Comments on: New books in political philosophy

By: matt

matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 21:41:57 +0000

Chris, That sounds like a good enough explination to me. Thanks.

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:09:54 +0000

Many bloggers—myself included—get a little cut if people buy something off amazon after following a link. It isn’t much—I bought one book off my last quarter’s earnings—and sometimes we pay Henry in books for the bandwidth costs so it helps there too.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:24:27 +0000

I know it’s the near-universal practice to link books to amazon, but is there any reason not to link to the publisher’s page instead? Is it just that amazon gives better service if one wants to order the book? I ask mostly becuase they tend to give meager information on the book most of the time, while in my experience the publishers tend to do better. Maybe others have a different experience, though. But, often enough amazon doesn’t even clearly list the publisher, making it harder to get to that page, while everyone knows how to get to amazon.

By: DJW

DJW — Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:28:02 +0000

Farelly’s books look pretty good, I could almost use them for a contemporary political theory course. I say almost because of the short shrift given to critical theory of various stripes. Still, a reader that could take care of 70% of such a course is a rare beast.