Sentences with phrase «of used textbooks»

CollegeBooksDirect.com offers one of the largest selections of used textbooks, and offers same day shipping for your textbook order (unless otherwise noted).

With a completely retuned and upgraded interface, college bookstores can now also manage wholesale buybacks of used textbooks, allowing them to better manage excess inventory and student returns.

Also, growing significantly faster than ebook sales, are the rentals of used textbooks which are hitting both rentals of new titles and new print sales.

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I learned conversational Korean, studied everything from string theory physics to ancient Greek and even taught myself the basics of computer programming without the internet, using textbooks.

Use this rule of thumb when it comes to selecting a stock photo: If it looks like it could be in a school textbook, don't use Use this rule of thumb when it comes to selecting a stock photo: If it looks like it could be in a school textbook, don't use use it.

«The edX course was used as a sort of new age textbook,» says edX president Anant Agarwal.

Combined, his books have been translated into 15 different languages and are used as textbooks at many schools including Stanford University, Boston University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Going past the textbook definition, here are some examples of how entrepreneurs use drop shipping for their business.

The non-certified student loans could be used towards the cost of room and board, textbooks, and other related educational expenses.

Despite being pushed out of the companies he founded, he used his time in prison to teach himself how to code, without the internet using textbooks and his # 2 golf pencil.

These include the leading textbook on accounting used in law schools, a popular narrative on contracts, and best - selling books on Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett (The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America and Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values).

This should not be surprising because the bible was not written as a textbook, applying consistency and technicality in how it used terms; moreover, we are talking about a number of different writers.

If we can't use scripture to prove that, then textbooks and writings of those who claim to be knowledgable should not be used to prove what knowledge is.

Although the paper employs some materials from contemporary economics, they are used to buttress its theological contentions in the way that creationists use bits of science to support their claim that the Bible is a scientific textbook.

Strikingly, our catechists these days often just use apologetics tracts as their textbooks for catechism class, giving the faithful mere leftovers of what was actually prepared for others who do not yet share our faith.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

The controversy began after the recent discovery of a statement in the Hindi textbook which used the adjective «haivaan» - which means demon - while referring to Jesus Christ.

In an issue of the Intercollegian as late as 1948, Paul Popenoe, author of the widely used textbook Applied Eugenics, warns readers that «too large a proportion» of children are «born in homes which can give them the worst start in every way.

There are a number of other systems available that use the now standard textbook Programming in Prolog by W. F. Clocksin and C. S. Mellish, published by Springer - Verlag.

He was a product of a vastly inferior, segregated school system which used the hand - me - down textbooks that came from the white school system, while all the time listening to the white people proclaim that ours was a separate but equal school situation.

A word of caution is in order: the materials used for this study — a two - foot - high pile of manuals, textbooks, pamphlets and memos — came from denominational secretaries of evangelism.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

Their textbooks, used by many generations of Harvard students, promoted foundations of social reasonableness that included both human and divine testimony.

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

The study of great books is usually contrasted with the use of textbooks and other technical books.

A textbook I use for my introductory poetry classes, the classic Western Wind, defines sentimentality as «emotion in excess of its object.»

Thank you for giving all of us a textbook example of using these words in the correct context.

In the process, the Bible takes on the physical characteristics of all well - used textbooks.

The Compendium should be used as a textbook with the higher age groups of primary schools and with all ages in secondary schools.

The Heritage of World Civilizations: I picked up the seventh edition of this college textbook for $ 4 at a used bookstore because I liked the pictures and because it was stressing me out that I was losing to my little sister in the history category of JEOPARDY.

When it is used as a source book, it becomes the means of the Spirit that gives life, but when it is used as a textbook, it can become the letter that kills.

This is your standard school - type English 11 textbook, of the sort I haven't used since I taught English 11 in public school twenty - three years ago.

Children in German schools were using Nazi textbooks with statements in them like this: «The teaching of mercy and love of one's neighbor is foreign to the German race, and the Sermon on the Mount is, according to Nordic sentiment, an ethic for cowards and idiots.»

Even our word algebra is a corruption of al - jabr, the name of an Arabic textbook widely used by Christians.

Haddad recognized Hawkins's deference to the scholarship of Miroslav Volf, whose textbooks are also used at ABTS.

The full - time Formula One driver, who skipped the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indianapolis, executed a textbook pass of defending race - winner Alexander Rossi where he used the draft to slingshot to inside of Rossi and then by as they raced down the frontstretch and into Turn 1.

The other day, for purposes of replying to an angry teacher who used textbooks made by our publishing house, we asked our resident botanist to respond and he wrote a long statement.

Charlotte Mason recommended that whole, living books be used instead of textbooks.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

They may use textbooks, worksheets, free materials, distance learning, and combine elements of unschooling, Montessori, or Waldorf approaches.

There are not set textbooks the contents of which must be completed by a certain date, and a textbook may never be used.

Rather than using textbooks, teachers give the students a meaningful experience, building a picture out of it, and the students themselves arrive at the concepts.

Striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing faded and apologetic in history textbooks.

Most striking is the scale and lurid grotesque of anti-Semitic propaganda posters we are all too used to seeing, faded and apologetic, in history textbooks.

All too often in struggling schools, she said, teachers have to buy their own classroom supplies and use out - of - date textbooks.

«We are going to pilot the use of electronic textbooks at the junior and senior high level and if this pilot is successful then we will expand it across the board... We shall expand the progressive free SHS before the end of my term and also extend it to cover boarding students,» he added.

A policy and research think tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, has pooh - poohed the Ministry of Education's response to the brouhaha over the textbook that depicted the human head as a part of the human body used for carrying objects.

Dr. Teich is author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely - used textbook on technology and society, the seventh edition of which was published by St. Martin's Press in September 1996, and Science and Technology in the USA, volume 5 of Longman's «World Guides to Science and Technology,» published in 1986.

He is the author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely - used textbook on technology and society, the eighth edition of which was published by Bedford / St.

He could no longer read textbooks, and his limited range of motion prevented him from using Braille's math equivalent.