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This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.
That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.
This is why we download.
Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks
BookFinderSpreading this shit like nutella because goddamn textbooks are so expensive.
Signal Boast
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Chick Lit Is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit Chick lit—hot pink covers featuring martini glasses and Manolos, stylish city girl heroines navigating the urban jungle in search of love and career—seems to have gone the way of Friends and the dotcom bubble. “A visit to any chain bookstore will testify that its heyday has definitely passed,” says Salon, quoting an editor who says, “We’ve pretty much stopped publishing chick lit.”
“[T]he bloom is off the “chick lit” rose,” agrees The Economist.
Well I have news. Yes, chick lit is dead (or dying, at least). But in its place, we now have a new genre. Call it “farm lit.”
In farm lit books, our heroines ditch the big cities beloved in chick lit—New York, Chicago, LA—in favor of slower, more rural existences, scrappily learning to raise goats on idyllic Vermont farms or healing their broken hearts by opening cupcake bakeries in their sweet Southern hometowns. Instead of sipping $16 appletinis with the girls, they’re mucking out barns and learning to knit. Instead of pining after Mr. Big…
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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academic lives.
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a few books… homo academicus by pierre bourdieu, deconstructing pierre bourdieu: against sociological terrorism from the left by jeannine verdes-leroux, graduate study for the 21st century by gregory colon semenza
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It’s more a “how-to” than a study and focuses on English Departments, but Graduate Studies for the 21st Century may be worth reading. It’s an accurate overview of the academic process/getting into academics..read the description on the book and just ordered it. it will definitely be useful! thanks alethiosaur :)
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Asian American Studies Reading List -
bookshelf wall.
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boocycle.
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eco-psychology/vladimir antonov. coming into contact: explorations in ecocritical theory and practice/annie merril ingram, ian marshall, daniel j. philippon, adam w. sweeting, ed. the ecolinguistics reader: language, ecology and environment/alwin fill and peter muhlhausler, ed. wallace stevens and the apocalyptic mode/malcolm woodland.
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You Should Be Reading: Vandana Shiva.
Bio from South End Press
Born in India in 1952, Vandana Shiva is a world-renowned environmental leader and thinker. Director of the Research Foundation on Science, Technology, and Ecology, she is the author of many books, including Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (South End Press, 2010) Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (South End Press, 2008), Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace (South End Press, 2005),Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization (South End Press, 2001), Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (South End Press, 1997), Monocultures of the Mind (Zed, 1993), and The Violence of the Green Revolution (Zed, 1992).
Shiva is a leader in the International Forum on Globalization, along with Ralph Nader and Jeremy Rifkin. She addressed the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle, 1999, as well as the recent World Economic Forum in Melbourne , 2000. In 1993, Shiva won the Alternative Nobel Peace Prize (the Right Livelihood Award). In 2010, she was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for her commitment to social justice. The founder of Navdanya (“nine seeds”), a movement promoting diversity and use of native seeds, she also set up the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in her mother’s cowshed in 1997. Its studies have validated the ecological value of traditional farming and been instrumental in fighting destructive development projects in India .
Before becoming an activist, Shiva was one of India ’s leading physicists. She holds a master’s degree in the philosophy of science and a PhD in particle physics.
Some of the books are available at South End Press, a poc run independent press, including some in Spanish.
What an absolutely amazing person
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“Disembodied books have the same problems as disembodied education in general. It doesn’t involve ethos, or real contact with actual other human beings in person. It doesn’t involve incarnational presence. It doesn’t involve a social dimension, say consulting your favorite owner of a book shop and building a friendship over the years. In short, it is a more gnostic approach to reading, learning, knowledge.” -
afterwards, read Deep Economy by Bill McKibben, if you haven’t already.
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books i’m focusing on for this week. idk, i just kind of find it funny that my dad has a bunch of these books on remote viewing. not sure why he got interested in this… well anyway, i’m gonna check out this one by joseph mcmoneagle, mind trek. and then go mind trekkin. yeah? so see you soon in my remote viewing window!
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With over 50,000 books on its shelves, Book Mountain is believed to be the world’s biggest single bookcase. The next generation library, which took ten years to complete, is based in the small Dutch town of Spijkenisse, just outside Rotterdam. Built on the principle of sustainably and energy-efficiency with bookshelves made from recycled materials, it “celebrates the book” and the act of reading, and aims at reviving the central Spijkenisse’s area.
Explore and enjoy more of the Book Mountain pyramid here.
ooh i bet there are a lot of secret hiding places in here.
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