It's not like there are any other books to read or anything

[thejabberwock]

Jesus Christ!

Dear Anthro/Arch Department:

James Deetz is not the end all of archaeology.  Yes, what he wrote was, for his time, absolutely revolutionary.  But his In Small Things Forgotten was first written in NINETEEN SEVENTY SEVEN.  They are no longer NEW AND REFRESHING ideas.  Any person anywhere could pick up any modern archaeology magazine

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[demontale]

Ugh. Books are ridiculous. I had one book for my Civil Rights Movement class that was listed at $145 at one bookstore (not counting the four other books needed for the class >:[). When I checked the other campus bookstore though, a new edition was only $50. Not sure what the deal was there, but oi.

[thejabberwock]

Holy KITTENS that is a ridiculous difference, especially for a -new- edition.
I've noticed that my campus bookstore adds on anywhere between ten and twenty dollars, even on used books. And especially when they're above $30, I'm almost guaranteed to find em almost half priced at amazon.

It turned out that the $180 dollar books were actually written by the professor teaching the class. This type of thing makes me twitch, because it happens a LOT here.
But, oddly enough, the same professor agreed that it was morally wrong to profit off of one's own students like that, so he promised to write a check to the school's scholarship fund for his cut of the profits on our book sales--but if we genuinely felt gypped, he'd write us a personal check for the $11.27 he'd get from our books^^