Sentences with phrase «textbooks from the campus»

While it may be convenient to purchase shiny new textbooks from the campus bookstore, you could easily end up paying several hundred dollars for a single semester's worth of required texts.

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With a presence on 6,000 campuses in 180 countries, educators and students have access to tens of thousands of titles from the world's leading textbook publishers.

Sales at campus bookstores declined 3 % from $ 540 million to $ 525 million, «due to a shift from selling new and used textbooks to lower priced textbook rentals,» according to the earnings release.

Skyo.com is a convenient new way for college students to find and buy textbooks from their local campus bookstore.

Through its popular textbook rental program, Barnes & Noble College offers students the convenience of renting their books either in the campus bookstore or from the bookstore's Web site, reducing the need to pay shipping costs or wait for their books to arrive in the mail.

It is safe to say that the textbook program is off to a great start and students stand to benefit mightily from the low - cost alternative to buying tangible books in the campus bookstores.

As massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to expand and online academic institutions gain more credibility, the education landscape is breaking away from long - time learning traditions — on - campus classrooms and printed textbooks — to provide alternatives.

Just like buying used textbooks, you can rent them off websites and from campus bookstores as well for a discount.

Can you rent your textbooks or buy used from your campus bookstore?

Away from campus, a specialized industry has developed for students to buy and sell textbooks quickly and painlessly.

To counter criticism of the business community from college campuses, business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce should support scholars who will defend the free enterprise system, develop speakers and support speakers» bureaus that will counter the liberal rhetoric coming from college campuses, subject textbooks to ideological review, insist on equal time for speakers exposing the views of the business community for speakers on campuses, insist that college faculties be balanced by those who will defend the free enterprise system, request that graduate schools of business include courses that support the free enterprise system, encourage local chambers of commerce to provide the views of the business community in high schools, establish staff who work with the media to communicate to the general public the views of the business community, monitor and criticize television programs that unfairly criticize the free enterprise system and where appropriate file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission, monitor radio and other media and pressure them to cover the views of defenders of the free enterprise system, support scholars who support the free enterprise system to publish in scholarly journals, establish incentives for scholars to publish defenses of free enterprise in books, papers, and pamphlets, spend more money on advertising that expressly supports the free market system.

If you've made the rookie mistake described above, you probably noticed that the cash you received from the campus bookstore for your gently used textbooks was only a small fraction of the price you paid up front.