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Beyond simply highlighting the suspiciously skyrocketing cost, the study made other discoveries about textbook publishing which could spur further congressional scrutiny. Publishers are increasingly bundling new textbooks with extras like CD-ROMs, for which students inevitably shell out additional money even when they are not germane to the course curricula. Such is the case, for example, with the text for Harvard’s Chemistry 5 and 7—Petrucci, Harwood and Herring’s eighth edition of General Chemistry—whose list price...
...fact, it seems major textbook publishers are doing just that—at least when you compare the prices they charge in U.S. markets compared to overseas in Europe and Asia. Students at American colleges are more willing and able to pay for expensive textbooks, perhaps influenced by the fact that financial aid packages at many schools such as Harvard account for textbooks in its costs. Ever since the Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that re-importation of American textbooks no longer violates federal copyright law, entrepreneurial students have garnered major savings by ordering their books from the European branches...
...films? ZHANG: The visual spectacle. I've tried using realism in movies before, in the cinematography. But I am most in love with the Chinese style of visual presentation. If in 20 years, after I've made a lot more movies, they write one sentence about me in a textbook, I'd be satisfied if they said: "Zhang Yimou's style is strong visual presentation in a distinctly Chinese fashion...
...their opinions of President Bush and where the country is headed. In Iraq, meanwhile, the unthinkable happened: Sunnis and Shiites, having been at each others’ throats for centuries, appear to be cooperating in a popular uprising against the American presence. In a moment that belongs next to textbook entries on literary irony, the president has partly made good on his promise to be “A uniter, not a divider.” He may have divided America, but he is uniting Iraq...
FRESH EGGS: Is the textbook version of female biology all wrong...