Word: textbook
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This summer, when Hughes Hallett and experts from other universities rewrote the standard calculus textbook, they gave it a new look with more graphing and problems drawn from various fields...
...work of art." But those are fighting words to the legions of artists, critics and scholars who have devoted the past 20 years to developing a feminist critique of art history. Their efforts have virtually set the agenda for academic discussion and have begun to overturn the standard textbook reading of visual art as an orderly march of styles from cave paintings to postmodernism...
...plumbing his own feelings about having been crippled at age 26. In 1986 he appeared before a 900-student class at the University of California at Santa Barbara as a guest lecturer on the impact of the Vietnam War. Recalls Walter Capps, who initiated the course: "He gave a textbook lecture. It was almost as if he was going for tenure. A woman student complained, 'You haven't told us how you felt.' Kerrey looked at me helplessly but I just stared at the floor. He told the class he couldn't tell them -- he would have to do something...
...Foreman school isn't the only one who benefits from the adoption. Teacher and literary textbook writer Donna Rosenberg, a graduate of the School of Education, said her involvement with Foreman High School has been "an incredible experience." Rosenberg, who is one of the most active participants in the adopt-a-school program, leads discussions on short stories with four classes a day per week with Susan Friedes...
Leading the game, 1-0, Harvard returned to the second half with a vengeance. After three penalty corners, the Crimson made good on its fourth attempt. With textbook execution, Whyte passed the ball from the top of the circle back to the waiting Ambinder, who deftly scored past Cornell netminder Yanaka Bernal...