textbook
Types
Casebook – a special type of textbook used in law schools in the United States Open textbook – a textbook licensed under an open copyright license, and made available online to be freely used Problem book – a textbook, usually graduate level, organized as a series of problems and full solutions Sourcebook – a collection of texts, often used in social sciences and humanities in the United States Study guide – a textbook used to study for a topic, exam, etc. Workbook – a type of textbook with practice problems, where answers can be written directly in the book Lists
List of medical textbooks
List of textbooks in electromagnetism
List of textbooks in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
List of textbooks on classical mechanics and quantum mechanics
Controversies
Other
John Amos Comenius – Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian who is credited by some with introducing pictorial textbooks Orbis Pictus – 1658 textbook by Comenius, one of the first books with pictures for children