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A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

She prepared many textbooks and wrote Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain (1833).(1833).

See the modern logic textbooks.

Their own poems soon became the theme of criticism and of comment; and, by the time of Quintilian and Juvenal, they shared the fate (which Horace had feared) of becoming textbooks for use in schools.

At Ferrara he spent the last thirty years of his long life (1370-1460), producing textbooks of Greek and Latin grammar, and translations from Strabo and Plutarch.

He had already assisted Nathaniel Bowditch in his translation of the Mecanique celeste, and now produced a series of mathematical textbooks characterized by the brevity and terseness which made his teaching unattractive to inapt pupils.

He published many textbooks of chemistry, organic and inorganic, which were republished in England and were translated abroad.

For the substantial publication of these researches reference must be made to the Transactions of the Royal Society; but an account of many of them was incorporated in his best-known books, namely, the famous Heat as a Mode of Motion (1863; and later editions to 1880), the first popular exposition of the mechanical theory of heat, which in 1862 had not reached the textbooks; The Forms of Water, &c. (1872); Lectures on Light (1873); Floating Matter in the Air (188x); On Sound (1867; revised 1875, 1883, 1893).

Since 1893 the state has furnished textbooks and other necessary supplies free of charge, and since 1895 education has been compulsory for all children between the ages of eight and thirteen.

For ethnological physiognomy, see amongst older authors Gratarolus, and amongst moderns the writers cited in the various textbooks on anthropology, especially Schadow, Physionomies nationales (1835) and Park Harrison, Journ.

The main merit of his account of ancient art, the only classical work of its kind, is that it is a compilation ultimately founded on the lost textbooks of Xenocrates and on the biographies of Duris and Antigonus.

None the less his writings were committed to memory and remained the textbooks of Epicureanism to the last.

This board prescribes the duties of the superintendent of public instruction and decides appeals from his decisions; keeps the state divided into school divisions, comprising not less than one county or city each; appoints quadrennially, with the concurrence of the Senate, one superintendent for each school division and prescribes his powers and duties; selects textbooks; provides for examination of teachers; and appoints school inspectors.

The two dates adopted in old textbooks were 476 and 1453, from the setting aside of the last emperor in the West until the fall of Constantinople.

For investigations relating to the equilibrium of a string in three dimensions we must refer to the textbooks.

Examples will be found in textbooks of the calculus and of analytical statics.

Many of the graphical methods therein given have now passed into the textbooks usually studied by engineers.

Kennedy (London, 1886), the system was used for the first time in an English textbook, and now it has found its way into most modern textbooks relating to the subject of mechanism.

He was the author of several successful textbooks of science, and also of the article on "Terrestrial Magnetism" in the ninth edition of this Encyclopaedia.

With George Richard Crooks (1822-1897), his colleague at Dickinson College and in1880-1897professor of historical theology at Drew Seminary, McClintock edited several elementary textbooks in Latin and Greek (of which some were republished in Spanish), based on the pedagogical principle of "imitation and constant repetition."

Each district is required to furnish free textbooks.

Since 1889 each town and city has been required to furnish textbooks, apparatus and supplies, without cost to the pupils.

These would embrace, according to the Wolffian scheme long current in philosophical textbooks, ontology proper, or the science of being as such, with its three-branch sciences of (rational) psychology, cosmology and (rational or natural) theology, dealing with the three chief forms of being - the soul, the world and God.

His father, Dennis Hart Mahan (1802-1871) was a professor in the military academy, and the author of textbooks on civil and military engineering.

Perhaps the most valuable of all the medicinal applications of turpentine, and one which is rarely, if ever, mentioned in therapeutic textbooks - owing to the fact that gynaecology has been so extremely specialized - is in inoperable cancer of the uterus.

Style in Public Discourse (1883) became standard textbooks; and personally he was a brilliant preacher.

Discussions of the syllogism will be found in all textbooks on Logic, and the more elaborate syllogistic forms are discussed in the article Logic.

The Mesozoic era, as defined in geological textbooks, includes the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous epochs; but from the point of view of the evolution of plants and the succession of floras, this division is not the most natural or most convenient.

All children between 7 and 16 are required to attend school, but those over 14 are excused if they labour; every township of more than ro,000 inhabitants must support an evening school for those over 14; and textbooks are provided by the townships for those unable to purchase them.

Hence the word "pharmaco-therapy" has come into use, and most of the newer standard textbooks combine together the consideration of pharmacology and therapeutics.

At the present day most textbooks dealing with medicinal agents and treatment devote a large part of their space to pharmacology, and a corresponding change has taken place in the teaching of the subject in universities and medical schools.

He sat behind a low desk, with a few jottings on slips of paper, or textbooks marked on the margin, before him, and delivered an extemporaneous address, opening up the subject by partial glimpses, and with many anecdotes or familiar illustrations, till a complete idea of it was presented.

Used textbooks create a book for online booksellers.

We often stress for instance that boom and slump are not antithetical categories as crude GCSE textbooks proclaim.

Universities often have second-hand bookstalls so that older students can sell any textbooks they no longer use.

Immediately, dozens of commercially produced textbooks had their shelf lives drastically curtailed.

Instruction in this discipline has for decades been based on a few classic textbooks which until now have adequately fulfilled their purpose.

Only a quarter of 13 and 14-year-olds had access to textbooks to help in doing English, history and geography homework.

He has written six textbooks and was President of the British Society of Dental & maxillofacial radiology in 1999.

Builds custom textbooks and online syllabi tailored precisely to your teaching needs.

We can rewrite the theology textbooks, Searching has been touched by the Holy Spirit, its ok guys it exists!

Our tutors are experts in their fields, with many of them authoring the textbooks for the courses.

Over the years, several introductory textbooks have appeared in the field.

Entire biochemistry and cell biology textbooks are still being written without ever mentioning the role of water.

Of course people can't switch jobs just like that - only in economics textbooks, not in the real world.

With the scholar's dislike of textbooks, he rapidly acquired a thorough knowledge of the ancient historians, quickly passed on to medieval times, and here it was that he formed as the ideal of his life the study of universal history, the works of God as displayed in the history of the human race.

Reference must be made to the textbooks (see Electrochemistry) for a fuller account of the very varied solutions and methods employed for electroplating with silver, gold, copper, iron and nickel.

In Montana, where 10 percent of residents spoke German and another 10 percent were of German descent, ministers weren't allowed to preach in German to congregants who understood no English, and one town publicly burned German textbooks, the Bozeman Daily Chronicle reported.

Some textbooks refer to this sub type as relapsing progressive MS.

Elementary textbooks contain detailed discussions of the factors influencing power in a statistical test.

Of course people ca n't switch jobs just like that - only in economics textbooks, not in the real world.