Re: [xmca] Jack Goody book

From: Jim Rogers (fajimr@cc.usu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 19 2005 - 07:49:54 PDT


I'm not sure if this price is so apparent as the fine print reads, it
appears that you have to order more than one copy:

*Special Discount Price! $39.95* *
* /Applies if payment accompanies order or for course adoption orders
of 5 or more./

jim
Esteban Diaz 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> 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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