Word: textbooks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work on foreign policy aimed at the general public must strike the difficult balance between academic scholarship and public accessibility. The essays in Reversing Relations may be more interesting than a foreign policy textbook, but can hardly be called riveting. Ironically, those interested in reading Reversing Relations probably already know most of the information the book presents; anyone who has been around since the 1950s and kept up with current events will have seen nearly all the events offered here unfolding as they happened...
...invited John Paul Rollert '00, an Undergraduate Council member, to discuss the high textbook prices at the Coop. Rollert had raised the issue in a letter to Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty...
According to Nelson, a friend ordered books from on-line book supplier Amazon.com for $120 less than the Coop prices. Rollert also found price disparities of up to seven dollars between the main Coop bookstore and the textbook division...
...There is a lot of disorganization within the Coop," Rollert said. "There is a different computer system within the new bookstore and the textbook part, which is the reason the Coop gives for different prices within the store...
...just for one semester," Bossert said of his term on the CUE committee. "I think it is very interesting. There are more things that we can actually do something about--like textbook prices and classroom spaces on this committee...