History questions not worth their own thread IV
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Hmm, is this an attempt to keep the thread going by flattering the moderator? Good work.
There are actually a couple more books since then, but I'm the co-editor rather than author, so that probably doesn't count. Unfortunately I simply don't have time to write books of that kind any more, as I need to focus on academic publications.
There are actually a couple more books since then, but I'm the co-editor rather than author, so that probably doesn't count. Unfortunately I simply don't have time to write books of that kind any more, as I need to focus on academic publications.
It's not that large. Basically modern Czechia plus Silesia, which went back an forth between Poland and Bohemia during the Middle Ages.
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Well now you're teasing us. You know academic publications are even better for us
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119 dollah for a book? pricing issue there.....
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Funny you should say that, one or two of the books actually looked very interesting to me, but not interesting enough to pay the going rate for them.
Hey Plotinus,
Congratulations on being a successfull author. Though I am sure my kind words and opinion are worth squat to you, I think it's very cool nonetheless and wanted to say so.
I work in a bookshop. University textbooks like those - and whether Plotinus intended them to be so or not, university textbooks is what they are - are often over the $100 mark. Even some high school books make it that high.
But as an economist, how can you justify leaving all that cash to be saved, rather than invested into the economy?
You, my friend, are a genius.
Quackers
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i am aware of this but still it is a crazy price. plotinus should have a chat with whoever decides thhe price IMO. a friend of mine studies architecture and was advised to buy a £400 book. Some academics are brainless....Better to buy last years edition 2nd hand for a fraction of the price or loan it out from yer library
savings equal investment in simple theory£££
madviking
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Good call.We change the questions, year to year, and libraries seldom have enough copies.Quackers said:
As an academic writing a textbook, I'll be the first to admit that I like royalty payments. Not personally, because those will be piddling, but professionally because the money flows back to my program and lets me hold classes with naff all students in stuff I like.Quackers said:
The Dictionary of theologians, which is the pricy one on the list (although considerably less pricy if you buy it in the UK rather than as an import into the US), isn't a textbook. It's not aimed at individual buyers at all, really. It's a big encyclopaedia for libraries, so the only purchasers envisaged are institutions. (Also, I don't get royalties from that one, alas - the publisher has copyright.)
All of the others are a bit more affordable!
All of the others are a bit more affordable!
Plus upper and lower Lusatia. And Silesia was bigger than Brandenburg - which was given to Hohenzollerns few years before the start of the Hussite wars.
You're right. I somehow always lump the Lusatias together with Silesia.
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