My seventh grade French textbook had particularly charming illustrations. I don't remember the title of the book or what the cover looked like, but I'd know the illustrations if I saw them. They were mostly, if not entirely, in black-and-white and featured young people doing ordinary things like going to the beach. This textbook was used in about 1989 in a public school in southern New Hampshire.
Is there any way of finding out more about it or perhaps buying a copy online? I suppose I could ask the school but I'd rather not.
posted by gentian
on Mar 2, 2013 -
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I'm looking for an essay I read in a textbook. This would've been in the late 90s and it was a middle school Literature textbook. The essay was about writing. I remember that it included a bit about how you can't ask writers about writing for the same reason you can't ask the sea about itself (it will just gurgle at you). It also had a bit about breaking the rules when writing, talking about how writing guides tell you never to open a story with dialogue but then gave an example of a classic novel that opened with dialogue in French.
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posted by NoraReed
on Dec 20, 2012 -
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I would like access to a supplemental resource for a textbook that I purchased, for non-school-related use, but only instructors for a course can have access.
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posted by zeek321
on Dec 6, 2012 -
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Please help me find the critical thinking textbook my grade-school class used in the early eighties.
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posted by hydrophonic
on Mar 11, 2012 -
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I'm going to be taking a few graduate courses online while traveling abroad. I need three textbooks. All three are available for the Kindle through Amazon. Only two are available through Coursemart. I bought a tablet with the hopes I could use it for the texts and avoid carrying three more books with me when traveling. I see two potential problems, that being said my question ultimately has two parts:
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posted by Che boludo!
on Feb 14, 2012 -
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Story-about-orbs filter: in my eighth grade English class, I read a sci-fi story about an extraterrestrial orb that was collecting specimens from Earth. I'd love to find out its author and name (and, optimally, a copy of the story itself on the web.)
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posted by punchtothehead
on Nov 19, 2011 -
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Does producing and publishing a free "Cliffnotes" type document sound legal?
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posted by Buckt
on Nov 10, 2011 -
9 answers
Textbooks or readers on social inequality / exclusion - especially with a global perspective?
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posted by k8t
on Oct 19, 2011 -
3 answers
If you could choose one very large, comprehensive book as a "general history of the world from 4000 BC to present", what book would you buy? Bonus points if I can buy it used from Amazon's third-party used booksellers.
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posted by thewalrus
on Jun 3, 2011 -
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Help me figure out what computer science book I heard about on the web a while ago.
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posted by silby
on May 28, 2011 -
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A few years ago I landed on this idea of what I think may really be the perfect fun-and-interesting job for me: a textbook editor. But even more so with social studies content. How do I do it?
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posted by AnOrigamiLife
on May 12, 2011 -
4 answers
Miller Puckette's
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music, as a textbook, seems obtuse and unrefined to me. Am I missing something?
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posted by invitapriore
on Apr 21, 2011 -
6 answers
Last semester, I purchased a few textbooks brand new from Amazon. The deal was an amazing buyback if they were purchased brand new. Was I dreaming??
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posted by phox
on Feb 20, 2011 -
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We're trying to set up a collaboration on a textbook-like document, but we're not sure what formatting system to use. Considering LaTeX, but would appreciate some perspectives on how to make it easy for people to make contributions.
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posted by Maximian
on Feb 13, 2011 -
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Seeking: an excellent ESL textbook, with exercises and answers in the back, plus useful grammar reference, for tutoring an individual adult academic learner.
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posted by amtho
on Jan 31, 2011 -
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Computer Science Filter: Anyone have any suggestions for a Database text book. I am teaching a course title Database Technology next semester. The previous professor used a textbook that was "MS Access"-heavy. Any suggestions for a textbook that covers Database Technology, meets course description (below) and isn't MS-Dependent?
I have no problem using MS Access, just don't want to depend on it.
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posted by fozzie33
on Dec 8, 2010 -
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I write textbooks but my publisher wants to switch from copyright being registered in my name, to it being in their name. All over aspects of the contract have stayed the same, and I still grant them exclusive license over the content. Rights to the book still revert to me should the book go out of print. But how important is it that the copyright registration be in my name, in reality?
posted by deeper red
on Nov 9, 2010 -
11 answers
Are there grammar textbooks at the middle school and high school (or even elementary school) levels that incorporate any of the developments in understanding of English grammar that have been made in the past several decades?
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posted by strangeguitars
on Oct 18, 2010 -
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Does anyone know if the international edition of "A Concise Introduction to Logic, Tenth Edition" has the same problem sets as the us version? Alternatively, does anyone have the u.s. version who would be willing to compare? Failing those, does anyone know of a resource online where I could find out?
posted by vash
on Sep 17, 2010 -
3 answers
I have a dim memory of a comment by the authors of a science textbook, stating that they had attempted to avoid making any statements that were not entirely true, and describing how difficult this had been. My attempts to find the quotation with Google, the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, and Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations have all failed. It was probably an undergraduate textbook in physics, chemistry or biology.
posted by James Scott-Brown
on Sep 6, 2010 -
2 answers
Can you recommend a book chapter or article that summarizes the biological and/or psychological perspectives on gender without devolving into straw-man attacks or interdepartmental backbiting?
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posted by arcticwoman
on Aug 8, 2010 -
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What are some examples or principles of great textbook design and writing? How can I maximize understanding, fun, and learning?
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posted by acidic
on Jun 24, 2010 -
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Does anyone have any recommendations for textbooks on systems, and to a lesser extent cognitive, neuroscience?
posted by SollosQ
on Jun 15, 2010 -
5 answers
What is the difference between Gilbert Strang's two linear algebra textbooks?
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posted by scose
on Jun 9, 2010 -
5 answers
What's the most efficient way to write and publish a textbook with a teacher's edition? Using a Mac.
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posted by acidic
on Jun 5, 2010 -
4 answers
YANM teacher, YANM parent, but which english textbooks would you recommend for grades K-6?
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posted by Suciu
on May 29, 2010 -
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I want to eventually publish a high school / college level math textbook, but I have no idea what I'm doing.
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posted by anonymous
on May 19, 2010 -
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I'm looking for suggestions for books that either general introductions or academic or school texts on topics like the proper design of scientific studies and experiments, the correct use scientific method and critical thinking as related to science and the errors usually associated with these.
I'm looking for books that treat these topics with a little more rigor than the average popular science bestseller.
Thanks.
posted by sk381
on Feb 3, 2010 -
5 answers
Recently, someone described a 10-volume mathematics textbook series to me. The books were written by a single author, an engineer with a name that sounded Greek, and came with full worked solutions to every single problem, making them ideal for self study. Unfortunately, they could not remember its title, and my attempts to find it with Google and Amazon have failed.
Has anyone come across this series?
posted by James Scott-Brown
on Jan 29, 2010 -
13 answers
Hey, academics: a question about purchasing access to a value-add website for a college textbook.
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posted by britain
on Jan 19, 2010 -
6 answers
I'm starting up a textbook digitization business on campus which converts physical textbooks into PDFs: Is the legal grey area that this falls into more of a legal deathwish?
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posted by gacxllr9
on Dec 29, 2009 -
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“The Case of Ellen West” was published by the Swiss psychiatrist, Ludwig Binswanger, in 1944–1945 and (as far as I can tell) appeared in English translation in 1958. Anyone know where I can get a copy? Usual search suspects are turning up only the Carl Rogers article, "Ellen West and Loneliness", in the Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (which I've requested via interlibrary loan) and some other scholarly pubs on Rogers (behind the usual pay walls).
posted by crush-onastick
on Nov 20, 2009 -
4 answers
Photography-filter: Can you help me find an art history textbook that would help me improve my composition skills?
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posted by Hypnotic Chick
on Sep 25, 2009 -
8 answers
What textbook can I use to learn General Relativity, including the associated math?
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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?
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posted by mr. remy
on May 26, 2009 -
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