Good Book Buy

[Coog]

I keep up with listings on eBay for items that interest me. I particularly look for good deals (I refuse to pay rip off prices like you usually find on WoW miniatures) and have been watching a price war between two book sellers. A book, of which both sellers have a large stock, titled "Knights of the Sea - The True Story of the Boxer and the Enterprise and the War of 1812" started out at $8.00 with free shipping. One seller now has it down to $3.93 with free shipping. I saw the book at Barnes and Noble for $25.00. If price gets much lower it doesn't seem that it would cover shipping costs. It is a new hardback book and sooner or later I'll get a copy. I don't know much about the book but it is bound to have some good information in it. At the price it is at (or possibly even lower) it would be a good buy for someone wanting to learn about the War of 1812 or to add to their already existing collection on the subject.

[Comte de Brueys]

I always look for cheap, used historical books in good condition in the internet (mostly Amazon Marketplace/eBay).

Can't be good for the business to sell new books for such dumping prices.

Even with an average knowledge of the English language I refused tu by books in Englisch. I'm a fast reader and don't want to check the dictionary all the time or miss details.

[Coog]

Even with an average knowledge of the English language I refused tu by books in Englisch. I'm a fast reader and don't want to check the dictionary all the time or miss details.

I know what you mean. Those English are sometimes hard to understand. Like you I prefer to read books written in my native language.:)

[David Manley]

Those English are sometimes hard to understand.

This might help :)

[csadn]

Can't be good for the business to sell new books for such dumping prices.

Hie ye to the website of Kristen Rusch, among other authors; "conventional publishing" is coming apart like a house of cards in a hurricane -- $6.98 hardcovers are a symptom, not the disease....

[Comte de Brueys]

This might help :)

Good advice.

This will help my French sailors a lot if the ever capture a British ship...;)

[csadn]

Good advice.

This will help my French sailors a lot if the ever capture a British ship...;)

Just stay away from anything with two or more decks of guns, and you're golden; all the well-trained British sailors are on the SoLs and heavier frigates. (See Coog's historical posts for details.)

[Comte de Brueys]

I'll do my best...

[csadn]

http://sailsofglory.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1259&d=1340373622

And which battle is this a painting of?

[Comte de Brueys]

Don't know. Found it with "french frigate" in the internet.

But it looks like the frigate has trouble with a 74 ship of the line.

[Jack Aubrey]

This might help :)

mmhhh,....now I understand Eric a little better....;)

[David Manley]

mmhhh,....now I understand Eric a little better....;)

We had this out at NATO, and then see how many of our chums we can catch out :D

[Diamondback]

Or you could just take it all the way a lot of us do: "Man the Lifeboats, it's getting awful deep around here!" :P

[7eat51]

This might help :)

This is awesome. Did you develop this, or was it part of training?

I have dome something similar with my students, but with slightly different headings:

What wives say: The garbage can is full.
What wives meant: Take out the garbage.
What husbands understand: Um, thanks for telling me?

What wives say: Of course you can go out with your friends.
What wives meant: You better not go because I should be more important to you than your friends.
What husbands understand: I am so lucky to have such a supportive wife.

[David Manley]

This is awesome. Did you develop this, or was it part of training?

I have dome something similar with my students, but with slightly different headings:

What wives say: The garbage can is full.
What wives meant: Take out the garbage.
What husbands understand: Um, thanks for telling me?

What wives say: Of course you can go out with your friends.
What wives meant: You better not go because I should be more important to you than your friends.
What husbands understand: I am so lucky to have such a supportive wife.

How true!

[Jack Aubrey]

This is awesome. Did you develop this, or was it part of training?

I have dome something similar with my students, but with slightly different headings:

What wives say: The garbage can is full.
What wives meant: Take out the garbage.
What husbands understand: Um, thanks for telling me?

What wives say: Of course you can go out with your friends.
What wives meant: You better not go because I should be more important to you than your friends.
What husbands understand: I am so lucky to have such a supportive wife.

Eric,
you are searching for a book to learn some German words.
You are on the right way. The book Deutsch-Frau , Frau-Deutsch , schnelle Hilfe für den ratlosen Mann, from Langenscheid is exactly what you want....:cool:

[7eat51]

Eric,
you are searching for a book to learn some German words.
You are on the right way. The book Deutsch-Frau , Frau-Deutsch , schnelle Hilfe für den ratlosen Mann, from Langenscheid is exactly what you want....:cool:

Thanks Uli. I just ordered it on amazon. I love stuff like this. Not only can my students and I talk about the nature of communication in general, but we can talk about life issues as well.

[Volunteer]

It all sounds like Greek to me. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus! A wonderful book that has prevented strife in my household on more than one occasion. Actually Greek is easier to understand than Venusian.

[Jack Aubrey]

...but what will you do, if your wife is from Vulkan and not from Venus....:rolleyes:

[Coog]

...but what will you do, if your wife is from Vulkan and not from Venus....:rolleyes:

A woman that responds to situations using logic instead of emotion...naw, never happen.

[7eat51]

A woman that responds to situations using logic instead of emotion...naw, never happen.

Jack Nicholson on the fairer sex:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDEdJMH09Ds

[Volunteer]

...but what will you do, if your wife is from Vulkan and not from Venus....:rolleyes:

A logical woman? Isn't that an oxymoron?

(Don't tell my wife I said that!)

[csadn]

A logical woman? Isn't that an oxymoron?

(Don't tell my wife I said that!)

[facepalm]

I just had to tell someone off for that sort of thing on another forum -- don't make me do it here, too.... :P

[Volunteer]

OOPS!