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I'm looking to buy a general biology textbook, and am wondering what people here would recommend. I spent half an hour in a bookshop today looking through about half a dozen. The one that seemed best to me was Biology by Solomon, Berg, and Martin...

I have a child starting fifth grade and tonight he brought home his science textbook. The specific book in question is Scott Foresman Science (2003). I wanted to see if I could find a review of the text and did a little bit of googling to see what I could find, but didn't come up with anything...

I'm writing a college-freshman-level, majors general chemistry textbook. I can't go into a lot of detail right now (for contractual reasons), but so far I haven't run into anything that I've wanted to do that have spooked my editor or publisher at all. I want to work skepticism and critical...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/12/01/life.bible.general.reut/index.html New U.S. textbook aims to teach Bible Thursday, December 1, 2005; Posted: 10:04 a.m. EST (15:04 GMT) WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Since the U.S. Supreme Court banned the promotion of religion in public schools in 1963...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/12/01/life.bible.general.reut/index.html ...full article Religion in sheep's clothing? I'd be much more inclined to support this book if it were re-written to include "the good, the bad and the ugly" of the Bible and it's history. Only presenting the "good"...

I defy anyone to find any meaning in the second sentence. (It's at the start of a paragraph about Fermions)

Story This is going to be interesting.

Just in case anyone is interested: http://www.math.odu.edu/~jhh/counter2.html