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• Textbook Rental Market Heats Up: BookRenter Raises $6M Series A

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 903
  Earlier this month college textbook rental company Chegg raised $112M as part of a combined Series D and debt round, bringing the total raised by the company to a massive $144M. Competitor BookRenter will tomorrow announce a Series A round of $6M, raised from Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management. BookRenter ...
  7 hours ago

• Useful Info about College Textbooks

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 129
  Are you in college or simply a retired clerk who either has to study or has time to study? All you need are the textbooks for developing your knowledge or scientific research monographs for becoming a specialist in the field. If you are a student you will have a chance to become a processional and build your career, ...
  1 day ago

• Courting Ellen West

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 648
  “The Case of Ellen West” was published by the Swiss psychiatrist, Ludwig Binswanger, in 1944–1945 and (as far as I can tell) appeared in English translation in 1958. Anyone know where I can get a copy? Usual search suspects are turning up only the Carl Rogers article, "Ellen West and Loneliness", in the Review ...
  2 days ago

• Irene’s Spirit haunts the What’s Hot list on the App Store

  
  iPhone News at Desinformado.com | The Complete Source for iPhone News — Authority: 147
  JEG Entertainment is delighted to announce that Irenes Spirit 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch is now featured on the App Stores Whats Hot list. Irenes Spirit gives your friends the illusion that you can communicate with the beyond. Designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch Irenes Spirit will fool your ...
  3 days ago

• Chegg.com rakes in $57 million for textbook rental site

  
  George S. May Business Blog — Authority: 134
  Recession? Slouching economy? I bet Chegg.com would tell you differently.“Chegg.com, an online textbook-rental company, said it has raised $57 million in venture capital, in a sign that venture investing may be reviving.The amount of funding that the Santa Clara, Calif., company raised is unusual given the slowdown ...
  3 days ago

• Goodnight, Textbook

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 167
  Common song, common verse, Jingle here to jingle there, New song replaces the old song replaces The older, older, replace the old, And where these constantly changing chimes read more
  3 days ago

• E-books go to college, but books still rule the campus, not Kindle

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  Filed under: Technology , Amazon.com, Inc. High school and college students are usually leagues ahead of their elders, technologically speaking. As theyre dizzyingly texting and Tweeting and multitasking to their hearts content, theyre reading far fewer books than students of previous generations. No wonder some ...
  3 days ago

• CengageBrain.com is up and running!

  
  Lauras Psychology Blog — Authority: 117
  As I mentioned in an earlier post , Cengage, who publish my Discovering Biological Psychology, is launching  CengageBrain.com , a new portal for obtaining textbooks directly without paying the college bookstores their middleman cuts. You can buy regular textbooks, eBooks, or eChapters. A new feature is the ...
  4 days ago

• Best Medical Physiology Textbook?

  
  New Media Medicine — Authority: 158
  Hey everyone, Im currently in my first year at Southampton and have decided to get a my own copy of a general physiology textbook. Ive got a few out the library and so had a decent look, but was also interested in what other peoples opinions were? Basically its down to one of the following; -Guyton- obviously (but ...
  4 days ago

• Graduate Loans For All Types Of Students

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 148
  Most people who go to grad school fall into one of two categories; professional students or professionals advancing their career. For some, four years of college can be grueling enough, others love going back to campus every fall. If you fall into the first category and thought you were done with school forever you ...
  5 days ago

• Scottish Soccer Players = Dumb.

  
  http://unprofessionalfoul.com/ — Authority: 600
  Burley, trying to tame the boneheads So says disgraced/fired/useless ex-Scotland manager George Burley’s nephew, Craig Burley . And who are we to argue? According to Craig, the reason George’s tenure was disastrous and awful was all the players’ fault, and not just the fact that they couldn’t stop ...
  5 days ago

• Open Textbooks in Texas

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 438
  Karen Fasimpaur has a new blog post on a recent move in Texas towards open textbooks in Texas. Fasimpaur rebuts criticism that open textbooks will do nothing for those in poverty. From the article: Will textbooks that are written in a way that is neither engaging nor even accessible, especially to children of ...
  6 days ago

• Save Money on Textbooks: Buy Used

  
  EveryJoe — Authority: 159
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Juggling Toddlers!

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 167
  Cute and cuter! Okay okay, Marcia Cross ‘ daughters are equally as cute! Cross and husband Tom Mahoney spent their Saturday lunching with their two adorable daughters, Eden and Savannah in Century City. Marcia’s the textbook definition of a hands-on mom! [ Image via WENN .] See original here: Juggling ...
  1 week ago

• Discomfort at the precepts

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Back at the burning house I had meant to write several posts about Rebs retreat in quick succession and then get back to the book but I am (pathetic excuse) too busy - working on the second edition of my textbook Consciousness: An Introduction . It is extremely hard work (though I love doing it) and just doesnt ...
  1 week ago

• Basics of Fluid Mechanics.pdf

  
  OnlineFreeEBooks.net the most imitated free ebook site — Authority: 134
  Taken from: What is Fluid Mechanics?: The fluid mechanics study involve many fields that have no clear boundary between them. Researchers distinguish between orderly flow and chaotic flow as the laminar flow and the turbulent flow. The fluid mechanics can also be distinguish between a single phase flow and multiphase ...
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• Textbook Solution Manuals

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 181
  Looking for someone to use their computer skills to search for and find a solution manual to the textbook,
  1 week ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• Kindle Textbook Runs Into Trouble With Text to Speech for Blind

  
  The Internet Writing Journal — Authority: 113
  Amazon.com did not get the reception it was hoping for from universities that were testing out the large-format Kindle DX as an electronic textbook replacement. The universities dont like the fact that the device doesnt have text-to-speech capabilities for blind students, as promised. But Amazon.com ran in to ...
  1 week ago

• ChittahChattah Quickies

  
  All This ChittahChattah — Authority: 128
  Universities reject Kindle over inaccessibility for the blind – The National Federation for the Blind said Wednesday that while it appreciates the Kindles text-to-speech feature, the "menus of the device are not accessible to the blind…making it impossible for a blind user to purchase books from Amazons Kindle ...
  1 week ago

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