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Amber Arnold, Arts & Life Editor
Arts & Life
01.26.2010
amberm.arnold@yahoo.com
Web site s options help
students save on textbooks
By Katie Grivna
Senior Staff Writer
When Natalie Davila needed
to purchase her textbooks for
the semester, she looked to
ninjabooks.com to find what
she needed.
Davila was able to bypass
bookstores completely by
ordering her textbooks
online.
"It's a good resource because
it really helps you look up your
things for yourself and find
how much it is going to cost,"
said Davila, an anthropology
senior.
Ninjabooks.com is a price
comparison Web site that
allows students to view the
prices of their textbooks at
Amazon.com, Half.com and
the UNT Bookstore. It also
displays rental prices at Chegg.
com and the UNT Bookstore.
From there, students can
click the "visit store" button
to order their books from one
of the Web sites. Ninja Books
earns a commission from
these companies because of
the customers it sends to them,
said Cooper Marcus, the Web
site's founder.
Marcus started the
California-based company in
early 2009 and began offering
textbook information to UNT
students in the fall of 2009.
The exact number of schools
Ninja Books serves is confiden-
tial, but the number is in the
hundreds across the country,
he said.
All the required textbook
information is listed on the site,
including the International
Standard Book Number, or
ISBN. Students only have to
know what class and section
they are enrolled in.
Ninja Books also offers a
place for students to post an
advertisement to sell books
to other UNT students at no
cost.
Andrew Miller, a music
composition junior and UNT
campus marketing manager
for Ninja Books, said the site is
designedfor students to become
informed consumers.
"Ninja Books kind of opens
up the dark doors of our
economy and really displays
that we, as members of a capi-
talist society, ... need to look
around at various options and
consider whether or not we
are being capitalized on, and
I think that is exactly what
is happening in the textbook
industry," he said.
Mi ller said part of his job as
campus marketing manager
is keeping up with the Ninja
Books at University of North
Texas Facebook fan page.
"I think people like Ninja
Books because they under-
stand that we are not trying to
take advantage of them. We are
trying to help them," he said.
For some students like
Ross McCormick, the UNT
Bookstore is the first place
to go when looking for text-
books.
McCormick, a geography
sophomore, said he ordered
and paid for his textbooks
online at the UNT Bookstore.
"It was easier to order them
through the bookstore than
try and find them cheaper on
Amazon," he said. "Some of
the classes have supplemental
material that you can only get
through UNT, so that's what
I do."
Rodney Davison, director
of the UNT Bookstore, said
students should shop there
because of the convenience
and, from a sustainability
standpoint, they don't have
to have the books mailed.
Professors give the UNT
Bookstore the textbook infor-
mation for their classes so the
information is correct, which
might not be the case if a
student were to shop online
and get an older edition or a
book the professor won't use
in the class, he said.
The UNT Bookstore also
offers full refunds, ending
today.
The buyback program at
the end of the semester allows
students to sell their textbook
back to the bookstore, which
gives students money back,
he said.
Students can lookup UNT
Bookstore prices to buy new
or used as well as the price to
rent textbooks online at www.
unt.bkstr.com.
The UNT Bookstore will
match the price of any local
bookseller, but this excludes
Web sites, Davison said.
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J. Baird Callicottf a regents' professor and chairman of the department of philosophy and religion studies, co-edited "The
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy," with professor Robert Frodeman. The publication received high
praise from "Choice," the official publication of the American Library Association.
Philosophers receive
praise for encyclopedia
By Morgan Walker
Senior Staff Writer
Philosophy professors J.
Baird Callicott and Robert
Frodeman spent about two
years co-editing the 2009
edition of "The Encyclopedia
of Environmental Ethics and
Philosophy," and the work has
paid off.
Earlier this month, Callicott,
chair of the department of
philosophy and religion
studies, and Frodeman,
professor and director of
the Center for the Study of
Interdisciplinarity, received
high praise from "Choice," the
American Library Association
review magazine and premier
source for reviews of academic
books, electronic media and
Internet resources of interest
to those in higher education.
"We were pleased, and I was
really surprised to hear that it
was such a big hit," Callicott
said.
More than 35,000 librar-
ians, faculty and key decision
makers rely on "Choice" maga-
zine and its online reviews for
collection development and
scholarly research, according
to its Web site.
Because UNT is trying to
become a national research
university and increase its visi-
bility, things like this help not
only on a local level but also
on a national level, Callicott
said.
The magazine reaches
almost every undergraduate
college and university library
in the U.S. and publishes more
than 7,000 reviews each year.
The publications must be
timely, concise, easy to use and
written by selected experts in
the subject.
"Our department is the
world headquarters of envi-
ronmental ethics and philos-
ophy, and we have the largest
concentration of specialists in
the field," Callicott said.
The department received
not only an "Outstanding
Academic Title" but also the
"Outstanding Reference Source
of 2010" by the Reference and
Users Service Association,
Frodeman wrote in an e-mail
on Jan. 21.
Nathan Bell, a philosophy
graduate student, works for
Frodeman at the Center for
the Study of Interdisciplinarity
and took courses under both
professors.
"Dr. Callicott was one of the
founders of the field of envi-
ronmental philosophy, and
he's one of the people without
whom there wouldn't neces-
sarily be the field of envi-
ronmental philosophy," Bell
said.
Both Frodeman and
Callicott are passionate about
their work as instructors and
are knowledgeable about the
specific subjects they teach,
Bell said.
"The great thing about the
encyclopedia is a lot of people
don't realize how broad envi-
ronmental philosophy actu-
ally is," Bell said. "They kind
of recognized the need for
a comprehensive work that
really covered all those diverse
topics that exist within the
subject."
The encyclopedia, which
includes 652 titles in 54 disci-
plines and subsections, is a
"relevant, authoritative, and
impressively accessible two-
volume encyclopedia ... and
is consistently clear and infor-
mative," according to the
"Choice" review online.
Several criteria for the
review include overall excel-
lence in presentation and
scholarship, importance rela-
tive to other literature in the
field, originality or unique-
ness of treatment, and value to
undergraduate students.
Callicott and Frodeman
"successfully realized their
aim of presenting to a very
wide readership a source that
provides succinct accounts
of the core values and issues
surrounding humanity's rela-
tionship to the natural world,"
according to the review.
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