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...have a lot of publishers knowing how to deal with costs from a copyright point of view--it's not a standardized textbook," Murphy says. "When they're in control of the publishing, they know how much they have to pay the author. But when they do it in piecemeal fashion, they don't know how many professors will pick that one chapter...
...think that sourcebooks tend to be very detailed and peripheral to the subject matter," said Adriana E. Abdenur '97, who says she prefers a sourcebook in addition to a textbook. "One of my biggest gripes about all of the source materials is that they are very fragmented. It was only right before the final when I went to the library and checked out a textbook that I finally got a sense of the chronology of the period...
...history is one of those disciplines that is not built around the idea of textbooks for students that serve as introductions to the fields," says Professor of Fine Arts Norman Bryson. "There's only one course out of the zillions that we do in art history--Literature and Arts B-10 ["Art and Visual Culture: Introduction to the Historical Study of Art and Architecture"], the department's introductory class--that we have one text that could be seen as a textbook...
...Biological Sciences 10: "Introductory Molecular Biology"] principally depends on the sourcebook that I wrote and there is a textbook for supplemental readings," says Richard M. Losick, professor of molecular and cellular biology. "There isn't a textbook that corresponds to the nature of the course; one just doesn't exist...
...there was a really good textbook that matched my view with the way the material should be taught, then I would use it," Losick says, adding that sourcebooks are very time-consuming things to write. "A well-done textbook would be highly welcome...