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Hochschild's curiosity was indeed tremendous--King Leopold's Ghost is an extraordinarily dense work filled with Steamboat schedules, diary entries, calculations of the price of harvesting rubber from 1897 to 1904 in exact francs per kilo, and fantastical newspaper headlines from various countries. Yet Hochschild's carefully controlled pen never allows the data to dominate the story; he integrates the information into a fluid narrative style. This story is far from a series of dry laundry lists. Hochschild begins each chapter with a vivid character portrait that provides an accessible segue into the heart of the story...
...know a book will be used next semester or the subsequent semester--condition [of the book] permitting--we will pay 50 percent of the cover price," Murphy says. "The same book goes on the selling floor for 25 percent off cover...
...When you consider that you save about 25 percent on used books over the new book cover price, the 350 additional used book titles translate into a significant amount of money saved by students," Rollert says...
Store managers have appealed to Faculty to provide them with booklists, and the store purchases students' used books for courses that are still being offered and sells them at half the cover price--cheaper than the Coop's price for used books...
...what does America owe its prosperity? Why are so many more Angolan girls malnourished and so many more Bolivians homeless than are Americans? Precisely because the capitalist business system in America is well-designed and works efficiently. Joe goes to a supermarket in America, for a relatively low price buys vegetables in a tamperproof package with nutrition labels, comes home and pops it in his microwave and enjoys a healthy meal...