The top online rental company offers students both new and used textbooks for anywhere from 25% to 80% off the retail purchasing price.
They sell new and used textbooks and offer incentives like deep discounts, free shipping, rental programs and searchable course lists for selected major colleges and universities.
However, full year sales were lower as compared to a year ago, due to a shift from selling new and used textbooks to lower priced textbook rentals.
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With a program called Rentback, the Utah-based company encourages students to send in their used textbooks, which CBR then rents out per the usual process.
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Forget used textbooks or vintage records.
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It was used in textbooks, in medical schools, and a number of other applications.
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The research showed that all the most commonly used health textbooks are stubbornly silent on the subject of condoms or other contraceptives as methods of preventing pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases.
The site provides answers and explanations to problems in over 285 textbooks used in American classrooms.
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The Commission has also helped expose how Saudi government-supplied textbooks used, among other places, in American madrassas, extol violent jihadism and intolerance for people of other faiths.
Under the previous regime, when we were handed our textbooks they used to be of poor quality and falling apart.
It half-heartedly pressed Riyadh for copies of the textbooks actually used at the Academy, then withheld from the USCIRF the books it did receive.
Maybe that's just because we're used to boring old textbooks, though.
Thailand native Supap Kirtsaeng, a mathematics student at the University of Southern California, noticed that some of the college textbooks he used and sampled from his local college bookstore were selling at a lower price in Thailand than here in the United States.
As a result, the MMSE is now being used in fewer and fewer textbooks and other applications.
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Professor Semenov has developed exemplary programmes to enable teachers to include ICTs in their work, as well as textbooks and teacher guides used widely in the Russian Federation and other countries.
Meanwhile, schools and colleges have used money originally set aside for paper textbooks to buy tablets, e-books and apps.
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But iBooks needs to work out a few kinks before it can be used as a full replacement for physical textbooks.
He is cited as a moral guide in the Saudi textbooks - including in the newly edited, heavily redacted texts used in the Islamic Saudi Academy, a school operated in Fairfax County, VA, by the Saudi embassy.
That is why, in the seven years since Oslo, he has used every means at his disposal, from the Palestinian-controlled media to newly printed textbooks, to speeches by his own wife, to inculcate hatred of the Jews and their state.
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As an undergrad at Pitzer College, he started a used bookstore because he was so enraged by the high cost and low resale value of textbooks.
For it was Paul Samuelson, the writer of the economics textbook which entire generations used, who said that he cared not who ran the world as long as he could write the economics textbooks.
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