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[tekst-book] / ˈtɛkstˌbʊk /


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Gray, 82, is known for being the author of “Psychology,” a seminal college textbook first published in 1991, now in its eighth edition.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

A number of other author lawsuits against AI companies are winding their way through courts against AI companies, including from textbook writers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

"By revisiting a long-standing textbook explanation with modern tools, our work aims to improve chemistry education and strengthen the conceptual foundations that support chemical innovation."

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Apple’s CEO succession plan is a textbook case of standard corporate protocol, according to organizational experts.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

He also wrote a more sophisticated textbook on geometry for the use of artists, Elements of Painting.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

His daughter, Katie Niederhoffer, said that until the last days of his life, she kept him stocked with books, everything from textbooks and biographies to books on trees and resilience.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

The idea became highly influential in evolutionary biology and eventually appeared widely in biology textbooks.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

He rushed back from a farmhouse holiday with friends, scrambling to retrieve the notes and textbooks he had already given to younger students in case he had to sit the exam again.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Even if you added lots of fold-out pages to your textbooks or used a really long sheet of poster paper, you wouldn’t come close.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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