Sentences with phrase «more than a textbook»

Christ might have lived but it is just a fable to u. I am not a scientist because I study more than my textbooks.

(In your third - and fourth - year courses you were presumably using journal articles more than textbooks anyway.)

To provide the right content for the lesson, I needed more than the textbook had to offer.

April 15, 2015 • The Common Core math standards say students need more than a textbook understanding of concepts like the Pythagorean theorem.

So far the series has done a better job at gauging an interest towards major historical events and places more than any textbook or teacher has been able to accomplish albeit the motives of the players might not be strictly educational and they rather indulge themselves in randomly running around and do some buccaneering, Unity will give us the chance to explore Victorian England during the french revolution.

Not exact matches

I defaced more than my share of voluminous textbooks with pictures in the bottom corner that, when flipped quickly, would make a moving picture.

For years, some business schools have gotten away with just providing a textbook education but companies are looking for more than facts and figures.

Lawson insisted that «you can no more make a State industry imitate private enterprise by telling it to follow textbook rules or to stimulate competitive prices, than you can make a mule into a zebra by painting stripes on its back.

Decades later, Warren Buffett still sits at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway and his annual reports contain more investment advice than your typical business school textbook.

This textbook has been adopted at more than 1,500 colleges, universities, and institutions worldwide.

One reason why it is so important to describe real estate behavior in terms of economic theory is that a rising proportion of the economy's industrial investors are behaving more like real estate investors than like the textbook models based on manufacturing.

Powell's will buy used books online, as will Amazon. Bookscouter.com, which allows sellers to compare price offers on used textbooks from more than 50 buyback vendors.

Economics textbooks talk about opportunity cost, and nobody knows more about opportunity cost than small business owners.

It takes faith to believe (as I stated before) that a 2,000 year old book has more correct Science in it than modern Science textbooks.»

Driscoll is a textbook case of someone who thinks that his ability to attract a following means that he's right about everything, or at least MORE right than anybody who hasn't been able to attract a following.

It teaches a lesson more powerful than any textbook.

As a teacher, should I write a textbook that might affect many more students or other teachers than I can reach individually?

As Elaine Scarry points out in The Body in Pain, to someone who suffers pain, nothing is more certain than the pain; she suggests that the experience of pain may be as close to a textbook case of «certainty» as we have.

Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be a textbook of science, the old controversy between religion and science vanishes... The doctrine of the Trinity is much more abstruse than anything in relativity or quantum mechanics; but, being necessary for salvation, the doctrine is stated in the Bible.

The biblical text was strictly defined, there were no subtexts, and hermeneutics was more like a home repair manual than an intuitive art, a set of rules for applying textbook formulas to problematic situations.

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

A study of school textbooks found that the pronouns he, him, and his occurred four times more often than the pronouns she, her, and hers.

Icons of evolution such as Haeckel's embryos, peppered moths, and classic origin «of «life experiments have been shown to be more mythic than scientific, even though they still live as textbook orthodoxy.

It is quite possible to question it, all the more so as the change of view has taken place more rapidly in the oral teaching of lectures (which are much more numerous and livelier than printed textbooks), than in printed books, which are few and always voice the views of only a small number of theologians.

Indeed, in my experience, visiting the Bodies exhibit was much more like reading the scientific writings of a J. Henri Fabre or an Erwin Straus (in short, of scientists who reveal beauty, order, and meaning in the natural world) than like reading a clinical biology textbook.

For instance, if photons and neural impulses are really no more than what the textbooks say they are, then I have to believe that this bright, beautiful, panoramic experience miraculously arises out of insentient chemical reactions inside my brain.

Darwin was stolen from death's doorstep more than once by his loving wife, something textbooks forget.

I should have realized that playing with fearlessness is a lot more important than having textbook strokes.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

Start to listen to her because you'll learn more from her story than a textbook.

While many kids — including my own — are sad to see summer end, for too many of our of nation's children, back to school is more than new textbooks and teachers — it's about the relief of getting access to school meals again.

These workbooks contain engaging and creative activities that are more fun than a stuffy textbook.

My second one seemed more textbook and couldn't stay awake for more than two hours.

It's a lot more work than sitting down with a textbook, but it's worth it when I see how she absorbs the information so much better.

While the separation of powers may a phrase more commonly found in legal and political textbooks than the mainstream press, it is fundamental part of the debate in America.

He is the co-author of more than 130 scientific publications, four textbooks (including four editions of the Biochemistry textbook first written by Lubert Stryer), Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry with Stephen J. Lippard, and a book on how to interact effectively with NIH, written with Michelle Kienholz.

Those issues encompass more than just the latest conflicts about the age of the universe or climate change - related language in textbooks, she said.

«No scientific falsehood is more difficult to expunge than textbook dogma endlessly repeated in tabular epitome without the original data.»

From that point on the challenge to prove or disprove the idea that an ecosystem was more than its individual constituents began to occupy more and more young minds and spawn more scientific journals and textbooks.

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«It shows that eukaryotic life is more flexible than what the textbooks say.»

For the study, researchers analyzed the race and skin tone of more than 4,000 human images in four medical textbooks: Atlas of Human Anatomy, Bates» Guide to Physical Examination & History Taking, Clinically Oriented Anatomy and Gray's Anatomy for Students.

Dr. Ferguson is the author of more than 85 chapters in medical textbooks.

... For the first time in more than 30 years, the simplest inflationary models, including those described in standard textbooks, are strongly disfavored by observations.»

She's co-written two nutrition textbooks, has more than two decades of experience as an educator and is a nationally recognized researcher.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

He is the author or coauthor of more than 80 journal articles, publications and abstracts, as well as several book chapters and textbooks.

He has authored several textbooks and published more than 250 scholarly papers on clinical innovations, surgical outcomes and research.

Prof. Patrinos has more than 160 publications in peer - reviewed scientific journals and textbooks, he is the Editor of the textbook Molecular Diagnostics, published by Academic Press, now in its 2nd edition, while serves as Communicating Editor for the prestigious peer - reviewed journal Human Mutation.

The author or co-author of five pathology textbooks and teaching aids, Dr. Kumar has published more than 100 original articles in scientific journals, a dozen book chapters, and nearly 20 review articles.