Sentences with phrase «school textbook»

While most gaming laptops typically weigh closer to 10 pounds and are thicker than the average high school textbook, the Omen's relatively slim size and light weight make it an appealing prospect for gamers on the go.

First of all, it looks and reads not like a policy paper for adults, but like a high school textbook.

After all, most people's education of science is of established principles in a school textbook, which are then examined in a situation where there is usually a single correct answer.

Methods are sophisticated, including funding to help shape school textbook discussions of global warming.

I read in a school textbook that it takes as much energy to convert 1gm.

After all, we're always looking to learn more about important women in history, especially since their stories can be harder to find in your average school textbook.

A pair of six foot long monitor lizards clamber over giant granite boulders beside the beach, forked tongues flashing; Hornbills, reminiscent of pre-historic birds from a school textbook, squawk loudly and sweep through heavily scented frangipani trees; fruit bats dangle like strange fruit over the tropical gardens and macaque monkeys chatter as they scramble through the trees tops.

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.

By the way, they've turned his book into a grade school textbook.)

For example, a school textbook is frequently updated, sometimes on a yearly basis.

Welp, it's Columbus Day, and while your grade school textbook probably filled you in on the basics (he sailed across the Atlantic ocean blue in 1492 to «discover» the «New World,» etc.), there were also a few, uhm, less - than - pleasant outcomes to his journeys around the Americas — namely slavery, genocide, widespread disease, and generally tyrannical behavior.

The acquisition of Harcourt General Inc. by European and Canadian media companies is raising concerns from some observers about the impact of the deal on school textbook prices and quality.

A new junior - high - school textbook on Nebraska's history is being rewritten to include fairer treatment of blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians.

He remembers reading a high school textbook about atoms and stumbling upon an appendix on quantum theory.

In fact, how your teen spends his summer can have a greater impact on his life than any school textbook ever will.

A Danish press bought rights to use it in their high school textbook; I've corresponded with numerous college professors who use the piece to talk about rhetoric and race.

The fact that a definition such as this made it in to a school textbook defies belief.

Kinnaman might not be the best figure on which to base material for a public school textbook.

An Indian Christian organisation is calling for criminal action against the people responsible for calling Jesus a «demon» in a school textbook.

«A few years ago, I came across a high school textbook on U.S. history that stumbled badly when it tried to describe the first Thanksgiving.

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.

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 it.

Only when the government agreed to offer a public apology and to tell the victims» story through school textbooks did they agree.

Do the folks who write intelligent design school textbooks ever ask students to work out which of the creator gods / beings might be the most likely candidate?

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.

«The Course of True Love: Marriage in High School Textbooks» published by the Institute for American Values, Fall 1998.

Notwithstanding the Iraqi government's «efforts to increase security for religious sites and worshippers, provide a stronger voice for Iraq's smallest minorities in parliament, and revise secondary school textbooks to portray minorities in a more positive light,» the report states, the government «continues to tolerate systematic, ongoing, and egregious religious freedom violations, including violent religiously - motivated attacks.»

Highly publicized reactions to science and social science on the part of religious conservatives, as evidenced by lawsuits concerning the teaching of evolution in public schools and court cases challenging the influence of «secular humanism» on school textbooks, suggest that Habermas's forces of «secular rationality» have by no means carried the day.

It has been promoted in countless articles in popular magazines and elementary - school textbooks.

She read aloud to Dan constantly — even his high school textbooks, when necessary.

I know with my school textbooks, sometimes I'd break even on them b / c I resold them on amazon when I was done!

Also, why do you feel there is a need to constantly remind people of the primary target of a madman who is taught in school textbooks as being the one who wanted to kill all Jews?

The Education Committee reiterated what has been a long - standing concern of the country's liberal community: revising the curriculum of state school textbooks on Pakistan Studies, which glorify Muslim warriors and portray India as «Hindu» and Hindu as «the other».

Jung faced controversy last month when the Daily News revealed that he told Korean church groups that he would fight to bar pictures of same - sex couples from appearing in school textbooks, earning rebukes from Stavisky and Democratic leaders.

The United Nations Agency, UNESCO, says sexist attitudes are «rife» in school textbooks used in developing countries.

The businessman turned political candidate told a crowd at a Korean church he held the belief that gay marriage should not be depicted in school textbooks.

The school now has three separate rooms for the auditorium, gym and cafeteria and has the latest school textbooks, computers and other supplies.

A New York Democratic hopeful has vowed to fight to ban images of same - sex couples from school textbooks and voiced his opposition to same - sex marriage.

Jung is being ridiculed for a statement he made about erasing same - sex couples from school textbooks, as reported by The Daily News.

School textbooks lack information on different religions and religious beliefs.

A campaign has succeeded in its aims to remove references to evolution, including the avian ancestor Archaeopteryx, from high - school textbooks

If American teens are unsure about climate change or its cause, some school textbooks aren't helping, says teaching expert Diego Román, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, co-author of a new study on the subject.

Bulky, hefty and downright expensive, conventional school textbooks may rank as the most outdated part of our nation's public education system.

Until that time, «matter» meant anything with substance; even today school textbooks give this definition: «matter takes up space and has mass.»

«School textbooks,» they complain, «are notorious for their dry presentation of material.»

A good step might be to teach children about the large contributions that women have made to these fields — achievements that all too often don't make it into school textbooks.

«More diversity needed in medical school textbooks.»

This is the subject of significant debate, which the book should have known about even in 1996 when it was published, but all the more reason to have school textbooks as up to date as possible — particularly in an evolving topic, such as nutrition.

Where possible, I have tried to film actual examples of geographic phenomena, as too many school textbooks are too theoretical for students to really get a true understanding.

This frontline skirmish in the culture wars [over school textbooks] is the subject of Scott Thurman's engrossing documentary... It's a symbolic fight of our times, making [the film] a compelling and involving work.