text books

Indonesian text books: First copyrights bought:
Currently, the books are expensive, costing around 26.000 Rp (2.8$) per book, because of the oligopoly of publishers. They control the market and work together with head masters to sell and market their text books. ...
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Many great free textbooks from India:
Today I found out, through the excellent Indian book blog Scholars Without Borders that the Indian National Council on Educational Research and Training (NCERT) offers free downloadable versions of many Indian K-12 text books. ...
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Digital Supply Chain - James Gray, Ingram Digital Group:
100000 academic titles, 3000 e-textbooks, 130000 on eBay. Digital is more complex than print though. The stages for print are linear. Digital includes multiple formats, different supply chains, differing readers etc. so these must be ...
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Should creationism win out, textbooks throughout the country–not ...:
Are we–as a nation–this FUCKING stupid? Seriously, we won our independence some 250 years ago–but–according to these fucktards we went from living in caves to voting for George W. Bush in less than 6000 years. Can I get an Amen?
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Recommended Textbooks:
A lot of students ask me for my recommendations on books to use to study English. Occasionally I get a supposedly interested client who just checks out my bookshelf and walks out, which is pretty rude! I hope the only reason I'm in ...
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Moron...I mean: more on textbooks:
Ask any Organic Chemistry teacher and they are sure to have an opinion on textbooks. I would guess that 98% of those asked would say that there is no perfect text out there. The 2% would include those who have written texts or work with ...
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Getting Google to index the NCERT textbooks website:
This confuses many users who are left wondering how to download the NCERT textbooks. Moreover, if the users want to download all the chapters in a particular textbook, they have to click n links for n chapters, and then wait for Adobe ...
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CyberNotes: Best Bill Gates Quotes and Interviews:
Gates: One of the next things we’re after is textbooks, because if you can take the money spent on textbooks and put that into buying tablet devices for all the kids, they have less to carry around. It can be more easily customized, ...
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No Textbooks for English Students:
How can there not be adequate textbooks, you may ask. Kids everywhere study math, geography, history, literature, the arts. Even if English is a minority language in Quebec, it’s certainly the majority in the rest of Canada and it is ...
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Illegal Class Notes:
Well, that’s probably cheaper than many college textbooks these days. However, I wonder how many original ideas are in the professor’s lectures and how many he’s adapted from others. Doesn’t he owe them some of the royalties? ...
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