Amazon Raid
Apr. 24th, 2011 08:39 amMy last trip up the Amazon was last November, and I'm afraid I went a bit overboard yesterday. Maybe not; a big chunk of the cost was one high-priced item. The guy who wants to do a readings course in advanced differential geometry wants to work out of Boothby's An Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds and Riemannian Geometry, and, like most advanced mathematics texts, that one was a tad expensive. (I also tried to order the text I'll be using for the topology class, but they didn't have any in stock. They did have it earlier this week, so I assume - I hope - the shortage is temporary.)
For myself, I bought a couple of DVD sets: season one of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" (having been reminded of its goodness by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
kikibug13) and of "Cagney and Lacey". (Those two shows, along with "Kate and Allie", are forever linked in my mind; for one year, those three "and" shows aired consecutively on Monday nights, and I watched all three religiously. In retrospect, "Kate and Allie" wasn't really that good, and I won't be ordering that one.) Then I went on a spree of book-buying; despite running into repeated "not in stock" or "too expensive to put on the same order with Boothby" problems, I still managed to accumulate the following.al_zorra), philosophy (Appiah, recommended on the now-defunct blog of The Green Knight), animal psychology (Grandin, whose work I've wanted to get into for some time now), and field biology (Flannery - no, C, not that Tim Flannery; this one is hunting new species in New Guinea). Should be enough to keep me occupied between now and RenoVation....
For myself, I bought a couple of DVD sets: season one of "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" (having been reminded of its goodness by
kikibug13) and of "Cagney and Lacey". (Those two shows, along with "Kate and Allie", are forever linked in my mind; for one year, those three "and" shows aired consecutively on Monday nights, and I watched all three religiously. In retrospect, "Kate and Allie" wasn't really that good, and I won't be ordering that one.) Then I went on a spree of book-buying; despite running into repeated "not in stock" or "too expensive to put on the same order with Boothby" problems, I still managed to accumulate the following.- Thomas Barfield, The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China 221 B.C. to AD 1757
- Kwame Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers
- Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia
- Patricia Briggs, Blood Bound
- Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
- Tim Flannery, Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds
- Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- Temple Grandin, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
- Justine Larbalestier, How to Ditch Your Fairy
- Jack Williamson, Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction
al_zorra), philosophy (Appiah, recommended on the now-defunct blog of The Green Knight), animal psychology (Grandin, whose work I've wanted to get into for some time now), and field biology (Flannery - no, C, not that Tim Flannery; this one is hunting new species in New Guinea). Should be enough to keep me occupied between now and RenoVation....
