"Used textbooks" refers to books that have been previously owned or used by someone else before being sold again.
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Traditional rental programs or
buying used textbooks doesn't give the publisher any more recurring revenue after the initial purchase.
The district found that the majority of teachers still
used the textbook as the primary resource for instructional planning, rather than the district curriculum or state academic standards.
You can find some pretty great deals on
used textbooks at the college but from my experience the buy - back price is just too low.
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.
So, although our district
still uses textbooks, a growing number of teachers and coaches are working together to develop our own aligned language development curriculum.
Most college bookstores will buy
back used textbooks, especially if professors plan to use the same text next semester.
Two years have since passed and the fiscal outlook remains bleak as ever - thus more and more students are
using textbooks increasingly out of date.
Another said the chairman of governors in one academy told staff they would be dismissed if they discussed with students or
used textbooks referencing abortion or contraception.
When you as a substitute are familiar with the subject at hand, you can
typically use the textbook as a basis for a lesson about the topic currently being taught.
Note that those figures are present even
though used textbooks at college stores are 70 - 80 % of the new price.
I would go around at the end of every semester and scoop
up used textbooks that students could not sell back to the on campus bookstore.
This is another category that you may be able to control costs in by shopping
for used textbooks.
Buying used textbooks not only saves you money, but cuts down on greenhouse gases caused by the manufacturing of new textbooks.
Sharing Rosenberg's sentiments are held by Meir Kryger, M.D., a professor of medicine at Yale University and editor - in - chief of the most widely
used textbook in sleep medicine, The Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine.
College comparable store sales reflect the retail selling price of a new or
used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fee received and amortized over the rental period.
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)
Some of those
schools use textbooks produced by Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Book, a Christian publisher in Pensacola, Florida.
Our driver education courses are the best choice for teenagers in California, because our programs do not
just use textbook information.
Comparable sales decreased 2.7 % for the full year on a higher mix of lower
priced used textbook rentals and lower textbook volume.
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.
In his second video tutorial on Elliott wave theory, John C Burford
uses a textbook example from the gold market to explain in further detail some of the theory's main principles, and how to use them in your trades.
Critics Consensus: A coolly calculating psychological thriller that manages to scare the audience even if it is just
using textbook thrills.
Richard L. Allington («You Can't Learn Much from Books You Can't Read») cites research showing that many
classrooms use textbooks written above the reading level of their students.