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Red Square is located just outside the Kremlin, along it's Eastern wall. In the late 15th Century, people came to this square, called Torg or Market Square, to purchase food, livestock, or other wares. By the late 16th Century, it was renamed Trinity Square, and served as the main entrance to the Kremlin. It got the name Krasnaya Ploschad (Red Square) in 17th Century. In this sense Krasnaya (Red) means beautiful. The Pokrovsky (St. Basil's the Blessed) Cathedral, the Lenin's Mausoleum and the State History Museum are located on Red Square.

Hotel-Rates.com page for Maxima Irbis hotel in Moscow

This sites for a bell foundry in Russia states "Krasny" means "red", and "red" means "beautiful".

Photo tour of Moscow, in which the phrase "Red Square (meaning beautiful square in Russian)" is written.

Another tourist of Moscow reports, "Our first stop is St Basil's Cathedral at the end of Red Square. In Russian, it is Krasne square meaning red or beautiful."

Russian traditional costume seller says, "The word "krasnoye" meaning "red" became identified in the people's minds with "prekrasno-ye" meaning "beautiful". Moscow's most beautiful central square is called "Krasnaya Ploshchad" (Red Square)."

You may notice that Red Square isn't really red...it is paved with black and grey stones. In the Russian language, "Krasny"("red") also meant "beautiful", so "Krasnaya Ploschad" can also be translated as "Beautiful Square". The translation "Red Square" which is now used, was established in the 20th century.

talks about the modern link that still exists between "red" and "beauty"

Eduard Shevardnadze relays to the US State Department Chief of Protocol that krasny can mean "beautiful" as well as "red" -- in 1987.

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FWIW the price of Calculus with Analytic Geometry starts at $45.00 used and $69.88 new (plus shipping) over at CheapestTextBooks.

While it does mean spending money, there's nothing stopping you from buying the books, though the prices on them can be... significant. For Single Variable Calculus (the first math course listed), the book used is Calculus with Analytic Geometry , which seems to go for about $150 new no matter where you look. The book is also used in Multivariable Calculus and Principles of Aeronautic Control, so at least it can be spread out a bit.

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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=05216052 10&referrer=frgl

Cheapest place a quick froogle revealed. I read this book a few months ago and found it pretty interesting, though perhaps best in its role as summarising further papers for reading.

have you priced text books recently?

All of those are from the Hawaii board of education recomended textbook list. And that's just three. If the school is a block schedule, that's four classes per day, so four text books per semester and eight for the year. Even if we assume a very low estimate of $50/book, that's $400 in books. So a laptop costs only slightly more given assumptions that are in favor of books.

Add to that the fact that, at least at my highschool, kids consistently carried 20-30 pounds of books around in the backpack compared to a 6 pound laptop. "Oh, but they have lockers for those heavy books." No, all the lockers in town were ripped out shortly after the Columbine shootings.

I think it's an improvement. Maybe this won't work for everyone. But I hope it does.

have you priced text books recently?

All of those are from the Hawaii board of education recomended textbook list. And that's just three. If the school is a block schedule, that's four classes per day, so four text books per semester and eight for the year. Even if we assume a very low estimate of $50/book, that's $400 in books. So a laptop costs only slightly more given assumptions that are in favor of books.

Add to that the fact that, at least at my highschool, kids consistently carried 20-30 pounds of books around in the backpack compared to a 6 pound laptop. "Oh, but they have lockers for those heavy books." No, all the lockers in town were ripped out shortly after the Columbine shootings.

I think it's an improvement. Maybe this won't work for everyone. But I hope it does.

have you priced text books recently?

All of those are from the Hawaii board of education recomended textbook list. And that's just three. If the school is a block schedule, that's four classes per day, so four text books per semester and eight for the year. Even if we assume a very low estimate of $50/book, that's $400 in books. So a laptop costs only slightly more given assumptions that are in favor of books.

Add to that the fact that, at least at my highschool, kids consistently carried 20-30 pounds of books around in the backpack compared to a 6 pound laptop. "Oh, but they have lockers for those heavy books." No, all the lockers in town were ripped out shortly after the Columbine shootings.

I think it's an improvement. Maybe this won't work for everyone. But I hope it does.

If you don't know what your textbooks are early enough to order overseas, buy your books from an online store like BookPool or ecampus.com, both of which are generally cheaper than Amazon for Computer Science texts.

users can ask their computers to retrieve all pictures that include a specific person's face

I wonder if they'll link to any of this pictures, when searching for this specific person's face:

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I have used it myself many times, and have saved lots of money. I really despise our university bookstore, so I try not to go there as much as possible.

Otherwise, I buy my books online from Half.com or Ecampus.com.

If you're into his ideas, check out his book (just published) Cradle to Cradle