Jason
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Mike Robbins:
Where can I get a copy of Crops and Carbon: Paying Farmers to Combat Climate Change? Amazon has priced me out of owning a copy :)
Mike Robbins
You're not joking. Actually Amazon isn't the culprit in this case; it's the publisher - even I have to pay highly for copies. This is an ongoing problem with academic publishers as they don't appear to understand Print-on-Demand, and therefore commission conventional litho runs on which their accountants insist that they recover costs. This is something that really needs to change.
You might be able to order it through your local library. If you have reading rights at an academic library of any sort, you might find it easier, as many university libraries have it. Within half an hour of my office. the New York Public Library, New York University and Columbia all do. But "consumer" copies are very rare. It annoys me because this book is perfectly accessible to the intelligent lay reader, and I would love it to be more widely read.
You might be able to order it through your local library. If you have reading rights at an academic library of any sort, you might find it easier, as many university libraries have it. Within half an hour of my office. the New York Public Library, New York University and Columbia all do. But "consumer" copies are very rare. It annoys me because this book is perfectly accessible to the intelligent lay reader, and I would love it to be more widely read.
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Jason Howell
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Mike Robbins:
Mike, I'm asking this of several writers, some friends, some strangers... Follower counts, blog traffic, Amazon rankings: vanity metrics. Numbers that have cosmetic value, but aren't necessarily meaningful in and of themselves. Have you ever found yourself chasing these numbers just to run up the score? Or does comparing yourself with peers who appear to be "winning" ever become a problem? How do you deal? Thanks.
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