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Shelling out big bucks at the campus bookstore is a college tradition that students can count on each semester. Textbook prices have risen steadily over the past two decades to the point where the average student now pays $900 a year, an expense that typically isn't covered by financial aid. But come September, publishing upstart Flat World Knowledge will offer a much more appealing price point: its books will be free...
...goal of this financial finagling: to pocket the difference between the $400,000 loan and the actual $216,000 purchase price, and then simply abandon the home and force the banks to foreclose - sticking them with property worth far less than the amount they had loaned. It was a textbook attempt to beat the system: fraudulent paperwork, straw borrowers, all concocted by real estate professionals...
...self-described "data geek" who is currently authoring her second textbook on statistics, Singer that she intends her work to be "very data-driven...
...examples above are all fundamentally human questions—fit as much for a Shakespeare play as for a physics textbook. I suspect Beranek, now 93, vividly recalled his mentor’s words because they are universally applicable—useful for building a circuit, teasing out a moral dilemma in biotechnology, or confronting global warming...
...students.The year opened auspiciously, as Harvard’s puritanical social scene managed to capture a surprising 10th place finish in a sex-life survey performed by Trojan Condoms. Quickly, however, the specter of conflict began to hover over student life.When students copying ISBN numbers for the textbook website Crimsonreading.org had the police called on them by the Harvard Coop, it shed light on the larger issue of the University’s unwillingness to lower textbook costs. Professors should take the trouble to put ISBN numbers on syllabi, making the Coop copiers’ “illegal?...