The author's research appears on another site as well, which includes a section on the additional fathers: writings of the Church Fathers that aren't in the usual collections. You can spend a lot of time exploring...
The author's research appears on another site as well, which includes a section on the additional fathers: writings of the Church Fathers that aren't in the usual collections. You can spend a lot of time exploring...
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Interesting: Amazon lists the "list" price at 110, so that's with a discount. At https://www.allbookstores.com/book/compare/0190209062 they show the "suggested retail price" as 87.
This sort of price is all too typical for academic books. My theory is that the publishers consider the actual market for the book -- academics -- to be largely price insensitive, as they will may a free desk copy for themselves or pay for it from department funds, and they don't care what the university-library or the students (when required to buy it as a course book) will pay.
The price isn't fixed. Look later, and it will have changed. A new offering was "Collectible" at over a thousand dollars.
Yes, the dynamic pricing on Amazon can be weird -- but $110 (US) is the current price listed on the OUP website.
I've been amused in the past when it seems that more-than-one-seller has set an automatic price that's slightly more (or slightly less) than their Amazon-selling competitor, and the two do a continuous price-ratchet one-way or the other until someone notices.
I've taken advantage of this more than once when the ratchet was in the downward direction, once getting a few dozen items for the normal price of one.
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