textbook

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For purists, EVs are a textbook case of bona fide demand destruction.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Jay Thibodeau, director of the University of Central Florida’s accounting school, recently revised an auditing textbook he co-wrote, with a new chapter on AI for the book’s 10th edition.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

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

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