In order to select a textbook for a given home university curriculum, wouldn't it be helpful to know what is available and what other people have found helpful for a given topic. I have found FacultyCenter.net to be helpful on occasion. Once logged in, an exhaustive list of subjects appears which links to respective lists of textbooks which are rated by their adoption by colleges across the world. The most popular have a five star rating, which gives some indication of the book's user friendliness. The book page provides a list of colleges who have used the book, the book summary, table of contents, link to its publisher and more.For parents and students assembling their own curriculum, this site is a handy tool toward both selecting useful books and demonstrating to others that the books and the content learned from them is at the highest academic level.
Many publishers have online tools for their books which are also valuable and in some cases may be considered a substitute for purchasing an expensive textbook. Here are some of those links:
Addison Wesley Longman (AWL)
Allyn & Bacon - Companion Web sites
McGraw-Hill Higher Education - Web Site Gallery
Houghton Mifflin - Teacher Education Station
Thomson Learning - Professor and Faculty Member tools
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