I just got the list of books I need for the Fall 09 term. I am about to go berserk because just by looking at the prices of the books I need. I need to pay around $450-$500 and I am not even full time lol. I usually trust Amazon to buy stuff but I see that the books I need are muuuch more expensive on there than what is listed on my books list. -_____-;;; Where do you buy your books? I went to half.com, too and couldn't find the AP books I need. Ahhh! (But I am sure the other books are on there.)
I can't find "A & P REVEALED WORKBOOK & CD V1 PACKAGE" anywhere. Has anyone used it? Where did you get it? How much was it?
Oh and this one... "HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY-GET READY A&P- 360 CD".... it's making my head spin.
I've used amazon and half.com. I bought all new nursing books from amazon.com last year and spent about $250 less than the cost of used books from the bookstore plus my shipping was free :-)
Half.com now has a feature that allows you to set a price you're willing to pay for a book and it gives buyers the option to sell it to you for that price.
Chegg.com is primarily used for renting textbooks. I wouldn't recommend renting nursing textbooks from there but renting gen ed books should be fine.
I've only done one semester myself and got them from Amazon. I have two college kids (a grad student and a 5th year engineering student) and we've gotten a lot of their books from Amazon, half.com and some of the other places mentioned here.
I write this note because what I see happening in the area of Florida I'm in (Panhandle) is that Pensacola Junior College and NW FL University (OWC) are going to these packaged books that are packaged specifically for those schools. My A&P "package" consists of the newest edition textbook, Interactive Physiology 10-System Suite, and the Body Atlas. All shrink wrapped. Had to purchase brand new as they changed to the newest edition. The text book was actually sent to a printer, taken out of the book binding and put into a large notebook! My Sociology book is brand new also...changed just this semestser. Algebra and Human Growth and Development I was able to purchase used...actually got them cheaper used through efollet.
My anatomy prof told us on the first day that we didn't have to get the text, but we would need the lab book and that old editions were ok. So, I would wait until the first day and ask the instructor, so you can put off buying anything that you don't absolutely have to get. Good luck this term.
Oh, this is good advice. And true. I would hate to spend money and then not even use the book... lol. However I also see the other poster's point-- buying a new book and not taking off the shrink paper. Ahh, I have much to think about.
Oh and I thought about renting. I wouldn't want to do it with my nursing courses, however. I have to take critical thinking/ethics and human growth... so I may rent those instead. Still a useful option!!
I've only done one semester myself and got them from Amazon. I have two college kids (a grad student and a 5th year engineering student) and we've gotten a lot of their books from Amazon, half.com and some of the other places mentioned here.
I write this note because what I see happening in the area of Florida I'm in (Panhandle) is that Pensacola Junior College and NW FL University (OWC) are going to these packaged books that are packaged specifically for those schools. My A&P "package" consists of the newest edition textbook, Interactive Physiology 10-System Suite, and the Body Atlas. All shrink wrapped. Had to purchase brand new as they changed to the newest edition. The text book was actually sent to a printer, taken out of the book binding and put into a large notebook! My Sociology book is brand new also...changed just this semestser. Algebra and Human Growth and Development I was able to purchase used...actually got them cheaper used through efollet.
Yea I go to school in Miami and in my college we are seeing a similar thing. I was looking at the books for human nutrition and I saw it was an MDC pack. It was so strange; never heard of it. But reading your post I understand it much better. It is kind of nice, I think... I bought my summer term's books used. Well, most of them. Now I am looking for someone to sell them to. Luckily, I have a neighbor who wants to get into the same program I am going to so maybe she will buy mine.
Half.com now has a feature that allows you to set a price you're willing to pay for a book and it gives buyers the option to sell it to you for that price.
I write this note because what I see happening in the area of Florida I'm in (Panhandle) is that Pensacola Junior College and NW FL University (OWC) are going to these packaged books that are packaged specifically for those schools. My A&P "package" consists of the newest edition textbook, Interactive Physiology 10-System Suite, and the Body Atlas. All shrink wrapped. Had to purchase brand new as they changed to the newest edition. The text book was actually sent to a printer, taken out of the book binding and put into a large notebook!
Yea I go to school in Miami and in my college we are seeing a similar thing. I was looking at the books for human nutrition and I saw it was an MDC pack. It was so strange; never heard of it.
Hmph! Must be a Florida thing, I go to school @ Daytona State College and I had to purchase a school-published spiral bound lab book for A&P 1&2 .... frikkin' $119!! No way around it, and everything in the book was clearly taken from other lab books. And we found out that they "update" it every semester so you can't really sell it back or sell it to a student taking it the following semester. Additionally, they sold the textbook shrinkwrapped with a CD-ROM of some sort and an atlas as FLDoula described. $225 for that! I managed to get around that by renting the text by itself on Chegg ... I still managed and A in A&P1 and pulling an A in A&P2 right now so really that extra stuff is fluff.
What a racket .. guess bookstores were losing $$$ big time and decided to fight back!
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I've used amazon and half.com. I bought all new nursing books from amazon.com last year and spent about $250 less than the cost of used books from the bookstore plus my shipping was free :-)
Half.com now has a feature that allows you to set a price you're willing to pay for a book and it gives buyers the option to sell it to you for that price.
Chegg.com is primarily used for renting textbooks. I wouldn't recommend renting nursing textbooks from there but renting gen ed books should be fine.