{"id":30293,"date":"2022-09-06T08:25:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T13:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30293"},"modified":"2022-09-04T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T01:13:12","slug":"good-book-hunting-september-3-2022-half-price-books-overland-park-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/06\/good-book-hunting-september-3-2022-half-price-books-overland-park-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Book Hunting, September 3, 2022: Half Price Books, Overland Park, Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we had a little time to kill after going to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival for a bit on Saturday.  As we were booked to stay in Overland Park, Kansas, a city of 200,000 people, I hoped we would find some used book stores.  But only one, and to be honest, I confused the number (1\/2) with Books-a-Million, the national chain (I was only 999,999.5 off, which is within political polling&#8217;s margin of error).  But it is a used book store, a higher-priced used book store that looks like it might cater a bit to the university trade (a lot of textbookish titles in theology and philosophy).<\/p>\n<p>I looked mostly in the clearance section in the back, and I bought a few things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gbh199.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Bendigo Shafter<\/em> by Louis L&#8217;Amour since I did not find it at <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/28\/good-book-hunting-august-27-2022-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC Books last week<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Second Shift<\/em> by Arlie Russell Hochschild.  Looks to be a sociological textbook about work\/life balance originally from 1989.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Science of Happiness<\/em> by Ryuho Okawa.  Given that the subtitle is <em>10 Principles for Manifesting Your Divine Nature<\/em>, one can expect this to be a Buddhist apologetic or mindfulness tract more than science.<\/li>\n<li><em>A View from the Bridge<\/em> by Arthur Miller, a play.<\/li>\n<li><em>Breath! You Are Alive<\/em> by Thich Nhat Hanh.  A modern Buddhist sutra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Stay Alive All Your Life<\/em> by Norman Vincent Peale, a modern Christian Buddhist sutra.<\/li>\n<li><em>Descartes&#8217; Error<\/em> by Antonio R. Damasio.  Subtitled <em>Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain<\/em>, it looks to be a commentary on dualism.  Given that it has &#8220;The Human Brain&#8221; in the title, one wonders if the author feels the error is in not being materialist.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Art of Strategy: A New Translation of Sun Tzu&#8217;s Classic The Art of War<\/em> by R. L. Wing.  It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve read a translation of <em>The Art of War<\/em>.  Given this is a 1988 translation by a translator whose name is Wing, we will take it with a grain of salt.<\/li>\n<li>A The Teaching Company course on CDs, <em>Great Scientific Ideas that Changed the World<\/em> by Professor Steven L. Goldman.  Gentle reader, this course was $3 for 36 lectures.  I won&#8217;t see this good of a deal in a couple of weeks at the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library book sale.  Whose half-price day falls on the same day that I will be climbing 110 stories of steps.  So I might not make it to the book sale, and what would I lose?  A couple (dozen) records, a couple of monographs to browse during football games, a couple audio books and courses I won&#8217;t listen to because I&#8217;m not driving anywhere these days, and a couple of chapbooks&#8230;. Alright, alright, alright, you have convinced me to go!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All right, gentle reader, you know me well enough by now.  Even though I brought a book (one!) for my overnight trip, you can probably guess which book I started (and finished) in Kansas over the weekend.  Which was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we had a little time to kill after going to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival for a bit on Saturday. As we were booked to stay in Overland Park, Kansas, a city of 200,000 people, I hoped we would find some used book stores. 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