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Good lord, have you looked at the price of textbooks recently? That Death class I've been following recently, has a reading assignment for five page in one book for one class session. Five pages. Buy the whole book for five freaking pages. I looked through all of the class reading assignments, hoping there would be a second reading assignment from the book. There wasn't.

The hardback book is $37. The softback book is $16.

$16 for five pages. Not that you would know this when buying the books before class starts.

I'd be so annoyed at the instructor for this, if I hadn't had the syllabus available to check before hand.

Time to see if the library has a copy.

Or if the rest of the book is worth reading.

Blink had a large number of notes and references in the back of it. The ones I found of interest are:

• Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Peter M. Todd, Gerd Gigerenczer, and the ABC Research Group, ideas behind "fast and frugal", New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
• Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious, by Timothy Wilson, Harvard University Press, 2002)
• Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, Antonio Damasio, HarperCollins, 1994
• Lifting the Fog of War, William A. Owens, Farrar, Straus, 2000
• Sources of Power, Gary Klein, MIT Press, 1998
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, Keith Johnstone, Theatre Art Books, 1979
• The Total package: The Secret History and Hidden Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Other Persuasive Containers, Thomas Hine, Little Brown, 1995
• Telling Lies: Clies to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage, Paul Ekman, Norton, 1995
• Facial Action Coding Systems, Part 1 and 2, Paul Ekman and Walllace V Friesen, Human Interaction Laboratory, Dept of Psychiatry, University of California, 1978

• Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell (references)
• Penultimate Peril, by Lemony Snicket (Dan Handler)

and those to read

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