Sentences with phrase «of older textbooks»

In the case of older textbooks or very specialized materials, there may be no financial incentive for publishers to offer materials in both electronic and print format.

But there is one element of the old textbook cycle which is both unpredictable and pervasive in its effects — animal spirits.

When she was 6, her neighbor threw out a collection of old textbooks; Oyer found a dated biology tome and took it home.

Your Aid, We Deliver doesn't charge volunteers to assist them, and a contribution may be as small as the donation of an old textbook.

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We're all familiar with the old adage about the dangers of putting all your eggs in one basket, and this is a textbook example.

Students can also take advantage of this buyback program by purchasing older editions of textbooks.

The older textbooks on evolution make much of the idea of ho - m - ology, pointing out the obvious resemblances between the skeletons of the limbs of different animals.

Looking over my oldest daughter's shoulder one day, I saw that there was a paragraph in her high - school biology textbook about the experiments of Lazzaro Spallanzani, one of the greatest biologists of the eighteenth century.

There are many, many, many examples and study outside the textbooks they recommended at Bible college will turn you on to all kinds of old ideas that we can call new.

Diamonds contain (if I remember this correctly) C14, which means they can't be billions of years old, either, but that's what you find in the textbooks.

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.

I was probably ten years old before I ever saw an image in a textbook of what a girl's body looked like.

Chicago's Doughnut Vault offers textbook versions of both, and general manager Jessi DiBartolomeo explains that the leavening in the old - fashioned «causes the dough to «crack,» creating its distinctive crown shape.»

I have to smile, I guess my babies never read the textbook, both of them nursed every 2 hours 24 hours a day for years:) They also never slept a good 6 to 8 hour stretch for at least 10 years, thank goodness for teenagehood and longer sleeps, of course I am older now and the one doing all the night waking.

Older students can get a better idea of what to expect by looking at the schedule and textbooks, participating in orientation events, and talking to senior students who know the environment and routine.

Oral feeding aversions might not manifest themselves until your baby is 3 to 4 months old, according to the textbook «Primary Care of the Premature Infant.»

Many of the people in my class (particularly the overachieving and overanxious) have already been talking to the professors, as well as a plethora of upperclassmen who seem happy to share old textbooks, old exams, old qualifying exams, and such.

Long before I began stockpiling a rather eclectic collection of curiously homoerotic Men's Fitness magazines in my closet as a randy teenager, decades still before the global pornification of the 21st - century Internet age, my tender childhood libido found a secret refuge amidst the colorful scenes contained in a handful of old university textbooks placed happily among my parents» bookshelves in the family room of our home.

«Anthropology textbooks of the 1990s often showed maps with large arrows indicating migration of early H. erectus from its inferred core area of eastern Africa to other parts of the Old World,» explains Roebroeks.

The open - source dream got a new boost in May, when Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger, responding to his state's budget crisis, asked content developers to submit their «open - source digital textbooks» to California Learning Resource Network (CLRN), a 10 - year - old project established by the Board of Education that has long hosted supplemental electronic resources for the state.

From this record, the authors estimated fire location, frequency, size, and seasonality over the last 700 years, comparing the fire history to historical records from the National Archives of Norway, including juridical documents, diplomas, and old maps of the area and old agricultural textbooks and reports.

Old textbook stereotypes of mitochondria as tidy, self - contained capsules have faded away as modern imaging techniques show them routinely fusing into tubes and branches.

«The old textbook description says that once maleness is determined by a few Y chromosome genes and you have gonads, all other sex differences stem from there,» says geneticist Andrew Clark of Cornell University, who was not involved in either study.

The process of revising textbooks — and reminding old - guard researchers of the change — takes time, which is why you may still see hominid referring to humans and our closest kin.

The old textbooks claim that mercury is healthy and to maintain respect for the practise a lot of products coming out of India have mercury added to them.

In high school, I came across some of my mom's old pharmacology textbooks and was inspired to become a pharmacist so that I could give people medications that would save their lives!

If you'd rather not spend the money, you can even load up an old knapsack with a bunch of textbooks and go walking with that.

This old - school jute silk blouse with semi-puffed sleeves is a textbook definition of royalty.

A brash, effects - laden tribute to all those alien invasion movies of the 1950s (just try watching the original «War of the Worlds» without spotting the countless similarities), Roland Emmerich's ultimate mindless actioner is arguably as close you'll get to a perfect textbook merging of old fashioned sci - fi with modern day big - budget fanfaring.

Poor old Jason Isaacs, on the other hand, is saddled with a role that is the textbook definition of «one - dimensional», and it is hard to work out what an actor of his class gains from a supporting role like this.

But now, with key new scenes of Roberta Sparrow (aka Grandma Death) and chapter headings to correspond to the fictional textbook in the movie (The Philosophy of Time Travel), Donnie Darko is organized in such a way that new and old audiences can get a better idea as to what's happening in this rich tale of a young man and his personal search for God.

Within weeks, DfES had scripted lesson plans for 11 - year - olds and published them on its Web site — what amounts to the first volume of a national textbook.

The «lab» consisted of a handful of old computers without modems resting on rickety folding tables and a stack of dusty textbooks dating back to the 1950s.

ITIS Majorana School is well - known in Italy because of their flagship project The «Book in progress», which aims to produce digital resources that replace the old textbooks, i.e. «books» (both paper and digital), and are made by the teachers.

Their textbook is now out of print, in part because of its allegedly old - fashioned telling of American history.

Forget the old - school model of textbooks and tests.

As an extension to the previous point, expensive textbooks compel students to rely on older, second hand editions that consist of outdated material.

Free textbooks, like tuition grants directed to students in private schools, are a form of tangible financial assistance benefiting the schools themselves, and the State's constitutional obligation requires it to avoid not only operating the old dual system of racially segregated schools but also providing tangible aid to schools that practice racial or other invidious discrimination.

You will also require access to: • Heinemann «Understanding GCSE Geography for AQA Specification A» (Bowen and Palmister, 2009) text books • Wider World textbooks (old or new) • Atlases • New Basics text book - p. 136 • Life on Earth - Episode 8, Jungles, episode 5, Deserts, episode 9 - The Shallow Seas This is one of my favourite units to teach to my year 8 groups, however it could easily be adapted for Year 7 or Year 9.

Zack Kopplin, a student activist who favors rigorous science education, has found more than 300 voucher schools across the U.S. that teach the Biblical story of creation as science; some also instruct children that the world is just several thousand years old and use textbooks describing the Loch Ness Monster as a living dinosaur.

The avant - garde of educators on social media went aflutter last week as the U.S. Department of Education announced new developments in its effort to assist schools that embark on plans to ditch old - school textbooks.

Since then, years of a textbook budget that has been nearly zeroed out has left many classrooms working with textbooks nearly a decade old — or with no textbooks at all.

Some of its textbooks are now 12 years old, and up until now, the district had little money in the budget to buy Common Core - aligned materials to supplement the resources it already has.

Chinese students begin learning their maths facts at a very early age: maths textbooks begin with multiplication in the first semester of second grade, when children are seven years old.

Small nonprofits, education technology startups, and companies that have never dabbled in producing educational content are stepping up to create learning apps and even full curricula that schools can use in addition to — or in place of — their old textbooks.

It strengthens the age - old cliche of perfectly blending comfort and engaging driving dynamics - it is a textbook application of that principle and the result is a swift cruiser that is rewarding to drive fast but won't rattle your spine out of alignment on bumpy roads.

We offer solutions to many types of people and companies ranging from those who just want to free up bookshelf space, self - publishing authors, publishers with older titles available only in print, students tired of carrying heavy textbooks, and companies wanting to digitize internal documents.

But at seven, when he worked out from his big brother's radiology textbook that you ought to be able to tell how old a rock was from the amount of undecayed carbon in it, he'd had to get past Nikolai's indulgent medical - student smile before he would pay attention, and start talking about the idea seriously, the way he needed.

Steve said «We want to unlock all of the old PDF books, PDF textbooks, PDF handbooks, travel guides — books that we've collected, millions of them — that were never optimized for mobile use,» he said.

And her comment, to the people who busted on her dialogue of a 5 year old as not being perfect and teaching young readers the proper way to speak was (and I paraphrase here)-- The people who don't get the difference between a story and an English textbook, I don't have time for that conversation.