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Message:: [QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2773518, member: 76194"]Just so you understand the level of rip off in colleges, I got mine as part of my course on Roman Britain during my undergraduate years for $20 from my college library. Back then Amazon was in its infancy, and I doubt most of us had even heard of it, so we got ripped off by the college bookstore. Today, that book doesn't even cost anywhere near that much either, and it is still a fantastic book that is just as relevant as it was back then. Incidentally, I still have 3 books on Roman Britain from that class's as well as a couple of books on the Roman Republic and Roman Empire from other Roman history classes I took. They still make good reading all these years later. I will never forget my Roman history class. I thought being a history buff would help, but the professor was not the "bubble the answer in" or the "just remember this date" type of professor. He made us memorize the exact geographical area of every British tribe and Scottish tribe, and the system of alliances between the tribes, as well as the names of every Roman governor and tribal chief that did anything relevant (and what they did). Our final was a blank map into which we had to write the name of every British tribe that was there at the time of the Roman invasion, and the essay had us recount in detail Julius Caesar's two campaigns in Britain,  including the names of the tribes, locations of the Roman forces, and the details of the battles. I took the class thinking it would be another easy A, and I was thrilled to have walked away with a B given everything that guy threw at us. *Sad to say that with the passage of time, I only remember a handful of tribes, people, and events now.[/QUOTE]

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