[asa] useful book available

Francis Collins' The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence
for Belief is currently being offered by a discount bookseller, Edward
R. Hamilton. Be aware of a few difficulties in dealing with Hamilton,
however:

There are two websites. One is Hamilton itself, which requires
printing out and order and mailing it with a check. The other charges
extra to accept credit card payments to purchase stuff from Hamilton.

Although searches on the website can somewhat alleviate the problem,
there is little order to titles in the catalog, beyond various
categories that may or may not be a good match to what the book
actually contains. It does occasionally have significantly marked
down science books from university presses, quite handy if it happens
to be something in your field.

Hamilton often has a large quantity of material for which one is
rather glad to see that it is not selling well and getting dumped by
the publisher. This often includes things that may be of interest to
the list as negative examples-a way to pick up works by Dawkins or
Wells (not to mention people with even less concern for reality-UFO
conspiracies, anyone?) without encouraging the publishing of more, for
example. However, there are often more or less conspicuous titles in
the catalogue to which the inaccurate euphemism "adult" is or could be
applied, so beware if you browse.

As one can probably gather from the above, my only connection to
Hamilton is as a not entirely satisfied customer.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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