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Some professors who taught from the same textbook for up to 20 years are getting used to certain classes that don’t feature a textbook at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 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
With what money he had he bought an old trigonometry textbook and continued to study on his own.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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