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Ordering books Online Take one
Everyone knows that books can be costly. I don’t have to tell you that text books for any academic pursuit are ridiculously expensive. This lesson is one that is being taught again and again with every course of study that we choose to pursue. To give you an example. The major text books for the field of Anesthesia which I am beginning to study range in price from $298.00 dollars for the new Miller’s Anesthesia text to something less than $100.00 for most of the ancillary paper back books. After totaling up 8 or 9 of these various textbooks, the price tag went over a G note! This is for the first semester of study at USC. Out comes the World Wide Web search engines!!
The searches for decent prices for college text books started with Amazon and Barnes and Noble Books. I get a fairly nice 5% discount from BN.com which is not bad when you factor in the NO state Tax and NO shipping idea. All in all a good deal buying on line from Barnes and Noble in New York. However, a crafty friend at work today mentioned to me that there was another On Line purveyor of books that I should check out namely Books A Million.
BOOKS-A-MILLION
Looking at the web site for Books-A-Million, is a bibliophiles delight. I have just begun to check them out but so far what I see is a straight 10% off the retail price of all of the books I need to purchase. There is a “Club Membership” fee of $10.00 yearly but this seems reasonable in the face of spending several thousand dollars for books. This is great news I think. The prudent thing to do is a test, a scientific experiment as it were. The experiment in purchasing an inexpensive text book or two before a large purchase is something that seems prudent but may lead to something out of “The Sting”. Maybe I am just being melodramatic. Coming up next is news from the front lines in the on-line book purchasing thing.
An Anesthesia Library Listing
Clinical Anesthesia by Lange Appleton
Anesthesia by Miller
Anesthesia Secrets by James Duke
Basics of Anesthesia by Robert K. Stoelting
Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease by Robert K. Stoelting
Pharmacology & Physiology in Anesthetic Practice by Robert K. Stoelting
Clinical Anesthesia by Paul G. G. Barash
Understanding Anesthesia Equipment by Jerry A. A. Dorsch, Susan E. Dorsch
Anesthesiologist’s Manual of Surgical Procedures by Richard A., Md. Jaffe (Editor), Stanley I. Samuels
Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital by William E. Hurford
Practical Approach to Cardiac Anesthesia by Joseph P. Ashton, Frederick A. Hensley
