Book shopping!
How dumb am I? I bought a slew of new books just before I move next week! Half Price Books is really quite dangerous for a book addict like myself. Oh well.
Here’s my haul:
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. I & II) by Gibbon
- The New College Latin & English Dictionary by Traupman
- Everything’s an Argument : With 2001 APA Update by Lunsford & Ruszkiewicz
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Diamond
- Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer’s Edge by Holzschlag
- What Is Mathematics, Really? by Hersh
- Reading Latin: Text and Reading Latin : Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises by Jones & Sidwell
The Gibbon set is really the best of the haul. It looks to be an 1952 copy of the original Britannica Great Books set. There’s a little damage to the bindings, very minor, but otherwise they two volumes are in fine condition.
An additional Latin text was a recommendation from my Latin instructor because the text we use (Wheelock) is wonderful in some ways, but very light on explanation and background in many others; I’ve also needed a genuine Latin/English dictionary for a while. The Hersh book on mathematics sounded too good to pass up (damn impulse buys). The Diamond book was a recommendation from a guy at work. The CSS book hopefully will help out a little with the site redesign I’m working on. The last was another impulse buy.
And there you have it.
