Sentence examples for textbook account from inspiring English sources
In 1925 the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss published his classic essay "The Gift," which argued that contrary to the textbook account of primitive man merrily trading beaver pelts for wampum, no society was ever based on barter.
Firms and workers are unlikely to push other prices and wages higher, and so the surge in inflation will soon pass.This textbook account puts expectations at the heart of the inflation process.
According to the textbook account, interocular transfer (IOT) of adaptation is around 60% of the within-eye effect.
On the old textbook account, occasionalism was an ad hoc response to the purported problem in Descartes of how substances as distinct in nature as mind and body are can causally interact.
In the textbook account of the early modern debate among empiricists and rationalists, Gassendi plays a bit part in promoting the senses as the ultimate source of our worldly knowledge.
This new finding questions the current textbook account of memory systems that attributes to the hippocampus only a role in conscious encoding (Squire and Zola, 1996; Tulving, 2002; Moscovitch, 2008).
What details and facts online are not covered in traditional history textbook accounts?
The research, if confirmed by further study, scrambles timetables of technological development and textbook accounts of human and prehuman mobility.
In textbook accounts, the attractiveness of any given product depends on its style, quality and other specific attributes.
The book complicates textbook accounts of the Second World War and conventional notions of bravery by telling the story of the war through the eyes of the men who decided they just couldn't, or wouldn't, fight any more.
Artist and activist Judy Baca began the project: "When I first saw the wall, I envisioned a long narrative of another history of California; one which included ethnic peoples, women and minorities who were so invisible in conventional textbook accounts".
