SGD$1000, this is an estimated amount I spent on textbooks and reference books throughout my 4 years of studies in NUS plus the 1 semester I spend in NIE. Of the 25 books in my lists, I probably used a couple of them extensively to justify the cost of buying them. Another half of them might be worth keeping as display sets to confuse and impress friends the Physics way - the Differential Geometry way. The rest are most likely crappy textbooks that I hope I didn't buy yet the paper is like worth it's weight in gold.

Indeed, some textbooks (Physics of Atoms and Molecules by Bransden & Joachain) that I search in amazon.com costs more 100USD for a new one and sells for 50USD as a secondhand. Man, I could start an online business selling 2nd hand Physics textbooks to Americans and make a handsome profits if only Amazon let international sellers do their business there.

Locally, I only found edu Labs who are willing to pay like $6-$15 per book even though they will sell it at 2.4 times the price on their other website. Selling my unwanted books en mass will fetch me a grand sum of about S$80 only, that's like only 20% of my invested costs. Even cars don't depreciate that much in that time especially my books are in excellent conditions (mostly unused and unread).

So if any of you wish to adopt a book from me, (international requests entertained too), just quote me a price here too. It's that time of the year (spring cleaning) and I'm holding a garage sale here.



Numerical Analysis by Richard L.B. & J. Douglas

The Craft of Political Research by Phillips Shively

Essentials of Political Research by Alan D. Monroe

Options Futures & Other Derivatives by John C. Hull

Operations Research, An Introduction by Taha

Discovering Grammar by Anne Lobeck

English history, diversity and change by Graddol

Physics of Atoms and Molecules by B.H. Bransden & C. J. Joachain

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