Why are scholarly research papers turned into books always so goddamned fucking EXPENSIVE?
I bought something similar that was an in-depth comprehensive rundown of the Mongol Empire. I bet it doesn't even download completely or correctly, lmao.
Took me a minute to find it online for free
>>25158916Yes, yes... You have skin of brown. We KNOW.
>>25158918If you want to follow to rules just pay the price
>>25158916>>25158918>>25158923That's nice. Doesn't answer my question however.
>>25158928because they are marketed at a niche and presumably well off audience. Publishers know that they are't gonna reach mass audiences with academic papers so it is more profitable to sell them at higher prices since the targetted demographic will likely just buy it anyway.
>>25158901It's only $119 if bought directly from the publishers website sooo... There (You) go, FAGGOT.
>>25158901Sorry anon you must funnel money to lazy irresponsible bureaucrats and tenured administrators and be a good little goy cattle slave.They know they can get away with the prices since they have a monopoly on a lot of the information that tends to go into those kinds of books so there’s no competition.
>>25158901Pay up, cocksucking pendejo. I've got to pay my fucking student loans SOMEHOW.
Jewniversity grift.Sell to all universities.Compel students to buy so they're "up to date with the latest research".
>>25159005>latest researchAhh, yes. Like how ALL papas were actually TRANS and in reality "sacrifice" meant "TICKLE FIGHT WITH RED FINGERPAINTS"
>>25159014One of the featured article is about dispelling the myth of consensual sacrifice which the author attributes to "a resilient yearning by some Western scholars to represent Amerindian cultural practices as pristine, innocuous, and/or morally wholesome"
>>25158939The audience is literally just university libraries. Not even academics themselves buy it
They're not printed in high quantities and licensing involves multiple journals. Therefore each book costs a lot to make and they're not going to sell many. Add to this that the main purchasers will be libraries and academics with book allowances meaning they don't have to worry about appealing to some random individual's wallet.
>>25159014Why are chuds so unintelligent?
>>25158901because explaining something to a brainlet as opposed to someone already familiar with the subject is excruciatingthe biggest obstacable is that normies do not understand statistics. they rely on their intuition, and statistics commonly goes against intuition.second scientific papers are dryly written, and the only purpose is to be linguistically accurate. adding fluff to language makes it more inaccurate.
>>25158901Most research papers turned or compiled into books are only sold to institutions and publishers don't even bother marketing it to individual customers (although they will often be the rare enthusiasts). Said institutions will buy all the books of big publishers in their domains, part to be up to date, part as an esprit de corps to keep the academic grift. That means they know in advance who and how many will buy them, and that the price doesn't matter because anything below 300/book will be negligible noise lost in the cost of running a college (which in turn is in the majority of cases worldwide tax money from the taxcattle), so publishing houses might as well pump it up to rake a nice profit.
>>25158901>Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica Of COURSE it's fucking prohibitively expensive. If John Q Public Normnigeria found out just HOW instinctively SICK AND FUCKED UP the average Mexican is to their CORE (You) might DO SOMETHING about it when (((they))) are busy trying to OVERFLOW YOUR ENTIRE COUNTRY with these EXACT SAME MURDEROUS BROWNOID SCUMBAG ANCESTORS of the motherfucking AZTECS.
>>25159929Because the hubris of libtards/leftoids is imagining they're smarter than their "others". The leads them to betray the fact they think they're better than everyone else thus rendering them unelectable when it comes to working class voters. (Note: libtards/leftoids also have trouble differentiating between working class and underclass). So yeah, chuds being retarded actually hurts your cause more than it does their own.
>>25159929We're sick of your REVISIONIST BULLSHIT, leftie.
>>25160120>>25160158Both posts written by leftists trying to politicsbait.>>25158901I downloaded the book just now because I'm interested in the topic and >>25159049 sold me. It's difficult to find modern sociological works that aren't just leftists exercising extremely contrived interpretive theory to blame everything on White men (except in extremely obscure topics typically) or conservative schlock so hopefully this is good. I've actually wanted to research human sacrifice for a while, although more broadly from all around the world rather than just Mesoamerica.
>>25158901I know not a single other anon cares about this but me, but I bought pic related for 50 dollars direct from Israel (University of Jerusalem is only place to sell Wasserstein’s English translation of this work since the Greek original is long since lost and it only exists in Hebrew) specifically because I was hoping it would have Galen’s commentary on the ethnographic section which in the Hippocrates original was clearly influenced by the writer having read Herodotus so I was excited because it would have essentially been Galen’s commentary on Herodotus which I thought would have been very cool.Well it comes and I read it and the thing ends roughly at section 11 in the Adams translation. Apparently Galen left the work unfinished and it isn’t mentioned at all in any descriptions of the book online anywhere so I bought it and read a boring analysis of the Airs and Waters section which didn’t interest me at all and were boring as fuck.
>>25160184That's actually extremely interesting. Now I want to read it.
>>25160182>I've actually wanted to research human sacrifice for a whileThere's shockingly VERY little and what I have found, usually isn't that great.
>>25160186Here is the Hippocrates work it is supposed to be reviewing.https://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/airwatpl.htmlIt ends at section 11 in this link so all the cool stuff I wanted to hear Galen’s thoughts on like head binding of Egypt, Scythian Enarees, general geographic/ cultural stuff like river Rioni in Georgia - were all left out because the work apparently was unfinished. It’s barely mentioned in a footnote in the back from a medieval Arab doctor that this work of Galen’s wasn’t completed in his lifetime and nowhere at all online is it mentioned.
>>25158918If sharing knowledge is brown than I don’t want to be white
>>25160270Nigger-coded soul
>>25158901
>>25160283>le gommunisms!!!>Price is high as fuck????
>>25160182>I've actually wanted to research human sacrifice for a whilejust talk to an average woman on a college campus about why she sleeps with men she has no intention of marrying and then sacrifices the babies
>>25160182The fact you're a retard is a weapon, anon. I won't tell you to use it well because the fact you can't is the point.
>>25160296Not the same thing
>>25160158I am better than others, though
>>25160359Sure you are, anon. Make sure to keep normalizing that sentiment in whichever echochambers you occupy!
>>25158901I learned all I ever needed to know about human sacrifice in this humble, scholarly, PUBLIC DOMAIN text.>There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.>Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.>For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.Profound!
>>25160322Right. Uh huh.
>>25160413How come kikes still do sacrificisms then!?!
>>25160397You WILL recognize my superiority. You WILL accept my worldview
>>25159014>obsessed
>>25160158>why are chuds retarded?>because... because... uh... WHEN YOU CALL ME RETARDED IT MAKES ME FEEL BAD OKAY SO THEREYou people are so funny to me
>>25159929We're not we're actually smart because reproductive success inversely correlates with intelligence.
>>25160495What are you referring to?
>>25158901>>25159765/thread
>>25160743Epstein, bro
>>25158918>skin of browngood morning
>>25161069It's currently 7:52 PM on the western coast of the US right now where I reside.
>>25161070H1B detected
>>25161086I was born here. :)
>>25160346abortions used to be mostly post birth
>>25161136Prove it
>>25160346It is. You murder a child in the now so you can focus on your own wants and desires at present and in the future. It's a blood sacrifice and its reward is a continued state of selfishness that renders you less of a person.
>>25162779Nope. Not the same thing at all.
>>25162793It is and I've laid out why. Such sacrifices reduce the humanity of all those involved and echo out into the greater community. This is why the Christian West is right and has always been right to oppose such practices from Scandinavia to Asia to Africa to the Americas.
>>25162810You're a loon. It's not the same.
>>25162810>t.circumciszed goycattle person
>It's yet another "schizophrenic makes connections where none actually exist in reality" episodeIf real life were like your little cartoon, the Aztec Empire would have survived into the modern age.
>>25158901that means they are now a professor teaching a class with that text as required for the class, welcome to academia
>>25162852>that means they are now a professor teaching a class with that text as required for the class, welcome to academiai.e. the text is not designed to be sold at barnes and noble, it is for a captive audience of students that are required to buy it for class
>>25158928Because (you) are willing to pay for itPiracy is good because it reduces scarcity (increases supply) and reduces demand to buy the product. This makes the goods cheaper while also encouraging competition to increase product quality. Less diversity of products of higher qualities available to all and unlike material goods, the "victim" of the crime of piracy loses no actual possession, only the future ability to maximize profit through maintenance of market scarcity
>>25161139NTA, but modern technologies which allow for safe and relatively easy abortions were only invented in the last couple centuries. Before that, abortion was considerably harder and more dangerous so would-be mothers would either take potentially deadly abortifacent drugs/herbs or they would wait until after the baby was born to smother it or leave it to die to the elements.So we know know abortion was really hard and we have plenty of textual and archeological evidence of postnatal infanticide being practiced. Therefore infanticide was more common than surgical infanticide. It's more difficult to determine whether abortifacent drugs were more common than postnatal infanticide.
>>25162831It's the same and the fact you can't come up with any argument other than "uh uhn" indicates you're a mindless sheep who doesn't think for himself.
>>25162852>>25162856Those types of books aren't used as textbooks, retard.
