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 47 Collections and/or Records:
Aviation Engines: Design, Construction, Operation and Repair, 1917, 1917
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 071, Call No.: TL 701 .P3
Identifier: 20180009
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training & Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: A COMPLETE, PRACTICAL TREATISE OUTLINING CLEARLY THE ELEMENTS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINEERING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND REPAIR OF AIRPLANE POWER PLANTS; ALSO THE AUXILIARY ENGINE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS LUBRICATION, CARBURETION, IGNITION AND COOLING. IT INCLUDES COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENGINE REPAIRING AND...
Dates:
Copyright: 1917; Publication: 1917
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
College Algebra (Alternate Edition), 1931
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 001, Call No.: QA 154 .H25 1931
Identifier: 20061169.01
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface):
"This book is a flexible and distinctly modern text containing material for a rich course in algebra for college students who have had either two or three semesters of high school algebra.
For a homogeneous group of students of any given preparation, there is an appropriate starting place in the book from which the group...
Dates:
Copyright: 1931
College Algebra (Revised Edition), 1938
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 002, Call No.: QA 154 .H25 1938
Identifier: 20061169
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface to the Revised Edition):
"This book offers an efficient collegiate discussion of the content necessary to bridge the gap between ninth grade algebra, imperfectly recalled, and college algebra, together with a complete treatment of all topics usually included under the last title. In addition to this classical material, the...
Dates:
Copyright: 1938
Computer Design and Architecture, 1985
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 031, Call No.: TK 7885 .S525 1985
Identifier: 20061157
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).
Purpose: Training & Education.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: TBD
Contents: TBD
Dates:
Copyright: 1985
Elementary Applied Aerodynamics (First Edition, First Printing), 1946, 1946
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 035, Call No.: TL 546 .H38
Identifier: 20061113
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).
Purpose: Training & Education.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: TBD
Contents: TBD
Dates:
Copyright: 1946; Publication: 1946
Elementary Applied Aerodynamics (First Edition, Third Printing), 1946, 1946
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 036, Call No.: TL 546 .H38
Identifier: 20061113.01
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).
Purpose: Training & Education.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: TBD
Contents: TBD
Dates:
Copyright: 1946; Publication: 1946
Elements of Mechanical Vibration (Second Edition), 1949, 1943
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 010, Call No.: TA 355 .F66 1949
Identifier: 20061152
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface to Second Edition and Preface to First Edition):
"The increased emphasis which engineers must give to noise elimination has indicated the desirability of including a fundamental discussion of the engineering aspects of this subject. Accordingly, a chapter on sound and its engineering applications has been included in the...
Dates:
Publication: 1949; Copyright: 1943
Experimental Aerodynamics, 1940
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 037, Call No.: TL 566 .P3
Identifier: 20061109
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).
Purpose: Training & Education.
Authority: Author Expertise.
Scope: TBD
Contents: TBD
Dates:
Copyright: 1940
Fundamentals of Composites Manufacturing: Materials, Methods, and Applications, 1989, 1989
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 024, Call No.: TA 418.9 .C6 S77 1989
Identifier: 20061116
Scope and Contents
"Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Foreword):
"Today's manufacturing engineers must extend themselves. They must take calculated risks in an effort to develop the fabrication techniques required to build the best possible composites hardware.
The composites industry needs engineers, technicians, and tradespeople who understand how and why composites are used....
Dates:
Publication: 1989; Copyright: 1989