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They do something just as important: they show that the story of human origins was more crowded, more competitive, and more unpredictable than the familiar textbook version suggests.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
Another five publications followed, including a 2025 textbook on continued fractions published by Springer.
From Slate • May 2, 2026
For the foreseeable future, the right answer will be the current style of hybrid with a traditional engine, says James Heywood, who literally wrote the textbook on modern internal combustion engines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
There’s not a textbook for empathy the way there is for Python or for bookkeeping.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 11, 2026
This was a textbook of applied mathematics, and included within it was the first published account of double-entry bookkeeping—double entry was not new, but printing was, so Pacioli was taking advantage of an obvious opportunity.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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