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Alright /sci/ these have always been useful, so lets have a textbook thread.
Try to keep it to textbooks that can't be found in the sticky, so just state what you have and what you need.

>> No.4891790

Here's what I have, pretty much just intro level stuff.

>> No.4891800

>>4891790
Pics not attaching properly but it's pretty much just intro level science textbooks

>> No.4891811

I need:
Ecology: the experimental analysis of distribution and abundance by krebs
Evolutionary analysis by Freeman
and Principles of animal physiology by moyes

any editions would be fine, thanks

>> No.4891812

>>4891811
www.amazon.com

you're welcome.

>> No.4891824

textbooks are the only things that I pirate

usually I'm a moralfag but school tactics just make me rage so hard

>> No.4891828

>>4891824
buy used and then just resell. if you check occasionally on the prices of the books you need before the semester starts then you can sometimes catch deals.

last semester i bought a book on ebay for $60 that goes for $120 at cheapest used. it also came with the DVD and it was still sealed.

>> No.4891885

bump

>> No.4891906

>>4891824
I've heard that if you are caught using pirated books you get kicked out.

>> No.4891910

>>4891906
The only professors who care about that shit are the ones who use a book they wrote in their class.

And that's usually in liberal arts classes, not science.

>> No.4891918

Have any of you guys taken an intro to Econ class? The textbook for my section and instructor hasn't listed what textbook he wants, but the other instructor wants those people to buy a $260 dollar book with a code! Fuck that shit!

>> No.4891920

>>4891918
Never taken econ, but you could google a course outline of the class with prof your taking and see what textbook he used last year. Usaully the only change he/she would make is changing editions

>> No.4891922
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4891922

I have a copy of Taylor I could upload if anyone wants it.

I might also have a few Calc and DifEq books on one of my flash drives, I'll take a look.

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>>4891922
Taylor?

>> No.4891954

Atiyah Macdonald, Introduction to commutative algebra

>> No.4891970

>>4891933
Pretty sure he's talking about "Classical Mechanics" by John Taylor

It's pretty much THE standard textbook for teaching advanced Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics in physics programs.

>> No.4891974

>>4891954
Do you have it or need it? Because I need it.

>> No.4891986

>>4891824
are you the opposite me?
I pirate everything but textbooks. not because of moralfaggotry, but I feel more compelled to actually read it through and make all the exercises if I spent some money on it.

>> No.4891995

Y. Eliashberg - Symplectic geometry of plurisubharmonic functions

Anyone have this?

>> No.4892153

>>4891906
how will you get caught? just don't use the ebooks in class simple as that. most books also come in digital form so how can they even tell you pirated it?

once before a quiz some retard actually had the solution manual to the book opened on his laptop and the professor saw it. i don't think the professor reported him, but it was hilarious how red the guy got and the professor also seemed pretty pissed off.

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4892158

>>4891970
You mean, "Mechanics" by Landau and Lifshitz is "THE standard textbook for teaching advanced Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics in physics programs."

>> No.4892168

"Quantum Mechanics for Mathematicians" by Takhtajan. Anyone know where I can get this? I've been searching for this one for ever...

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4892172

Am i the only one that doesn't buy textbooks ?
2nd year eletrical engineering and haven't bought anything yet.

>> No.4892174

>>4892172
I usually bought second hand textbooks, used them for the semester (kind of... some of them I barely cracked open) and then sold them to students taking the same class next year.

>> No.4892195

>>4892158
Landau is overrated - Taylor is where it's at.

>> No.4892263

>>4891824
can never fucking find torrents for the textbooks i need

school always has to use some canadian version, even worse is when its specific to our area: "macroeconomics for atlantic canada". can we all just use the same shit across the board pls

>> No.4892270

>>4892195
>hurrradrurrrrderrr

>> No.4892306

http://librarypirate.me

you're welcome

>> No.4892314

I need Chemistry: Connections to our Changing World [H. Eugene Lemay, Herbert Beall, Karen M. Robblee, Douglas C. Brower].

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4892340

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Groups-Representations-Physics-H-F-Jones/dp/0750305045

>> No.4892383

>>4892340
that girl is ridiculously cute

>> No.4892387

>>4892383
>girl
>cute
>implying no contradiction

>> No.4892390

>>4892383
She's ugly as fuck

>>4892340
That book is shit. Why not get a real lie group text + a respectable QM book which actually treats group representations?

>> No.4892392

>not buying textbooks off the spoiled white kids who's parents payed for everything and just think fuck yeah $20 when you offer it for their textbooks and then selling for a profit if you don't want it after you're done with it

>> No.4892403

>>4891910
Mine certainly didn't give a shit. I told him that I'd torrented around 4 gig of them. He just laughed and said "I didn't hear that".

>> No.4892711

>>4891781
That AP Bio book at the bottom I got in my sophomore high school year. From the library. Wut

>> No.4892744

>>4892403

Same with my mathematics teachers. "Ok class, for some reason the school felt the need to have books made specifically for us. They're $150 in the school bookstore. Or you can buy the original textbook online used for around $10 off of Amazon. For the few of you who don't want to spend anything and a bit more computer savvy, I'm sure you guys will find a way to get the book if you want it."

And:
>>4891781

AP classes give you college credit if you pass the exams, why wouldn't they use a college textbook?

>> No.4892748

>>4891918

Buy book online used if you can. You can usually buy the codes for whatever you need online for around $20 at most.

>> No.4892795

I have one thing to say: if it's $10 for a book you'll be spending a lot of time over, you really should just get the book.

>> No.4892808

Awesome textbook for uni level chemistry is Raymond Chang "Physical Chemistry for the Chemical and Biological Sciences".