the classroom and the laboratory. Reflecting the changing nature of the field, the appendices have been updated with input from students and professors, ensuring that they reflect current knowledge. Overall, Janeway’s Immunobiology remains the standard-bearer for introductory immunology textbooks. It continues its predecessors’ broad coverage of the subject and contains updated figures and appe...

As a field, neuroscience concerns itself with gaining an understanding of how physical processes occurring in the nervous system are related to mental phenomena such as perception, motor control, and complex thoughts and behaviors. As teachers of neuroscience, we are charged with facilitating an understanding of these relationships in our students. Therefore, it seems that an in-depth discussio...

In his target article on “Indoctrination in Introduction to Psychology,” Bartels proposes that introductory textbooks of psychology studies and their results are systematically presented such a way they tend correspond left-liberal political positions the state psychological knowledge is reflected correspondingly distorted way. our commentary, we clarify evidence presents for this claim insuffi...

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...

High-structure courses or flipped courses require students to obtain course content before class so that class time can be used for active-learning exercises. While textbooks are used ubiquitously in college biology courses for content dissemination, studies have shown that students frequently do not read their textbooks. To address this issue, we created preclass reading guides that provided s...

This is a collection of formalized proofs of many results of number theory. The proofs of the Chinese Remainder Theorem and Wilson’s Theorem are due to Rasmussen. The proof of Gauss’s law of quadratic reciprocity is due to Avigad, Gray and Kramer. Proofs can be found in most introductory number theory textbooks; Goldman’s The Queen of Mathematics: a Historically Motivated Guide to Number Theory...

Meanings attributed to Upper Paleolithic female figurines in the past have been based on the assumption that they are all alike in important ways. Attention is called here to the diversity of the figurines, and possible alternative interpretations. Among the earliest depictions of human beings, dating back to perhaps 30,000 years ago, are small figurines of nude females, which are found across ...

Textbooks are ubiquitous. They are available for almost every conceivable subdiscipline of biology, and few of us would consider teaching a course without using a textbook. Over the years, they have become more colorful, more encyclopedic, and accompanied by more ancillary materials such as CD-ROMs, study guides, and websites. With all these tools to assist our students, it seems reasonable tha...

This Teaching Case has been developed to assist students in introductory first year MIS courses to develop an understanding of business context, while building practical expertise in IS modeling techniques and problem solving. The case has been formulated around a small financial planning practice, in order to work in a learning environment where students may not have had any (or limited) expos...

able discussion in the educational community about different ways of relating the concepts of work and energy in introductory physics.1 The present article reviews a consistent and streamlined treatment of the subject, drawing particular attention to aspects seldom covered in textbooks. The paper is intended to clarify the central equations for introductory courses and to put the wider literatu...