Textbook covers.

[elia925-6]

I created this topic to upload and share your favourite and distinct textbook covers on the occasion of this tweet. I could imagine a calculus textbook using a cat or a dragon, orelly books(You need to be into programming to understand what i say) using animals and deitel programming books with some ants enjoying stuff.

 

[FalseReality]

Couldn't find any but I found this

 

[FalseReality]

Nvm the good ones come from simply searching "school textbook covers"

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[Jared]

I remember as a kid where I had this bigass book that showed different principles of science. Its cover was a bunch of jpegs of people doing basic activities it was surreal. Wish I had it today

 

[exotika]

Not a cover but let's flex our imagination a bit

 

[Deleted member 1930]

i remember when my sister went into 5th grade and she brought home a mathbook with a weird space-scape on it. was sick

 

[MantisOrientalis]

My junior year English textbook (that we used like twice lmao) was just a bunch of low res jpegs of people tapping on a futuristic holographic interface that said "reading is the future" or something. I tried searching for it but couldnt find it

 

[elia925-6]

The Story Behind all the Animals on O'Reilly's Book Covers

For nearly three decades the animals on the O'Reilly boo covers have become almost a part of geek culture itself. The woman behind this initiative? Edie Freedman, who worked as a creative director for the publishing company.

thenewstack.io

Interesting story of how oreilly book covers became iconic

 

[elia925-6]

My discreate mathematics textbook has a flamingo.

 

[That1Producer]

Saw this one back in middle school, I just like the way it looks and that's probably why I still have a pic of it saved on my pc

 

[calico_jack]

my schools math textbook trilogy and its honestly pretty cool

 

[Mеченый Яков]

my schools math textbook trilogy and its honestly pretty cool

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Algebra in school? Holy crap.

 

[bounga32]

Algebra in school? Holy crap.

Not that new. I had it in HS as well. Of course they did a bad job at reinforcing it.

 

[Mеченый Яков]

Not that new. I had it in HS as well. Of course they did a bad job at reinforcing it.

I've never saw algebra until i went to the university.

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Check out this bad boy:

https://www.directtextbook.com/large/1938168070.jpg

 

[elia925-6]

 

[y2k]

 

[elia925-6]

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Metalheart

 

[LostintheCycle]

This is pushing 'textbook' a bit, but to hell with it. I always really liked the Oxford Very Short Introduction covers, I can't speak for the quality of the books because I only half read one on economics and gave up on that to flick through an actual economics textbook instead -- still don't know very much about economics though.
The covers express that the books only give you an impression of the subject through the minimalism, and they are somewhat related to the subject at least. Of course the sun is orange yeah yeah, but look at epidemiology showing what looks like a field, and the strong dichotomy on the cover of British politics.
Without further ado, here are a couple of my favourite looking covers from all the ones easily found near the top of Google Images.

 

[Miku Simpson]

My favourites were always my high schools Psychology textbooks where all the people would stare at you passive aggressively