Photography-filter: Can you help me find an art history textbook that would help me improve my composition skills? [more inside]
posted by Hypnotic Chick on Sep 25, 2009 - 8 answers

Are there any respectable horticulture textbooks with specifically Canadian content? [more inside]
posted by RollingGreens on Sep 1, 2009 - 6 answers

What textbook can I use to learn General Relativity, including the associated math? [more inside]
posted by DU on Jul 6, 2009 - 22 answers

Oooooh once there was a goat / a very clever goat / spoke French and German fluently as you will note / ooooooooooooooo/ fa la la la la / tra la la la la la / spoke French and German fluently as you will note ... I remember this song from my elementary school songbook. As well as fragments, snippets and scraps of song both traditional folk and (possibly) written just for this book. What is the book? Where could I find it? [more inside]
posted by mr. remy on May 26, 2009 - 3 answers

What have been the significant advances in biology since 1993? [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese on May 15, 2009 - 18 answers

ESL Textbook Recommendations, anyone? [more inside]
posted by sdis on Apr 4, 2009 - 3 answers

Can you help me locate a series of photos of an imagined trip to Mars (or maybe a return to the Moon?) done in papercraft, that was in one of my grade school textbooks around 1979? [more inside]
posted by chr1sb0y on Sep 18, 2008 - 0 answers

I need to know the table of contents for the 2nd edition of Eysenck and Keane's Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook, published in 1990, ISBN# 0863771548 [more inside]
posted by Squid Voltaire on Jul 18, 2008 - 4 answers

Can you recommend any books that cover fundamental economics at a beginner level? [more inside]
posted by dragontail on May 18, 2008 - 11 answers

What's a good real analysis textbook for a self-learner who doesn't have much of a pure math background? [more inside]
posted by pravit on May 13, 2008 - 12 answers

I'm looking for a good college level textbook for US History. [more inside]
posted by hazyspring on May 11, 2008 - 20 answers

I need a good tutorial text on developing full-blown applications in Java. [more inside]
posted by Orb2069 on Apr 23, 2008 - 6 answers

Can you identify a short story I read in grade school? [more inside]
posted by timsteil on Apr 22, 2008 - 4 answers

Anyone know a good introductory text to partial differential equations? [more inside]
posted by pravit on Feb 12, 2008 - 8 answers

Is there a concise, up-to-date textbook on biotechnology and the techniques for genetic modification of plant varieties, which will give me enough knowledge to talk to an expert on the subject? [more inside]
posted by YouRebelScum on Jan 14, 2008 - 11 answers

The book I was planning to use for a course this spring just went out of print. What are my options? [more inside]
posted by leahwrenn on Nov 8, 2007 - 17 answers

I've recently become more and more interested in Astronomy, and I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction of a solid university-level Astronomy textbook, something an undergraduate student studying Astronomy would be expected to read. [more inside]
posted by smitt on Aug 9, 2007 - 15 answers

Best book for "learning" English grammar? [more inside]
posted by the luke parker fiasco on Jun 28, 2007 - 28 answers

How much should I charge to author a textbook for a Taiwanese company? A Taiwanese publishing company has asked me to author a short English textbook (the final edit should have around 35,000 words). I have a good amount of experience with ESL (teaching, creating new material, worked on multi-media stuff, etc) and I'm doing my PhD in linguistics now - but I'm no expert. They've asked me tell them how much I'd like to earn. What is a fair price for this? (Either per word or for the entire project.) Should my first offer be a bit higher than what I expect, or is that sleazy somehow? I'd appreciate any advice - Thanks!
posted by mateuslee on Jun 9, 2007 - 8 answers

Favorite exercises/ materials for Freshman Composition classes? Help me engage young minds in order to brainwash educate them! [more inside]
posted by exlotuseater on May 20, 2007 - 5 answers

What are the best online (or offline) 'textbooks' for learning about the history of fine arts photography? [more inside]
posted by cowbellemoo on Apr 3, 2007 - 8 answers

I'm teaching a senior college-level class on "the culture of the copy" in the Fall. I want to cover some of the same material as Cory Doctorow's current USC copyright class but it's a humanities/English class and I'd also like to broaden the discussion a little to include history and art/culture/literature. So far I've got the open source/free software basics (Cathedral and the Bazaar, etc) and Marcel Mauss's book on gift economies. [more inside]
posted by media_itoku on Feb 19, 2007 - 26 answers

Do open-source/out-of-copyright language textbooks exist? If yes, how would one go about locating/identifying them? [more inside]
posted by jak68 on Jan 21, 2007 - 9 answers

If you were to buy just one text on probability and statistics (and their applications) that covers the subjects in some depth (building from an introductory college level, through advanced undergraduate to a graduate level and perhaps further) and does a good job of making the basic concepts clear with solved examples (employing those drawn from actual research), which one would you choose?
posted by sk381 on Oct 17, 2006 - 2 answers

I would like to relearn some calculus on my own. Please recommend the best book for the purpose. [more inside]
posted by perissodactyl on Sep 10, 2006 - 16 answers

What's the best way to sell back (used) college textbooks? [more inside]
posted by chefscotticus on Dec 19, 2005 - 12 answers

I recently learned that I am going to be teaching a university class in E-Business in the fall. I should JUST be able to get a textbook order in. Help me pick which one I should use. [more inside]
posted by mikel on Jun 10, 2005 - 4 answers

i read somewhere that people were taking textbooks and scanning them in and could be read on the internet. i was looking for some medical textbooks where i could just download them. is anyone doing this?
posted by dstrouse91 on Mar 7, 2005 - 6 answers

Instructional materials for Italian My new favorite bits of culture -- Calvino, Antonioni, and Fellini -- are making me want to learn Italian. Now, I've studied French for a while, I've had a year of Portuguese, and I'm a linguistics major, so I don't need (much) hand-holding. I.e., I'm looking for (a) textbook(s) with the usual exercises, gradual introduction of vocab, and short readings, all without trying to make the explainations "easier" and therefore less straightforward and complete.
posted by Utilitaritron on Feb 21, 2005 - 6 answers

ProposedAlabamaBookBanFilter -- As mentioned in the Blue, there is a piece of legislation proposed by Alabama State Representative, Gerald Allen, that seeks to ban "novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural" from publically-funded schools and libraries. If Mr. Allen's bill survives committee and passes, I cringe to consider just which literary classics would disappear from the shelves of Alabama libraries. Which, if any, of your favorites will become suddenly verboten?
posted by grabbingsand on Dec 2, 2004 - 34 answers

PhysicsFilter: Some years ago, I heard of an undergraduate curriculum that introduced physics at the quantum level using linear algebra and that did not reach classical mechanics until late in the second semester. From an educational perspective, this method is supposedly more intuitive. What textbooks employ this teaching method?
posted by mischief on Sep 22, 2004 - 9 answers

Does anybody know of any good and easy to read introductory texts on Jewish jurisprudence/derivation of law from original sources (ie religious law)? Any interesting texts to follow that up ie application in the current day and age? Any reasonably active Jewish forums to ask any queries on? [more inside]
posted by Mossy on Jan 31, 2004 - 7 answers