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A textbook is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study.
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Before the war, they were happy, he said,
quoting our textbook. (This was senior-year
history class.) The slaves were clothed, fed,
and better off under a master's care.
I watched the words blur on the page. No one
raised a hand, disagreed. Not even me.
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― Monument: Poems New and Selected
― Monument: Poems New and Selected
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Experienced readers could engage in consultation reading even without an index or a table of contents, given the predictable order in which topics were generally treated in various genres. For example, al-Juzajani, the biographer of the great medical scholar Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037), reported on the reading habits of this autodidact: 'One of the remarkable things about the Master was that for the twenty-five years that I was his companion and servant, I did not once see him, when he came ac
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― Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
― Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
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