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Says a respected female historian: "I'm beginning to think that in the future it will become impossible to write a history textbook and satisfy these kinds of demands. After all, how do you write a history of the Bill of Rights giving equal time to the contribution of women...
Nobel laureate Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of physics, says he is in the process of writing a textbook for Science A-20, "From Alchemy to Elementary Particle Physics," because he is dissatisfied with some of the books he has used in the past...
...difficult thing to keep in tune," he says. "Kind of like a Maserati." Writing a textbook, he says, can help a professor reconcile the two tasks...
...upper-level courses, says Daiute, professors often feel that the area of study is so narrow that only one textbook will do--their...
Most fields of graduate study, DeVore says, are changing too quickly for book publishing to keep up with. "No textbook is really adequate," he says...