I did see the $39.95 ad for the Goody book on the LEA website. Is this
a for real offer?
Esteban Diaz
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:03 am
Subject: Re: [xmca] Jack Goody book
> HiAnna
> www.erlbaum.com <http://www.erlbaum.com> is where you order the
> Goody book
> from, Ana.
> People obviously can write as they choose. As we have seen this
> week, when
> someone
> goes unanswered, or some tries to dominate the discussion, it
> degrades the
> discourse.
>
> I have discussed with several people a policy of dividing the year
> into 12
> months and having
> a different group/place/person more or less shepard the discussion
> duringthat period, perhaps putting up a paper for discussion a
> topic near to their
> heart, or that they think is
> systematically missing and could use discussion, or.........
>
> If there are 12 members who would like to volunteer to set up such an
> arrangement, it might
> help to make the diversity of voices (and responsibilities) which XMCA
> strives to embody a
> reality. Short of that, people should do as they wish and the
> outcome will
> be manifest.
>
> I will keep the poll for voting on next article open until
> tomorrow. It
> appears a close decision. Perhaps we can discuss both, with the
> author who
> comes in second supplying something
> to xmca on his/her own. However, the next issue of xmca is already
> here, and
> a new vote
> will begin next week. So, we lurch toward winter.
>
> mike
>
> PS-- There are a wide variety of essays in the Goody book. I
> believe you can
> access the TOC
> on the Erblaum web page.
> On 10/18/05, Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org> wrote:
> >
> > How can we get it before publication?? I am interested.
> > Is is sufficient to promise to write on XMCA every week at least
> one time :-)
> > ?? More than one time?? Any money involved?
> > Ana
> >
> > Mike Cole wrote:
> >
> > The book below is about to be published at which point only God
> and Bill
> > Gates will be able to afford it.
> > At present, those with a special interest in the topic might be
> able to get
> > a copy for only the cost of a year
> > of xmca. :-(
> >
> > mike
> >
> > Title: *TECHNOLOGY, LITERACY, AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY
> > (cloth)*<tek9.asp?pg=products&specific=0-8058-5402-9>
> > Subtitle: Implications of the Work of Jack Goody
> > Author: *David R. Olson (ed.) and Michael Cole (ed.)*
> > Primary Subject: LITERACY/READING
> > Secondary Subject: SOCIAL COGNITION
> > ISBN: 0-8058-5402-9
> > Year: August 2004
> > Price: $110.00
> > *Pre-Paid Price ONLY: $39.95*
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