Book sale!

[oyceter]

Via glass_icarus, Princeton University Press is having an online sale in the US and Canada until March 31!

I am currently thinking of getting Classical Chinese Supplement: Selections from Historical Texts because I feel I should work on all the 文言文 I memorized in high school, Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese if it'll work on my iMac, and India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England.

I am sad how many books on POC are being written by white people =(.

Things I am not sure I should get but am convinced someone on my r/flist should (all from the "under $15 bin, since I did not allow myself to look outside it for fear of temptation):

• Complexities: Women in Mathematics


• Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siecle


• Mathematics Elsewhere: An Exploration of Ideas Across Cultures


• Enough to Say It's Far: Selected Poems of Pak Chaesam


• Stand and Prosper: Private Black Colleges and Their Students


• After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (alas for oracne, this is WWII, not WWI)


• Ancient Sichuan: Treasures from a Lost Civilization

... and there is probably a lot more, but I zoned out after a while. Still. Academic books! For relatively cheap! OMG Chinese textbooks!

Comments

[par_avion]

(Hi, I'm a Mac user and former Apple employee currently studying Mandarin.)

Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese will probably only work on a Power PC (not Intel) Mac running 10.4 or earlier (possibly 10.3 or earlier, it may depend on the exact version of 10.4).

You would need a Mac that still has support for "Classic" environment, which is only possible on a PowerPC Mac, and then only if you have a Mac OS 9 System Folder installed on your computer (which you should be able to install/reinstall if you have the original install disks.)

Thanks for the tip to the book sale!

[oyceter]

Oh, thank you so much for the FYI! I was wondering but had no idea how to check, and that saved me $20. Yeah, I have the Intel Mac running 10.6, which... really does not sound like it will cut it.