Instructional and educational works -- Textbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Loc Genre/Form Terms For Library And Archival Materials (Lcgft)
Scope Note: Books used as standard works for the formal study of a particular subject. Also any book that gives the first principles of a subject or basic instruction for beginners.Variants: Instruction books // Primers (Textbooks) // School books // Schoolbooks // Text books
Broader: Instructional and educational works
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Aircraft Drafting, 1946, 1946
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 054, Call No.: TL 671.25 .K3
Identifier: 20060363
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training & Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: Illustrated textbook and reference book written by Hyman H. Katz, "Engineer, Republic Aviation Corp.; Former Engineer and Instructor, Consolidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp.; former Instructor, Aircraft Drafting, Texas Technological College, and the University of Texas."From Preface: "This volume is intended as a text...
Dates:
Copyright: 1946; Publication: 1946
Calculus Made Easy: Being A Very Simplest Introduction To Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which are Generally Called By the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and Intregral Calculus (Second Edition, Enlarged), 1914, 1957
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 004, Call No.: QA 303 .T45 1957
Identifier: 20061160
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope:
An introductory guide to Calculus with problems, answers, and examples. Contents (from Table of Contents):
Prologue
1. To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrord
2. On Different Degrees of Smallness
3. On Relative Growings
4. Simplest Cases
5. Next Stage. What to Do with Constants
6. Sums, Differences,...
Dates:
Copyright: 1914; Printed: 1957
Plane Trigonometry, 1937, 1937-04
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 007, Call No.: QA 533 .H35 1937
Identifier: 20061159
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface to First Edition and Preface to Revised Edition):
"This text contains the material that is usually required for a semester's course in trigonometry. Since the present tendency is in the direction of a concise treatment, an effort has been made to present clearly and without too much detail the essentials of the...
Dates:
Copyright: 1937; Publication: 1937-04
Technical Drawing, 1949, 1949
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 051, Call No.: T 353 .G52 1949
Identifier: 20061131
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface):
"This volume is intended as a class text and reference book in technical drawing. It contains a very large number of problems covering every phase of the subject, and it constitutes a complete teaching unit in itself. In addition to the problems in the text, two complete workbooks have been prepared especially for use...
Dates:
Copyright: 1949; Publication: 1949