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tekstbook

  • n  a book prepared for use in schools or colleges
    his economics textbook is in its tenth edition
  • s  according to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical
    a textbook example

  • A pilot project aims to upend the publishing industry, and help strapped students, by offering textbooks free of charge online.
  • South Korea has complained about Japan's textbooks for decades, but its own government controls all history textbooks and massages the darker parts of Korea's past, such as former .
  • Alabama has became the first state in the Union to approve a textbook for a course about the Bible in its public schools, and its surprisingly uncontroversial decision may prove to .
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  • Michael Griffin in Forbes
    We've had a tough six months for a number of different reasons,NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told The Associated Press before the launch. "We'd love to have a textbook launch and a textbook mission. It would just make everybody feel...
  • John Warner in CBS News
    John Warner, a former Polaroid scientist and University of Massachusetts chemistry professor, called petroleum "fundamentally a boring material" until other atoms are added and "you unleash a textbook of modern chemistry."
  • John Boehner in FOXNews
    House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the bill is loaded with "unscrutinized taxpayer-funded earmarks" that are "a textbook example of why Americans have grown so fed up with Washington."

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