Money off Books

[Zippy]

Just wanted to let anyone in the Birmingham area know, that this weekend at the Waterstones by the bullring centre there is 20% off all books- very handy if you have a long booklist and little money like me

Also, I know that it is best to have a look at books when you arrive at university before you decide what's best to buy, but I have the opportunity to get the combined anatomy/physiology texts by Marieb or Martini second-hand, but don't know which to get. Both are on my booklist, but can anybody recommend either particularly or say which is best for the Manchester course?

Thanks

[Bishop]

Man thanks for the info i've got a 15 long book list and need to get in the core titles anyway

Bishop

[S Knights]

To be honest I would generally avoid combined Anatomy/Physiology texts as they tend not to go into enough detail for either topic.

I would certainly agree that unless your med school demands that you have all of the recommended texts before you begin it would be a good idea to hang on for a month or so. If you do this it is possible to find out which books you use all of the time and find easy to work from and which ones are used once or twice then never again.
In my own experience most of the "recommended test" can be done without as they are rarely used and will be found in the library anyway, though frankly the same is often true of a fair number of the "essential texts" (of my own 30-40 odd title book list I ended up buying about 7, and saved around £500.)