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...those concentrating in the humanities. But if you think you've got it bad, just ask someone who is concentrating in Romance Languages, German, Slavic Studies...anyone, in fact, who is taking classes with required books in other languages. For them, the semester beings with a visit to Schoenhof's Foreign Books, located on 76A Mount Auburn St. Sure, they don't have to wait in those impossibly long lines at the Coop, but the price they pay for expediency is high: foreign volumes are pricier than even the most obscure of social theory tomes...
...books seem to cost more at Schoenhof's than at other bookstores, store manager David Leyenson explains, it is due to the high price of foreign books and the expense of getting them to Cambridge. To fight the high cost of foreign books, German Studies concentrator Jeanine L. Morey '96 expailned, professors limit the number of books that students need to buy by placing numerous readings on reserve...
...wouldn't even think of the Coop for foreign books," said Brad S. Epps, assistant professor of romance languages and head tutor for Spanish. He orders instead from local foreign-language bookstore Schoenhof's, a long-time Harvard institution...
...reason for this loyalty is simple, he said. Variety--Schoenhof's stocks books for more than 50 of Harvard's foreign language courses, from Spanish to Urdu--and specialized knowledge draw Epps and other professors to the store...
...asking them if it was a good book, howfast it progressed--they knew the book," she said.Carlstedt also said that service at Schoenhof's isfaster than at the Coop, where the lines are"horrible...