World History

[weezo]

Sounds like a good book to post and discuss on American History. Oh, and by the way, Amazon has the same book new for $8 less: http://www.amazon.com/Freeing-Charles-Struggle-Slave-Studies/dp/0252076885

[madupont]

Isn't that usually when Amazon makes an offer to deal a lower price when you buy another recommended book with it? I thought that was their policy, to move books more quickly before they have to pay the tax on inventory in stock.

[weezo]

Not been my experience with Amazon at all. I may buy one book at a time, or several. Sometimes I buy the recommendations, sometimes not. It is the price plus Amazon 3.99 shipping on any book. What I also like on Amazon are the used books. If a book is old enough to have used versions for sale, the used are usually in excellent condition, and the price can go as low as one cent, plus the 3.99 shipping that never varies no matter where the used book is coming from. Maybe you should give Amazon another look.

[Lhoffman]

If you buy more than 15 books, cd's, dvd's a year,   Amazon Premium.   Costs $60.   Free Second-Day delivery, $3.99 for next day...which has been a lifesaver for getting last minute music for students. 

Sometimes you have to pay for delivery on used books from Amazon Marketplace, sometimes not.   Amazon does notify them of premium orders so the service is always reliable.

[madupont]

I usually try to deal with book dealers who are not too distant, unless I am ordering direct from an academic publisher, because I still have a link to another  finder or locator who lists who happens to have the second-hand varieties of a particular work.

Can either of you tell me if there was a novel reviewed of the movie The Single Man, because I feel that I read the "book review" somewhere in passing?

[Lhoffman]

I've seen a review in The New York Review of Books.  Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, 1964.

Also in a UK paper, maybe the Guardian.

[madupont]

That's right. That means that I read it.