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Looks like it was a limited edition run published by Faber & Faber simultaneous with the first trade edition. There are others of the regular first edition signed by Garland that aren't going for all that much, but the ones from the limitation run start around $175 on Bookfinder. Nice accidental score. I'd definitely grab a cheap copy to read rather than risk accidentally introducing any wear to the limited one.
I know it looks like the book is available from many other places but the vast majority of those links are resellers who work with amazon who won't be able to fulfill the order since the book has been pulled.
For reference: my book is only available on amazon, but you wouldn't think that based on the site you linked.
As someone who just graduated, if you are living in your dorm the first year, you need less than you think. I would bring what you know you need/can't find near the college and buy as you need. Especially if you have transportation to like Target or Walmart or wherever.
Always wait to buy your textbooks. Not all professors will actually use theirs and they usually post up the first reading or whatever it is as many people do this and they know. Also http://www.bookfinder.com/textbooks/ websites like this will help you find textbooks cheaper. Ordering online WILL ALMOST ALWAYS be cheaper than buying from your university bookstore. You can also search for textbook pdf's on the interwebs.
I would become familiar with what kind of environment you can study/learn best in quickly. I spent a lot of time at my library and local coffee shop and I knew I could get work done at both of these places.
If you want to get a part-time job, look for on-campus ones first. Your university probably has a job board thing first. These jobs will be a lot more flexible about classes/getting a shift off if you have like 2 exams the next day.
Make a friend/get the number or email of someone in every class. That way when you're stuck on the homework or can't remember how long your paper is supposed to be, you'll have an immediate resource. Bonus if they take adequate notes if you don't go to class for some reason.
Go to class. You may not think it, but it honestly helps the studying later. You have at least heard what you are studying and that helps immensely.
Real LPT: Lots a bookstores offer semester-long textbook rental at a fraction of the cost.
Real LPT: Make friends on the first day and find a study-budy to split the costs of the book with.
Real LPT: Your university library may have a copy of your textbook. Check it out and keep renewing it for as long as you need.
Real LPT: Talk to you professor about your situation, he make be the one that wrote the book and give it to you for free. Or he may have tester copies from the publisher that he would be willing to give to you. Or he may have a list of student's from previous semesters who want to get rid of their old book that you can buy.
Real LPT: International and old editions are often way less expensive. Talk to your professor and ask him if those will work.
Real LPT: http://www.bookfinder.com aggregates all the book websites out there. Type in the ISBN of the text book you want and find it as inexpensive as possible.
These are all better options than, "LPT: Be a fucking criminal."
Textbooks in the school store are overpriced, but if you buy them there, you're a huge sucker and deserve to lose a ton of money. Search the ISBN on Amazon or Bookfinder and you'll find your books for a fraction of the price of the campus bookstore. And you can sell your books back on Amazon when you're done with them for much closer to full price instead of getting scammed by campus bookstores giving you pennies on the dollar. I've even made a profit selling some of my books because the market price on Amazon went up since I bought them.
Best way to see actual selling price of a book? For example, I have this book but the prices are all over the place.
http://www.amazon.com/Curtain-Hercule-Mysteries-Hardcover-September/dp/B010EW5D28
Found out from GoodReads ('more details'> other editions) - each cover has it's own ISBN. The one you need is 038075911X
Of course, the ISBN database automatically links the old editions and the new, but it might help you track one down. Looks like Bookfinder has ones with that ISBN... note the website pictures likely come from a central ISBN database and are NOT that actual cover on the book they have.
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=scotland&sts=t&tn=The+London+Cage
I've bought many used books online from sellers listed with Amazon, Abebooks, Alibris, etc., and have never had any trouble.
Her published literature is absolutely wonderful!
Here's a list of many of those
No matter how many lectures or interviews I watch, she always has more to share, and does so in a way that is very down to earth and thought provoking.
BookFinder.com is a search engine that checks dozens of sites (including Amazon). Unless you tell it not to, shipping is included in the displayed prices (though you have to factor in Amazon's free shipping over $25 / Prime manually) and it has separate columns for new and used.
You can also specify that you want first editions or signed books. I've been using this site since the late '90s and have never been disappointed.
I'm not sure which novels you consider the "best", but BookFinder is finding plenty of cheap copies of Elric of Melnibone starting at $3.48 (which includes shipping.)
I have no clue why the prices on Amazon are so high, but Amazon is rarely the best place to look when buying used books.
Bookfinder is what I use to price old books or books without a retail price at my job. You can search for a book by title/author/year/keyword/language, and it'll show you everywhere that particular book or edition is listed online.
Depends on the book, as in whether it is a really obscure or early example, but have you tried here - Bookfinder
I've found a few hard to find books - and buy books through this generally.
Try AddALL or BookFinder.com for alternatives to AbeBooks. You'll see the same sellers and others, but it can be helpful finding more competitive totals if bought elsewhere.
Otherwise if you want to play the long game, set up alerts with AbeBooks and eBay (use .co.uk to show the 'search worldwide option') and hope a better deal comes along.
Abandon all hope, ye who can't find it on bookfinder.com
If it is still to be found, it's probably there. If it's not there...
Okay, so I use this website to compare all prices. Amazon is normally my go to, though. But I am pretty sure you will just get Amazon store credit for the books there, which isn't a problem if you tend to buy things off Amazon!
Also, defiently check your school's facebook sell/buy page (if there is one). Good way to get cash upfront for your book.
Not a wiki, but you can try taking a look at a book called Separated Brethren by a Catholic, William J. Whalen. It surveys the various Protestant denominations and tries to explain them to Catholics, and is generally good-hearted and very knowledgeable. Because of its target audience, he doesn't explain Catholicism; and he mentions non-Trinitarian denominations but doesn't go into any detail.
There are several editions over a period of some 30 years. The most recent one I can find on Bookfinder is 2002 published by Our Sunday Visitor; I don't know if that is a reprint, or if so which version it's a reprint of, but that's a reputable Catholic publisher. There is a 2012 edition, but that one is probably a semi-bootleg.
Your library should be able to find a copy via Interlibrary Loan if it isn't actually on the shelf. It's certainly a better bet than some no-name Wiki that will tell you that the Episcopal Church is possessed by sodomite mind-control or that Catholics worship the Pope, and Fr. Whalen is a very good writer.
If you're adamantly into new media, you can explore the official Web sites of the various major denominations; most of them have "What We Believe" sections that are, to varying degrees, informative about their general principles, but (except in a few, generally non-mainstream cases) not specific about how their denomination differs from others. Happy hunting!!
Bookfinder. It's a metasearch engine that combs Amazon, Abe, Powell's, Biblio, and some others.
Google "Used Bookstores Lexington KY" or "Used Bookstores Orlando FL", whichever branch of the vast Asburian Empire (I never realized there was more than one!) you will be attending is appropriate.
Take a few minutes to post the titles here and see if somebody has a spare one or 2. (If that seems like a lot of work, I hope they don't make you prepare your thesis in LaTeX!)
Do you have to get all those books at once? I never had to buy 31 books in a semester, and I was a Comparative Literature major!
Gonna highjack this comment to recommend the book that reminded me of Skyrim the most. If you haven't done so, you need to read Don Quixote. Like seriously, even more than dyed-in-the-wool fantasy, that story reminds of what it's like to be obsessed with a video game. I feel like Miguel de Cervantes would have been a major RPG Gamer, if, you know, he weren't dead.
Anywho, I recommend the Grossman translation. Far easier to read, and supposedly more complete, than the public domain versions.
Here is one: "A Gift to Young Housewives"
More here: (including reprints, recent editions, and first editions) BookFinder.com
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Good rundown. We used to use Bookfinder to help appraise things, since it dumps prices from ABE, Alibris, Amazon, eBay, and others. We always went with ABE as the final word if there was a big discrepancy, but we also mostly sold on Amazon, so we needed to see a slightly bigger field.
Isn't the First Edition Library Reprint of On the Road worth a bit? I think it was the first one they did, but they made it look exactly like the original, which led to some confusion. Thought I heard that edition had some interest due to its backstory, but I also may have dreamt it.
Yeah, that's the right wrong spelling, but I've never seen an ARC of it before. Interesting. It would make sense that it would have the same misspelling as the first print run, though. It's also likely worth way, way more than the hardback true firsts, since it's even rarer. A quick look at Bookfinder doesn't turn up a single ARC, so I'd have no idea what to estimate on it. Awesome score! Keep it safe and in good shape.
Bookfinder has the first one for $152 (and another copy for $167), while the second book is much harder to find. I recommend using this ISBN (9780812919943) for searching, but I've yet to find one for sale. The author died a little more than a year ago, so emailing him isn't possible.
So, the value on that second one is a big question mark.
I've used Amazon's Textbook buyback quite a bit and have never had a problem with it. For my textbooks, which are mostly Biology or Environmental Science books, they usually offer the highest price according to BookFinder (http://www.bookfinder.com/buyback/). The only real down side is that they don't give you cash, only Amazon.com credit. I have Amazon Prime (woo, discount student edition!) and order things from there frequently, so using it has never been a problem for me. But if you want cash, sell your books to other websites.
Oh, and Amazon buys back things besides textbooks, such as used video games, DVDs, and electronics.
Baking things that you love is a great way to start learning how to cook in general. I started baking when I was about 12 or 13, but I was almost 18 before I started to attempt full, fancy meals (this probably had more to do with my mom cooking all my meals than the ability to make the jump), which I now make almost every night (ten years later, but have been doing so for the better part of the last decade). I consider baking to be my favorite hobby, and I like regular cooking a lot, too. So, welcome!
My absolute favorite cookbook is the Joy of Cooking. There is a newer version than the one I use, and it is not very good in my opinion. Mine has a most recent copyright date of 1997, so look for that (here are some sources). Besides being full of recipes, it has really comprehensive information about ingredients and techniques. I read it just for the sheer enjoyment of it quite often. The baking sections are totally legit, and they cover every basic item you can think of. I briefly worked at a mom & pop scratch bakery, and at least half of our recipes came from Joy of Cooking.
Good luck!
You have good advice here. Just giving my 2c to say that on Bookfinder you can see how much it is on on a bunch of websites, plus there's the option for 'first edition' (unsure about dust cover tho).
I get most of them used from third party sellers on Amazon. Using CamelCamelCamel and BookFinder has saved me a lot of money though. I managed to pick up The Dark Path and Cold Fusion for ridiculously cheap prices. I once got an alert that The Book of the War was going for $8 (CDN), but when I checked Amazon it had already been sold.
I've got everything from Timewyrm: Genesys to Death and Diplomacy. The ones I'm finding most difficult to find at a good price are Happy Endings, Damaged Goods, So Vile a Sin, and Lungbarrow. I was even tempted when Lungbarrow dropped to $70 (CDN), but decided against it.
dang you aren't kidding on that price
check your library to see if they do free inter-library loan
for that much money, just check it out for a couple of weeks and read fast
http://www.worldcat.org/account/?page=searchItems
by the way since that book is from 1970, it's only good for historical purposes unless you are trying to uncover a long-lost training technique that hasn't been improved on in nearly 50 years
IMO, unfortunately, I do not think there is a way to control, develop or direct certain phenomenon like psychic events or synesthesia. What you have going does not sound like synesthesia to me, where you see colors or associate sounds with colors or taste or some other combined sense. Sense of spatial is basic to music. You should hear a pipe organ in a stone cathedral. Everyone who is a music-head has their music that they get-off to.
> Are there any resources available that take a deeper look into this phenomena?
Yes.
edit: Check out this rock music video. Seems like a lot of trouble for 11 views.
http://www.bookfinder.com/ Use this website OP. This gathers prices of books across multiple websites. It also lets you pick country and currency. So to the guy that recommended you bookdepository, this site can show you that site's price too along with many other sites :D
Good suggestions, as for keeping the cost low, I suggest using bookfinder. It will search all of the online data bases for your book and compares them new/used and includes the shipping costs. If you are buying used, it is often cheaper than amazon. I buy all my books used from there and there are pretty much in mint condition with minor wear.
I'm not really sure why the libraries were selling them. I get them off of bookfinder.com, so they weren't from my library.
Here is the search page after searching for "Regular Show Vol". It looks like prices are up a little from when I was looking last year. The ex library ones that I've gotten have all been in excellent shape.
This sounds like the right edition, but there's no cover image so it's hard to be sure. Through the Looking Glass
Here sir, the first link on Google of some used Physics books you can find in the range 1-5 dollars. Some even college grade. You don't need the most recent books to show off among people who barely know about Archimede's Principle.
http://www.bookfinder.com/buyback/ Shows the $ amount multiple websites will give you for your books so you can choose the one that gives you the most. Takes a little longer usually, but it's mostly worth it
If you can't find anything better ($6 might be too optimistic), you can try going through this list. Be aware that some of the listings are for the international version, if that matters to you.
I suggest that maybe the title isn't exactly what you remember, perhaps it was a subtitle you remember.
http://www.bookfinder.com/ may help search on keywords of the book title.
As a prior poster said, please describe more of the plot, plenty of people can help run searches based on that alone.
Was it a female or male author? Was it hard copy or paperback? Perhaps it was part of a sci fi compilation rather than a complete book. Was there a bio you can recall? Was this in the U.S. in English? Some libraries (even school ones) retain a history of who checked stuff out, depending on their system and when it was done. Growing up in the 80's, they didn't have electronic systems then, but they do now.
The copy of the manga I own is a dual-language version put out in Japan, ISBN: 4-7700-2919-5. If you do a search you could probably find somewhere to order it from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_(Hubbard_novella)
> University professor James Lowry is a disbeliever in spirits or witches, or demons, so much so that he publishes an article in a newspaper denying the existence of them. He is warned of the possible repercussions by his friend Tommy Williams. That same spring evening his hat disappears. Lowry discovers that four hours of his life have gone missing. Lowry is pursued by an omnipotent evil force that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a warning from the shadows: "...if you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die..."
http://www.amazon.com/Fear-L-Ron-Hubbard/dp/1592120148/
http://www.bookfinder.com/book/1870451554/
About the book:
"A classic tale of creeping, surreal menace and horror... one of the really, really good ones." Stephen King
First off, never buy textbooks from the Bookstore unless absolutely necessary. I recommend Bookfinder.com. You'll have a huge selection of vendors from which to choose. For this Fall, one of my textbooks was $104/$80 new/used on Amazon (Bookstore only had the new version at $104 as well). Fuck that. I was able to find an identical international edition through Bookfinder for $20.
I know everyone here loves ViaLibri but I'm also a fan of BookFinder for cheap editions and they have some for $25.
http://www.bookfinder.com/buyback/
These have been a huge life saver for me. Just search by ISBN and you can find who's buying them for what. Great for getting the best price. There's a site similar to these two that was a little easier to use, but I can't seem to find it right now.
Peter Akroyd, a History of Ghosts
also on amazon
+1 for bookfinder.com! It's a great way for searching for cheap textbooks and the like. I managed to grab a copy of all three volumes of Feynman's lectures for around $80AUD including shipping.
ISBN Lookup revealed:
- http://www.bookfinder.com/book/030701598X/
- http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Bros-Paint-Marker/dp/030701598X
- http://www.alibris.com/Super-Mario-Bros-Golden-Books/book/7451059
It's worth quite a bit now.
BookFinder.com searches every major book selling site in the world. The prices it shows include shipping, unless you change the settings. The majority of non-rare, non-new releases I watch for are less than $4 shipped.
Although it does not always offer free shipping, bookfinder.com is worth a mention. It searches through many book websites to find what you are looking for and lists the results in order of price. The design of the website is also very minimal and simple.
When you have an idea of what you're looking for (as in edition, signed, condition, etc.) you might give Bookfinder.com a try. It compiles listings from a number of online booksellers, so you can compare prices and descriptions. AbeBooks has a really good reference page on what to look for in sales listings of collectible/antiquarian books.
I remembered this story as being about alligators, not crocodiles. Google turned up the following:
The story is "The Day of the Dragon" by Guy Endore. It was written in 1934.
"Zoo 2000" (1973) edited by Jane Yolen http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=yolen&title=zoo+2000&submit=Begin+Search&new_used=*&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr
"Monster Mix" (1968) edited by Robert Arthur http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=arthur&title=monster+mix&submit=Begin+Search&new_used=*&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr
"Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum" (1965) http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=alfred+hitchcock%27s+monster+museum&submit=Begin+Search&new_used=*&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr
BookFinder has used copies for $3.48 shipped,which is a bit cheaper than Amazon. The cost is probably so high (though I wouldn't call $30 hideous) because it was published by an educational publisher more so than anything to do with availability.
Found it. Thanks to bookfinder.com, I find this information:
Title: 1000 Ways to Win Monopoly Games
Authors: Walker, Jay; Lehman, Jeff
Publisher: Dell
Year: Sure enough, it was indeed 1975.
Also available on Amazon.com.
I can't really find it for you with such few details, but here is a list of literally every book with the title including the words history and football. If right about the title and willing to do some digging I'm confident you'll find it here
When you're deciding, check here:
http://www.bookfinder.com/buyback/
See what Amazon and other sites are offering for that book. I've had cases where I bought a book used on Amazon, and then 6 months later after the class ended, the Amazon buyback price was actually higher than I had paid.
If someone /does/ provide a link to Amazon, I try to avoid using it. My usual alternative is to search for the title and authour at BookFinder.com, which knows my country of shipping and preferred country, and searches multiple sites to find the best price. Picking a book at random, "Quozl" by Alan Dean Foster, the cheapest used paperback at an Amazon site is CDN$7.92, but there are almost a dozen from AbeBooks that are only $7.60. Sometimes, the differences are more dramatic.
BookFinder links are reasonably easy to make: [Here](www.bookfinder.com/?author=alan+dean+foster&title=quozl) is one if you know the authour and title, and [here](www.bookfinder.com/search/?isbn=0441694543) is one for ISBN.
A search on Bookfinder turns up this:
The most expensive one is priced at $93.56.
If you are serious about getting an appraisal, find a rare book dealer in your town and take it in for them to look at, or send them photographs. You can search the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America here: http://hq.abaa.org/books/antiquarian/databases/bookseller_search.html
As a college textbook seller for Barnes and Noble College, I've had to deal with countless students who didn't get a single dime back for their books. Here's some advice I always give to students:
Always try to sell your textbooks to other students. Most universities should have places for you to list them, or even through Facebook marketplace as a last resort. You can get more than half of what you paid for, in some cases you might make more than what you paid.
Hang out at your college bookstore during the start of each semester, kinda creep around seeing what books people need. If you have it, you can just chime in real quick saying you have it and you are willing to sell for cheaper than the store(I always had to give people shit for doing this kind of thing, but most stores the employees tend to ignore it).
Another option is selling it online. Use websites such as BookFinder to help you compare what some online companies are giving for a particular book.
And there is always Half.com and Ebay, although I hate paypal with a fiery passion.
I know the above options require more work than just bringing it to the store, but if you really want to get the most cash back, it is worth the effort.
-Always double check to see if you need the book for the following semester. Some classes only cover half a book and the following class takes the second-
This is a repost I made a year or so ago, these books are the bibles:
>This guy wrote the bibles of instrumentation, measurment and control >all under the title "Instrument Engineers Handbook: ...". Find these at your schools library and just give them a look, it will help you learn the visual language needed for this industry. The diagrams we use are called P&ID's (Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams) they help simplify what is going on.
>I hope this helps, please ask anything else you can think of.
edit: formatting
I use the following sites:
Noble Knight: www.nobleknight.com
The Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/
Better World Books: http://www.betterworldbooks.com/
And when all else fails me...
- Book Finder: http://www.bookfinder.com/
Except for Noble Knight (and Book Finder, since it's a book search engine) all sites have free world-delivery!
I usually just borrow mine from the library. Large school, larger library consortium. When that doesn't work, then I go for used or international editions (usually from the UK). Even with the additional cost of international shipping, it's sometimes cheaper than the US price.
BookFinder.com can be very helpful. Over the years, I've found better deals on the Amazon marketplace than Half.com, but YMMV.
Well, yes; of course. I was talking about different Psilocybin mushrooms.
There has got to be a book about this. Oh, wait!
If Paizo sales start to decline right now, I think Pathfinder would survive for at least 5 years, maybe more! The game just outselled 4e D&D, I don't really think Paizo will change things, since they're doing pretty well.
BTW, try to look for the books at http://www.bookfinder.com/ you'll get better prices there!
Bookfinder ! You can look for the 2d ed, including cheap international editions or look for the 1st ed. Both pretty affordable.
You can buy it used for about half that.
But.. If I tell you my favorite used bookstores, wouldn't that mean that more people would go.. and then there would be less books for me to possibly buy?! Why would I want to reveal my favorite places to hunt?
Just kidding.
North Hollywood, CA - Iliad Bookshop is an awesome bookstore that I frequent often.
Glendale, CA - Brand Bookshop. Another awesome used bookstore. The manager tends to place interesting and diverse books in the window display, so make sure that you check those out.
If you have something that you're specifically looking for, I'd say go to Book Finder. It's a site that a lot of independent booksellers link into in order to sell specific books.
I did a lot of searching on bookfinder.com, which after several weeks of checking showed me this copy on a foreign country's Amazon page. I had to check back frequently and act fast when I finally found one I could afford. The cheaper they are, the faster they go.
You can get a used copy for €8 including shipping to Egypt.
Bookfinder.com has them for a much lower price than Amazon.
have you tried using BookFinder?
I'll check them out, I think I might read Cannonball first of McElroy's.
I used http://www.bookfinder.com/ every week for a few months & I ended up getting a first edition (minus dust jacket, though that wasn't advertised) for around £30. Good luck getting a copy!
I would hold off.
You can get the 2006 version for under $20:
Wait until the first day of class and find out what's ok.
There's no doubt that the world of macro economics changed in 2008, due to the financial collapse (sort of, not to digress about the failures that took place then and after), but unless there are specific homework assignments from the book (which you could likely ask a nice student to photocopy for you), I highly doubt you'll be covering the crisis in such depth that going to class wouldn't be adequate.
Not to sound rude about Mr. Yang, but I had to speak up and say who was President of the US when we adopted a strong neoliberal economic policy in the US (hint, the 1980's). Granted, I'm older than most students, but I doubt you'll get nitpicked on what happened from 2006-2009, or what the difference between keynesian and neoliberal means. Most of the financial sector doesn't even understand it, and those that do are the dipshits that got bailed out.
I still have my intermediate macro book around here, and don't really need it, if you want to borrow it. Micro you should hold onto. Different author, but it's not rocket science.
It depends on several factors, like which edition you are referring to (I assume that of 1961) and which print (first, second,...) and clearly depends on the condition of the book. You can have an idea searching for books of similar characteristics on http://www.bookfinder.com/
The simple answer is "yes you can"
Find out the ISBN for the book you are looking for and use the following website.
I use bookfinder a lot because it has a minimal look and feel to it, searches many book sites at once and then lists them in order of price with shipping included.
I'm guessing that this is the book that you are looking for.
edit : formatting
I used this website to perform searches at many sites at once. I ended up selling them to textbooks.com, textbookrecycling.com, textbookrush.com, and ckybooks.com. I also have some I need to send to bookitbuyback.com but I haven't gotten around to finding a box yet (it's my smallest "batch", only about $10).
My experience with international edition engineering textbooks is that they are extraordinarily high quality when compared to general subject int'l editions (such as Anthropology or something). The Asian engineering market is such that many books are published in full color with the same glossy paper of the U.S. edition. The only difference is everything is in SI units and not hardbound.
Can you tell us what book you are referencing in your post? It is not illegal to purchase international edition books in the U.S.
I've bought many books from AbeBooks and have never had a problem with them. If you search around you can usually find a free shipping or $5 - $10 off coupon too. I've never had a book come with newsprint as its pages either. Sometimes the books are not in color, but if that's an issue for me I'll buy the U.S. edition.
If you know where to look, you can get U.S. edition hardcover textbooks for way less than the bookstore price too. One thing you can do is look for custom editions of the textbook (usually there are only minor differences in content or ordering of material, but in my experience you'd be hard-pressed to point out any differences in the texts). I bought a UCLA edition of Giancolli's university physics text for less than half the cost the community college's bookstore was selling the loose leaf version. The great thing about this buy was that the UCLA edition was published hardbound in three volumes, so I got the benefit of not having to carry the entire textbook to class with the durability that comes with a real book.
Sometimes Amazon.ca has really good prices on NA edition textbooks as well. I usually use a search engine like Bookfinder to compare prices and versions before making a decision.
I use BookFinder to search for books. It gives me a selection of booksellers that have what I'm looking for and the price which lets me choose an alternative to Amazon if the price is the same or not too much higher, although I mainly use it to buy second-hand books and very rarely buy new.
Except the recommended book in this case is not a second textbook. It is the solution manual to the text, something that was invaluable to me while I was studying physics. There is in fact only one textbook listed in OP's image. One packaged with MasteringPhysics, one standalone MasteringPhysics access code, and the textbook's solution manual.
Of course we must always think critically about what we are told or recommended. I wasn't saying to indiscriminately purchase every recommended item. We would all be remiss to disregard recommended items simply because they weren't required. If we really want to save money, we could do some searching and try to find an international edition or slightly older edition of the book.
I use these three sites to find my books:
http://www.textbookspyder.com/
Between all three, I have found my textbooks for steals. Highly recommend these websites. Cheapest books are usually used books, but I have never received a badly beat up book.
You can find almost any book used through BookFinder. If the book isn't rare, you have a good chance of finding it for $4 shipping and all. (BF includes shopping in the displayed prices unless you configure it not to.)
I'm not sure how much help it will be, but here's the listing on the publisher's page. Unfortunately, this publisher no longer has the rights to Harry Potter.
Edit: Looks like I spoke too soon! The publisher page also has the EAN (13 digit ISBN) assigned to the set, 9780747595854. Google found the set on Amazon, these options on bookfinder, and several other potential listings. It looks like you could get the set for under $100 US, but if you want the set with box, it's probably going to cost you in the $500+ range.
Oh jeez, you aren't kidding. I got my copy of the former for almost nothing because a class that had just finished at my university had included it on the reading list -- and its outgoing students were keen to flood the local second-hand shops with it. As for the latter, I'm seeing second-hand copies in the $5-$6 range on Bookfinder -- maybe a place to start? There was also a paperback edition from Faber of several of Harris' novellas under one cover, and it included Palace -- but I can't now remember what the thing was called.
Here is an international edition of that book on ebay for $50. http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/221669680494?item=221669680494&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466&rmvSB=true
Here is the search I used to find it. There are a ton of results, including some test bank books. http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=&title=&lang=en&isbn=9780077862220&submitBtn=Search&new_used=*&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr
I bought it through abe but I found it through here. Happy hunting!
When I Was Five I Killed Myself is less than 200 pages, so it's a rather quick read. You could read it in one sitting on a particularly lazy day.
If you read ebooks and want to "borrow" it, PM me. If you prefer physical books and don't go the library route, there are multiple copies on BookFinder for $3.50 (which includes shipping.)
The first thing that comes to mind would be some of Philip K. Dick's work. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is the novel that the movie Blade Runner was based on, if you've seen that. (If you haven't seen it, I'd recommend reading the book first because there's a surprise at one point that's handled much better in the book than in the movie. The book makes you wonder if something is true or not, the movie flat out claims it is, at least in the original version. There are multiple re-edited director's cuts that have since been released.)
I would suggest trying to find a copy of Selected Stories which is a big compilation of Dick's work. There are several short stories that are set in a post-apocalyptic worlds that are somewhat reminiscent of Fallout. There are also a couple (The Days of Perky Pat comes to mind) that remind me of the more wondrous areas of Fallout 3, such as Little Lamplight and The Republic of Dave.
Selected Stories is a fairly large (nearly 500 page) hardback book, but you can get a copy shipped for $5 according to BookFinder.com.
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Bookfinder.com lists several available, but the cheapest is ~US$400 - they're lovely, big thick books, but I'm not sure you want to spend that much on them.
I highly recommend BookFinder.com
I found out about it a few months ago and have been using to buy books ever since, it's an aggregator for hundreds of book stores, you can search both used and new books, it gives you the price already in your currency and with the shipping costs added, it's pretty great to find the cheapest options, in the end the highest cost is usually the shipping itself
try bookfinder.com. I usually search their first when I need a book, even though I usually end up getting from bookdepository.co.uk (I've found the UK site ships to me faster) or Amazon. (Amazon took around 6 weeks to get my book to the Philippines and I had to pick it up from the post office too.)
If you're fine with used books and your not in a rush, bookfinder.com will get you the cheapest books.
My latest purchase was a hardcover copy of The Professional Chef by the Culinary Institute of America. I got an old edition for around P400, plus another P50 fee when I claimed it from the post office. Not to bad for a still good condition, 1000-plus page book. It took around 7 weeks to get here though.
Bookfinder is a great search tool for everything from cheap used books to rare signed copies. Also try ebay.uk for some good deals on Pratchett's stuff, but be aware of potential forgeries, some people will take a 1st/1st and forge a signature, its trickery still since Pratchett has so many variations on how he signs his name.
bookfinder.com is a useful searching tool, they provide listings from multiple online sites.
http://www.bookfinder.com/ They're a useful way to cut through the clutter and find exactly what you're really looking for.
Book finder is great for finding the rare ones, and comparing prices.
I was able to sell a couple school-specific versions of textbooks on my school's subreddit.
For the others, I go to bookfinder.com's buyback page (it searches several different buyer sites and gives you the current prices. (usually end up selling them to Amazon)
Just so everyone's aware, bookfinder is a great way to find these types of books for ridiculous deals. I actually used this for Sipser and got an international version of the second edition for $30.