science textbooks

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meaningsofscienceandtextbook

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science
noun
uk
/ˈsaɪ.əns/us
/ˈsaɪ.əns/
(knowledge from) the careful study of the structure and behaviour of the physical world, especially by watching, measuring, and doing experiments, and the development of theories to describe the results of ...
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textbook
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈtekst.bʊk/us
/ˈtekst.bʊk/
(of an example of something) extremely good, or thought to be usual ...
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(Definition ofscienceandtextbookfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofscience textbooks

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He also reads to her from asciencetextbookas if it were a bedtime story.
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In 2000, she authored a politicalsciencetextbookfor optional studies in high schools.
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It remains one of the best environmental science textbooks available.
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We need to include in our analyses institutional arrangements that are not encountered in basic economics and political science textbooks that tend to focus exclusively on markets or the state.
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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that we form our professional identities by discarding the genealogies of science textbooks and debunking the biographical anecdotes of science lore.
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When the pupils went into shops, they discovered that, for the price of a small bag of rather indifferent sweets, they could get science textbooks.
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Between 1905 and 1925 he wrote a number of successful science textbooks, mostly for primary education.
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Tables of logarithms and trigonometric functions were common in math and science textbooks.
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He is noted for having authored 18 science textbooks.
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They had been concerned that science textbooks in junior high school had so many technical words.
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His main research interests were quantum mechanics, electromotive force, atomic structure, electron emission, unimolecular force, and high vacuum, and he authored several standard science textbooks.
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In most countries, the notations used in mathematics and science textbooks at schools and universities follow closely the guidelines in this standard.
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He pioneered the first ever series of science textbooks written by scientists rather than school teachers, and a system for showing relief on maps.
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This also corresponds to the emerging demand that science textbooks be written by scientists rather than educators or education specialists.
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