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textbook

[tekst-book] / ˈtɛkstˌbʊk /


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He co-authored the influential textbook Quantum Optics, a resource that has educated generations of physicists.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

The stock has fallen by 31% from its all-time intraday high of $225.64, officially sinking it past the 20% threshold that defines a textbook bear market.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

The "covered-up" image of a nude artefact has been withdrawn from an Indian school textbook after it sparked a massive backlash from historians and educationists.

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

“The word menopause has never been used in a cardiology textbook, ever,” said cardiologist Dr. Jayne Morgan on a recent episode of the podcast Menopunks.

From Salon Jun. 14, 2026

But as he was taken up in the universities of medieval and Renaissance Europe his works became a textbook of acquired knowledge, not a project to provoke further enquiry.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

They get to be in the textbooks, but they didn’t get to be on the air.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

Bayer compares the approach to learning from textbooks.

From Science Daily Jun. 11, 2026

He wears pressure garments through Ahmedabad's heat and struggles to turn the pages of textbooks.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2026

For schools still relying on textbooks, AI updates can quickly render them out of date.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

From the end of the seventeenth century, through sermons and lectures, through popular textbooks and dramatic dialogues, the new science was disseminated to a wider audience than ever before.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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