is not as weak as the textbooks would have us ...
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• Openness, technology, state politics, and the challenges of poverty

  
  K12 Open Ed — Authority: 99
  There was a fascinating article in the Texas Tribune this week about the recent legislation in Texas that, among other things, appears to allow textbook money to be directed toward technology, calls for “open source” textbooks to be authored, and gives the (appointed, not elected) commissioner a new voice in ...
  2 days ago

• The Cost of College and the Three-Year Degree Option

  
  Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog — Authority: 115
  Again with the slapping . This time it’s for the jackasses in charge of higher education in this country. If you still feel they (the schools, the loan people, and the government) aren’t lacking in smarts and high-moral-ground-standing cojones, then please read this excerpt from WSJ’s Journal Editorial ...
  3 days ago

• Textbooks are Extremely Expensive

  
  Ms. Terri — Authority: 140
  You really need to check out this article if you are serious about saving money in college. Here are several ways you can save on your college textbook cost without your grades suffering. Most colleges or technical schools have a bookstore, but these stores are probably the most expensive places to purchase ...
  3 days ago

• If your students hate classes based on the textbook

  
  TEFLtastic with Alex Case — Authority: 123
  … there are six possibilities: 1. The whole concept of using a textbook is wrong 2. Having a textbook is wrong for that class 3. You’re using the textbook too much 4. You’re using the wrong textbook 5. You are influencing your students with your negative feelings (and even comments?) about textbooks in ...
  4 days ago

• Emotional Isolation:A Life Apart, Without a Home, Friends or Regrets

  
  Through Your Body: — Authority: 427
  “My goal is equanimity,” he said. “I’m not pursuing what the world calls success.” The staff at the homeless shelter where I worked for several years had long worried about him. He sat in the day hall, well tended and polite, reading chemistry textbooks with calm comprehension. At the moment, he was in the ...
  4 days ago

• Get School Textbooks on the Cheap

  
  Refinance website and Blog — Authority: 136
  Textbooks is probably the last thing on a student’s mind, but they actually requires significant attention because it’s a huge cost. If you are going to school but don’t want to blow your budget, check this article out. Everyone goes to the campus bookstore to buy textbooks but that’s the last place you ...
  4 days ago

• Fmr. Ft. Hood Battalion Commander: “It is what it is, an Islamic jihadist attack.”

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  “On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for ...
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• Kindle DX not for suitable for the blind says advocacy group

  
  SlashGear — Authority: 781
  By all accounts, the Amazon Kindle DX has been wildly successful for Amazon.com. The eReader has sparked a gob of new competing products and is selling very well around the world. There was a push by some to get the Kindle DX into universities for use instead of textbooks. The National Federation for the Blind ...
  4 days ago

• Prices Of Modern Textbooks

  
  Degree Space — Authority: 125
  There is no doubt that university and college textbooks are really expensive. Over the years prices tend to grow. At the beginning of the year or at the beginning of winter semester students are always busy looking for textbooks they have on the list. But as you may understand students always look for something that ...
  4 days ago

• Whats the matter with Carruthers

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 643
  Im trying to locate elementary reading textbooks from the late 70s early 80s. All I have to go on is that the first grade text was a 3 parter and the first two parts were Footprints and Carousel and were in paperback format. Later grades had the heavy textbook type in a monochrome cover and one was called Melody( I ...
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• Answers to Textbook Questions Copyrighted?

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Mike Masnick has a new post disagreeing with a recent court decision that answers to textbook questions were a derivative work. From the post: This still makes no sense to me. First, there’s no “copying.” Second, isn’t answering a question a “factual” statement? How can answering a question be ...
  5 days ago

• Education

  
  Degree Space — Authority: 125
  Textbooks play a vital role in our education. First of all they are a great communicative tool and are still used both in schools and colleges. As the education is nowadays expensive many students practice purchase and selling of used textbooks, because the new one may cost a great amount of money. In a way the ...
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