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...actually thought of it like music,” he says. “We would reorder [the text] so it had the form of an arc of conversation, an arc of emotional moment...
...Carlson says their attachment to neutrality did not keep him and Katovsky from putting their own imprint on the text...
Most of the analysts admitted to finding only some of their work stimulating. “I really enjoy the model making aspect,” Seaton says. But she admitted that other tasks, like compiling text about companies, were not as thrilling...
...made other discoveries about textbook publishing which could spur further congressional scrutiny. Publishers are increasingly bundling new textbooks with extras like CD-ROMs, for which students inevitably shell out additional money even when they are not germane to the course curricula. Such is the case, for example, with the text for Harvard’s Chemistry 5 and 7—Petrucci, Harwood and Herring’s eighth edition of General Chemistry—whose list price...
...some textbooks appear in new editions exceedingly often, a fleecing strategy which raises prices while curbing the market for used books. The Social Analysis 10 text, Principles of Economics by Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, has emerged this year in its third edition since it was first published six years ago, at a list price of $121. While some fields certainly evolve rapidly enough to justify frequent revisions, more than half of the professors in the California and Oregon study believed new editions were “rarely” or “never?...