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Cant he like send the Sergeant at Arms out to drag them into the Chamber by force if necessary?
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keep punching joe posted:Did any of you have lecturers who would assign their own book TACD posted:with new revisions every year which are 99% identical to the old one keep punching joe posted:as required reading for the course, even if it wasn't actually required.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:14
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Isn't there an online shop dedicated to reselling academic books? Sure I heard about that years ago. eBay it for a reasonable price and if you can, contact students from the old course letting them know the book is there cheap
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Apr 27, 2022 14:20
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Thanks for suggestions. She finished her PhD about 20 years ago so I suspect a lot of them are out of date. That said, a lot are foundational texts or well-known, so will still be in print and on sale.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:36
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in my first year course at uni we all had to buy our textbooks new for a stupid price as each copy came with a one-time code to sign up to a lovely online quiz that iirc counted towards our marks. love to see innovation in the textbook scam field
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therattle posted:Thanks for suggestions. She finished her PhD about 20 years ago so I suspect a lot of them are out of date. That said, a lot are foundational texts or well-known, so will still be in print and on sale.
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Angepain posted:in my first year course at uni we all had to buy our textbooks new for a stupid price as each copy came with a one-time code to sign up to a lovely online quiz that iirc counted towards our marks. love to see innovation in the textbook scam field Wow that's brutal. I fell for the textbook scam in my first semester and dutifully spent an insane amount of money on the current editions of the required reading. Then I figured out that firstly you didn't need most of them and secondly the uni library had them all anyway, maybe a year or two "out of date" but containing the same material with the numbers in the worked examples swapped around. I think we only had one lecturer who wanted you to buy his book: others also put their own work on the reading list but gave out copies of the relevant parts. These days I would strongly advise any students to buy all of their textbooks and stay well away from the copyright-infringing websites https://sci-hub.se/ and https://libgen.is/, where most textbooks and journal articles are easily found, having been illegally uploaded by ne'er-do-wells.
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And in some cases the article writers themselves! One that I used to have would upload his because the journal sites charged £30/download and he never got any of it.
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keep punching joe posted:Did any of you have lecturers who would assign their own book as required reading for the course, even if it wasn't actually required. Happened to my partner loads during her time at uni, nice side hustle I suppose. In my first year, for a module about the computer language Prolog, the textbook was written by the professor giving the course. And the only source to get it was the uni shop, at something like 3-4 times other course books. Didn't buy it, I think there wasn't enough to go around but not sure if Im recalling that correctly or not. As for reselling, its all pdf's these days mostly.
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feedmegin posted:Cant he like send the Sergeant at Arms out to drag them into the Chamber by force if necessary? Just imagining the Sarge leaving the Daily Mail offices empty handed and the news reporting "no survivors"
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Red Oktober posted:And in some cases the article writers themselves! One that I used to have would upload his because the journal sites charged £30/download and he never got any of it. Appalling, just because you wrote the article doesn't mean you have the right to distribute it! That's taking food right out of the mouths of the poor folks at Elsevier and Springer.
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https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1519293906227183616
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Glad to see Birbalsingh rising ever higher in the world. https://twitter.com/Miss_Snuffy/status/1518457802527850501
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An unironic paraphrase of arbeit macht frei in the wild, impressive.
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Birbalsingh being in a position of influencing anything more important than an egg is deeply disturbing. Fantastically stupid woman.
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Unfortunately she lacks the logical awareness to understand that one woman being bad at numbers and logic doesn't mean that all are, or even that women in general are predisposed to be. https://twitter.com/snigskitchen/status/1519308753123823617
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happyhippy posted:In my first year, for a module about the computer language Prolog, the textbook was written by the professor giving the course. Ohhhhhhhhhhh another Prolog person  I don't recall ever having a text book for that. It bent my brain getting used to a completely different (non-sequential) style of programming but I got there after a few weeks. It was worth doing. I got a distinction for my Postgrad Operational Research thesis/project and got offered a PhD place on the strength of it (which I declined to take up on account of Mammon being somewhat more appealing that postgrad-servitude in the environs of Holloway Road.). Btw - US textbooks are extortionate. They also publish 'international editions' of the same which are much much cheaper. So canny Americans would come over to Egypt and stock up in the AUC bookshop. The cost savings more than covered the cost of flights!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ohhhhhhhhhhh another Prolog person London Met? I live near there. Holloway Rd is a pretty unappealing thoroughfare. My wife’s PhD was a rhetorical analysis of far-right language. A few years ago she thought it had become obsolete… it’s sadly still very relevant.
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I came here to post that: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/apr/27/girls-shun-physics-a-level-as-they-dislike-hard-maths-says-social-mobility-head Birbalsingh has some appalling views. When I was about 12 or 13 in the early 70s, I moved from a girls' school that did not offer separate sciences to a mixed school that did. After my first physics lesson I went home and said "I want to do physics at university" (it was about submarines). When there was the next parents' evening, the aging physics teacher said "physics is not for these little girls, it's too hard for their minds." My mum blew up (never tell my mum a girl / woman can't do something!) and said "Actually she wants to do physics at university." That shut HIM up and bizarrely my marks that were, along with all the other girls in the class C+ regardless of the quality of work, went to B- overnight. Unbelievable that this kind of poo poo is being perpetrated by a female head teacher nearly 50 years later.
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I also meant to add that I work in the film business and believe in copyright laws, but gently caress academic and textbook publishers.
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therattle posted:London Met? I live near there. Holloway Rd is a pretty unappealing thoroughfare. It was North London Poly when I did the PGDipOR there. I think it turned into University of North London, not sure. Lost track of all the goings on with university / polytechnic institutions. I have attended many seats of learning in London over the years Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Apr 27, 2022 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Ohhhhhhhhhhh another Prolog person Nice one! It was only part of the course to get us into programming, we moved onto C++ the next few years.
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Prole posted:Oliver Eagleton's book The Starmer Project is brilliant. Highly recommended. Just wanted to say this led me down a rabbit hole of reading an article written by this guy. I enjoyed it (insofar as one can enjoy being appalled) but gently caress me was it eye opening. Gonna see if my local library can get a copy of this book.
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Seriously, though, if you're a politics nerd with ten quid to spare, I strongly recommend picking up The Starmer Project. It's an excellent summary of the Labour party's recent history from 2015 onwards, and Eagleton seems like a decent sort with a decent head on his shoulders who could stand to have some money thrown at him.
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I need a quick way of reducing my blood pressure. That birbaling singh woman has got my heart pounding and my head thumping with her loving misogynistic bollox about girls and maths.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I need a quick way of reducing my blood pressure. That birbaling singh woman has got my heart pounding and my head thumping with her loving misogynistic bollox about girls and maths. PYF cute thread
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Birbalsingh has some appalling views. I knew I recognised her, but couldn't immediately place who it was. It's probably fair to say, though, that if you're a headteacher who has a face that's recognisable to a whole lot of people who've never been taught by you, you probably shouldn't be anywhere near a school. For a variety of different reasons.
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So which Tory Minister is the HoC Hog Cranker?
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Red Oktober posted:And in some cases the article writers themselves! One that I used to have would upload his because the journal sites charged £30/download and he never got any of it. How would you get that sweey citation credit if all your articles are locked behind paywalls?
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Darth Walrus posted:Seriously, though, if you're a politics nerd with ten quid to spare, I strongly recommend picking up The Starmer Project. It's an excellent summary of the Labour party's recent history from 2015 onwards, and Eagleton seems like a decent sort with a decent head on his shoulders who could stand to have some money thrown at him. I used my Forums-Enforced Fifteen Minutes Of
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Darth Walrus posted:Seriously, though, if you're a politics nerd with ten quid to spare, I strongly recommend picking up The Starmer Project. It's an excellent summary of the Labour party's recent history from 2015 onwards, and Eagleton seems like a decent sort with a decent head on his shoulders who could stand to have some money thrown at him. Ordered. Need something to angry up the blood now that I've ditched pretty much all doomscrolling. Anyone got any fiction recommendations to balance out the doom? I like Pratchett, Fforde, didn't get in to Iain M Banks but might try again*, don't generally like scifi or fantasy. *I did "enjoy" the Wasp Factory by Iain Note Spelling Banks', might try some of his other non-M ones.
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Bobstar posted:*I did "enjoy" the Wasp Factory by Iain Note Spelling Banks', might try some of his other non-M ones. The Bridge is my favourite of his.
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I read all the David Mitchell (not that one) books until poo poo I dunno probably a decade ago so there's probably a few more by now. I think they were ok?
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Bobstar posted:Ordered. Need something to angry up the blood now that I've ditched pretty much all doomscrolling. mrpwase posted:The Bridge is my favourite of his. I really enjoyed The Crow Road
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Bobstar posted:Ordered. Need something to angry up the blood now that I've ditched pretty much all doomscrolling. Jennifer Egan is good. Ursula K Le Guin everything. It's a bit of a broad request. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy might be my favourite book but it does have a lot of existential doom amongst all the bleak beauty and incredible prose. The Magus by John Fowles messed with my sense of reality for a couple months
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Bobstar posted:Anyone got any fiction recommendations to balance out the doom? I like Pratchett, Fforde, didn't get in to Iain M Banks but might try again*, don't generally like scifi or fantasy.
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Bobstar posted:Ordered. Need something to angry up the blood now that I've ditched pretty much all doomscrolling. How about 'The Steep Approach to Garbadale'? (Iain Banks) Set at a reunion of a Scottish family who created a best-selling boardgame, and the run up to the EGM to decide if they will sell.
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Bobstar posted:Ordered. Need something to angry up the blood now that I've ditched pretty much all doomscrolling. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller. It is, I guess, classic sci-fi, but beautifully written, relevant to today, and just a truly enjoyable read. No lasers. No aliens.
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Capital, three volumes, by Karl R. R. Marx
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