Sentences with phrase «textbooks at»

A popular site for buying and selling your textbooks at bargain prices [link].

For example, dozens of students are spreading the word about digital textbooks at their campuses as part of Boundless's group of stellar campus marketers to gain managerial and marketing skills (two things hiring managers love!).

Several public university coalitions in states like California, Massachusetts, and Maryland are hard at work developing their own open - source textbook library, and many professors have already made the switch to open source textbooks at universities across the nation.

The defendant in the United States proceeding, Mr. Kirtsaeng was a student at Cornell University who bought foreign editions of English language textbooks at book stores in Thailand, imported them into the Unites States and sold them to other students for a profit.

[Side note: they still do use textbooks at universities, don't they??? Jeez, I feel old...]

The card also offers 0 % APR on purchases for the first seven months after opening the account, which can be helpful for unusually large expenses, like textbooks at the beginning of the term.

I will search through the textbooks at the office to see if I can find anything else.

Check out the cost of the textbooks at the campus bookstore first, this will give you an idea of the baseline retail price.

Another strategy is to ask people who have already taken your classes, such as upperclassmen, if they would see you sell you their textbooks at a discounted price.

It includes things like Amazon.com, where you can order textbooks at a lower price.

New and Used Textbooks — Biblio has millions of college and high school textbooks at an average of 40 % less than retail textbook prices.

While the concept of digital textbooks at the higher education level... [Read more...]

While the concept of digital textbooks at the higher education level became a widespread topic of discussion in the past couple of years, new movements in digital publishing have made digital textbooks a more viable option in even public education.

Started at the Indiana University and now growing to twenty - five higher ed institutions, a trial run program on the implementation of digital textbooks at the college level is designed to show universities basically how digital can be implemented.

In part two of the report from the survey, Gallagher explains that the entire landscape of digital textbooks at the college level is confusing.

And I just paid almost $ 300 for my son to buy 4 textbooks at university.

Nichole LeFebvre joined The Friedrich Agency in spring 2012, after editing music and art textbooks at Oxford University Press.

According to new data from digital content distributor OverDrive, schools are adopting digital books and textbooks at a faster than ever rate.

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.

Subject content will be delivered through a guided self - study programme, where participants will be given textbooks at the beginning of the course to support them with their independent study.

In an era where a learner can glance down at his or her smartphone or tablet and execute course activities right as they are on the job in the exact environment they will be exercising their job functions and learn and absorb critical information at the point of need, it seems archaic that we would need to turn to textbooks at all (though they will always have their place, to be clear).

«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.

One answer is not to use textbooks at all.

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.

I'd first read about H.M. in my freshman psychology textbook at college, in the fall of 1971, less than twenty years after the experimental surgery that robbed him of most of his existing memories and also of ability to form new ones.

«We are able to throw the entire polymer chemistry textbook at it and make parts like hard prototyping resins and elastomers.

Without a textbook at home, her notes are her only revision tool to see her through her studies.

Districts may extend or enrich their curriculum beyond what is found in the textbook, however it's not too big a stretch to hope that a student who achieves at above - grade results on a nationally normed achievement test should have a textbook at that nationally normed level.

We recommend using this textbook at KS4 level or for sixth form / college students.

«Normally, when you sell your print textbook at the end of the semester you lose all the margin notes and highlights you made as you were studying.

Plastic Logic CEO Indro Mukerjee officially debuted the electronic textbook at an event held at the Moscow Planetarium during a visit by British Trade Minister Lord Green.

Whether you're selling a used college textbook or need to buy a new or used college textbook at a great price, Bookbyte is your source.

Plastic Logic CEO Indro Mukerjee officially debuted the electronic textbook at an event held at the Moscow Planetarium during a... [Read more...]

Some of the highlights of the report mentioned that 47 % of students said they would opt for an e-textbook over print if the price and availability were the same; those who prefer print editions most often responded that they do so in order to resell the textbook at a later time.

You can also choose to purchase a rented textbook at any time.

Amazon's Vice President at Kindle Dave Limp, says that Amazon will also be giving students a bonus with their Kindle text book rentals — «Normally, when you sell your print textbook at the end of the semester you lose all the margin notes and highlights you made as you were studying.

«Security Analysis» is still used as a textbook at Columbia Business School.

The first day is spent watching the open water DVD and working through the corresponding textbook at your own convenience (unless you've completed the eLearning already, in which case you get straight into the water!)

The course can be completed in 3 - 4 days (weather permitting)... the first day is spent watching the open water DVD and working through the corresponding textbook at your own convenience.

BTW, the leading Corporate Finance textbook at the time discussed Monte Carlo, and concluded that it was without merit!

So maybe at some point you won't need the textbook at all — the perfect solution to the textbook scam.

Ever since I saw a picture of Florence Nightingale in a textbook at my early youth carrying a lamp caring for sick patients in the dead of the night, I knew my calling in life - I was to help the sick.

Not exact matches

The textbook definition of a recession is a downturn in economic activity, characterized by at least two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's gross domestic product (GDP).

The instructor guiding you through it all, Stephan Sorger, has taught for over a decade at UC Berkeley Extension, previously led product management and strategy at Oracle and SAP, and is the author of two marketing textbooks.

The first textbook hasn't emerged yet — it's about to come out, from Yoshua Bengio at the University of Montreal.

As several journalists and bloggers including my friend Mathew Ingram have already pointed out, taking aim at social media is a textbook case of trying to shoot the messenger.

In 2009, Matt MacInnis quit his marketing job at Apple to start Inkling, a platform for publishing interactive iPad textbooks and manuals.

Since selling textbooks is largely a seasonal business, our demand spikes at a few different times of the year.

When I did my MBA at Rotman in 2000, I sat over an accounting textbook learning generally accepted accounting principles, closed the book, wrote the exam, and now I can barely file a tax return.

«What we're seeing is a textbook implosion with regard to exploration and production capital spending domestically because the industry was leveraged to very high oil prices,» says Bill Herbert, a senior researcher at Houston oil and gas investment bank Simmons & Co..