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[leaveoutalltherest]

I know some professors like to make the lives of their students difficult.

But really.

Assigning a book that can't be bought in the school bookstore, any bookstore in 25 miles, can't be bought NEW ON AMAZON?

That's going a little far.

This is the book in question.


Also, it would be nice if they wouldn't cancel classes the FRIDAY BEFORE THEY START. Kinda hard to get a new class and then get the books when the bookstore is closed on weekends.

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[yoritomo-reiko.livejournal.com]

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So, how exactly does the professor expect you to be able to get it? And is the professor the main author on the book?

[leaveoutalltherest]

It's an online course through the college's online program. And no.

[dkphoenix.livejournal.com]

Heh, is he cited extensively in the footnotes? I had a professor (who specialized in 19th and 20th century Asia, as a matter of fact) who assigned this godawful long, dry, expensive reading list. As it turned out he was cited, quoted, or thanked in the prefaces of about half of them.

[leaveoutalltherest]

Nope. Nothing at all to do with this book. Apparently he just likes the book.

Thankfully I found it on Google books, it appears that the first five two chapters are intact. That should get me through until I can buy the damn thing from somewhere.

Damn it.