Two more books that the former native speaker ordered, and one that he didn't...

Today I received my last shipment of books from the University of California Press sale that I mentioned earlier. One of the books that I ordered didn't arrive, though, and was replaced with a book on a completely unrelated subject. I wrote to UCP to find out what happened, as no explanation was given on the invoice.

Here are the two books I ordered:

• Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II, by Gerd Horten (Berkeley: U of California P, 2002)
• Importing Diversity: Inside Japan's JET Program, by David L. McConnell (Berkeley: U of California P, 2000)

And the book I didn't order:

• The Bodhidharma Anthology: The Earliest Records of Zen, by Jeffrey L. Broughton (Berkeley: U of California P, 1999) (One of my colleagues has already laid claim to it if I am unable to return it!)

[Update, 5/20/06: The representative I e-mailed apologized for the error and sent out the book I had actually ordered. She asked me to tear off the cover of The Bodhidharma Anthology and send it back so that they can count it for inventory purposes. So I cut off the cover (if you're reading, Mr. Broughton, my apologies!) with one of those razor-knives that all Taiwanese elementary students seem to carry around, and I'll send it back on Monday.]

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