Re: [xmca] Jack Goody book

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 18 2005 - 16:31:41 PDT


Iassume it is real, Esteban! If not, I will scream bloody murder.
mike

On 10/18/05, Esteban Diaz <ediaz@csusb.edu> wrote:
>
> 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> <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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