… Tasman et al. have produced an outstanding book in this third edition of Psychiatry. At a list price of $340 (less on discount websites), Psychiatry is not cheap, but in two volumes weighing about 7 kg, you get a lot for your money. Perhaps you would get even more with less if it were on a CD, thus making it more portable and searchable. Still, this is a fine textbook that will serve educators, at all levels, as a curriculum guide and teaching tool. For practitioners, it is a comprehensive reference that will find great use in any library.
Psychiatry takes its place in the University Diaries Textbook Hall of Fame next to The Ultimate Rule of Law (189 pages of text, $136.00), and Marxism Beyond Marxism ($140.00).
July 14th, 2009 at 4:05PM
An offspring of mine recently paid $180 for a 500-page psych text, so now I’m thinking that we got a bargain.
July 14th, 2009 at 8:26PM
Always buy your textbooks online, campus bookstores charge way too much. Try a price comparison site, my favorite is http://www.cheapesttextbooks.com.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:33AM
Marxism Beyond Marxism at least has a paperback edition…