I know. It's as if they're saying that nothing written about Japan prior to the 21st century has had any influence on how scholars and laypeople view the country...which is just wrong. Your observation, combined with the Amazon links makes me think this is as much about marketing as anything else. (If I had the time, I think a comparison of Foundation members and the list's authors and institutions might prove interesting.)
The book system is as dumb as hell, and really counterproductive. As grad students are allowed to have 100 books out at a time, what it means is that everyone races to sign out every. Single. Book. They might possibly. Need. Just to make sure they'll hae it if/when they need it. Which means that there are almost no good books available for anyone.
(FWIW, AU let students take books out for roughly the same period, but if they were recalled you *had* to turn them in within the week, so it worked much better.)
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on 2009-06-07 03:44 am (UTC)The book system is as dumb as hell, and really counterproductive. As grad students are allowed to have 100 books out at a time, what it means is that everyone races to sign out every. Single. Book. They might possibly. Need. Just to make sure they'll hae it if/when they need it. Which means that there are almost no good books available for anyone.
(FWIW, AU let students take books out for roughly the same period, but if they were recalled you *had* to turn them in within the week, so it worked much better.)