College comparable store sales reflect the retail selling price of a new or used textbook when rented, rather than solely the rental fee received and amortized over the rental period.

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He also bought my brother and I the first Atari 800, some extra 5 inch floppies and a used Basic textbook.

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Ibn Sina, author of Canon of Medicine, a medical textbook used all the way up to the 17th century, and Ibn Rushd, another Muslim polymath, were two of many polymath scholars found frequently throughout the Muslim world during this time period.

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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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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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In addition to the textbook, supplementary materials are also used to promote the learned literacy skills in daily life.

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Sales of new books account for little more than half of all textbook revenue, with the remainder split between used books and other course materials.

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Between 2003 and 2008 the Georg Eckert Institute worked with the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East to produce a joint textbook of recent Israeli and Palestinian history that could be used by schools on both sides.

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Those funds can be used to purchase services from qualifying online education providers, private schools, tutors, textbook providers, and licensed or accredited education therapists.

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