"Her work is a textbook example for how to do rigorous social-scientific research that can be translated for the benefit of society," Rafael Wittek, the chair of both the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
This decision is a textbook example for how government should exercise its authority to regulate potentially dangerous activities with devices that can do harm.
The graph of the stock market's downward zigzag, a sinking mountain range in silhouette, is a textbook illustration (for those who can still afford their own textbooks) of how quickly the comfy insularity of college life can vanish.
In the end, our study further emphasizes the role of the instructor in providing accurate information, in understanding how students use textbooks for study, and how this use may lead to misunderstanding.
"This is a textbook case," Mr. Wyden said, "for how a powerful industry that is willing to pull out the stops can be successful in preventing an objective evaluation of an important drug ingredient".
The ongoing challenges over California's South Asia textbook debate and its implications for how to interpret historical facts in nuanced and contextual ways, demonstrates how difficult it can be to arrive at consensus -- particularly when passionate advocates are driven by deeply held conviction that arises from religious or cultural tradition.
If the new Special Envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, is looking for a textbook on how not to deal with Sudan, Andrew Natsios has helpfully offered his own well-worn blueprint for failure.
Some of the curricula even directly blames victims: In one popular textbook, for example, students are asked, "How do some people say NO with their words, but YES with their actions or clothing?
At one point, still baffled, he asked for a textbook that explained how it all was supposed to work.
For each textbook, we noted how genetic variation at the DNA sequence level was related to natural selection.
