An application of the University on Textbooks (UoT) system to a web-based platform for supporting organic growth of an knowledge network related to sustainability science is described. The UoT system, which aims to help university students learn about cutting-edge research at their university through the medium of textbooks, uses a description logics reasoner to generate semantic links between ...

Textbooks considered as one of the most important genres of academic writings would guarantee effective teaching and learning in EFL/ESL courses. Since textbooks are gaining more and more importance, the knowledge of their rhetorical organization that provides learners and teachers with efficient use of their content seems necessary. This article describes the rhetorical organization of the tex...

In a provocative recent book, Jonathan Wells (2000) decries what he discerns as a systematic pattern in how introductory biology textbooks "blatantly misrepresent" ten routinely cited examples offered as evidence for evolution. Each of these examples, according to Wells, is fraught with interpretive problems and, as such, textbooks that continue to use them should at the very least be accompani...

We all know the solution: multiplication is always assumed to have precedence over addition, so we read this as a+ (b · c). 1.2. Remark. A ring without identity is one in which (R, ·) is merely assumed to be a semi-group, i.e., there is no multiplicative identity. (Some people call this a rng.) In many introductory textbooks, “ring” is defined to mean what we are calling a “ring without identit...

The bifurcated treatment of love and lust dates to antiquity. The study of love as an academic subject is nearly a century old, with the sentiment covered in introductory textbooks of social psychology. Psychologists, primatologists, neuroanatomists and neurophysiologists came to see love—defined as an intense and complex feeling of deep affection—as responsible for long-term coupling and close...

Much effort over many years has been devoted to the reform of the teaching of physics. This has led to many new and imaginative approaches in the content and delivery of material. Great strides have been made in the delivery, and the content has been continually supplemented. However, attempts to modernize the basic structure of the presentation have faced resistance, and the majority of introd...

Physics as a discipline embeds conceptual meaning about the physical world in mathematical formalism. The associated with symbols depends on context, and physicists can shift by manipulating those symbols. We present an analysis of different meanings equals sign “=” that be inferred from introductory upper-level physics textbooks. Five distinct meanings/categories are identified: causality, bal...