Hi Martin,
This is really weird... I have no idea how they could turn 285
pages into 404... unless they make the print really huge and spread it out
more. They better NOT have added "stuff" to it without my permission-- I
warned them specifically not to. They wanted to get the opinions of other
scientists and include them as counterpoint. No way!
I'm frustrated with the behavior of Columbia University Press and
have been for quite a while, now. In fact, I even requested that they drop my
father from their publication list, but they refused to do that. They have
done things without informing me, they have told me things which later turned
out to not be true, etc.... They are unimaginably slow to get these works out
in the marketplace, and have multiple, unexplained delays.
In short... they suck. Sorry it's impacting you.
However, "Life, Itself" is relatively easy to find in libraries
because it's still in print and that's also the reason it doesn't go
missing the way "Anticipatory Systems" does.
I will attempt to get an update from the publisher and if they
have any useful information, I'll post it here.
Cheers,
Judith
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:49
AM
Subject: [ROSEN] Paperback edition of
Life, Itself
Hi, I'm new to the list.
I've just started reading about Robert Rosen
and his work.
I was
surprised to see that Amazon has a paperback edition of "Life,
Itself"
listed as being available Feb 28, 2005. I had ordered a copy
from Barnes
and Noble a few days earlier, but got a message this morning
saying that
it has been delayed.
Here's Columbia University Press's entry about
it:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023107/0231075642.HTM
Also,
the paperback has 404 pages, versus the hardback's 285. Is there
any
additional content?
Thanks,
Martin
--
Martin K
Jones
University of Alabama at
Birmingham