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A digital textbook is a digital book or e-book intended to serve as the text for a class. Digital textbooks may also be known as e-textbooks or e-texts . Digital textbooks are a major component of technology-based education reform.
The Pieta prayer booklet is a book of Roman Catholic prayers. [1] The prayers in this collection date back to the 18th century. Most of the prayers were first published in Toulouse, France in 1740 and over time gathered a strong following. Pope Pius IX learned of them almost a century later, and approved them in 1862.
An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading e-books and digital periodicals. An e-reader is similar in form, but more limited in purpose than a tablet .
Hodder & Stoughton published their first original Biggles book in 1942 with Biggles Sweeps the Desert around September/October of that year (they had previously published a reprint of Biggles Flies East in May 1942) and the Brockhampton Press published Johns' Gimlet books from 1947. From 1953, Brockhampton Press would also publish Biggles books ...
The Million Book Project was a 501(c)(3) charity organization with various scanning centers throughout the world. By December 2007, more than 1.5 million books had been scanned, in 20 languages: 970,000 in Chinese; 360,000 in English; 50,000 in Telugu ; and 40,000 in Arabic. [ 2 ]
Adobe Digital Editions uses the proprietary ADEPT (Adobe Digital Experience Protection Technology) digital rights management scheme, [3] which is also implemented on some e-book readers, including iPads and many Android devices, but not Kindles. [4] The software locks content to up to six machines and allows the user to view the content on each ...
Sociologist Émile Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a "unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things". [6] By sacred things he meant things "set apart and forbidden—beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who ...