(in Australia). For everything else, there’s eBay and Amazon.
My money doesn’t go anywhere near as far on textbooks here as it would if we were fortunate enough to have books at the same price they are in the US. I’m trying to track down some Vygotsky works (and Fisher’s collection is categorised by emptiness, haven’t checked out UNSW yet but imagine it wouldn’t be much/any better) and don’t want to spend the earth to pursue what is, essentially, an entirely peripheral interest. So I can spend, you know, $190 on a decent text in Australia, or I can get that bundled with one other (also apparently excellent resource) for US$50 plus shipping from Amazon. It’s absolutely nuts.
One day someone will try to explain the economics behind this to me. And that day my head will implode with frustration.
i’m tempted to try and work out how it works, then try and explain it to you, just for the novelty of seeing your head implode…
you’d survive, right…?
Try http://www.textbookexchange.com.au/home.php and second hand bookstores. There are two on Glebe Point Rd.
I am pretty sure that Fisher Library does have translated Vygotsky works. http://tinyurl.com/yh5skp
You could also try finding online translations. Here are some links that I got off Wikipedia:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/ (has an entire archive)
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/project2.htm
http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/
http://www.kolar.org/vygotsky/
Yeah… web stuff doesn’t interest me because I like paper more ;-)
I’d forgotten about Textbook Exchange, but don’t think it promising because Vygotsky’s stuff would never constitute a set text, in all probability. Haven’t hit up the second hand stores in person yet (there are some good ones in Randwick, too).
Fisher’s collection seems stretched from the +1 recalled status on at least one of those, and unfortunately those 12 records become six once trimmed to real copies (not duplicate records) and in English… and then some of those are abridged/selections :(
Plus, hey, I like to buy books :P Any excuse I know :$
I like paper too. Ever thought of PRINTING things and getting them bound? :p
I just listed my compassion on eBay. Yes, I was quite bored.
Haha, your compassion has typos. Your compassion sucks.
(Search eBay for “Compassion”, seller “imsickofbeing” if you’re curious)