Dick Moores wrote: > At 01:27 PM 7/28/2007, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:27:57 -0700, Dick Moores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: >> >> >> > Well, the publisher is Prentice Hall, "The world's leading >> > educational publisher". Textbooks are typically expensive. >> > >> >> Yeah... But at that price it should have hard-covers! > > > Should have, but look at this popular Cultural Anthropology text > (paperback): <http://tinyurl.com/38ec5s>. List price is $120.95 USD. > (BTW I just bought the 6th edition online for about $10.) > > Then there's Calculus: Single Variable (Paperback) > <http://tinyurl.com/2lqw9c> List price $123.95 USD. > > And so it goes. > > Dick > >
Balme your professors. They are not paying for the books. Of course most will be give a lot of lip-service to educational access for disadvantaged groups but thier choice of books usually suggests otherwise. The high price of textbooks and the tendency for professors to overlook alternatives is helping to keep the rich educated and the poor, well, poor. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
