|
this page last updated April 01, 2006
Larry Walker's Bookshelf
I have low vision which makes reading printed material tedious and unpleasant.
Therefore, I have decided to donate essentially all of my books (a few hundred
over time) to America's Bookshelf,
an online dispersed library service/book club. I have selected Western
Watersheds Project (WWP) as my designated nonprofit organization. That
means that each time one of the specific copies that I have donated changes
hands, WWP will receive a donation of $0.30.5 The following
are some of the
books that I have placed into the America's Bookshelf system so far.
| Book Title |
1Cost from
Amazon.com |
2Cost from
America's
Bookshelf |
4Saving |
Ariel: A Book of the Change
Author: Steven Boyett
ISBN: 0441029205
Paperback |
6.68 |
3.50 |
48% |
Chrysalis 9
Author: Roy Torgeson
ISBN: 082171077X
Paperback |
3.84 |
3.50 |
9% |
Defending the desert: Conserving biodiversity on BLM lands
in the Southwest
Author: Allen Cooperrider
ISBN: B0006QCVK0
Paperback |
3la |
3.50 |
?? |
HOSPITAL STATION
Author: James White
ISBN: 0345296133
Paperback |
4.89 |
3.50 |
28% |
North American Buffalo: A Critical Study of the Species in Its
Wild State
Author: F. G. Roe
ISBN: 0802061370
Paperback |
43.49 |
3.50 |
92% |
Sacred Cows at the Public Trough
Author: Nancy Ferguson
ISBN: 0892880910
Paperback |
3.59 |
3.50 |
3% |
The Federal Lands Revisited
Author: Marion Clawson
ISBN: 0801830982
Paperback |
4.47 |
3.50 |
22% |
The Glucose Revolution Pocket Guide to the Top 100 Low Glycemic
Foods
Author: Kaye Foster-Powell
ISBN: 1569246785
Mass Market Paperback |
4.73 |
3.50 |
26% |
THE NAGASAKI VECTOR
Author: L. Neil Smith
ISBN: 0345303822
Paperback |
5.08 |
3.50 |
31% |
The New Glucose Revolution Complete Guide to Glycemic Index
Values
Author: Jennie Brand-Miller, Kaye Foster-Powell, Susanna Holt
ISBN: 1569244782
Paperback |
9.98 |
3.50 |
65% |
The New Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to the
Glycemic Index--the Dietary Solution for Lifelong Health
Author: Jennie Brand-Miller, Thomas M.S. Wolever, Kaye Foster-Powell,
Stephen Colagiuri
ISBN: 1569245061
Paperback |
8.42 |
3.50 |
58% |
The Western Range Revisited: Removing Livestock from Public
Lands to Conserve Native Biodiversity (Legal History of North America
Series, Vol 5)
Author: Debra L. Donahue
ISBN: 0806132981
Paperback |
10.20 |
3.50 |
66% |
Torpedo Run
Author: Douglas Reeman
ISBN: 0515066389
Mass Market Paperback |
4.22 |
3.50 |
17% |
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American
West
Edited by George Wuerthner and Mollie Matteson
ISBN: 1559639423
Hardcover |
18.49 |
3.50 |
81% |
1 Single copy cost of cheapest used book, including shipping and
handling ($3.49 per book) from Amazon.com. Cost as of February 16, 2006 (or date of donation if
later) subject to change
without notification.
2 Including shipping and handling, but excluding
annual membership fee.
3 Limited Availability: Special order required
without guarantee of when or if the order may be filled, nor at what cost.
4 Why obtain a book from America's Bookshelf when
there is no savings over the cost of buying the book from Amazon.com? Because
$0.30 will be donated to a nonprofit organization (if designated by the original
donor of the book) if you get the book from America's Bookshelf.5
5 America's Bookshelf has been forced to terminate their
charitable donation program, at least for now. This from America's
Bookshelf: "...very sad to report that we have to put the fundraising
portion of Americas Book Shelf on hold. When we designed our fundraiser we had
no idea that the laws were changing. CCV (commercial Co Venturing) is now in 39
states ... I think these laws were lobbied through legislation in the 39 states
by the big and controlling fundraising businesses to keep any new competition at
bay. After several meetings with my Lawyer and CPA, Deb and I have decided they
have won for now. $ 25.000 dollars annually for licensing and bonding in 39
states is just too costly at this time."
|
